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I can’t say that I recall too many similar incidents in the PL over the past 20 years when both players put their heads together with only 1 making an additional forward movement. However, I can truly understand it being harder for you to send off in same circumstances - though perhaps same...

Yes, you are probably right if it happens in the World Cup, or any other FIFA/UEFA competition, but they have different interpretations on many things, including handball. Same Laws/different interpretation.

I can’t see that it was excessive force or brutality. Although I usually always like to compare apples with apples and oranges with oranges, as to hair pulls (not this incident of course), which are not usually excessive force, but are seen by the PL/FA etc as an act of brutality (at the moment...

It’s also not a headbutt that is often seen in football, especially Sunday morning football. What football expects is a horrid term, what does it actually mean, if there is a subjective decision for the award of a penalty - does football expect it, or not expect it! Is the incident involving...

It isn’t & shouldn’t be as straightforward as that since if it was there will be many more red cards than there are at the moment. It appears to be only the PL who want red cards for hair pulls no matter what level of intensity and so players know exactly where they stand. As to the incident...

I think it is a sure thing that blowing when he did potentially stopped the team winning the league & many will be critical of the Referee, especially from that team & their supporters etc. However, this is not a Clive Thomas situation, whereby although the Referee in this game would have been...

Excellent point 😂

I am often watching games when Referees allow too much additional time. I watched a Supply League game recently when nearly 12 mins was added, with no long stoppage for an injury though there were a few short treated injuries, with the goalkeeper walking off to be replaced, as well as the...

I think the one thing for me is that you yourself would need to have heard it & if you did, then I think it can only be a red, but if you didn’t, then you are on a sticky wicket - the club AR may be exaggerating etc etc

I think you may be able to answer your own question. When did the sin bins come during the game & what happened afterwards eg did they comply for the reminder of the game etc

Happy that the Referee gave the red, content that it was overturned. The Referee was imo not incorrect in Law and we don’t know what mitigation was provided in respect of the appeal. What I would also say is, that at the time the Crawley captain played the ball against the head/shoulder of the...

So you’re not comparing like for like. Whether you agree with it or not, grassroots is grassroots and elite/professional is elite professional, where it has often been the case over very many years that bans in elite/professional is often less than grassroots. The question really is, was his ban...

I wouldn’t say 8 matches is lenient.

The bottom line is whether the Martinelli incident should be treated in the same way as Mitrocvic incident. In my view it does not, in your view it does not-but there is a heck a lot of difference between the two. I spose you could argue that for a hair pull incident involving players, it should...

If we compare to the Fulham incident whereby the player was aggressive prior to, at the time of the push & subsequently compared to the Arsenal incident should both be treated the same - not in my eyes.

I would say your comments are spot on James.

So the introduction of IFAB to make the Laws of the Game simpler and worldwide are continuing to become more complicated. I truly do understand what they are trying to do (well, I think I do), but apart from the basics, they are becoming more unwieldy.

It was not classed as anything not even unsporting behaviour. Something just not right about it. Is this a case of different guidelines operating between the FA and our European counterparts!

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