Sagbo Sending Off

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I wasn't close but couldn't see what was wrong with it. I was surprised it was even a foul in fact. Looked to me like he just swung a leg at the ball as another played challenged for it. He didn't seem to jump into it or anything. The lad was a right cheating ****, knew what he was doing going down like that and making sure the stretcher came out.

In fact Lokeren surprised me tonight because they were a complete set of cheating ****s from start to finish, which I don't remember being the case last week at all.
 
That game is what I imagine a fixed match would be like. He must have given them 30 free kicks, it was just constant one after the other. A lot of them were as soon as we crossed it into the box he was giving a free kick but no one even knew what it was for or who had even conceded it. Their lads were as confused as ours.
 
PLT said:
I wasn't close but couldn't see what was wrong with it. I was surprised it was even a foul in fact. Looked to me like he just swung a leg at the ball as another played challenged for it. He didn't seem to jump into it or anything. The lad was a right cheating c**t, knew what he was doing going down like that and making sure the stretcher came out.

In fact Lokeren surprised me tonight because they were a complete set of cheating c**ts from start to finish, which I don't remember being the case last week at all.
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I didn't go last week but I thought they were very cynical tonight , it wouldn't surprise me if Sagbo didn't touch their player

I thought the ref was pretty poor as well , penalising us for fouls and not them for the same type of thing
 
PLT said:
That game is what I imagine a fixed match would be like. He must have given them 30 free kicks, it was just constant one after the other. A lot of them were as soon as we crossed it into the box he was giving a free kick but no one even knew what it was for or who had even conceded it. Their lads were as confused as ours.
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literally eveytime there was a 50/50 or our players moved in for the ball it was a freekick for them, it was absolutely ridiculous, the ref must have collapsed lungs the amount of times he blew into that whistle
 
Newland Tiger said:
I didn't go last week but I thought they were very cynical tonight , it wouldn't surprise me if Sagbo didn't touch their player

I thought the ref was pretty poor as well , penalising us for fouls and not them for the same type of thing
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Every time one of them heard a City player behind them they were going down. Every aerial challenge ended with a Lokeren free kick. I've never seen a game so one-sided in terms of fouls awarded.
 
To me it just looked a firm but fair challenge. Same as Rosie's booking.

I don't want to take anything away from them, but I've never seen blatant diving as bad as that live before and the ref was a disgrace.
 
PLT said:
That game is what I imagine a fixed match would be like. He must have given them 30 free kicks, it was just constant one after the other. A lot of them were as soon as we crossed it into the box he was giving a free kick but no one even knew what it was for or who had even conceded it. Their lads were as confused as ours.
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Agree with this. The last ten minutes all they had to do was look at the ref or throw their hands up and they got a free kick. A very cynical display. We get embarrassed when Elmo goes down but they were all having a go. I was embarrassed for them.
 
Anyone know if there's stats anywhere for fouls? BBC usually has them but this was such a low-key game for everyone apart from a handful of City fans that they didn't even bother counting.
 
There was the noise of foot/ball/foot then their fella went down like he'd been shot then the ref sent him off.

It looked like a clean challenge, just Sagbo went in a lot stronger. Very unlucky but I think that was just the tip of the iceberg in a ref'ing performance that was utterly appalling.
 
I said on the way home I'd like to see the ratio of free kicks. I thought about 10-1.
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PLT said:
Anyone know if there's stats anywhere for fouls? BBC usually has them but this was such a low-key game for everyone apart from a handful of City fans that they didn't even bother counting.
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we commited 25 fouls compared to them with 12
 
I get the disappointment, but what did you expect them to do? They did what they had to do to get their result, we didn't. It's a **** way to lose, but that's Europe for you; the answer is goals.
 
**** me, have I logged onto a rugby league forum by mistake?

I didn't have a great view from west upper, but you sometimes have an immediate feeling about tackles, and the moment he went in on this one I thought he might be in trouble. Just summat about it looked a bit risky. Would love to see a slo-mo replay.
 
Looked like a firm but fair challenge to me - certainly no intent there. European refs see things differently from those in the PL I guess :(
 
Thing is when I saw it I thought he was in trouble. His foot looked slightly raised and with the ref we had I thought that would be enough. I'm 50/50 until I see a replay
 
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