Trouble is you'd still get people arguing the toss about every call. To be fair it's ice hockey that has had this from the very start, because it was so fast-paced and 'emotions can run high': Abuse of the official is a 2 minute minor penalty, a bit more serious and it's a 10-minute misconduct (major penalty), and bad and it's a game misconduct (major penalty) - a 2 minute penalty means your team is short-handed for 2 minutes but the penalty is cancelled by a goal conceded, the 10 minutes means you can come back on after 10 minutes but your team is not short-handed during the time served, a game misconduct means you are gone for the game (but your team is not short handed). All major penalties are reviewed post game. I'm not sure how it would work in football. Do you tot up each sin-binning with discipline points (they do in ice hockey) so if you get sin-binned about five times that's a match ban?
Why shouldn't he have played yesterday? Even if his red card stood against Spurs, he would still have been eligible to play. Red cards do not transfer between domestic and international competitions.
True, I was being flippant, but the result was the same. The excuse, I suspect would be, that he was trying to kick the ball, it was an accident that the player's head got in the way? Although I think it was a second yellow rather than a straight red.
Are Wolves a relegation candidate or have they just had a really tough set of fixtures? I’ve not watched them at all so I have no idea. But they’ve played: Arsenal A (L), Chelsea H (L), Forest A (D), Newcastle H (L), Villa A (L) and Liverpool H (L)
That Liverpool goal was a thing of beauty yet so simple in its delivery. Ball inside the full back, first time cross along the ground and a player running from deep to get ahead of the defender and poke it in from 8 yards out. Why can’t Saints do that?
Where was the slowing down play to let the opposition get back in position? Where were the number fluff possession passes back to the GK and from side to side across the back 4? Nah? Just doesn’t sound like it’ll catch on.
Very tough set of fixtures. And a number of injuries haven't helped either. I suppose the risk for them is that by the time the easier fixtures do come around, the players might not be the right form or headspace to take advantage. Yes they sold Neto - who was arguably their best player - but he's had so many injuries over the past three seasons, that it's maybe not as big a loss to them as it might seem. Though they did sell Killman too, so maybe that has had a big impact. My suspicion is that they're just is a false position. I don't yet consider them to be a relegation candidate.
Feels like Liverpool aren't taking this quite serious enough, almost treating it like a training match. They should have put this to bed by now, they've been miles better than Palace. Yet it's only 1-0 and it's not like the reason for that is because Henderson has had a worldie in goal.
Having said that, apparently the Wolves fans have turned on O'Neill this afternoon. That's not a good sign for them.
Sounds like the second half at the King Power was pretty one-way traffic in favour of Bmouth. But Leicester hold on.
