That's my understanding as well, sadly.

This is what you get when you let a load of pc snowflakes run the game. Political knees, no contact at headers. Soon to be no headers. Whether we like it or not, both headers warranted a yellow card in the new rules. If you touch another player with your arms raised you get booked. That’s the rules. Beats me why their man didn’t get booked as well. His arms were also raised and touché Benteke. Difference is Benteke didn’t go down like he had just been smashed by a hammer. Players nowadays are all cheats. Ours too. Wilf tries it on all the time. It’s why the game is changing so much. All this faking it gives the snowflake rulers the fodder to ruin the game. Most of us fans just likeRoy Harry Rednap and many more think it’s crazy. But it is what it is. Rules are rules and Trekkers had to walk. Bloody ridiculous situation. But at least it’s only one game. By the way, I never saw the second yellow. I just saw a straight red. Should the ref get fined?

I said 2nd phase of an attack i.e. after a ball has been half cleared and then gets recycled into box - nothing to do with speed, merely laziness or lack of a football brain.

Similar with the sending off last night. Yes it was harsh but both bookings were identical. After the first he needed to be more careful and he wasn't

I enjoyed your rant BTP. So true; soon the game will be like basketball or more likely netball; you mustn't even touch the person with the ball. When that happens, I'll stop watching.

I can well see heading being outlawed. Indeed, I can well envisage the snowflakes saying, "the game is, after all, called FOOTball, not HEADball".

Edited by doombear (17 Dec 2020 2.28pm)

The last straw will be when they stop allowing a team to win.
Both teams will be winners and get participation medals

"It feels much better than it ever did, much more sensitive." John Wayne Bobbit

With the exception of throw ins, the game looks like it would probably flow better if all outfield players had their arms removed. Is that too much to ask from people earning £50k a week?

Ironic that he will miss the games against Liverpool and Villa, the two teams he played for, and has something to prove, just as he was getting back to his best!

I watched the Villa v Burnley game yesterday which ended in a draw. Both teams battling to get a winner and 2 players went up for a ball and one of them got an outstretched arm across the face and ended up a crumpled heap on the ground . No one got a card or a talking to, the fact that Tekkers got 2 x yellows without even a warning shows you how bad that referee was...

I shouldn't think this particular ref has an unusual interpretation of the rules, otherwise all his games would end up with the same red card at least once.

He just mistakenly took an honest jumping action for foul play. Twice.

The point of VAR was that human error from refs be ironed out of the game, but at the risk of repeating my last rant, they are not only abusing the technology by using it when they shouldn't (armpit offsides, nonsense handballs etc), they are failing to use it when they should. Under their current rules, the ref wasn't allowed to jog over to the monitor and taken a second look at the incidents.

So he just fecked it up all by himself instead. Old school style!

Edited by TheBigToePunt (18 Dec 2020 12.14pm)

Let’s see how consistent it is the next time Kane does exactly the same thing and believe me it won’t be long because he does it every match. But he is the media darling so don’t hold your breath.