| Lampard: Hirst Shouldn't Have Been On the Field 19:10 - Dec 6 with 1498 views | NewsTWTD |
 Lampard: Hirst Shouldn't Have Been On the Field 6th Dec 2025 19:09Coventry City head coach Frank Lampard was adamant Town striker George Hirst should have been sent off for a second bookable offence in the first half of the Blues’ 3-0 home victory over the Sky Blues at Portman Road.  42
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| Lampard: Hirst Shouldn't Have Been On the Field on 19:11 - Dec 6 with 1463 views | earlsgreenblue |
So graceful in defeat! | | | |
| Lampard: Hirst Shouldn't Have Been On the Field on 19:17 - Dec 6 with 1369 views | Meadowlark |
| Lampard: Hirst Shouldn't Have Been On the Field on 19:11 - Dec 6 by earlsgreenblue |
So graceful in defeat! |
But he has a point. Their player got booked for kicking the ball away. Hirst was a lucky boy and the ref was inconsistent. |  | | |
| Lampard: Hirst Shouldn't Have Been On the Field on 20:10 - Dec 6 with 1006 views | sotd78 |
Except Hirst should never have been booked. Too much in the ear interference from fourth officials watching live feeds and being their own amateur VAR. |  |
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| Lampard: Hirst Shouldn't Have Been On the Field on 20:30 - Dec 6 with 925 views | ArnoldMoorhen |
| Lampard: Hirst Shouldn't Have Been On the Field on 19:17 - Dec 6 by Meadowlark |
But he has a point. Their player got booked for kicking the ball away. Hirst was a lucky boy and the ref was inconsistent. |
I thought McKenna should have subbed him there and then. It was beyond stupid for Hirst to do that, on a yellow, when the referee had booked a Coventry player for it a handful of minutes earlier.
Which is one of many reasons why I am not a football manager. | | | |
| Lampard: Hirst Shouldn't Have Been On the Field on 21:03 - Dec 6 with 801 views | ArnieM |
Was the Hirst incident, beside or after two Coventry players could have been sent off? |  |
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| Lampard: Hirst Shouldn't Have Been On the Field on 21:15 - Dec 6 with 734 views | flykickingbybgunn |
| Lampard: Hirst Shouldn't Have Been On the Field on 19:17 - Dec 6 by Meadowlark |
But he has a point. Their player got booked for kicking the ball away. Hirst was a lucky boy and the ref was inconsistent. |
The Cov bloke kicked the ball away well after the whistle had gone.
Hirst did so as part of the move that he was involved in and was in full flow.
Two entire!y different things. |  | | |
| Lampard: Hirst Shouldn't Have Been On the Field on 21:43 - Dec 6 with 643 views | backwaywhen |
| Lampard: Hirst Shouldn't Have Been On the Field on 20:30 - Dec 6 by ArnoldMoorhen |
I thought McKenna should have subbed him there and then. It was beyond stupid for Hirst to do that, on a yellow, when the referee had booked a Coventry player for it a handful of minutes earlier.
Which is one of many reasons why I am not a football manager. |
Not so sure those two incidents were the same …..Hirst never heard that whistle with 28k willing him to score , just my opinion . | | | |
| Lampard: Hirst Shouldn't Have Been On the Field on 22:18 - Dec 6 with 567 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
| Lampard: Hirst Shouldn't Have Been On the Field on 19:17 - Dec 6 by Meadowlark |
But he has a point. Their player got booked for kicking the ball away. Hirst was a lucky boy and the ref was inconsistent. |
There was a big sense of that but how many refs would give a second yellow for that? It shouldn't be a higher threshold for a second yellow card but it is. Similar for Walton with timewasting later in the game. It would have taken much more of it because he was already on a yellow than it would have done had he not been booked already. It is the way referees interpret the rules and Lampard knows that.
Had Hirst waited until well after the whistle and booted the ball high and wide (which was actually what the Coventry player did and in the context of them clearly already wasting time), the referee may well have produced a second yellow. As it was, there was little time between the whistle and Hirst putting the ball just past the post. |  |
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| Lampard: Hirst Shouldn't Have Been On the Field on 22:25 - Dec 6 with 546 views | Meadowlark |
| Lampard: Hirst Shouldn't Have Been On the Field on 21:15 - Dec 6 by flykickingbybgunn |
The Cov bloke kicked the ball away well after the whistle had gone.
Hirst did so as part of the move that he was involved in and was in full flow.
Two entire!y different things. |
I expect that was the excuse the ref used anyway..... | | | |
| Lampard: Hirst Shouldn't Have Been On the Field on 01:09 - Dec 7 with 400 views | ArnoldMoorhen |
| Lampard: Hirst Shouldn't Have Been On the Field on 21:43 - Dec 6 by backwaywhen |
Not so sure those two incidents were the same …..Hirst never heard that whistle with 28k willing him to score , just my opinion . |
That's almost certainly the benefit of the doubt that the ref gave him. | | | |
| Lampard: Hirst Shouldn't Have Been On the Field on 08:19 - Dec 7 with 244 views | LeoMuff |
| Lampard: Hirst Shouldn't Have Been On the Field on 22:25 - Dec 6 by Meadowlark |
I expect that was the excuse the ref used anyway..... |
Also Coventry guy has play if front of him, which had stopped and players were walking back towards him.
Hirst had his back to play with only the keeper in front from memory, so not so obvious play had stopped as probably wouldn’t hear the whistle.
I would not have expected the any Coventry player to get a second yellow for that and it just comes across as desperate from them. |  |
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