City charged by FA for failing to control players against Spurs

Haaland was overflowing with adrenaline, he had missed a couple of decent chances during the game. He probably felt that he was responsible for it not being a comfortable win and needed to make a positive contribution.

He was fouled but knowing a free kick in his own half would not be beneficial to grabbing a victory he got straight up and struck a perfect pass which left Grealish clean through on goal. If you watch it again, both Haaland and Kovacic are sprinting upfield in support of Grealish, everybody on that pitch and everybody watching knew that was a game winning opportunity only for Hooper to do the inexplicable and blow his whistle.

No wonder Haaland and the rest of the team surrounded Hooper, he was lucky he wasn’t decked. I think in light of the refereeing our boys were remarkably restrained.
 
How can Hooper's action be labelled incompetence? He waved play on as he thought City had an advantage because Haaland was facing away from the Spurs goal. When he realised that Jack was bearing down on goal with only the goalie in front of him the advantage suddenly ended - that has to be corruption.
Or, he was worried that he wouldn’t be in shot when the goal went in. No way was the portly guy getting anywhere near the goal.
 

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