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Use this thread for general daily football discussion.
This thread can also be used to discuss Transfer rumours and to post Tier 4 sources.
Charles Watts is spot on in his reaction to this, and specifically to all the pundits and their “the ref had no choice!” arguments. It’s total nonsense!
The ref had two decisions against Brighton players in the first half and ignored them. According to the ‘letter of the law’, that should have been two yellow cards. But it wasn’t. So why should Declan’s much more subtle and non-consequential action need to follow the letter of the law when those two Brighton actions didn’t?
Also, the ref’s job isn’t to purely follow the letter of the law (because fuck knows they absolutely suck at that!). It’s to apply some context to the situation. So Kavanagh shrugging and going “sorry, I have no other choice!” is bollocks. He clearly DID have a choice. And he chose wrong.
Even if the ref “had no choice”, as in he was told at halftime that if there is ANY incidence of delaying a free kick, it’s a yellow, why is the Veltman kick completely ignored?
When the ref pulled out the card the entire bar I was in applauded thinking someone was being punished for physically lashing out at an Arsenal player (for what seems to be the 10th time in 3 matches). But no, not only did he punish Rice for something he let go in the first half, he completely ignores the context around the incident.
So sure, the ref “had no choice”. He’s also a blind cunt.