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Christ. Of course he was. Sure, Welbeck wasn't anywhere near where he was looking to play it, wasn't on his toes and had 2 Arsenal centre backs near him. Sure, he's looking down the line where there's no Brighton players. Sure he's shaping to kick it down the line. But he said it was for Welbeck...

Who exactly was he trying to knock the quick free kick to if it was a genuine attempt..... There's 11 Brighton players in our own half and he is looking to smack it down the pitch. So you tell me why he is wanting to take the quick free kick. PLEASE can we be sensible.

FINE. I've bought some OK?

Don't get me wrong. The Crawley tackle is on a different stratosphere to what Veltman did. I just enjoy that one is violent and the other is our player just being "clever". To me, kicking someone on purpose is kicking someone on purpose. Thankfully for him, his can be clouded by the situation...

The incidents themselves are completely different. I just enjoy that if an opposition player looks to take the ball and wipe out the man with it (and gets it completely wrong by missing the ball altogether) he is a bad character. If our player looks to take the ball and a player (and gets it...

Absolutely. I agree.

Do you HONESTLY believe poor Joel just wanted to take the quick free kick and didn't think he would get ANY of the player standing directly in front of it? Genuinely? The ball rolling is relevant. A professional football knows you don't take a rolling free kick. It's more proof he knew exactly...

Thank you.

And it would have been brought back for a rolling ball.

It's interesting because we have a scenario where our player was looking to kick the ball and wipe out an opposition player with it but ended up getting none of the ball because the home player got his foot to the ball first. That's 'dark arts' Meanwhile at the Amex we have a scenario where a...

Indeed. Amazing what bias does. Poor innocent Joel was just trying to take a quick free kick.

I've changed my mind about 20 times on it. On a technicality it was a second yellow but I'm also on the camp of "meh. If he hadn't been on the first yellow I don't think we'd have been upset at him not being booked for that" I guess if you want to really hit home the "don't kick the ball away"...

Some do.

And it would be re taken for a rolling ball.........

Both. Rice broke the rules on a technicality and veltman knew exactly what he was doing. Anyone believing poor innocent Joel was just wanting to take a standard free kick is doing so from behind the thickest of blue and white lenses

Be careful!

Ok. That leaves 7

I can understand the meltdown. This only leaves us with Weiffer, Beleba, Milner, O'Riley, Moder, Ayari, Gruda and Hinshelwood to fill those 2 spots in CM.

I make a point of cutting out any people who have ever left the company I work for to move to a place with a better salary. I can't have mercenaries surrounding me. You don't take a job for money. You take it because we would all work 7 days a week if we could choose. Bruno should have stayed...