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Lost Mango
Terry Fenwick
UEFA: Standing up for Racists
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Uefa disciplinary action: No red cards for players who cover mouth in Champions League
Players who cover their mouths in confrontations with opponents will not be shown red cards in Uefa competitions.
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glasgowspur
Jimmy Cantrell
Did we not all think that red card decision was wrong?
Is it not justice that it has been overturned?
I'm sure it's not the first red card to ever be over turned, although I can't think of a specific one.
Is it not justice that it has been overturned?
I'm sure it's not the first red card to ever be over turned, although I can't think of a specific one.
Baleforce
Joe Kinnear
no, I think it was a red, look at the other guys ankle
Jurgen the German
George Hunt
There should be a mechanism in place to rescind wrongly awarded red cards as Balogun’s one was. Completely disagree that it was a red.
SissokoWasGood (BoL)
John Lacy
Yeah.,,I think it’s lame for Bosnia, Belgium and anyone else to cry corruption. It was never a red in the first place and the right outcome has been arrived at.
I do agree that it feels grubby, but ultimately my main criticism is for the VAR and on pitch ref that decide to completely misuse the technology to send Balogun off. It’s simply not what it’s for. To slow it down to frame by frame to get an angle to claim it’s a red card offence. There was no intent, but worse than that it wasn’t even reckless. It was simply a tangle and really unfortunate.
Balogun, or any player, does not deserve to have their World Cup ruined by the incompetence of the referees. There should absolutely be consistency and I would be upset if I was a team that had a player where off that had to serve their suspension after a similar incident. But it relies on better refereeing.
Jurgen the German
George Hunt
So the red card has been suspended, not rescinded. Don’t agree with that ruling but I’m still pleased the overall result is the same, Balogun is eligible to play and it should never have been a red card in the first place.
Ace Face
Stephen Clemence
Whether or not the incident deserved a red card, we all know what has happened here.
FIFA is rotten to the core. So is Trump. But we all knew that. What’s astonishing is the brazenness of this decision.
I’m sick to my stomach about these fraudulent scumbags in positions of power.
FIFA is rotten to the core. So is Trump. But we all knew that. What’s astonishing is the brazenness of this decision.
I’m sick to my stomach about these fraudulent scumbags in positions of power.
Robbo
Steffen Freund
Maybe, but that's not something you just make up in the middle of a tournament. You can't all of a sudden invent suspended red cards, no matter how controversial a decision might've been. And suspended for what? Because they need more than four full days to figure out if it was a red card or not?
It's making a complete mockery of the integrity of the WC, and plummets FIFA to depths you couldn't even imagine existed.
Jurgen the German
George Hunt
Other sports do it. The NHL for example implements rule changes in the middle of the season.
DeanoAustin
Jack Jull
You can’t get to the right result this way. If incorrect red cards are a risk, you create some form of appeal mechanism. You don’t make ad hoc decisions like this. They didn’t even overturn the red card, they suspended the punishment.
This is unprecedented in World Cups. It completely calls into question the integrity of the competition. If the US win the next game, or any game, with a dodgy decision, it’ll look a million times worse in light of this.
Fairness and equality do not matter. It matters who you are and who you know. That’s blatant from Ronaldo’s suspension and now this.
It’s utterly wrong.
SissokoWasGood (BoL)
John Lacy
I don’t think it makes a mockery of the integrity of the WC anymore than terrible application of VAR does.
The US is going to be able to play their striker as they deserve to. It would have been unfair on the US to be knocked out for having to play with ten men for it.
If Balogun elbowed the guy, I’d agree. This whole thing would be completely horrendous. But he didn’t deserve the red.
DeanoAustin
Jack Jull
What is the rule change here though? They’ve just suspended the punishment without any explanation and without clarifying if other players will get the same benefit.
It’s indefensible IMO.
Robbo
Steffen Freund
That doesn’t make it right. When you start a competition, you establish the rules that will be in place for every team for the entire competition. You can't move the goalposts midway through, no matter how good the intentions are.
SissokoWasGood (BoL)
John Lacy
I agree, there should have been an appeals process. And there also should have been better referees to not, with minutes to review this, judge it to be a red in the first place.
If this was Ronaldo’s elbow, I’d agree. I also think the fact that they didn’t send Messi off is ridiculous, because it shows a lack of consistency. Alongside extending the Qatari guy’s suspension for the tackle on Canada.
But for this specific incident, it’s just the right outcome. If it was any of those others. I’d be just as outraged. But we all have a sense of whether a decision was right or wrong and when something was as universally accepted as this one, I’m ok with it being worked out. The fact that the fudging US President had to get involved is completely ridiculous. But it should never have gotten to that point.