As I said on the Prem Board, ex-Southampton and he's been accused of racially abusing another player? He's off to Liverpool in the summer.
we only buy Southampton players not their cast offs The Firminho incident stinks since he supposedly shouted racially abused Holgate when the ref ,who heard nothing untoward , was standing between them. Move on 5 weeks and the FA are still "investigating" should have been wrapped up within a day with refs evidence and a couple of lip readers i.e. no evidence therefore not guilty.
That's an interesting point, I wonder how much clubs scout the officials for games? You'd think with such high stakes when it comes to ref decisions that this is something clubs would look at and then adjust to.
How much advance notice do you get for who is the ref for a UEFA game ?? That + club resources would determine how quickly you could analyse a ref to get the info down to on-pitch training sessions. Better just to drill in to players that tackles must be clean and minimal force lest opposition players go down like they are pole-axed.
I suppose it does depend on how much time there is between finding out the ref and when the game is. How much of a difference would it really be though for adjusting training? Just need to tackle harder and make tactical fouls more or alternatively be more careful with challenges.
You know what they say about a stopped clock being right twice a day... http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/42992820
Interesting character is Warnock, and a bad loser. I have on good authority, when at Chesterfield, if they were beaten he would turn the hot water off for the away side, meaning cold showers.
Couldn't agree with him more. City have been the victims of some really poor fouls this season, but they've also dished out quite a few. There was a lot of fuss about Kane and Alli's challenges when we played them and rightly so. Two poor fouls. Fernandinho's early one and Otamendi kicking Kane in the face? Not so much. The TV companies are becoming too focused on narratives and stories, rather than the football itself. This allows canny managers to influence reporting and coverage by introducing talking points and controversy. Mourinho does it all the time and Guardiola's no different. Pochettino doesn't appear to be interested in that sort of thing. This leads to some incidents blowing up, while others disappear entirely. Remember Alli's dive against Swansea? Of course you do. It became far more talked about than the rest of the game. The poor Swans were robbed by a cheating diver, which allowed us to take the lead and then steamroll them 5-0. Remember this from earlier in the game? It's quite possible that you don't, as it didn't make it into the MOTD highlights. Jon Moss decided that it wasn't even worth a yellow card, yet where's the outrage about it? Not Scouse enough, possibly.
It`s funny how quickly controversial incidents that go in the favour of the media`s darling clubs are quickly swept under the carpet and forgotten about, yet we never hear the end of it when something is perceived to have gone against them.
. Neil Warnock has just given one of the most magnificent rants I have ever heard against the referee after the Millwall v Cardiff game. He'll probably get done for it, but he was 100% right.
