Eduardo

IMO another shocking challenge yesterday on an Arsenal player. Mido kicked Clichy in the head. It looked accidental, and probably was, but it really irritated me that on MOTD Shearer mentioned that it was one of 3 bad calls by the referee yesterday. If you kick a player in the head, irrespective of the circumstances, you surely can't expect anything less than a red card. How anyone else can say differently astounds me.

That was an accident. His foot was way high, but there was no intent.

Compare that to the Bardsley tackle made in the Sunderland-Everton game the other week. It was a replica of the Eduardo tackle, and only got a yellow card. The player's leg didn't break, but very easily could have.

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Originally Posted by mypost

That was an accident. His foot was way high, but there was no intent.

Compare that to the Bardsley tackle made in the Sunderland-Everton game the other week. It was a replica of the Eduardo tackle, and only got a yellow card. The player's leg didn't break, but very easily could have.

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I agree that there was no intent and it was accidental, but I still feel he should be sent off and get a three game ban, no more. It was a very dangerous challenge and I just feel Shearer was completely wrong in suggesting that the referee made the wrong decision. If the referee had ignored it he possibly would have said the opposite. Just my opinion, of course.

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Originally Posted by jmurphyc

but it really irritated me that on MOTD Shearer mentioned that it was one of 3 bad calls by the referee yesterday. If you kick a player in the head, irrespective of the circumstances, you surely can't expect anything less than a red card. How anyone else can say differently astounds me.

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Well he would say that. He booted Neil Lennon right in the mush in what was as close to assault as I've seen on a football pitch but the bigwigs at the FA were too scared to punish him.

I thought it was a tad harsh. Yellow card for me. Good to see the Arsenal players screaming at the ref again.

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Originally Posted by jmurphyc

I agree that there was no intent and it was accidental, but I still feel he should be sent off and get a three game ban, no more. It was a very dangerous challenge and I just feel Shearer was completely wrong in suggesting that the referee made the wrong decision. If the referee had ignored it he possibly would have said the opposite. Just my opinion, of course.

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Are you for real? Seriously. There was absolutely no intent, I doubt he knew Clichy was there. Clichy was aware Mido was challenging for the ball as the play was completely in front of him, he should have protected himself better.
Clichy is a smaller lad, Mido is a hulk, he was entitled to go for the ball.

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Originally Posted by Kingdom

Are you for real? Seriously. There was absolutely no intent, I doubt he knew Clichy was there. Clichy was aware Mido was challenging for the ball as the play was completely in front of him, he should have protected himself better.
Clichy is a smaller lad, Mido is a hulk, he was entitled to go for the ball.

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I'll say this again: If you kick a player in the head, irrespective of the circumstances, you surely can't expect anything less than a red card. How anyone else can say differently astounds me. I'm not suggesting that Mido's challenge was criminal, just that he should get the regular punishment.

If you were playing football and someone challenged you like that, how would you feel about it?

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Originally Posted by jmurphyc

I'll say this again: If you kick a player in the head, irrespective of the circumstances, you surely can't expect anything less than a red card. How anyone else can say differently astounds me. I'm not suggesting that Mido's challenge was criminal, just that he should get the regular punishment.

If you were playing football and someone challenged you like that, how would you feel about it?

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That is where I'm coming from. I'm challenging the statement that Mido kicked Clichy in the head. You see plenty of small centre forwards jump into the air to trap a ball midflight and cushion it to the ground. That is what Mido was doing. CLichy also dips his body down to head the ball. I'm a centre half, I put myself into stupid situations to win the ball. What happens happens. Personally I thought Clichy was a fool to head the ball.