Kyle Walker - 2017/2018 Performances

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karen7 said:
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Kyle Walker
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Gutted with last night. I apologise to the fans and my teammates. They did amazingly well to get back into the game and get a point #MCFC
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Great reaction by the player. But Walker has absolutely nothing to apologise for. Back for Liverpool and that is good news.
 
spurs4life said:
Sheesh I thought Spurs fans were bad with all that the media, refs, fa hates us nonsense. It was a bad decision. We all get bad decisions, and guess what every team in the league believes the refs are against them
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Not sure any team could provide so many examples of game changing decisions against them. It really does seem to be a weekly thing and while you can accept mistakes a lot of ours are pretty obvious ones.

Certainly not Spurs who at times seem blessed.
 
mosssideblue said:
You don't have to make contact if the intent was there and imo, he was rightly booked
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Seriously?

He slid in front of Baines to block the ball. He never touched Baines, who just jumped over the "air challenge!" Baines himself NEVER touched any part of his body when he went down. Nothing. He simply lay in his back, knees in the air, waiting for the card. Then he got up and carried on. Walker knew he never touched him and was telling Baines exactly that as he walked away.

If you think that he intended to tackle him, crunch him, make any contact with him and was simply too inept to do it, then I'm not sure what I can say.

There was no intent to tackle, only an intent to block a clearance. Nothing more, nothing less. Baines rode it, went down, didn't scream, roll or hold anything...but the ref felt like it LOOKED LIKE something must have happened! He guessed wrong!

The second yellow was almost worse! Oliver calls it a foul and probably hangs Madley out to dry by telling him it was an elbow and should be a yellow card....clearly knowing it would result in a red card!

I am absolutely NOT an "agenda" person, because I think, in general, most people are too stupid to be able to conduct a conspiracy. However, the quality of work being done by referees is showing serious deficiencies. The game moves quickly, and sometimes that can be an excuse, which is why so many players cheat. It is virtually impossible to see everything all the time, but it has become a matter of professionalism, or lack thereof. It is unprofessional to try to get a fellow professional sent off, but players do it because the stakes are so high that they are willing to resort to the lowest possible level of professional decorum to gain any such advantage.

We have all these initiatives to get racism out of football, how about one to get the cheating out of football?!

Refereeing is a hard job. Guessing doesn't make it any easier, especially when there are dozens of super slo mo cameras watching every step on the field! Two games in and some of the reffing has been Pub League.
 
ChicagoBlue said:
Seriously?

He slid in front of Baines to block the ball. He never touched Baines, who just jumped over the "air challenge!" Baines himself NEVER touched any part of his body when he went down. Nothing. He simply lay in his back, knees in the air, waiting for the card. Then he got up and carried on. Walker knew he never touched him and was telling Baines exactly that as he walked away.

If you think that he intended to tackle him, crunch him, make any contact with him and was simply too inept to do it, then I'm not sure what I can say.

There was no intent to tackle, only an intent to block a clearance. Nothing more, nothing less. Baines rode it, went down, didn't scream, roll or hold anything...but the ref felt like it LOOKED LIKE something must have happened! He guessed wrong!

The second yellow was almost worse! Oliver calls it a foul and probably hangs Madley out to dry by telling him it was an elbow and should be a yellow card....clearly knowing it would result in a red card!

I am absolutely NOT an "agenda" person, because I think, in general, most people are too stupid to be able to conduct a conspiracy. However, the quality of work being done by referees is showing serious deficiencies. The game moves quickly, and sometimes that can be an excuse, which is why so many players cheat. It is virtually impossible to see everything all the time, but it has become a matter of professionalism, or lack thereof. It is unprofessional to try to get a fellow professional sent off, but players do it because the stakes are so high that they are willing to resort to the lowest possible level of professional decorum to gain any such advantage.

We have all these initiatives to get racism out of football, how about one to get the cheating out of football?!

Refereeing is a hard job. Guessing doesn't make it any easier, especially when there are dozens of super slo mo cameras watching every step on the field! Two games in and some of the reffing has been Pub League.
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There was slight contact between heel and toe on the follow through, no intent though.
 
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