Greenlizard0 Premier League Football Thread ** spoilers ** [7th - 8th October 2023]

dannyjo22 said:
He won't come back insta peak KBD. I said at the start of the season City have lost too many of their important moment match winners from last season. There are there for the taking.
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They’re still by far and away the best team in the league.

Theres a reason they’re still odds on.

Their points spread still has them at least 4 points a head of Arsenal, despite them being 2 behind.
 
So how did Kovacic get away with a single yellow in the City game. First could very easily have been a red and second was a given. Quite astonishing.
 
fez said:
So how did Kovacic get away with a single yellow in the City game. First could very easily have been a red and second was a given. Quite astonishing.
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Ive seen players get sent off for less for his first one. I think the ref should have been made to take a look personally. Its from behind, rash and dangerous.
 
Officiating so far this season has been woeful, Kovacic in the City game, Guimaraes today should have had two yellows. Obviously the Diaz VAR incident, but also the penalty against Romero versus Arsenal when United didn't get a penalty from a similar handball from Romero. Arms were out in both incidents but I think the United penalty wasn't given due to close proximity when the Arsenal player (was it White?) was even closer. They're just making it up as they go along or too afraid to send people off.
 
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Mekrel said:
Officiating so far this season has been woeful, Kovacic in the City game, Guimaraes today should have had two yellows. Obviously the Diaz VAR incident, but also the penalty against Romero versus Arsenal when United didn't get a penalty from a similar handball from Romero. Arms were out in both incidents but I think the United penalty wasn't given due to close proximity when the Arsenal player (was it White?) was even closer. They're just making it up as they go along or too afraid to send people off.
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Its costing teams points as its major decisions they are getting wrong. Gross should have been sent off today but didnt even get a yellow. Literally by the law is a red card couple that with the Diaz decision last week and the Jones and Jota sendings off. Shambles
 
I've only watched the Newcastle game this weekend but agree. Bruno should have had a second booking for an almost identical foul barely a minute after his first. Ref didn't miss it but decided not to give a yellow, had he not already booked him then he 100% would have. If it's a booking then it's a booking. Be it 20 minuets or 20 seconds after the first. Would have lost the game without him. Similarly he booked Emerson (I think) very early on for gesturing to him to get his card out. Almiron did the same 15 minutes later yet didn't get one.
Amid all this controversy this last few weeks I think the very least the refs should do is at least be consistent.
 
The Bruno one was perhaps a little easier to forgive as it probably should have been a yellow but I do think there is merit in not sending players off for silly fouls like that. It wasn't dangerous, it was just a little silly. The Kovacic one however. Both of them were stone wall yellows for nasty challenges and the first could easily have been a red on its own.

Poor Casemiro would have been off for both of them! :p
 
ryu said:
Arsenal winning means the Kovacic decisions will most likely just get buried :rolleyes:
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Its a strange one, if he had been sent off Man City obviously change the team structure around, games completely different from then on in, who's to say Arsenal would have won? It may have done Arsenal a favor with him staying on in a round-about way.
 
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Drukk said:
It’s a strange one, if he had been sent off Man City obviously change the team structure around, games completely different from then on in, who's to say Arsenal would have won? It may have done Arsenal a favor with him staying on in a round-about way.
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Their point is more to the result shouldn’t negate absolutely horrific refereeing coming under further scrutiny
 
Drukk said:
Its a strange one, if he had been sent off Man City obviously change the team structure around, games completely different from then on in, who's to say Arsenal would have won? It may have done Arsenal a favor with him staying on in a round-about way.
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Arsenal might have won it by more or lost the game. Thats not any sort of argument to excuse awful refereeing though. I think that every manager in every game would be very happy to play against 10 men.
 
fez said:
Arsenal might have won it by more or lost the game. Thats not any sort of argument to excuse awful refereeing though. I think that every manager in every game would be very happy to play against 10 men.
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I'm not excusing awful refereeing, I agree he should have been sent off, all in saying is results wise it may have done arsenal a favor. Maybe it should be looked at retrospectively but I doubt it will.
 
Purdy said:
Their point is more to the result shouldn’t negate absolutely horrific refereeing coming under further scrutiny
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I get that, was just looking at it from another angle. It was awful refereeing, should have gone but just stating that may have done arsenal a favor reference the result.
 
Clown Watch making sense again. Gallagher thinks Gros didn’t get a red because the ball ran away from Szoboszlai but he accpets the reason the ball ran away from him was because he was pulled back. No **** Pennywise!
 
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