That 'shame' is born from never playing in it. If ye'd been in a few times already it wouldn't have been as much of an 'embarrasment' Evra was noone before he came to UNited and will be noone when he leaves thats what makes me laugh about the guy, the arrogance born of his flakey ego trip.
I think according to the rules it is a certain red and if it City appeal and it gets overturned I'd be amazed, especially when Barton & the Wolves player (Miljas?) didn't get theres overturned. I do however, think that the rule is wrong, and unfortunately in 4 or 5 years we will no longer be seeing any slide tackles at all. The rules have changes so much in the years, that nowadays you can win the ball perfectly well from an opponent, not touch them and still get a red card. We all love to see the Messi's of the world running through players but the fact is that 90% of the time they are allowed to because the slightest touch and they go down and it's a foul and a yellow card. Players are way too over protected now. Don't get me wrong, I don't want to see people being kicked, but nothing gets the crowd going more than 2 players going in hard on a 50-50 and both getting up at the end of it. Games are stacked in the favour of forwards way too much and where as 10 years ago, a defender was brought if he could tackle and win the ball, it seems that is no longer important as tackling has gone out of the game. Anyway, rant over
slide tackles are bad defending. watch carraghers instruction video on the theory of tackling... our man says "block tackle" is when you are positioned right and block the ball, then if you are out of position slihtly but can get back you make a "stab tackle" and then only the worst mos tout of position players do slide tackles. the theory is you take posession of the ball in the first but not i nthe other two..... if all else fails then go over the top of the ball and take his leg off... he forgot to say that part but he tagged it on after the nani incident.
title of thread is Simple consistency so why are people going on about which cup is a mickey mouse one.C'mon mods sort the hijacking of the thread out!
We need rugby style video refereeing for controversial decisions. Some people say it would ruin a tense match, but anyone who watches rugby knows it's the opposite. These decisions need to be incident-by-incident, not a blanket rule. ie. Lampard - red, Kompany - no foul. A video ref could decide correctly within an minute. Credit to Nani for not even reacting, he even tried to track back straight away if you watch the replays. Rooney should be embarrassed for his reaction, so unprofessional.
nani then suddenly realised that his role is to have a go at the ref - the fact that nani stayed on his feet and didn't complain until rooney did, shows it was not a bad tackle - the cheek of rooney to come out and say it was a red - if rooney got a red for a tackle like that he would have gone bananas and fergie would have backed him - hypocrites
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfHjqDOuflM Ref had a yellow in his hand until Gerrard told him to give him a red. ****ing pathetic the lot of you. The other week you were moaning because Spearing got a card when everyone else apparently gets away with those kind of tackles.
Rooney put his hands up to appeal for a free kick, then said it was two footed, he never waved a card.
obviously some guys trot on not reading the original post... as op i can tell said moot numpties that red was quite right and consistent with other decisions
Oi ****Nuts, I read the ****ing thread, and you ****s are still dicking about with your pathetic conspiracy theories like a bunch of bitches.
moot point is my biatch now... one post and he flips it! record. foul language under *** proves you're just a hater to be laughed at. Into my pocked where you belong saddo...
wasn't really a red card just howard webb is a man utd fan, no denyin that part. still think man utd are strongest in league bar man city
