Taylor for the Liverpool game

[Blue Mist]

A referee with any kind of agenda or bias against us would have sent both Kompany and Pep off.

If you're still pretending he was against us tonight you should seek help.

I've sought help and Richard Keys and many others have said I am OK and to carry on as I am. Why are you fixated with the Kompany (non) sending off. Carragher (a dipper) said 2 or 3 out of 10 refs would have sent him off. So 70% wouldn't, it was a good challenge.

 

[Fame Monster]

Sad state of affairs when some of our own fans think our club captain was lucky not to have been sent off having won all of the ball in an amazing, last-ditch tackle against a notorious diver in our biggest game of the season.

 

[Exeter Blue I am here]

I've sought help and Richard Keys and many others have said I am OK and to carry on as I am. Why are you fixated with the Kompany (non) sending off. Carragher (a dipper) said 2 or 3 out of 10 refs would have sent him off. So 70% wouldn't, it was a good challenge.

The point is that Taylor didn’t send Kompany off even though there was scope and some (30% according to Carragher sounds about right) legitimacy to do so. I don’t see how you can scream anti-City bias when the referee doesn’t take the most God given opportunity to implement that alleged bias. Doesn’t mean I’ve forgotten him writing Delph’s name on a yellow card at Wigan or taking his hand away from his pocket when he realised he’d have to send David Luiz off for fouling Sergio, but there really was little to gripe about last night

 

[Exeter Blue I am here]

Sad state of affairs when some of our own fans think our club captain was lucky not to have been sent off having won all of the ball in an amazing, last-ditch tackle against a notorious diver in our biggest game of the season.

1. No-one thinks he was lucky, but as Jamie Carragher rightly pointed out, the tackle was sufficiently borderline that 3 out of 10 refs might have sent Vinny off.
2. Vinny took a flying leap leading with his left leg, which missed the ball completely and connected instead with Salah’s ankle. Vinny then took the ball by accident with his right arse cheek on the follow through. It was never anything other than a foul.

There’s nothing sad about being objective, and it doesn’t mean those City fans capable of looking at an incident without blue tinted specs on, were necessarily disappointed with the outcome. I enjoyed every second of Vinny standing over the cheating little weasel calling him a pussy. Still a foul though, and a fairly poor one. Taylor got it right with the yellow, but it could easily have been a red

 

[Eds]

Thought he did okay on the whole, although there were some very interesting decisions in the last ten minutes.

You mean like no free kick for a push in the back on Sergio followed by five seconds later a push in the back on Ferny? Or maybe you mean him booking Eddy for time wasting. I don't understand that as all the ref has to do is add on time which he did anyway. Let's see how many keepers Taylor or any other ref books for time wasting against us in the first half as most do

 

[Rolee]

Sad state of affairs when some of our own fans think our club captain was lucky not to have been sent off having won all of the ball in an amazing, last-ditch tackle against a notorious diver in our biggest game of the season.

Not really mate, given the way these types of challenges are interpreted nowadays then you have to acknowledge there was a certain amount of luck involved that Vinnie was given the benefit of the doubt, for me the tackle is fine but my initial reaction was 'oh fuck!'.

 

[worsleyweb]

If he did send him off it would be a disgrace

But he didn’t so he wasn’t. Thought he reffed very well.

 

[EricBrooksGhost]

But he didn’t so he wasn’t. Thought he reffed very well.

I bumped this thread as I thought he was poor second half; ignored so much by them and the non penalty. Pep was rightly fuming but I fail to understand how people can describe that performance as fair; I'll accept he's been worse and better

 

[worsleyweb]

I bumped this thread as I thought he was poor second half; ignored so much by them and the non penalty. Pep was rightly fuming but I fail to understand how people can describe that performance as fair; I'll accept he's been worse and better

You thought he was ok. Will stick with that.

 

[Fame Monster]

1. No-one thinks he was lucky, but as Jamie Carragher rightly pointed out, the tackle was sufficiently borderline that 3 out of 10 refs might have sent Vinny off.
2. Vinny took a flying leap leading with his left leg, which missed the ball completely and connected instead with Salah’s ankle. Vinny then took the ball by accident with his right arse cheek on the follow through. It was never anything other than a foul.

There’s nothing sad about being objective, and it doesn’t mean those City fans capable of looking at an incident without blue tinted specs on, were necessarily disappointed with the outcome. I enjoyed every second of Vinny standing over the cheating little weasel calling him a pussy. Still a foul though, and a fairly poor one. Taylor got it right with the yellow, but it could easily have been a red

1. 3 out of 10 might have sent him off, I agree. But that says more about the shocking standard of refereeing than anything else.

2. Kompany only brushes Salah after he’s already won the ball. He doesn’t win the ball by accident, he makes himself as big as possible so there’s nowhere Salah can go to hit the ball past him. Great defending and it’s sad that the rules are being interpreted to try and take great tackles, that get fans out of their seats, removed from the game. You could make a valid argument that all sliding tackles endanger an opponent because if a player was in control, why would he have to slide? But that’s the sanitised road we’re heading towards and probably already at if perfectly good, ball winning tackles are outlawed like Kompany’s tackle was last night.