Gabriel headbutt on Haaland

feedmpenzaandhewillscore said:
Gabriel was dragging Haaland to the ground when he scored the goal. Wonder if Taylor would have not pointed to the spot if the goal didn’t go in?
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my view is that Haaland dragged Gabriel away to begin with and Gabriel was so fixated on giving Haaland some back, playing physical instead of playing the actual game of football, he forgot to simply go a bit more goal side and cut the pass out. Gabriel's head was dominated by the physical battle, to his detriment (and obvious dismissal).
 
Fed up of our boys honesty going unrewarded. Our players don't dive or go to ground. Pgmol should be rewarding that not punishing it.

And where did 7 minutes come from at the end?! I'm getting fed up of them making things up for entertainment purposes. We could have lost that game due to them a) not wanting to send players off. And b) adding made up injury time on to the end because its exciting. Be fair ffs.
 
So now we are hearing bout that its common sense to not send him off etc etc, so where was the common sense at klanfield, whats the point in having laws of the game if pgmol can just use them as they see fit depending on the shirt ur wearing. Gabriel had TWO red card offences yest never mind the multiple yellows.
 
coolcity said:
They interpret it that way because if the intent, and under the definition of the rules it's a red card. Somebody posted it earlier I think, FA rule 12. Absolutely no dispute that it should have been a red according to the rules.
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That wasn't any "rule 12".
 
meltonblue said:
No, you can interpret it that way, others can interpret it a different way. Both are perfectly fine interpretations. Nowadays everyone seems to take it as a given that like Neville said, any forward movement of the head on that situation should be classed as violent conduct.

It is and always has been bollocks. Some interpret it that way, others don’t, because it’s whether you think excessive force and it is endangering an opponent. I’d rather that it isn’t seen as violent conduct as I don’t think it is or even for that matter a headbutt, for some reason football has taken it upon itself to completely change what the definition of a headbutt is with these!

My issue is more that they aren’t consistent with that interpretation and haven’t realised the world has moved on so much that fans don’t allow referees to have their own interpretation any more. I don’t agree with that sentiment but it is what it is and as a consequence, they need to update the laws of the game and be a lot more descriptive with it and make as many as possible objective rather than subjective. At least at the PL level. The rest of the game can hopefully keep its sanity.
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What is totally wrong is that there will be many fans who, within the same half, let alone the same game, would be left with the thought that had the boot, or head, been on t'other foot, the result would have been different. Players are sent off, or not sent off, for nigh on identical fouls. This is where refs have zero credibility. Look at the tackle on Doku in the derby. Wasn't an identical instance a week later given a red card? The foul on Doku was downgraded for the event - high profile, the Rag press frothing at the mought, sky blue victim!
 
I’ve watched the game back and without emotion I actually thought Taylor had a good game. Football fans will always think the ref was against their team. I’ve seen Arsenal tv interviews lamenting Taylor’s performance yesterday for example.

One example I can give is towards the end when nunes eases their full back off the ball. If Taylor really was bent and anti city he would have gave that a free kick. He let a lot go and I actually think he had a good game.

You can’t underestimate how difficult it must be to referee a game like yesterday.

Now as the headbutt is concerned. I believe Taylor didn’t see it. The blame with that lies at the door of whoever was in charge of VAR. it’s a sending off. Haaland doesn’t react and that is what saves Gabriel. You could see in the face of Gabriel he knew in that one moment he had lost his head.
 
ninjamonkey said:
Missed it at the match, was too busy looking at the imminent sub but just seen the replay, how is var not telling Taylor to have a look at that? If you're using the Haaland didnt go down reasoning then you're effectively encouraging play acting.

Dreadful decision, that's not a decision he can maybe let ride for the sake of the game, which itself is wrong but slightly understandable. That's a clear headbutt attempt, it's a red card by every single metric you want to assess it by.
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Teddy Sheringham used the awful "he's entitled to go down there" the other day in a game which had me getting shouted at by the wife for my language. It annoys the hell out of me that thinking. Mind you I got shouted at again due to Eze for 3 obvious dives in the first half alone yesterday.
 
Wound me up on that review that Neville does with Drury that gets uploaded onto YouTube. They both said something along the lines of “at least the decision not to award a red card didn’t matter in the end”. Are they taking the fucking piss? Gabriel is their main goal threat and should be suspended for 3 of their remaining 5 matches. He WILL score between now and the end of the season.
 
DMA's said:
Now as the headbutt is concerned. I believe Taylor didn’t see it. The blame with that lies at the door of whoever was in charge of VAR. it’s a sending off. Haaland doesn’t react and that is what saves Gabriel. You could see in the face of Gabriel he knew in that one moment he had lost his head.
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If he didn't see it then why did he book them both?
 
Citizen of Legoland said:
If you enforced the LoTG to the letter we’d never get completed games as there’d be so many yellow cards it would become a farce with all the shirt pulling, pushing at corners, aggression, time-wasting etc. The officials have to try to be sensible and take into account the passion of the game. That was risky yesterday by Gabriel and on another day/ref he could get sent off but I think Taylor got it just about right.
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Maybe if they enforced the LoTG we may actually get to watch games of football and not the wrestling, fake head injuries, diving, time wasting pile of shit Arsenal have turned our league in to this year.
The wrestling and shirt pulling with no negative consequences for some teams is beyond a joke now.
The 'game manegement' decision to not send Gabriel off was another step in turning what was once a sport into a televised sporting influenced entertainment show, the same with not sending Henderson off in the cup final.
Neither decision were subjective decisions, both are clearly covered by the LoTG with little.roomfor interpretation and both non-decisions were made thinking about the neutrals watching at home and how each decision could affect viewing figures rather than actually maintaining football as a sporting competition.
 
yeseye said:
6 of one half a dozen of the other.
They’re both at it all game.
Haaland could have been sent off for bouncing the ball off his head last season.
It’s a great rivalry.
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It's a red card regardless of if they're both at it. Enjoyed watching the battle but Gabriel should have gone for that
 
The plain truth it should have been a red card & subsequent 3 match ban for violent conduct. PIGMOL complied with PL wishes which is anyone but City
 
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