[Albion] Players waving an imaginary card

[jakarta]

Soon as someone….anyone does it I think the ref should give a yellow to the waver

2 minutes 48 in...

 

[Uh_huh_him]

Bloke has with 100% certainty studied English for at least a year so the "lacking vocabulary" excuse is pretty much out of the question.

yeah - studied quite well too

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

As for influencing the ref it annoyed me less than the incident where Caicedo won the ball from Traore and Mac won the second ball which the ref allowed to continue for 5 seconds before the crowd influenced him.

As for Mitoma people only typically dislike it when it’s against their team, it’s all part of the pantomime

 

[One Teddy Maybank]

Absolutely - I'd not suggest it wasn't a red.

I do wonder how many of those who say "it's an ok thing to do" would state the same if, say, Dunk tangled with an onrushing Zaha, brought him down and we saw the Palace goon waving a card in the ref's general direction, and our boy was sent for an early bath.

Would these pages be full of agreement that Zaha's actions were entirely justified?

I would suggest that we’d have to suck it up.

I really don’t have a problem with these days, the issue withZaha would be more about whether he dived than an imaginary card.

A number of players do it (same as getting in the officials ear), until the arrival of Lallana we were behind others from that perspective as well.

Of course it’s not great in sporting terms, and in the 70s and 80s would never have happened, but it does…… move on.

 

[brightn'ove]

I’ll allow it for one of the most blatant red cards in history.

 

[HCxUK]

I find it really hard to care at all about it.

It would take a very, very bad referee for it to affect his decision in the slightest - so it's probably pointless.

But it's nowhere near as bad a look as Maguire, Fernandes etc hounding the referee whenever a decision goes against United.

 

[jackanada]

It's not very high on my list of frequent unacceptable behaviours on a football pitch.

 

[pasty]

Unacceptable. I have long advocated any player doing it should be booked themselves.

 

[Motogull]

But it's nowhere near as bad a look as Maguire, Fernandes etc hounding the referee whenever a decision goes against United.

Or Dibley's histrionics every time he falls over.

 

[Blue3]

Trying to influence the officials with imaginary card waving as we witnessed from Miltoma yesterday is not acceptable and I hope that one of the more senior professionals will have a word with him as we do not want a repeat

 

[Leekbrookgull]

Albion play attractive football and getting a lot of credit for it,we don't need this kind of behaviour. Gives the club a bad name so cut it out.

 

[SeagullsoverLondon]

Trying to influence the officials with imaginary card waving as we witnessed from Miltoma yesterday is not acceptable and I hope that one of the more senior professionals will have a word with him as we do not want a repeat

It is funny how no-one is commenting on the fact the Trossard was running alongside the ref shouting that he should be sent off. The ref could have got annoyed by that. However, the ref had already made up his mind, you can tell that.

There was a thread not too long ago, saying that Albion players were too soft and didn't complain enough like the big boy teams (Spurs/ManU) etc.
Given we have gone from a placid, calm manager to a (checks stereotype handbook) "excitable" one, maybe the passion is rubbing off. Mitoma had just scored his first Premier League goal, he thought he was clean through to score a second. I think he was perhaps over dramatic with the card waving but understandable. Probably lucky not to get a yellow.

As an aside, my son was told by the ref at his Under 13 game to quote: "stop trying to ref the game" after giving a running commentary on all of the decisions. The funny thing was it a home game, and the ref was ours!

 

[wuntbedruv]

No fan regardless of whether It is one of ours or an opponent, almost as bad as snatching a yellow out of the Ref's hand and demanding a red.

 

[Bodian]

almost as bad as snatching a yellow out of the Ref's hand and demanding a red.

I can't imagine that ever happening - who on earth would do such a thing......

 

[raymondo]

Not a great look but understandable if you don’t speak the same language as the ref.

I bet players say “that’s a card ref” or “send him off” all the time

Exactly this

 

[dwayne]

Definitely a don't care. We need to get much better at the dark arts so well done mitoma.