REFEREE COSTS 'POOL POINTS AS SPEARING SEE'S RED
Tonight's game at Fulham was a competitive game, until Jay Spearing unfairly saw a red card for winning the ball.
I'm not one to piss and moan about bad tackles, studs up and all that but the decision to send Jay off for wining the ball is absolutely ridiculous. I've got to get this off my chest before reviewing the game as a whole.
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| Jay and Jose's reaction says it all... |
Jay simply slid in and WON THE BALL fully clearing it out to the center of the field and only the continuation of the slide saw him make contact with his studs on the unlucky Fulham player's ankle. The intent was simply to win the ball, that was all and to send him off for that just goes to show you how much tackling will be made extinct from the game if competitive challenges like that are deemed dangerous even if the player has no control over his momentum after the ball is gone. All the replays show it, at any speed. it was a great piece of competitive play punished by the referee.
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| Jay's momentum takes him onto Dempsey as he wins the ball for us |
I hope Liverpool decide to appeal the card so that Jay doesn't get suspended, and I'm sure they will.
OK, now that i have stated my opinion about the sending off i can move on. I thought that we edged it in the first half, hitting the bar once from a Henderson shot from outside the box. Although Fulham also had their chances we looked more likely to actually convert ours. Suarez was a handful again, which was fantastic to see, his vision, talent and energy was there for all to see and was by far the best player on the field again.
In the second half we looked great we really took the game to Fulham pressuring them in their own 18 yard box. Winning plenty of corners and really testing fulham in a period of play up until the Spearing sending off. With all our pressure and chances i thought we were particularly wasteful not really testing the Fulham keeper despite having plenty of shots on goal. Some credit must got the the Fulham defence who worked really hard to get bodies in the way of any potential threat we caused.
Predictably after the sending off Fulham took control of the game bossing the midfield and creating plenty of chances themselves. Carroll was sacrificed for Kuyt as was Bellamy for Downing. Again Carroll had a quiet game, but without allot of service. He started brightly enough but quickly faded in and out of the game. Craig had a great game i thought and was only subbed to help sure up our midfield to try and win a point.
It wasn't to be as late on as a hopeful shot from Risse saw Reina fumble the ball in front of him only to have Dempsey pounce and score from 3 yards out and that was the game. To our credit we never gave up and nearly equalized through a Suarez free kick which he slipped while taking causing the ball to sail wide.
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| Pepe spills the ball into the path of the oncoming Dempsey |
It's games like this that make me sad, a game we didn't deserve to lose but because of one moment by one man the complete out come of the game is changed. It's games like this that make me loath football, despise it but also love it more..strange i know!
FTK MoM: Luis Suarez
Although he hasn't scored in 6 games Luis continues to wow me with his passion for the game. His ability to manipulate the ball (and players) is out of this world and this was all on show again tonight at Fulham. He is our star player right now and he can only get better!
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