it cant be a red card for a perfectly good tackle only city fans are in doubt about this.

Why have you made a new article on our board when your last shiyte wum article has actually turned into a discussion about this very incident?

This is a contact sport.
You want to watch a contactless sport go watch netball son.
Arsenal pansy

The officials didn't agree with you. They didn't give a penalty or a red card. Or as you would put it,
it wasn't even a red card ffs.

Fans always see the rules as what they want them to be, not what they are.

What Ashley Young did, by the current rules, is defintely a penalty and possibly a straight red.

A lot of fans don’t want what he did to be a foul because they want the rules to still be about touching the ball and nothing else. They need to get with the times though, touching the ball hasn’t been all important for over a decade now.

comment by selbstgerechtein (U7048)
posted 41 seconds ago
Fans always see the rules as what they want them to be, not what they are.

What Ashley Young did, by the current rules, is defintely a penalty and possibly a straight red.

A lot of fans don’t want what he did to be a foul because they want the rules to still be about touching the ball and nothing else. They need to get with the times though, touching the ball hasn’t been all important for over a decade now.
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Pretty much what I am starting to realise is the issue with VAR. A lot of the debates are as a result of people mostly

Misunderstanding or not knowing the rules
Or trying to be too clever about the rules by interpreting them in their own way

I thought it was a penalty, possibly a red.

He did win the ball initially but the follow through was downright dangerous. I'm today's game he was lucky.

Fernandinho could possibly have been sent off too and the ref was inconsistent with his yellows first half.

Luckily then, the refs saw it the same way us fans want to. Time the rule makers got with the times.

Youngs was lucky I guess, but Fernandinho was ridiculous, fans can point out the 2nd instance doesn't happen if the 1st one is given but still doesn't mean u get away with blatantly kicking a player trying to injure him

comment by Busby (U19985)
posted 11 seconds ago
I thought it was a penalty, possibly a red.

He did win the ball initially but the follow through was downright dangerous. I'm today's game he was lucky.

Fernandinho could possibly have been sent off too and the ref was inconsistent with his yellows first half.
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The funny thing is even on the replay the action is so fast its hard to see how much of the ball he got.He definitely touched the ball but his follow through and his tackle was just wild and out of control.

On his momentum alone if he got the ball cleanly it would have arrowed to the corner flag. Instead he got a slight tough and the rest of his boot planted neatly on Agueros leg while the ball rolled towards the goal line.

I remember arguing that the british game was officiated differently for soo long such that when FIFA made tweaks to the laws to protect players from serious injury, a lot of fans just failed to pick up these changes.

Or like Selb has said above, simply refuse to accept them as they cahnge the game we know. Football remains a contact sport but the way you tackle must remain controlled and clean if you want to apply heavy force.

If you half or partly get the ball like young and still plant your studs into the opponents leg, then you simply playing the game as it was played 20 years ago

It was a definite pen in the modern game for me but I'll take it being missed

Yeah it looked like the angle in which he connected with the ball cause the tackle to be higher than he expected. It's happened before though and I've seen red for it.

comment by vavarising (U21731)
posted 24 minutes ago
it cant be a red card for a perfectly good tackle only city fans are in doubt about this.

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comment by Busby (U19985)
posted 1 minute ago
Yeah it looked like the angle in which he connected with the ball cause the tackle to be higher than he expected. It's happened before though and I've seen red for it.
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I dont know why some fans are thinking I am highlighting this incident as an excuse for City.They didnt deserve the win simply because of their casual and unprofessional approach after dominating that half.I liked Kompanys interview after the match.

comment by Wilshere10 (U21676)
posted 6 minutes ago
comment by Busby (U19985)
posted 11 seconds ago
I thought it was a penalty, possibly a red.

He did win the ball initially but the follow through was downright dangerous. I'm today's game he was lucky.

Fernandinho could possibly have been sent off too and the ref was inconsistent with his yellows first half.
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The funny thing is even on the replay the action is so fast its hard to see how much of the ball he got.He definitely touched the ball but his follow through and his tackle was just wild and out of control.

On his momentum alone if he got the ball cleanly it would have arrowed to the corner flag. Instead he got a slight tough and the rest of his boot planted neatly on Agueros leg while the ball rolled towards the goal line.

I remember arguing that the british game was officiated differently for soo long such that when FIFA made tweaks to the laws to protect players from serious injury, a lot of fans just failed to pick up these changes.

Or like Selb has said above, simply refuse to accept them as they cahnge the game we know. Football remains a contact sport but the way you tackle must remain controlled and clean if you want to apply heavy force.

If you half or partly get the ball like young and still plant your studs into the opponents leg, then you simply playing the game as it was played 20 years ago
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This couldnt have said it better

Martin atkinson is just an absolutely terrible referee altogether and should be no where near any football pitch if he is there to be a ref.
If a member of staff was as shiet at their job as he was and for so long as well they would've been sacked and walked out the door and driven away to a destination of his choice, hes facking crap.

young got the ball which bounced off agueros leg thats why the ball changed direction yes he caught his leg but there was no intent or even much he could have done about it

comment by vavarising (U21731)
posted 4 minutes ago
young got the ball which bounced off agueros leg thats why the ball changed direction yes he caught his leg but there was no intent or even much he could have done about it
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Intent doesn’t matter, a foul is a foul

I’m not sure, that did look like a penalty. It wasn’t a great challenge. But thems the breaks, on the balance of the match, especially the 2nd half we deserved the win, and a little luck like that young challenge is part of footy.

wait United fans actually think that isn't a foul and a red???

Come on, you can not be that; clueless, deluded, blind, bias - take you fackin pick

It is a red. It was reckless and with excessive force very likely to injure an opponent.

VAR is a big bag of donkey bawlacks!!