Match Day Thread Newcastle United vs Crystal Palace

It is and the ref should have given him one.

 

Not sure i agree. I'm quite pleased ref's are being more relaxed, I actually thought that's what the majority wanted. Is this approach harming the game? Who gets the advantage if a team wins a free kick and wants to get on with it quicker? Encroaching is innocuous and if an oppo player blocks the ball it's a yellow. Penno's same thing, just let it go and judge it once it goes in or not.

What I think is getting worse is the on-the-spot decisions. No booking for Zaha was atrocious; it's either a penalty or a dive, there's no middle ground. Cabaye's looked worse than it was, it's the hypothetical "orange" card, yellow was probs right. In other matches, you had Chelsea's "corner". But didn't one of the stat companies look at it and genuinely proved that stuff evens out? Big clubs always get more going there way, but maybe that's something I'd like the FA to clamp down on - favouritism, for clubs who already have unfair advantages, just sucks.

 

5 corners and literally cross after cross between zaha and townsend (who alone made 7) We spent the first half completely under the cosh. Plus best pass success rate in any game he's played this season by far (81.8%)
Like I said, there when we needed him.

 

I though Cabaye's was a straight red end of. He's come in off the ground from in yedlins blind spot sightly behind him. Totally reckless tackle

 

He's the most liked in the dressing room apparently. He's a happy and good character to have on the pitch and in the dressing room.

 

Didn't want him to go last January but it showed the level of a man who'd rather slum it in the championship than sit on the bench of a team on the way back to the prem.
If Benitez is proving anything this season it's mentality can override talent. After those years with the likes of sissoko, colo, wij in the team I think we're all in agreement on that

 

Hell yeah.

 

Cabaye is a **** and should have seen red