| Keith Hackett on 12:19 - Nov 3 with 2761 views | Garv |
He has a point about yellow cards. I don't know how many were dished out yesterday but it felt like a lot.
But...players more than ever are trying to pull a fast one at any opportunity they can. There is too much money in the game and arguably results are almost too important. Players and managers will go to extreme lengths to try and win a game, cheating basically. If the Leicester players don't go mental at the referee after Phillips' non tackle I'm pretty sure he doesn't pull the second yellow out his pocket.
Either way, our ref lost control of the game yesterday. |  |
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| Keith Hackett on 12:24 - Nov 3 with 2729 views | olimar |
| Keith Hackett on 12:19 - Nov 3 by Garv |
He has a point about yellow cards. I don't know how many were dished out yesterday but it felt like a lot.
But...players more than ever are trying to pull a fast one at any opportunity they can. There is too much money in the game and arguably results are almost too important. Players and managers will go to extreme lengths to try and win a game, cheating basically. If the Leicester players don't go mental at the referee after Phillips' non tackle I'm pretty sure he doesn't pull the second yellow out his pocket.
Either way, our ref lost control of the game yesterday. |
The yellow cards are totally inbalanced. Because the PL has made a thing about trying to clamp down on players kicking the ball away to prevent a restart, yesterday about 5 players got one for doing it.
Yet other acts of gamesmanship that probably had a greater impact on delaying the game are ignored. The ref spoke to their keeper a couple of times about time wasting but didnt book him. Muric timewasted for the first time by kicking a ball away and got booked. |  | | |
| Keith Hackett on 14:25 - Nov 3 with 2448 views | FrimleyBlue |
| Keith Hackett on 12:24 - Nov 3 by olimar |
The yellow cards are totally inbalanced. Because the PL has made a thing about trying to clamp down on players kicking the ball away to prevent a restart, yesterday about 5 players got one for doing it.
Yet other acts of gamesmanship that probably had a greater impact on delaying the game are ignored. The ref spoke to their keeper a couple of times about time wasting but didnt book him. Muric timewasted for the first time by kicking a ball away and got booked. |
I always thought booting the ball away would justify a yellow. Kicking it 5 yards is hardly doing anything when the refs barely allow quick freekicks anymore anyway. |  |
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| Keith Hackett on 15:01 - Nov 3 with 2305 views | tonybied |
| Keith Hackett on 12:24 - Nov 3 by olimar |
The yellow cards are totally inbalanced. Because the PL has made a thing about trying to clamp down on players kicking the ball away to prevent a restart, yesterday about 5 players got one for doing it.
Yet other acts of gamesmanship that probably had a greater impact on delaying the game are ignored. The ref spoke to their keeper a couple of times about time wasting but didnt book him. Muric timewasted for the first time by kicking a ball away and got booked. |
Yup, kick a ball a few foot away after conceding a freekick - get a yellow card. Stand a player in front of the ball when conceding a freekick, stopping the opposition talking it quickly - nothing doing! Same result for the offending team but no punishment. |  | | |
| Keith Hackett on 15:24 - Nov 3 with 2193 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
| Keith Hackett on 12:24 - Nov 3 by olimar |
The yellow cards are totally inbalanced. Because the PL has made a thing about trying to clamp down on players kicking the ball away to prevent a restart, yesterday about 5 players got one for doing it.
