Should have been a retaken free kick. No cards either way
Right. A Sunday league ref would have told them both to just stop acting the twat.
Sure Rice kicked the ball away, however, it looked to me that Veltman was aware of this and took full advantage to get in an annoyed kick.
Rice knew exactly what he was doing it was a calculated flick of the ball away. Everyone could see that.
Eh? Of course that’s exactly what it was.
When you look at the speed the game is played at this level a delay of a few seconds can mean the difference between a defense being caught out or not. So absolutely it was a delaying tactic.
Veltman knew exactly what he was doing.
THIS!!
I agree Rice deserved the yellow and therefore the Red. But do you believe Veltman had no intention to kick rice?
Arteta also knows exactly what he is doing: make comments about how controversial and inconsistent the decision was to put pressure on the officials. That way it increases the likelihood that they will get desicaions their way in the future.‘ I was amazed," said Arteta. "Amazed, amazed, amazed because of how inconsistent decisions can be. In the first half, there are two incidents and nothing happens.
"Then, in a non-critical area, the ball hits Declan [on the back of his leg], he turns around, he doesn't see the player coming and he touches the ball.’
Arteta truly embarrassing himself with the above quote… ‘he doesn’t see the player coming and he touches the ball’
Veltman absolutely intended to. The "amazing" thing, to use Arteta's words, is that the big 6 team didn't get the decision their way and have Veltman sent off. Instead the laws of the game were applied correctly.
No I think he had the intention to kick the ball at Rice, but the ball wasn't there.
My understanding was that kicking the ball away in the way he did would be seen as dissent. But they may have updated this.
