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[Albion] You're the ref: Morgan Gibbs-White

What would you have given to Morgan Gibbs-White?


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fly high

Well-known member
Aug 25, 2011
1,789
in a house
dont understand all those (on twitter) saying it's never a red card. it wasn't given a red card! cynical tackle deserving a yellow. not first time, seems a lot of people think that if a second yellow doesn't warrant a sending off, it shouldn't be given.
Plenty of times refs have bottled obvious second yellows because they didn't want give red.
 


Easy 10

Brain dead MUG SHEEP
Jul 5, 2003
62,465
Location Location
I was behind a Forest fan on the steps going up to the coach park, and he was loudly gobbing off to his mate that "no way was that a sending off, he got the ball".
I chirped up "yeah, but he had to go through two ankles to get to it"
"Ahh f*ck off"
"Cheers champ"

And off we went.
 






Uh_huh_him

Well-known member
Sep 28, 2011
12,389
It wasn't a clear penalty.
The challenge happens because Hudson Odoi stretches for the ball and makes contact with Baleba's leg whilst he's attempting a shoulder charge.

A coming together.

If the ref doesn't see that as a penalty, VAR wouldn't have overturned it.
That opinion comes from having seen it on the highlights.
in the ground I thought it was a pen and Baleba had been clumsy.
 




Dave the hatosaurus

Well-known member
Aug 22, 2021
1,484
worthing
I try my hardest to be equitable when considering decisions such as this. I find usually the best way is to imagine the given scenario with the team shirts reversed. If an Albion player had made a tackle like that i would be wincing and fearing the worst, fully expecting at very least a yellow card.

As an aside i must say i was surprised that at time of writing 9 people had gone for the no card, good tackle option. Then i looked to see who they were and one was Dougal ! He does have some strange bedfellows on this one though.
 




Kosh

'The' Yaztromo
MGW was acting like a chav with point to prove, who's turned up to your local 5 a-aside, necking a can of Red Bull prior to kicking everything that moves and acting like an insufferable bell end... I'm not sure what was up with him yesterday, but he's was beyond up for it... in a odd sort of a WIDE EYED way, not that I'm suggesting anything 'underhand' but ... you know ... the first rugby tackle was awful and the second one out of control and dangerous... it was a yellow, (near red, I've seen them given) but most certainly an obvious second booking.... his reaction, and calling our boss out for a fight summed up his aggressive out the back of the pub, HOLD ME BACK... (not that hard of a bloke) trying to look 'well' hard.

What an absolute knobber.
 








Bozza

You can change this
Helpful Moderator
Jul 4, 2003
57,502
Back in Sussex




Bold Seagull

strong and stable with me, or...
Mar 18, 2010
30,503
Hove
Warnock (on Sky this morning) still edging towards a good tackle…and if we take that out of the game it will be sanitised…..hmm
On the Savage and Sutton phone-in Chris Sutton seemed to suggest that in their day you’d likely have got away with it; I’m of the opinion that mid-90s that was still a booking, the kind of booking the likes of Savage, Scholes, Keane, Gerrard etc. regularly got, so this thought that they used to play some kind of tougher game doesn’t hold true in my memory. A ref may have missed it mid-90s, or not had a 4th official, but I think seeing it back then it’s still reckless and would have been a booking.
 




Bold Seagull

strong and stable with me, or...
Mar 18, 2010
30,503
Hove
No it really wasn't. Forest player initiated contact then fell over ala Harry Kane. If anything, it was a foul on Baleba.
Exactly my thought! Had Baleba gone down it was his free kick - thought he was very unlucky and just stayed running on his path.
 


ROSM

Well-known member
Dec 26, 2005
6,850
Just far enough away from LDC
I was behind a Forest fan on the steps going up to the coach park, and he was loudly gobbing off to his mate that "no way was that a sending off, he got the ball".
I chirped up "yeah, but he had to go through two ankles to get to it"
"Ahh f*ck off"
"Cheers champ"

And off we went.
Ooh I heard someone say that. Didn't realise it was you. If it was (and not someone else who had a similar view) I was the bloke who fleetingly discussed the forest fans' myopia with you
 




Deadly Danson

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NSC Patron
Oct 22, 2003
4,709
Brighton
Warnock (on Sky this morning) still edging towards a good tackle…and if we take that out of the game it will be sanitised…..hmm
Yeah he's talking nonsense and isn't backing down based on his initial reaction to the tackle at the ground which he thought was fair. I genuinely can't figure out how anyone in the professional game can't see that's a dangerous foul. They are however all correct on Ref Watch that it was definitely a pen against Baleba.
 




levs

Active member
Jul 10, 2017
204
It staggers me how many people spout strong opinions on stuff like this when they clearly don't know the rules. People are always moaning about 'intent' and 'getting the ball'. Which is bollocks, neither terms are written in the rules, 'endangering an opponent' is and that is the point of relevance.
 


Uh_huh_him

Well-known member
Sep 28, 2011
12,389
Assumed it was just the worst of the online trolls claiming it was a fair tackle.

My Forest supporting work colleague is of the opinion it was a fair challenge....
 


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