Really surprised the Keane Red has split opinion. Lots saying today pulling is instantly violent conduct and red. Factually wrong, that’s only the case if not challenging for the ball.
Since they were challenging, it just falls under the normal decision of was it or wasn’t it a foul. Personally I would say no, as you can put both arms round a player and wrestle them as long as you let go at the right time (bizarre). But wouldn’t have been bothered if he’d given a free kick at all. As long as applied consistently, great, give them a free kick and tell Keane to keep his hands down. No issue.
Don’t think the argument is whether he deliberately or accidentally had hold of his hair for 0.8 seconds. The issue is the ref has been TOLD to apply the instant “hair pulling is violent conduct” rule incorrectly by the puddings 200 miles away. He visibly completely bottled looking at the incident and pushing back on their incorrect suggestion.
The Hwang thing just makes the entire sport a farce when you have those 2 incidents within a matter of minutes and consider the 2 different outcomes from VAR/ref. It’s become pointless watching unless you have the money to just blow teams out of sight, then these “mistakes” don’t matter to you.
