Ref Watch

[cheekybids]

Have you noticed that kicking opposition teams hasn’t been a thing for about 15 years?

Alan I love your balance but there has green some horrendous attacks on players in that time. In KDBs break out season it was like there had been a bounty placed on him.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Alan I love your balance but there has green some horrendous attacks on players in that time. In KDBs break out season it was like there had been a bounty placed on him.

Apologies for not considering a season 7 years ago or so.

Players have never had it so easy when it comes to bad tackles.

 

[cheekybids]

Apologies for not considering a season 7 years ago or so.

Players have never had it so easy when it comes to bad tackles.

Forgive me not keeping an endless account of bad tackles. It’s not like it was but it’s still a part of the game.

We had quite a lively game in Madrid last season.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Forgive me not keeping an endless account of bad tackles. It’s not like it was but it’s still a part of the game.

We had quite a lively game in Madrid last season.

Me neither, but players don’t go round kicking lumps out of each other anymore.

Most “bad” tackles are poorly timed rather than malicious.

KDB probably gets more than most as teams try to stop him creating at all costs, rather than trying to break his legs.

Spurs at home when David Silva’s child was very poorly was an example as was the challenge at Palace. Neither were in the Keane/Haaland league though.

 

[cheekybids]

Me neither, but players don’t go round kicking lumps out of each other anymore.

Most “bad” tackles are poorly timed rather than malicious.

KDB probably gets more than most as teams try to stop him creating at all costs, rather than trying to break his legs.

Spurs at home when David Silva’s child was very poorly was an example as was the challenge at Palace. Neither were in the Keane/Haaland league though.

Those stick in my memory, I disagree about not in the Keane mould. I don’t know how his leg wasn’t broken.

The games changed but red mist still appears, certainly our wingers have been crashed into advertising hoardings a lot. There’s a reason that Sterling twatted Gomez in the England canteen.

 

[manchester blue]

There seems to be a lot more leniency this season, or should I say much less inclination to give soft fouls (United's penalty an exception). This is a welcome change and will benefit us a lot.

CL games were already like this, and it's good to see the PL following their lead. This has resulted in fewer interruptions in play, as players like United's Fernandez, with their tendency to claim a foul at the slightest touch, are having their protestations overlooked.

Definitely. Hard tackles are still punished, it's the ones we can all see it's not a foul and the player goes to ground too easily that are not being given. Football is much better as a result. Ref yesterday was very good.

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

Alan I love your balance but there has green some horrendous attacks on players in that time. In KDBs break out season it was like there had been a bounty placed on him.

Yeah, yer don't need to kick anyone these days - there are much subtler ways of fouling players and making it look just a clumsy tackle, or at the last moment step into their path and turn slightly so that yer shoulder gives their eye socket a bit of a bump.and yer can hold up yer hands and plead self defence.

 

[blue b4 the moon]

Best performance I've seen from a game of ours in the Prem.

Although Walker should have had a red for 2 yellow card incidents (if it was him on the second foul near Pep.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Those stick in my memory, I disagree about not in the Keane mould. I don’t know how his leg wasn’t broken.

The games changed but red mist still appears, certainly our wingers have been crashed into advertising hoardings a lot. There’s a reason that Sterling twatted Gomez in the England canteen.

It’s hard to determine intent, but yeah, bad tackles still happen. Only the person committing the foul knows whether they are trying to “do” their opponent.

Wasn't the Sterling/Gomez bust up to do with Gomez taking the piss about them beating us?

 

[cheekybids]

It’s hard to determine intent, but yeah, bad tackles still happen. Only the person committing the foul knows whether they are trying to “do” their opponent.

Wasn't the Sterling/Gomez bust up to do with Gomez taking the piss about them beating us?

No he took too many peas ;)

I was under the impression it was for pushing him over the barriers then grand standing. Sterling pulled him up for it the next day but tbh I’ll have only read it here so it could be the peas.