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Well deserved red card for a very stupid player...and yes Chico made the most of it, but this was a relegation battle and Caroll let his team seriously down.
 
Chico should ve received a red as well. Hate those little cry b######. Perhaps time to introduce NHL style fights and have the two players try to knock each other out, then send em both off.
 
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Chicho shouldn't have even been on the pitch, this is a guy who tried to smash a brick against a team mate earlier in the week in training, the club should have suspended him.
 
Have to hand it to you mate, really great result. Matic was just bossing Yaya. I always thought he had potential when he was at Vitesse, but I never thought he would turn out to be this good.
 
goals scored in 2013-2014

Martin Skrtel 4 :APPLAUD:
Fernando Torres 4
Silva 4
Lampard 4
Ozil 4
Cazorla 4
Januzaj 3
Podolski 3
Wilshere 3
Fenandinho 3
Sigurdsson 3
Eriksen 3
Paulinho 3
Ashley Young 2
Willian 2
Chicharito 2
Valencia 2
Cleverley 1
Lennon 1
Ba 1
Defoe 1
Mata 0
Kagawa 0
Fellaini 0
Downing 0
Carroll 0
 
My reaction was also meant as a joke pipa...
To be fair, i never rated Skrtel very high, but this season he seems to be playing better than i rated him..in the past he regularly had defensive howlers...it seems he's left that behind him.
 
ye they got that wrong, toure probably deserved ban but why hypocrite one need to get involved demanding ban?? tbh hypocrite one needs to be banned for incessantly talking out of his ass..
 
That should've been a straight sending off.

We've been seeing refs being absolutely rigorous with some players that were trying to win the ball. For instance, Mathieu Flamini's challenge against the Southampton player may have been dangerous, but he came away with the ball and the opposition player was unharmed. He was sent off because refs now show red for tackles with studs showing.

But kick someone in the kidneys while they're on the ground in an off the ball incident, by all means.

What a strange sport football is becoming.
 
Of course that should have been a straight sending off...the ball was nowhere near, he onlu lashed out to hit the player on the ground, that is always a straight red...class justice once again...

If it would have been the other way round, Van Wolswinkel would have got a ban for 3 or 4 matches...
 
My favourite argument - if that was Rooney it'd be on the front page of the Sun, Mail and Mirror today. We'd have 3d slow-motion, 4000 fps replays on MOTD, and dedicate 30 minutes to his mindset,

But we move on, the press determine the FA's agenda, and fortunately for City, it appears the press don't care about Yaya.
 
Well Beach, Wigan Athletic....need i say more ?
Rooney is a fantastic player, but that is still the most brutal thing i've seen in 45 years of football...that was also class justice.... I don't know if it made the front pages, but it should have....
 
Rooney only got booked for worse earlier in the season so I don't know what you're crying about.

As for Flamini, his was a career-threatening 2 footed lunge. Contrast that with a little flick off the ball. It's not unusual at all to only receive a yellow for such things. This is made a big deal because the ref didn't see it and Moaninho started whining.
 
So gerd, the elbow on McCarthy a few seasons back was the most brutal thing you've ever seen in football in 45 years?

Or are you just trying to be funny again?
 
Not at all Abou.
Over the yearsi've seen lots of horror tackles wich really were horror tackles (the one on Eduardo comes to my mind): players that got over the ball. Those tackles could have finished carreers (in the case of Eduardo, that tackle did change his carreer). They were all much more dangeous than what Rooney did.

But in all these cases, the ball was involved. Only the offender himself knows what his intentions were, but most of these players somehow went for the ball (in a very clumsy or brutal way).

In Rooney's case, the ball was nowhere near... I don't know why he did that, perhaps Mc Carthy said something, perhaps he took revenge...

To me it is always much worse if the ball isn't involved (that is why Touré should get a ban too).

