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Match Man Utd vs Tottenham Hotspur | Sunday 29 September | Old Trafford

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This.

In the cold light of day it’s neither a red or a yellow, really. Can completely understand why the red stood but equally if it was downgraded to a yellow I don’t think too many would have complained.

But, fuck Bruno he’s a whining faced big baby and maybe it’s a wee bit of karma.
If it ever comes in it’s a Sin Bin tackle innit? Sort of worse than yellow but not quite hardcore enough for a red.

Anyway like others have said fuck him
 
Have to say the game is being destroyed with these ridiculous rules. These sendings off are becoming a joke . Thank fuck I’ve witnessed the game when common sense still existed
Flappy Lips Bruno wouldn't survive if he played during the 60s though would he? It's not like his tackle was a good old fashioned hard man tackle, it was a sly, cowardly sneaky tackle. Hes also one of the worst for rolling around pretending to be in agony. Fuck him.
 
Flappy Lips Bruno wouldn't survive if he played during the 60s though would he? It's not like his tackle was a good old fashioned hard man tackle, it was a sly, cowardly sneaky tackle. Hes also one of the worst for rolling around pretending to be in agony. Fuck him.
His tackle is nothing. I actually don’t think it’s a yellow either. It’s a foul and that’s it. I grew up in the 80s and played football when you got a hit and gave it out and never bothered. The game is so soft now.
 
His tackle is nothing. I actually don’t think it’s a yellow either. It’s a foul and that’s it. I grew up in the 80s and played football when you got a hit and gave it out and never bothered. The game is so soft now.

It's not the 80s. The rules have changed. It's a red....

You might as well be bitching about the back-pass rule, the advent of offsides or the Bosman rule........
 
His tackle is nothing. I actually don’t think it’s a yellow either. It’s a foul and that’s it. I grew up in the 80s and played football when you got a hit and gave it out and never bothered. The game is so soft now.
Maybe it is soft now but Bruno would still be the first to be rolling around the floor clutching his face if you so much as tapped him on the shoulder.

So I repeat: fuck him.
 
When you've seen your team perform like ours did yesterday you just want the games to keep coming. Thursday seems like an age away. I want more of the sexy stuff. NOW!
 
Now come on. What are we? VAR?

That's a still frame of an incident. You could make the case that he didn't touch him at all based on that.

I'm not gonna go on about it much more cos quite frankly I couldn't care any less about if the red was the right call or not.

It was but I don't mind if people don't agree.

However, I think we can all agree that it couldn't have happened to a nicer guy!

:ange-lol:

I didn't say he caught him with his studs. I said he 'showed' his studs while slipping so could have caught him with his studs. Something he had no control over.

So it was dangerous and out of control which I believe is the very definition of a red card offence.

I agree with the poster who said that the little shit should have been taken to the touchline and shot!
 
Flappy Lips Bruno wouldn't survive if he played during the 60s though would he? It's not like his tackle was a good old fashioned hard man tackle, it was a sly, cowardly sneaky tackle. Hes also one of the worst for rolling around pretending to be in agony. Fuck him.
100% this...

I know I'm gonna sound like an old fart, but I remember being up at The City Ground, late '80s (or very early 90's) ... Stuart Pearce and Pat Van den Hauwe went for the same ball... as they both connected at exactly the same moment, the 'BOOM' of Boot+Ball+Boot was like a bomb went off... you could hear it across the Trent!

The cheer that one tackle/collision got in the crowd rivalled that of any goal celebration... It was epic!
Both players, you'll be unsurprised to hear, got up, acknowledged each others hardness, and got on with it!

(I THINK that was also the game Ian Walker caught the ball one handed... Pat Jennings style!)
 
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100% this...

I know I'm gonna sound like an old fart, but I remember being up at The City Ground, late '80s (or very early 90's) ... Stuart Pearce and Pat Van den Hauwe went for the same ball... as they both connected at the same time, the 'boom' was like a bomb went off... you could hear it across the Trent!

The cheer that one tackle/collision got in the crowd rivalled that of any goal celebration... It was epic!
Both players, you'll be unsurprised to hear, got up, acknowledged each others hardness, and got on with it!

(I THINK that was also the game Ian Walker caught the ball one handed... Pat Jennings style!)
Stuart Pearce played on for ten minutes after a clash trying to "run off" an injury...he had actually broken his leg.
 
What a performance yesterday. I'm sure we can all wax lyrical about most of our players, but I'm glad to see Kulu starting to get the plaudits he deserves. Dude's engine is just non-stop, and it is clear he gives his all every time on pitch until the last whistle. What a player he is.
Porro was also exceptional throughout.

They all were-sans maybe Timo (who had a lot of positives, regardless of his finishing) and Bergvall (just seemed out of sorts).

Like others have said, I'm buzzing. Bring on the next.
 
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