Tim Howard

[Aled]

Should Howard have been dismissed for DOGSO-H?

 

[Ryan]

Yeah.......

He was clearly outside of the penalty area when he handled the ball!

 

[HullRef]

Yes

 

[Ryan]

If you can find anyone that disagrees I'd be very surprised!

EDIT: But I just remembered @Padfoot is on the forum

 

[HertsFinest]

Should have walked for VC too

 

[Ryan]

Should have walked for VC too

I have to disagree there, felt it was more C1: adopting an aggressive attitude

 

[HertsFinest]

Things like that lead to kids at grassroots playing copycat and needs to be clamped down on bigtime.

See what you're saying though but could have sold a VC red for that too.

 

[Mike]

Think he definitely should have gone for DOGSO, the incident after the Coleman OG was just handbags I think, no real reason to dismiss.

 

[SM]

Very lucky not to walk.

 

[haywain]

What does an American with tourettes say to a Spaniard with little English, I wonder

 

[Tealeaf]

This is a perfect learning opportunity, so forgive me if I come across as Devil's Advocate.

Think of DOGSO.

Was it really obvious? A single step back and he takes that comfortably, fairly and legitimately and nobody complains. Is the attacker obviously going to get there before him? Would perhaps a caution and DFK for deliberately handling the ball have sufficed instead?

Discuss.

 

[Padfoot]

Haven't seen it...............so i'm going for abandon.

 

[Alex71]

Link to video

If Howard misses the ball entirely, from the video it is maybe 50:50 if Costa gets there first (plus he is already pulling up) ... Ball isn't going into the goal ... Yellow for me

 

[jamesb84]

I'm going to be in the minority here I know...but I'm going with @Alex71 and @Tealeaf on this. I don't know if it's OBVIOUS opportunity, personally I don't think it is. If that's in one of mine, I'd be cautioning for HB and giving the DFK. Then I'd probably have given a second caution for Aggressive Attitude after the Coleman OG, or possibly trying to defuse with a word to both of them.

Either way he'd have gone...eventually, if it had been me.

 

[Tealeaf]

Be interesting to hear Aled's p.o.v since he started this!

I can see a red as sellable in all this; probably covered under the "no surprises" mantra. Could be a case of when doing the right thing is not the right thing to do.

 

[HertsFinest]

More importantly: the STATE of his beard!

 

[Aled]

I still say it's a red card!

 

[HertsFinest]

I still say it's a red card!

I agree. That level of facial hair should never go unpunished!

 

[haywain]

Stop being a beardist, Herts!

 

[HertsFinest]

I'm all for beards but that's something else! I'm sure he can be penalised for gaining an unfair advantage of some sort!

Unsporting - unspecified behaviour would do for me!