That's the point JR, with the benefit of seeing the incident over and over from every conceivable angle, both players were adopting an identical type of move! On another day, it could have been Howson wrongfully dismissed!
It was a soft red but I've got no sympathioes when a bigger club gets a soft red these days. We're destined to get screwed over and we won't get it overturned.
I guess 2 wrongs dont make a right but I kind of agree with Beef here. We got screwed at QPR last year with Holts red for example and his (if I remember rightly) wasnt overturned! Unfortunately its not just red cards, we got screwed vs QPR again this year with the pen that wanst a pen and then Zamora being in the area etc... Shame goals cant be overturned lol. We get so many bad decisions against us which rarely get balanced out.
Same as when Johnson faked the headbutt lol, that didn't get dropped either same goes Derry on young it's ridiculous how is lower table sides get treated differently .
Hate all this reviewing idea,of course refs get it wrong, of course we feel hard done by, but the instant decision right or wrong keeps the game flowing and gives us tonnes of fat to chew on , turn it into a clinical decision sport where it stops every 5 minutes and have no controversy will turn it into a boring sport Why not have an independent adjudicator watch the game score the ref and weed out the really bad ones
Ther is an FA referee assessor at every match, unfortunately they appear to miss as many bad decisions as do the match referees themselves!
halsey made a bad call, glad its been over turned. nothing more to say about it really. it didn't effect the scoreline so at least not too much harm was done by the mistake.
It doesn't matter really who or how many times bad decisions go against, they have to be diminished if possible and for someone to admit the wrong decision was made is good enough for me. Just like the Ian Harte one with Holt. Trouble is, what else will be changed after the match next?
this to me is nonsense. i feel our luck evened out last season - indeed, i think it was pretty much proven by technical analysis at the end of the season. fact is, most fans only ever remember the bad calls against them but we had a fair few in our favour too
Hi all, just back from hols, probably wasn't a red but it has to be said that if it was Howson that had been red carded, there is no way that it would have been rescinded FACT. I don't care what anyone says there is definitely one rule for the big boys and another for the likes of us. Also, what about the fact that Morison had his shirt almost ripped off him by that Spudz defender and THREE, count 'em, THREE officials didn't see it unlike 36k others in the stadium ! That's THREE stonewall penalties in our last two visits to WHL that haven't been given
The penalty appeal last week would've been a poor one to give, Morrison had Benny's shirt to and was pushing him over with his hand outstretched which you can't do. Defoe's looked in the area to me although I haven't seen any replays since. We did get away with one penalty last season, can't remember a second but that game was best forgotten for most Spurs fans Unlike most refs who give **** decisions against us, Halsey seemed to make a genuine mistake. The action at the start of Huddlestone's challenge had me cringing and that combined with Howson feigning to be hurt made it easy for him to get it wrong. Anyway, congrats on another good result at the Lane. Hoping you lot do well with Hughton this season
I know Morison pushed him but yer man had hold of his shirt first. Anyway, no pissing contest. It wasn't given. Defoes was, and correctly outside, just. I don't believe Howson feigned injury. He did get contact. It amuses me how those sat in the stand always know that players aren't hurt. What makes me think there was doubt is that Huddlestone didn't protest much if at all. Anyway, he has been rightly absolved. Good sense has prevailed.
I haven't seen the replays of the penalty but that's what I made of it at the time anyway. As for Howson, he was writhing around and then got up and was fine. I might be mixing up another occasion here but didn't he have to be told to get off by the referee after treatment or was that another player? As for Huddlestone, I don't think I've ever seen him lose his cool, he knows he can't change the ref's mind and left it. Anyway, I wasn't criticising, just saying that it makes the refs job harder when a player makes a meal of it. We have Bale who certainly likes to let the referee know when he thinks someone's going in dangerously, to put it delicately, so I'm not trying to take the high ground.
YV - my take on the Howson "injury" was that he feared the ref was gunning for HIM, as I said earlier, both players were on the deck, sliding in, Halsey could just as easily called it wrongly the other way!
