Most sides have a couple of hard men or to put it bluntly, foulers. The RS are now successfully close to having a whole team of them plus a nasty backroom quota as backup. Its bad enough with the now common trend of full scale grappling in the box at corners. Theyve taken it to a new level however with their thugs and their self entitlement to foul at will that seems engrained in all of them. Its an absolute disgrace yet never called out by their brown nosed media cult.
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They don't though - those aren't hard men or anything like that, they just get away with anything. Any player can be a hard man if blatant fouls they commit aren't given, or if they somehow manage to make 5-6 fouls a game but never get yellows for them.
Can you imagine a team making 20+ fouls and getting 3 cards (would've been 2 but Curtis' was just undeniable) and finding this unjust?
Better yet, out of those 20, 6 were by Luis Diaz, 3 or 4 of those for the exact same offence of pushing the player without even contesting for the ball. He ended the game with nothing given to him.
I get there's different types, etc., but "persistent fouling" has been a regular yellow card for about 40 years now?
For comparison, our 3 cards - Gana: 2 soft fouls; Doucoure: 2 soft fouls; Lindstrom - not even for a foul but arguing with the ref (they only had Salah, Diaz, Robertson, Mac Allister doing it all the time so its ok for them to not be carded).