It's why any tackle from behind used to be automatic straight red. That seemed to give a free pass for bad fouls from the front or side so they changed it. Now English refs are very lenient about late tackles from behind.Nailed it, City are not going to stand by and have their investment taken apart by these tosspots. Right thing to do, teams will think twice.
Think the tackles from behind when players are running at pace are thuggery of the highest order and we should fight it everytime. Fcuk the corrupt bastards.
Saw that ,and was he fucking embarrassed .The litle shit was squirming in his chair knowing what he had said previously,Head down couldnt even look at the cameraI watched a bit of The Debate with Murphy and Joleon Lescott last night. Murphy appears to have done a complete about face from his earlier opinion that City's opponents should 'leave one in' and now calls for protection from thuggish assaults which he acknowledged our players are receiving.
No foul was given.
UEFA has told referees to protect players better by clamping down on serious foul play in European club competitions.
With the Champions League and Europa League set to resume this week, UEFA's chief refereeing officer Pierluigi Collina has asked officials to take firm action against players who commit reckless challenges.
The guidance comes less than a fortnight after Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola asked English referees to look after the game's "artists" by dealing with dangerous tackles more harshly.
In a statement, Collina said: "We need to have players playing, so they must be protected on the field.
"We do not want situations where a player's future is put in doubt because of serious injury caused by a challenge, whether it is intentional, or is unintentional and the player making the challenge is taking a risk of causing injury.
Apart from getting involved in Fiat and being turfed in his last season...Now he was a class referee.
While we're at it, someone at the club should tell Mike Riley to watch this and ask him for his observations: