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Post by garethl on Dec 9, 2021 20:11:13 GMT
This is what I said when I saw it first, too. Try it in slow motion though (settings - playback speed - 0.25 on YouTube ). At the very end of the contact he raises his foot and makes direct contact with the other guy’s knee. This is enough excuse for the ref to make his call. If he gave an yellow there would not have been probably any comments from Newport side but... it is what it is. And our experienced players should refrain from giving the ref (s) this kind of chances to punish us (as per Milsom or Boldewijn too). I'm sorry but it was a red card. The Sutton player appeared to lift his leg and deliberately racked the County player. We had about 5 sendings off last year and that was worse than 4 of those. I think any appeal will fail and as some of correspondents say you could get a worse penalty. I think we may have won anyway if Sutton had 11 players such was the dominance. But Sutton have done brilliantly, I bet you didn't expect to be nearly safe from relegation in early December! Well we’re usually a pretty fair lot and virtually everyone doesn’t think it’s a red, so we’ll agree to disagree. Stating it was a red isn’t going to change everyone’s mind on your say so! Last time we lost having led 2-0 . . . can’t recall, doubt ever under this manager. Agree we were perhaps fortunate to lead as we did but once we got that lead highly unlikely we lose if we had 11 men. You only just got it done with a big helping hand in injury time as it is with 10! I can agree we’re doing well and nice to be where we are. I actually did expect us to be top half once we kept our squad together, though plenty of work to do to yet. Could do with some personnel back in central defence and midfield though! Tough league and a lot games so we’ll need to hang in there!! |
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Post by pinewalker on Dec 9, 2021 23:10:46 GMT
Freeze the highlights at 0.27 seconds, compare the distances from the ball. Who is the latecomer to the collision?
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Post by amberchoc on Dec 9, 2021 23:38:56 GMT
It was a harsh decision, but I’m not sure why Easty felt the need to lunge for the ball in the first place. He was going to reach it first anyway.
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