GibbosEmpire
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How? Alright he clipped him but it wasn't malicious
Calvert Lewin red card
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Tryasize10
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Zero intent. Would argue limited recklessness. Shocker of a red from the Ref and VAR team
LowMoorBoro
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I was a bit puzzle with it, even on the replay I couldn’t really see why it would be a straight red card.
I guess any tackle with studs showing is a red now.
I guess any tackle with studs showing is a red now.
Carlos Fandango
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To get the first red card of your career for that is a joke.
Ref should have had the bottle not to send him off.
Ref should have had the bottle not to send him off.
TheBoroBuzzard
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Anyone who remotely thinks that a sending off needs to find a different sport to watch..ridiculous decision
LowMoorBoro
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Hopefully if it goes to a replay it won’t be televised. The red card has been the only interesting thing to happen, awful game.
Again though, this isn't VARs fault. VAR has provided great evidence for the referees to make the correct decision. These are the top referees. If the referees are making incorrect decisions then it is the referees that are the problem, not the technology.
Quicksilvera
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His foot was high and he did make contact however slight, red card.
Heam44
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Even Roy Hodgson didn’t think it was a red card.
Quicksilvera
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Looking at it you’d say no but it’s what’s in the rules and that’s what referees apply.
Heam44
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I’m no expert but I believe these are the rules “copied and pasted from a good search”.
“SERIOUS FOUL PLAY
A tackle or challenge that endangers the safety of an opponent or uses excessive force or brutality must be sanctioned as serious foul play.
Any player who lunges at an opponent in challenging for the ball from the front, from the side or from behind using one or both legs, with excessive force or endangers the safety of an opponent is guilty of serious foul play”.
I don’t believe he used excessive force or brutality at all. And I don’t believe he endangered the safety of his opponent. His opponent (Clyne) was in danger of getting a little knock on the leg, something that might cause a bruise. His “safety” was never in danger, no chance of breaking his leg or whatever.
It’s a contact sport after all, by playing you are consenting to the fact that you might get slightly hurt as part of the game.
Cheesenbiscuits
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Clynes reaction didn’t help. Amazing how they get up 2 minutes afterwards and can sprint up and down after feigning how bad it was.
This week has seen the bad side of VAR. red card tonight and probably the 2 softest penalties for Liverpool.
It’s a contact sport ffs
MickaelDebevePhenomenal
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'Dangerous' 'reckless' 'excessive force' etc and all the other red card buzz words are being interpreted as any type of contact.
Its a minor glancing blow with studs up. The rules are nonesense with the people applying them clueless
Its a minor glancing blow with studs up. The rules are nonesense with the people applying them clueless
sherlock
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The level of contact is irrelevant.
If someone threw a punch and missed they’d still be off, they couldn’t argue that they hadn’t actually made contact.