"There's a raging debate about Chelsea in midweek and if we're not careful...I saw everyone surround Alex for a red card for his challenge". Steve Bruce quote... what the **** is he on about? Who is Alex?
Oh right, what a muppet Is he really trying to claim we surrounded the referee? He's probably a bigger prick than that Journo.
.. frankly a draw at this stage is little better ... we could draw 3 games or lose 2 and win 1 - the latter might still give us a better goal difference than the draws... Tim Sherwood went bold with his two best strikers up front in a game that he could not afford to lose ... Villa won 4-0 AWAY! ... sometimes you have to be bold ... my biggest frustration is that we may go down with a whimper ... drawing all of our remaining games will still see us relegated .... it's all about winning now ... if that means throwing caution to the wind, so what? - at least we can say we gave it a real fookin go ...
Having listened to Steve Bruce's comments on both the BBC and Sky I've heard him complain about the yellow cards given to both Dawson and Bruce, there is a brief mention of the Chelsea game but no reference at all to any issue with Leicester players crowding the ref. Can you identify the source of your quote?
We did play two up front though (three by the end). obviously it's debatable who are our "best" strikers, as Vardy and Ulloa offer very different qualities. As I just posted in another threat, Vardy looked a threat with his pace all game. Ulloa offered nothing. If that's what Pearson is seeing in training, then he did the right thing. I do feel we did give it a go in the second half, we just lacked the cutting edge to carve them open. Everyone from Schlupp to Kramaric seemed to have forgotten their shooting boots, while James fired had his obligatory one off-target-shot-per-game and even Morgan had a shot blocked from outside the box! This is what cost us in the end. W're so desperate to score the whole team lacks composure when it matters. 15 shots with only three on target says it all. They need to learn from Cambiasso, who is calmness personified. Sadly, it's not rubbing off on the rest of the team.
Hull had lost their discipline, its not about how good or bad the tackles where, Dawson lost it at the ref and could have got a 2nd yellow for his reaction and then when Bruce fouled Mahrez the whole Hull team surround the ref not us. Bruce likes comparing us to Chelsea but Hull was like the Man U of old surrounding the ref and trying to bully him Huddlestone deserved both his yellows, first was clear yellow all day and the 2nd Vardy cut across him and he fouled him
IMO at the time i thought he had gone in 2 footed based on the reactions, having seen the replay he did win the ball and it was a hard but fair tackle and should be ok. But football today says its a yellow card, i dont agree with it myself but thats how football is nowadays and its getting worse I think refs give cards out miles too much nowadays, players should be playing with freedom not fear off getting sent off for pathetic little fouls and a miss timed tackles
Steve Bruce didn't compare Leicester to Chelsea - his comments related to the general trend within the game for referees to react on the basis of players' rolling about and claiming injury after being fairly tackled. He also agreed that Huddlestone's yellow cards were justified.
I don't know what rule today says it's a yellow card. Bruce crunches in with those kind of tackles all the time and the top refs see them for what they are.
If you get too much of the man its a yellow card nowadays and you know it. As i said I don't agree with it and I don't think many people do but players are over protected nowadays. Im pretty sure most refs would have blown for a foul and booked Bruce for it.
Nope. Bruce's tackle was not a foul, not in the past or today. It was simply a very good but hard challenge. Not all refs fall for it when the lad rolls around on the floor.
Lesta it wasn't that, he had one foot firmly on the ground, it was a ridiculous booking brought about by the tackled players and his team mates reaction. The problem is we are in danger of ending up with a very different version of the game that we were brought up on.
I'd like to see it again, it looked a booking to me but I haven't seen a replay. Either way, it wasn't a "ridiculous" decision as I can see why the ref gave it even if it was technically the wrong decision.
My apologies i thought for one moment you might have actually taken time to review the tackle and taken a measured view based on the actual incident. I'm very sorry for jumping to such outlandish opinions, again sorry.
