Ernest
Stupid IDIOT
When you saw what was allowed to on at Chelsea v Spurs if Dean had been ref it would have been 5 a side, Dier's tackle at the end didn't even get a card
Mike Dean joins Prosser the Tosser, Hoops and Pawson in the Ref's Rogue's Gallery.
Wishful thinking. Serious foul play, i.e. using excessive force, is a red card offence...regardless of whether the player wins the ball. Breaking the skin like that clearly falls under that category.
That said, their player was wrong to swipe the yellow card out of Dean's hand. That shows a degree of weakness on the ref's part.
That's irrelevant because it wasn't reckless.you do realize that, per the rules of the game, that is irrelevant if the referee believes the challenge was reckless, right?
No. It couldn't. There was thirty minutes in which the players, and hughton, could affect the game, that they couldn't get the win is down to them, not the referee or his decision to send of Stephens. That this game would make the difference between automatic promotion and play offs, is a result of the players' and Hughton's inability to have won more points/conceded fewer goals than Boro in the previous 45.
ref was crap, gave us a bit first half then changed to you in 2nd.
In the ground I could only assume the red was for a player for mouthing off or similar. There was no possible way I considered it could have been for Stephen's challenge.
ref was crap, gave us a bit first half then changed to you in 2nd.
Wait until you see the footage of Dean about to hold up a yellow, it get knocked out of his hand by a Boro player, sees the injured leg then decides to red card him. Had that yellow not been knocked out of his hand he would have held it up and couldn't have gone back on it.
Not going to comment on the red card - I've only seen it briefly on TV, not enough to have an opinion one way or the other. Anyway, I'm not a qualified referee.
But - even allowing for the fact that that gash in his leg must have been hurting a bit - surely angrily knocking the card out of the referee's hands should in itself be a sending off? 10 v. 10 - now that might have ended better.