Box of Frogs
Zamoras Left Boot
Yes he should but the Burnley player should have gone too for his reaction.
Yes he should but the Burnley player should have gone too for his reaction.
The thing that gets me with this is that if it had been CMS they're would be very few people saying he deserved to go, but as it's Barnes .....
Personally if the rule for appealing a red card is that it had to be in order to correct an incorrect decision, then thats a shame.
Here's a paragraph from the rule book:
Any player who lunges at an opponent in challenging for the ball from the
front, from the side or from behind using one or both legs, with excessive force
and endangering the safety of an opponent is guilty of serious foul play.
I think Barnes satisfied the criteria for serious foul play.
I think that proves that McCann should have been sent off.
IMO Barnes was dodging the lunge. About 70% of NSC agree with me as does the BBC commentator. That proves it's contentious for certain but Pawson got so much else wrong I'm comfortable in the majority.
Why else would you appeal it?
I think there may be confusion, you can only appeal yellow cards to correct mistaken identities, but can appeal any red card as far as I'm aware.
Thats good - I was referring to someone elses post who said you can only appeal it when the rule was applied incorrectly.
I was just tagging on the end of the conversation, I didn't mean to seem like it was specifically directed at you
Those that have played football will know Barnes had 3 options here and had to make a split second decision:
1) Stay still and take the hit from the sliding tackle that is clearly clumsy and OTT - it will hurt and risk injury but the other guy has more chance of beind shown red.
2) Leap as high as you can in the air - you won't get hurt but the tackle won't look as bad and the fella has more chance of staying on the pitch.
3) Half jump in the air to avoid the force of the tackle but leave your foot in / make sure you land on him as he's sliding under you. This can still make the initial tackle look bad and also give the bastard a nice stud on his ribs. However you do risk punishment yourself sometimes.
Barnes took option 3 so I can see both sides of the red / no red argument. What everyone agrees with is that their guy should've seen red, no question. More so than Barnes IMO.