Yet other acts of gamesmanship that probably had a greater impact on delaying the game are ignored. The ref spoke to their keeper a couple of times about time wasting but didnt book him. Muric timewasted for the first time by kicking a ball away and got booked. |
If there was absolute consistency over it, the players would stop doing it. It is the inconsistency in the application of that and many other "initiatives" that is the problem. How often do we get all the stoppage time allowed at the end of the match now? It isn't because it has cut out the time wasting. |  |
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| Keith Hackett on 15:41 - Nov 3 with 2115 views | olimar |
| Keith Hackett on 15:24 - Nov 3 by Nthsuffolkblue |
If there was absolute consistency over it, the players would stop doing it. It is the inconsistency in the application of that and many other "initiatives" that is the problem. How often do we get all the stoppage time allowed at the end of the match now? It isn't because it has cut out the time wasting. |
Yeah there is definitely some of that. If they cant get the initiative to stick, they just slowly pay less attention to it and it becomes inconsistent. There were a load of cards in the game yesterday and most of them were harmless. | | | |
| Keith Hackett on 15:46 - Nov 3 with 2092 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
| Keith Hackett on 15:41 - Nov 3 by olimar |
Yeah there is definitely some of that. If they cant get the initiative to stick, they just slowly pay less attention to it and it becomes inconsistent. There were a load of cards in the game yesterday and most of them were harmless. |
Most especially the second one for Phillips. It isn't even a foul! | |
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| Keith Hackett on 19:59 - Nov 3 with 1798 views | ArnieM |
Get rid of yellow cards and bring in sin bins. If teams lost players for 10 mins ( or whatever period of time was deemed appropriate) , for previous “ bookable” offences, they’d think twice about committing those fouls. Works in rugby so why not football. |  |
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| Keith Hackett on 11:09 - Nov 4 with 1373 views | Facefacts |
It's getting to the stage where we need to use the groups of substitutions to take players off who are on a yellow, because we can't appeal any second yellow which has been brought about by cheating opponents (Lewis-Potter going limp and collapsing over, Leicester GK and others rushing out) and a weak referee.
The problem is the Premier League culture of cheating. We can't do it, we haven't been DNA'd, trained, bred to do it (all Italian defenders like the hook nosed guy in the Euro final - can wrestle Saka to the ground and not even a yellow - and put a gipsy's curse on his shootout penalty). |  | | |
| Keith Hackett on 12:49 - Nov 4 with 1226 views | FoD_Blue |
| Keith Hackett on 12:24 - Nov 3 by olimar |
The yellow cards are totally inbalanced. Because the PL has made a thing about trying to clamp down on players kicking the ball away to prevent a restart, yesterday about 5 players got one for doing it.
Yet other acts of gamesmanship that probably had a greater impact on delaying the game are ignored. The ref spoke to their keeper a couple of times about time wasting but didnt book him. Muric timewasted for the first time by kicking a ball away and got booked. |
The ref wasted more time talking to the Leicester keeper about time wasting than had been wasted by him. What was the point? Should have just booked him and carried on with the game.
The fact that Muric was booked for kicking the ball away, although probably a correct booking under the current rules, and was obviously going to happen, was just yet another inconsistency. | | | |
| Keith Hackett on 13:47 - Nov 4 with 1135 views | hoppy |
| Keith Hackett on 12:24 - Nov 3 by olimar |
The yellow cards are totally inbalanced. Because the PL has made a thing about trying to clamp down on players kicking the ball away to prevent a restart, yesterday about 5 players got one for doing it.
Yet other acts of gamesmanship that probably had a greater impact on delaying the game are ignored. The ref spoke to their keeper a couple of times about time wasting but didnt book him. Muric timewasted for the first time by kicking a ball away and got booked. |
And no card at all for this...
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| Keith Hackett on 13:48 - Nov 4 with 1132 views | badadski |
| Keith Hackett on 15:01 - Nov 3 by tonybied |
Yup, kick a ball a few foot away after conceding a freekick - get a yellow card. Stand a player in front of the ball when conceding a freekick, stopping the opposition talking it quickly - nothing doing! Same result for the offending team but no punishment. |
Standing in front and getting hit when a quick free kick is taken is also a yellow - Phillips should have blasted it out first chance he had and forced the issue - coatis. Morsy going to ref and saying you need to watch this or you will regret tonight if you don’t - | | | |
| Keith Hackett on 13:56 - Nov 4 with 1076 views | Pinewoodblue |
| Keith Hackett on 12:24 - Nov 3 by olimar |
The yellow cards are totally inbalanced. Because the PL has made a thing about trying to clamp down on players kicking the ball away to prevent a restart, yesterday about 5 players got one for doing it.
Yet other acts of gamesmanship that probably had a greater impact on delaying the game are ignored. The ref spoke to their keeper a couple of times about time wasting but didnt book him. Muric timewasted for the first time by kicking a ball away and got booked. |
Can’t recall a yellow card brung issued for time wasting apart from when the team was leading. |  |
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