Worst straight red card call I have ever seen

[EFC NY]

I have seen some bad calls in my time, and certainly some bad reds, but that is the worse. Early in the game, the match was tame at that point, and Rodwell had done nothing to warrant extra scrutiny. And of course, the challenge was probably not a foul, and certainly not dangerous. Factor that all in, and its the worse straight red call I have ever seen.

Moyes is right. It ruined the game. In all of sports, the red card is the most significant thing an official/referee/umpire can do, simply because it requires the "offending" team to play a man down for the remainder of the game, no matter how much time is left. You have to be 100% sure. If any doubt exists, give it a yellow. By no means did that deserve a yellow, but the yellow, if its wrong, is simply a referee mistake that affects the match no more than other mistakes. The best team on that day will still win. But the red, if you are wrong, just sucks the life out of the game, and destroys its competitive spirit.

Let's be real. This a billion pound business. The most popular league, in any sport, in the world. One of its most significant fixtures is being played. In any other industry, a mistake of that magnitude, on a stage that large, would be dealt with swiftly, and corrected as best as it can be corrected. Let's see what happens, but I am not holding out any hope.

 

[heatmeiser]

Nothing will happen other than us being punished for throwing empty plastic bottles at a bunch of whining tossers.

 

[Roztitute]

Yep it was a ridiculous decision that ruined the game. Atkinson is a FOOL.

 

[Username]

Worst refeering decision i have EVER seen. I'm still fuming now.

 

[icburns]

I thought this one on Seattle's Jhon Kennedy Hurtado was the worst, but now I'm not so sure.

At first I thought there was no call. I heard the whistle and thought, "for what?" Saw him reach into the pocket and pull out a card and I thought, "a yellow card? Are you on glue?" Realized what color the card was and my thought process stopped entirely.

 

[tsubaki]

It was an awful decision, but not as bad as the arse-goal being disallowed by Poll - at least Atkinson can claim he made an honest mistake. Poll should have never referreed a game after he made his decision, especially as he (as he now admits) lied about it afterwards.

 

[johnnydawg68]

I thought this one on Seattle's Jhon Kennedy Hurtado was the worst, but now I'm not so sure.

At first I thought there was no call. I heard the whistle and thought, "for what?" Saw him reach into the pocket and pull out a card and I thought, "a yellow card? Are you on glue?" Realized what color the card was and my thought process stopped entirely.

To be honest I was too stunned to even be angry at that point. It took me a good long time to process what happened.

 

[CahillsCornerFlag]

I just repeatedly screamed in a high pitch shreik, HOWS IS THAT A RED CARD, EXPLAIN TO ME WHY THATS RED. Needless to say nobody did.

 

[Roztitute]

I just repeatedly screamed in a high pitch shreik, HOWS IS THAT A RED CARD, EXPLAIN TO ME WHY THATS RED. Needless to say nobody did.

I switched out and started abusing the ref as did everyone else. Then I proceeded to join in with 'the referees a kopite', he was.

 

[Rook]

1. The WC in which said player was never touched and grabbed his face and got (Kaka?) sent off was the worst.

2-100: about every sending off against Barca

101: Atkinsons

you really shouldn't couldn't #2-100 because Barca is in their own class of getting people sent off. So Atkinson's is the 2nd worst.

 

[bourneblue]

Spot the difference,it's not hard.

 

[ToffeeDan]

In the 2nd picture Neville didn't make enough of the challenge to get the ugly little goblin sent off.

 

[trigger the blue]

Spot the difference,it's not hard.

The one in the 2nd pic is a foul but isn't classed as a foul as he has a red shirt on and thus would clash with a red card so a red card would never be shown to anyone wearing red!

 

[ToffeeDan]

Also I've now seen the stills of the "Rodwell Incident" and Atkinson was watching Suarez. No wonder he got it so wrong - that's the reason why he shouldn't be reffing at this level. End of story. If he isn't watching the player making a (potentially dangerous) tackle then he's just not good enough.