If Yates had done the same to Maddison, Son would have been screaming in the ref’s face and we know it would have been a straight red. Thats the fcukin annoying part of it. Really does feel like two sets of rules.
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Very weird. It was a punch and he should’ve gone.
Equslly, Danilo should probably have gone for that knee high connection with his studs up.
I genuinely don’t know what merits a foul, yellow or a red anymore.Didn't need Danilo sent off for Spurs to win. Got to give us the odd one.
Sky just announced that Joe Kinnear has died.
Me neither. I thought he was caught while playing a pass out of defence and it was a foul the other way.
Was he watching us then?
Gibbs White carrying an injury is a worry.
Should've been 2-1 up.
Could've been playing against 10.
When you're up against a much better side you need everything to go your way.
Very little went our way. Though when you can't finish and can't defend...The first(?) manure game of the season should have woken us up to the new reality. Punching is okay, if you are the big club. It's hard not to think that they don't open the process of VAR up to scrutiny, or run it anything like as well as they could, specifically to make sure that the game is bent. It's very hard to come up with an alternative simple hypothesis that explains all of the available evidence. I am open to considering suggestions.
What is a foul, what is handball, what is 'interfering' when offside? The only outcome that benefits from the confusing shower of shit that they have turned all of these decisions into, is if you want to hide bias behind the inevitable confusion. In the current environment it's almost impossible to have clarity and a level playing field with consistent decisions.
We might have lost anyway but the Premier League is bent.
If we survive all this nonsense it’s a miracle.
I enjoy the football but fcuk me is there a level playing field. Is there fcuk!
Chicago: Taking up boxing.
Yates made a meal of it as he usually does, and has a well earned reputation in the league for being an agitator. He isn't going to get those kinds of decisions, and probably rightly so. If he had done it to Maddison you'd all have been screaming about Maddison being a diving Leicester twat.
Sadly not good enough again. Same result as last year.
Better performance? Maybe for last 20 of first half, but never looked comfortable for much of the game. Created nothing second half.
As an aside, i's amazing how the owners have managed to turn us from a club everyone was happy to see back in the Prem to one everyone wants to see relegated. Good legacy that.
I can confirm @JRs_Cigarette isn't quite as miserable in real life.
Quite a weird take. I can assure you that had it been the other way around, I would have said that Madison is an annoying snidey little twat but Yates had inexplicably got away with an assault, never mind a foul. You just can't go around punching people on a football pitch*. However much they wind you up.
* except when officiated by terrible referees, petrified of making a decision in the face of intimidation. I have appealed to a referee as a player behind me was aiming repeated roundhouse punches to the back of my head, and not got a decision. It's not something that we should expect, or tolerate, at the elite level though.
I'd have been pretty pissed off with Yates if he'd let that little twat wind him up to the point where he punched him off the ball. Mostly because I'd have fully expected Yates to be sent off.
In terms of managing the game, I'm not sure you can have 'a little bit of violent conduct', can you?
Danny Murphy basically just said it should have been red. But then said Madisons nice guy persona made him get away with it, which is mental, as Madison has never been a nice guy
