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Mousa Dembele

Grays_1890 said:
You can forgive Dembele for two reasons - It was not like him - It was against Costa
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Dembele is usually very laidback. I have only seem his lose his cool twice. Last night and a few years back when he had a running battle with Suarez at Anfield. Probably not a coincidence that Costa and Suarez have been the players involved.

I think this so-called eye gouging incident is being blown out of all proportions anyway. He barely touched him, but in slow motion it looks worse than it is. Costa also held the wrong eye, so it cannot have been very serious.

Stupid anyway, of course, as we will be without him for the final two games on the season, and for at least the first game of next season.
 
King of Norway said:
Dembele is usually very laidback. I have only seem his lose his cool twice. Last night and a few years back when he had a running battle with Suarez at Anfield. Probably not a coincidence that Costa and Suarez have been the players involved.

I think this so-called eye gouging incident is being blown out of all proportions anyway. He barely touched him, but in slow motion it looks worse than it is. Costa also held the wrong eye, so it cannot have been very serious.

Stupid anyway, of course, as we will be without him for the final two games on the season, and for at least the first game of next season.
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That was just comedy gold. The bloke is that used to faking it, that when he does actually get fouled he still fakes it!

Sadly the FA will not see it like that. Min 3 match ban incoming, and as it is Spurs probably end up 6 matches
 
Rorschach said:
It wasn't just Dembele mate, half the team were distracted and too 'up for the fight'. Cool heads would have won that match.

Rather than standing up to them I thought we showed inexperience, including the manager. It's what they wanted and we duly obliged.
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Agreed, Walker was the most wound up, then Rose, then Dembele. Flying around trying to kick players rather than play football. We won the kicking, but didn't win the footballing.

I haven't read every thread yet, but the awful fouling, followed up by a brawl after the game, was all very Stoke and Chelsea and Arsenil, we are better than that. By all means be clever, take a card, stand on someone's foot, but don't stand on their hand, don't chop them in half next to the managers, don't waste so much energy on stupidity, focus on winning the game. We drove straight into their trap.
 
Bullet said:
Agreed, Walker was the most wound up, then Rose, then Dembele. Flying around trying to kick players rather than play football. We won the kicking, but didn't win the footballing.

I haven't read every thread yet, but the awful fouling, followed up by a brawl after the game, was all very Stoke and Chelsea and Arsenil, we are better than that. By all means be clever, take a card, stand on someone's foot, but don't stand on their hand, don't chop them in half next to the managers, don't waste so much energy on stupidity, focus on winning the game. We drove straight into their trap.
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It's all part of the learning curve. We are the youngest top flight side in Europe
 
Some of players mentioned by @Bullet above are just plain thick! I can't see Poch putting up with too many repeats of that type of poor behaviour.

I just started to laugh at the thought of us playing the likes of Atletico :eek:
 
braineclipse said:
Time and time again you hear the "it's a big derby game, the ref has to be lenient early on so he doesn't have to show someone a red later on" hogwash cliche trotted out.

Time and time again the games get out of hand and the referee gets himself into an impossible situation. Other than the approach to be lenient early on which seems to be the accepted course of action I can't really blame Clattenburg yesterday. He did as well as can be expected in the circumstances he got himself into. He got himself into that by doing what is the norm at the moment. I find it difficult to blame him for that.
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He needed to back up the twowarnings he gave to Rose and Ivanovic early. Rose was booked, why wasn't Ivanovic? He lost control right there, though truth be told, letting Mikel away with an elbow in the first 5 minutes was tinkle poor too. I blame him for failing to do his job!
 
I have never rated Clattenberg as a ref and because of this have studied how he referees a match more than most refs. Next time you watch him referee, just check the first 20 minutes and you will see he never books anyone. It doesn't matter how bad the foul is it will always be a naughty boy chat rather than a yellow card. This is fine for a standard Premier League game but totally inappropriate for a derby particularly for a derby with so much riding on it as this one.

If anyone of Walker, Ivanovic, Mikel or Rose had been booked early on he would have had control of the game. As a result by the 2nd half when Clattenberg usually will yellow card any fouls the game became perfection
 
They changed the rule after Torres scratched Vertongen, so now they can take action even if the ref sees it aparently. Ten game ban sounds extreme but if they deem that he intentionaly went for Costa's eye then that is probably where we'll end up.
 
That would be a complete joke. Much ado about nothing. It was a minor incident that the media has blown out of all proportions for some reason. If Dembele gets ten games for that, I wonder what Huth and Fellaini will get. Dembele seems like the nicest guy in the world, and now he can get a long punishment for nothing whilst a guy like Costa gets away with murder every other week. It would be a disgrace. I hope someone at the club speaks about it soon.

If he gets 10 games that would ruin next season before it has begun. We rarely win without him. Even after such a good season, we would have an incredibly bleak summer.
 
It would never be 10 were it the other way around. We always get bricked on. Always. I swear the football powers that be, sit around just waiting for something to brick on us with.
 
iggyfog said:
10 game ban I am hearing.......??

http://www.express.co.uk/sport/foot...-Chelsea-Diego-Costa-Football-Association-ban

Though it is the express...
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It is the Express, quoting "according to the Sun", so hopefully it's just a non-story based on the worst case scenario they can find from the past.
You would hope they would also take into account previous behaviour, disciplinary record etc.
Trouble is the media coverage and the whole rhetoric around this makes the likelihood of anything close to lenient highly improbable.
Even the term "eye-gouge" is way over the top for what actually happened. (Note I am NOT condoning what Mousa did, it was stupid and reckless and always likely to end in a ban) but he did not gouge Costa's eye.
 
galeforce said:
this, you couldn't move for fawning write ups of how they were going to dominate Europe for a decade all over the press every week
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I have seen lots of articles quoting that we have the youngest team in the league. I have also seen lots of articles stating that we are well set for a potential period of dominance due to how young our squad is.
 
10 matches would be ridiculously harsh. He didn't actually get his eye so the punsihment would be just for intent. 2-3 matches for violent conduct seems about right to me.
 
Finney Is Back said:
I have seen lots of articles quoting that we have the youngest team in the league. I have also seen lots of articles stating that we are well set for a potential period of dominance due to how young our squad is.
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great, can you post some links please, I need cheering up, everywhere I look its all Leicester win this and Spurs have blown that
 
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