by Snowflake Royal »
04 Nov 2019 18:16
Sanguine Old Man Andrews Sanguine
In your derogatory paragraph about 'everyone agrees with me nah nah nah nah naaaaah nah, classic Sanguine.'
You turn every debate into this base bollocks, OMA, it's pathetic. Have another rest.
But it is a fact, have a look at the opinions by people far more qualified than either of us when it comes to football. Not one person I have seen thinks Son should have been red carded. I know you hate being wrong but you can't dispute public opinion is very much against you.
I didn't try to.
Firstly, I haven't seen the incident and I have no intention of watching it having heard about it at work today.
I have some sympathy with OMA's argument that you shouldn't select the penalty based on severity of injury. You can have a not particularly bad tackle (not very reckless, excessive force etc) and it can lead to a horrendous injury still.
But equally, the ref has every right to reassess their decision as they understand more about what has happened.
Without seeing the actual incident, which I have no intention of doing, I couldn't say whether it wasn't that bad a tackle and then a freak accident and so not worthy of a red, or a tackle that did endanger the opponent enough to be worthy of red.
The fact it was a horrendous leg break doesn't make it an automatic red, in my understanding of the laws, although I'd suggest most leg breaks would, by their nature, fall into the red category.
Anyway, regardless of who is right, I do agree with Sangers there's really no need for OMA to be such an arse about it, and he comes across really badly... increasingly so recently. Generally speaking, if your go to response is "you're showing you know nothing about football again" or similar, you probably want to check your attitude a bit.