Not the team.......me!
I’m not ashamed to say that I got very wound up in the reverse fixture as Grealish went to ground every-time one of our lads tried to tackle him. Only Zaha can match him in that machiavellian tactic of anticipating a tackle and then diving when it comes in, he is very good at it.
The referee that day, Michael Oliver, was in awe of Grealish, he gave him free kick after free kick as the brummie dived about here, there, and everywhere. He then got Lamptey sent off and had a go at Veltman after he’d got an elbow. I was steaming by then.
So this time I’m going to stay a lot calmer. I’m going to accept before the game that he’ll win at least half a dozen free kicks by diving when one of our players goes near him. I’m going to accept that he could have an admirer in the referee, Darren England, and that this might lead to some of our players getting yellows or reds for his repeated dives.
Let’s just hope that we’ve got a very experienced defender or midfielder looking after him, you never know, he might get one of those games Muzza used to have when his dark arts were simply ignored by the referee and he got absolutely nothing.
I’m not ashamed to say that I got very wound up in the reverse fixture as Grealish went to ground every-time one of our lads tried to tackle him. Only Zaha can match him in that machiavellian tactic of anticipating a tackle and then diving when it comes in, he is very good at it.
The referee that day, Michael Oliver, was in awe of Grealish, he gave him free kick after free kick as the brummie dived about here, there, and everywhere. He then got Lamptey sent off and had a go at Veltman after he’d got an elbow. I was steaming by then.
So this time I’m going to stay a lot calmer. I’m going to accept before the game that he’ll win at least half a dozen free kicks by diving when one of our players goes near him. I’m going to accept that he could have an admirer in the referee, Darren England, and that this might lead to some of our players getting yellows or reds for his repeated dives.
Let’s just hope that we’ve got a very experienced defender or midfielder looking after him, you never know, he might get one of those games Muzza used to have when his dark arts were simply ignored by the referee and he got absolutely nothing.