Is the club challenging Gana's red card?


Daveysgingerlovechild said:
@Old Blue 2 please put this rapscallion in his place by sharing your book sales figures. I'm sure that will pipe them down.

50/50 on appealing. The wider media coverage seems to back a "it was harsh" narrative. But when does sense and fairness come into things with the powers that be? They'll be checking the rule book to aee if they could dock us points ;)
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From what I've seen, most of the coverage has been more along the lines of 'it could have been handled differently' rather than 'it was harsh' and that's pretty much how I see it too. Considering the circumstances, it felt like the referee could have tried to talk to them both, booked him and left it at that but I don't really think sending him off was a poor decision as such - at the end of the day he slapped someone in the face. In fairness it's not even a clear case of saying a talking to would have been fine, Gana seemed to have completely lost it, it's not like it was a spit second thing it went on for a good while.
 
Marc bolan said:
Remember Ghana getting sent off two bookings v Arsenal Oct 2017 at goodison
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Noted.

Apologies for the mistake, the search must have gave straight red info.

His disciplinary record is good for a central midfielder and a ban is correct.

The "Ronaldo" decision is because in the money mens eyes he is a bigger audience draw than applying the rules of the competition fairly.
 
LinekersLegs said:
PGMOL law as stated is "a player who, when not challenging for the ball, deliberately strikes an opponent or any other person on the head or face with the hand or arm, is guilty of violent conduct unless the force used was negligible."

And negligible is defined as as “little tap”.
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🗣️ ‘David Moyes will be less than happy’ 🫣 The decision has got a lot of people talking 🧐
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Sure it wasn’t a punch but Keane’s head is clearly seen to move quite sharply with the slap, it wasn’t a little tap.

Gueye totally lost his head, see how he scraps with Pickford who was a neutral bystander, it was a deserved red. However he has mad e a full apology and we should move on.

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100% agree. Full apology from the player. Moyes didn't make a fuss about it and a rod for his own back about any future selection. As soon as he comes back from the AFCON, he's available to play and hopefully bolster us going into the business end of the season and we have something to play for.
 

So sick of the way sport is going.

Dont watch much rugby but watched the Ire v Boks match and see they have absolutely ruined the game. They aren't refs anymore they are lawyers, litigators walking around the pitch - the head injury risk is rightly adressed - but whats left in its wake reduces much of what sport is about to a computation, not drawn from what is fair and unfair play IN CONTEXT. James Ryan got a red card for what we use to call over exuberance (diving over a ruck), not a warning, or pull ya head in, just get off, that dangerous.

The context of Gana and Keane must be seen as internal to Everton and does not affect the game whatsoever. Was Keane of Gana's action so egregious, so violent that the interaction draws in a broader public sensibility - ie kids shouldn't see that. Nonsense. In fact whether they can articulate it or not, the kids are probably more scared of this spectre looming than the reality of an on field spat.
 
Moomin said:
Oh good, we have turned into RAWK.

Just like they could lip read the telly and became linguistic experts on South American language with regards to Saurez, we can judge force by the eye.
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No more than 10 Newtons of force were applied. And the Senegalese custom is that if a slap is given to the face of less than 15 Newtons to a work colleague then it's seen as a congratulatory gesture given by a close friends.

Now fire up the t-shirt printer. And free Idrissa from his prison.
 
Lanolin said:
From what I've seen, most of the coverage has been more along the lines of 'it could have been handled differently' rather than 'it was harsh' and that's pretty much how I see it too. Considering the circumstances, it felt like the referee could have tried to talk to them both, booked him and left it at that but I don't really think sending him off was a poor decision as such - at the end of the day he slapped someone in the face. In fairness it's not even a clear case of saying a talking to would have been fine, Gana seemed to have completely lost it, it's not like it was a spit second thing it went on for a good while.
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Jamie Carragher says hello.
 
If rugby is true to fairness and not the calculation of getting sued they would have all players wearing headgear for a start.

They can give Gana a ridiculous red card but can't see the need for headgear for a player heading thousands of balls. Where does the real violence lie.

They only see the bottom line and covering their back, not the beneficial ethic of sport, that comes with its risks and roughs.
 
Yarrgh said:
No more than 10 Newtons of force were applied. And the Senegalese custom is that if a slap is given to the face of less than 15 Newtons to a work colleague then it's seen as a congratulatory gesture given by a close friends.

Now fire up the t-shirt printer. And free Idrissa from his prison.
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I couldn't give a fig about Newtons.
 

I wonder if challenging it would help with FFP? 🤔

(And before anyone asks how, I’ve no idea but, with the confusing officiating, coupled with the Dark Arts of FFP, someone in there might say “They’ve got a point!”) 🤣
 

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