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Originally Posted by the 5th back I just read the discipline report from the league site and saw, to my dismay, that our 3 suspended players got 4 games, 3 games, and 2 games. This seems harsh to me and makes me wonder if this is just a cash grab. The only infraction that I saw clearly was the one that resulted in the 3 games. Our guy took exception to a hard challenge, which the ref actually called a foul, and in a moment of anger kicked/tripped the opposing player's leg out from under him. It didn't look that vicious to me and in fact I saw Wayne Rooney receive a yellow for the same thing the next day on tv. I know it's the ref's discretion, but what's wrong with a yellow card? Now the guy misses in effect 4 games since the foul occurred early in that game. With the other 2 suspensions it puts our team short-handed now for the next while. I guess the struggles continue. |
I suppose that it's easy to blame the ref for your team's woes.... that's fine. Fact of the matter is that contact of pretty much any force after the ball has gone or the initial contact has occurred is a red card by the book..... look at Beckham in the WC against argentina a few years back. Act like an idiot, get sent off like one too.
As for the other red cards from that game, after the first one you all should have known that that ref wasn't going to tolerate any sh!t. It's up to each team to adapt to the ref in each game, be he slack or a stickler to the rules. You guys didn't and now you're going to have to deal with the suspensions. I would be nice if Div 2 refs were more consistant but that's not reality so we all have to deal with that.
All this said, you guys played with spirit even after all of your card troubles and even had some chances, so well done.