Imagine doing something similar like Rooney on the street ? I'm pretty sure you would end up arrested. The adrenalin that is involved in a match is no excuse for what Rooney did there. He was an experienced player at the time.

I hope you see now why i'm not trying to be funny.

And now something other. I remember a post from you were you considered to put me on your ignore list. At the time i apologized because you seem a nice fellow and i felt that i made a mistake (can't remember what however).

I like to read your posts, but you seem to be the last person on this forum who still thinks i am against Man Utd. There used to be a time when i avoided the Man Utd thread because that horrible RunEdge had persuaded most of the fans that i was against the club. As a former United fan, at times i'm very critical for the club. But for the momenti have much sympathy for the club and the fans. I want them competing for titles again. I don't show schadenfreude.

Maybe i am the only one who feels that what Rooney did against Mc Carthy was very brutal, but it is my honest opinion. I wasn't writing that to wind up anybody...beach and i are bickering all the time, but i highly respect him...he's one of my favourite posters.

And would you have reacted if i would have said something similar about (for example) Suarez ? I don't think so.

Like i said, maybe i'm wrong about Rooney (i am often wrong because i'm very subjective, like all of us), but it is my honest opinion. It deserves respect and not being seen as acting like a clown.

No hard feelings.
 
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What a paradox between Fulham's senior team and their U21 one, the 1st one being on the very bottom of the league and the latter one being leaders with 6 points clear off their 2nd.

I'm starting to understand Meulensteen's choices more now.
 
gerd said:
Not at all Abou.
Over the yearsi've seen lots of horror tackles wich really were horror tackles (the one on Eduardo comes to my mind): players that got over the ball. Those tackles could have finished carreers (in the case of Eduardo, that tackle did change his carreer). They were all much more dangeous than what Rooney did.

But in all these cases, the ball was involved. Only the offender himself knows what his intentions were, but most of these players somehow went for the ball (in a very clumsy or brutal way).

In Rooney's case, the ball was nowhere near... I don't know why he did that, perhaps Mc Carthy said something, perhaps he took revenge...

To me it is always much worse if the ball isn't involved (that is why Touré should get a ban too).

Imagine doing something similar like Rooney on the street ? I'm pretty sure you would end up arrested. The adrenalin that is involved in a match is no excuse for what Rooney did there. He was an experienced player at the time.

I hope you see now why i'm not trying to be funny.

And now something other. I remember a post from you were you considered to put me on your ignore list. At the time i apologized because you seem a nice fellow and i felt that i made a mistake (can't remember what however).

I like to read your posts, but you seem to be the last person on this forum who still thinks i am against Man Utd. There used to be a time when i avoided the Man Utd thread because that horrible RunEdge had persuaded most of the fans that i was against the club. As a former United fan, at times i'm very critical for the club. But for the momenti have much sympathy for the club and the fans. I want them competing for titles again. I don't show schadenfreude.

Maybe i am the only one who feels that what Rooney did against Mc Carthy was very brutal, but it is my honest opinion. I wasn't writing that to wind up anybody...beach and i are bickering all the time, but i highly respect him...he's one of my favourite posters.

And would you have reacted if i would have said something similar about (for example) Suarez ? I don't think so.

Like i said, maybe i'm wrong about Rooney (i am often wrong because i'm very subjective, like all of us), but it is my honest opinion. It deserves respect and not being seen as acting like a clown.

No hard feelings.
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The ball being involved has little to do with it, especially when it's quite obvious that the offender only has eyes for the player, Ben Thatcher's vile assault of Pedro Mendes for example.

Your countryman Axel Witsel's challenge on Wasilewski that broke his leg was disgusting, yet because the ball was "involved" it makes it fairer than Rooney's elbow?

It's just a bizarre thing to say, there's been plenty of worse incidents over the years. In fact, there's been plenty of elbows similar to Rooney's, like Gerrard's on Michael Brown a few seasons ago:

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But you don't see me calling them the worse thing I've ever seen since I started watching football.
 
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