Let's be fair, Bandit: the Hill challenge was almost exactly the same as the Sidwell one. Either they are both red, or neither is red. I would say the latter.
Your players were rolling around as if they'd been taken out by a sniper all night. One of them even managed to injure himself whilst performing a spectacular leap and fall following precisely zero contact from our player.
Dont forget the dive for the penalty too. They cant complain about the ginger tosser seeing as he somehow managed to stay on the pitch in the game at LR when he should have been sent off many times over.
Don't forget the Bosingwa handball in their area - we should've had another pen for that. Mounting up, aren't they? Probert did his best for QPR but they still couldn't capitalise.
Dive? You mean when your £100k-a-week man clearly tripped one of our players? And what does the game at LR have to do with anything that happened last night? Is there some rule that obliges refs to give retrospective decisions in corresponding games that I don't know of? Or are you making stuff up to make Sidwell's red look justified? If your imaginary rule isn't totally fictitious does that mean Clint Hill has to be sent off next time we play you (whenever that may be)?
It did bring a wry smile when I watched it back last night to see him get sent off for something so tame after committing comfortably half a dozen equally bad challenges in the reverse game.
You can't say Hill's was a red and Sidwell's wasn't. They were as bad as each other. I thought you got more than your fair share of decisions particularly in the first half.
Although it is not something I like to see, I agree that Hill should of at least hit the deck to give the ref a decision to make.
You mean your player ran past and made sure he brushed him and dived. Im not going to feel sorry for a player who should have bent sent off 5 times over in the reverse fixture even if the red might have been harsh. Like no one will ever feel sorry for Barton even when hes innocent.
I wouldn't have liked to see Clint Hill doing that. Simulation ruins the game, leave it for Holt and Young. And for the record, when Cisse was sent off, Johnson didn't go to ground.
Berbatov should of been off. He wasn't even the player fouled, which in many ways makes it worse than Cisse's last season.
Factor in that he's a lazy so-and-so as well; that should have said everything about his intent. A red card all day of the week for me - as I mentioned earlier in the thread, if Hill had (genuinely or otherwise) stumbled over, it would have left the referee with a decision to make. In all areas we made it too easy for Fulham in the first half. Lads, it's time for us to get far less endearing. What we need is some fine Harry Houdini engineering!
