Puncheon trip on Zaba goes unpunished...

[Rolee]

ta, bit naughty but not a red imo

Probably a yellow if spotted but you do have to wonder what the outcome if the situation was reversed.

 

[chaddblue]

Thing is though, if he got a 3 match ban, someone else might benefit... not us

 

[aguero93:20]

Thing is though, if he got a 3 match ban, someone else might benefit... not us

Nah, had a look and they were playing teams likely to be in the relegation battle.

 

[G-Star Medium Rare]

Outrageous!
That would have been a sending off in ( either codes )- of Rugby, let alone football. Kun got removed from the game where we thrashed the shite for a much more innocuous infringement --- where's the agenda thread?

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

It was probably worthy of a yellow, in the same way someone would get a yellow for deliberately stopping someone who was about to break going past them with the ball.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

And Zaba hasn't travelled with the squad to Germany. I wonder if he's feeling the ill effects of being brutally hacked down off the ball.

It was an underhand and shithouse trip but it was not brutal by any stretch of the imagination.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

Outrageous!
That would have been a sending off in ( either codes )- of Rugby, let alone football. Kun got removed from the game where we thrashed the shite for a much more innocuous infringement --- where's the agenda thread?

It may have been ten minutes in the sin bin for a trip off the ball, but there'd be no red card.

Still an absolute coward's trick though, "if you can't play properly don't play at all" with a good backhand across the face would have been what i would have responded with

 

[Rolee]

It was an underhand and shithouse trip but it was not brutal by any stretch of the imagination.

It was a joke mate, Sergio's petulant arm swing was described as brutal by the independent panel that deliberated on his case.

 

[Cellarite]

Never a red that.

 

[abellwillring]

ta, bit naughty but not a red imo

If you were unaware, they've changed the rules this past summer which should have made it a red.

 

[sir baconface]

Only a yellow, that. Some posters sound like fcukin Mourinho.

 

[kaz7]

The commentator at the time said the rules have recently changed and if the ref had seen it would have been a red,we all know if zabba had done it to him he would have got done

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

Never a red.

And were the roles reversed I am sure as eggs are jelly beans that the FArce would have arrived at the same conclusion (Like fuck they would!)

 

[BlueAnorak]

And were the roles reversed I am sure as eggs are jelly beans that the FArce would have arrived at the same conclusion (Like fuck they would!)

Absolutely Spot On. It is the inconsistency that really annoys.

 

[cookster]

The commentator at the time said the rules have recently changed and if the ref had seen it would have been a red,we all know if zabba had done it to him he would have got done

I heard that as well but thought changed to what? For me it was a professional foul worthy of a yellow card, not red.

 

[aguero93:20]

I heard that as well but thought changed to what? For me it was a professional foul worthy of a yellow card, not red.

The rules always apply differently to different clubs so it hardly matters what it changed to.

 

[manchester blue]

It's violent conduct, he may well have punched him the shithouse. A kick off the ball is a red.

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

The jug-eared crisp monger defended himself on Twitter saying was a non incident, not worthy of discussion, yet the FA saw fit to review it - as MOTD should have done. BBC SCUM

Would the jug-eared crisp muncher arrive at the same conclusion that it was not worthy of discussion had it been Stones or Ottomendi, or Sagna or Fernandinho? I think the Biased Broadcasting Canutes would have had it on a loop for the entire programme, and a poll on their website. Shitehawks!

 

[Jacob Smith]

Only a yellow, that. Some posters sound like fcukin Mourinho.

I think the point is more that if it was Sterling doing the same thing to their right back there would be uproar from the media and he would get a three match ban rather than it being a bad foul

 

[Bluep*ss]

I cannot take any credit for the following but saw it on another forum....

in other news:

“The FA have decided not to take any action against Crystal Palace’s Jason Puncheon for his off-the-ball foul on Pablo Zabaleta .
The incident was referred to the FA, as the officials failed to see it, but after reviewing the video they decided it was not an act of violent conducted by Mario Balotelli, or any other Manchester City player, which would have brought a three-match ban.”