Ballard

[Steesafc]

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This is the problem.

Complete lack of consistency.

 

[Perryqhill]

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Nowhere near his shirt there.

 

[Lionel Hutzz]

Raging ?

I was taking the piss for fuck sake

D’oh fair play mate caught me hook line and sinker haha

 

[Perryqhill]

It absolutely isn't

It is like

 

[Ricci's Special Kebabs]

It absolutely is. What are you looking at? Sorry sir, I thought was some hanging hair from the sky......

It a pure accident, he went to grab the shirt.

Should he have been sent off, yes. As that is the letter of the law. Has deliberately gone for the hair, absolutely not.

 

[Thatheaderman]

Stupid thing to do. Violent conduct harsh , but is what it is.

 

[Perryqhill]

If ever there was a comment to sum up the idiocy of this board safe , dead rubber, sent off for a stupid technicality and some people are still raging

Why wouldn't you want to finish as high as possible?

I'm annoyed we've become very average and are struggling to deal with some basic defending. Things like this just add to it.

More annoyed with those idiots trying to justify it than Ballard.

 

[Thatheaderman]

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They were worse

 

[buster]

D’oh fair play mate caught me hook line and sinker haha

If my old man told me off for being naughty when we were out , he used to threaten me with you’ll have to make your own way home

 

[mackembhoy]

This is the problem.

Complete lack of consistency.

It's a nonsense rule.

You can tell what is and isn't intentional hair pulls.

 

[CW7]

Stupid from Dan! However, i also await the occasion when a player gains an eye injury from dreadlock whiplash. Will that result in a red? Players will have to start wearing swimming caps shortly! Game has gone, in fact it went ages ago!

 

[Raff1977]

Hair pull.

Nonsense.

Club should appeal it ridiculous

 

[Vauxie]

Wolves player went on like reet tart.
Got a fellow player sent off.
Never a red

 

[Man About Town]

He's going toupee for that mistake

 

[connolly_31]

Intent? Grabbed his hair ffs, topical issue with the same referee who sent Martinez off. Rank stupidity.

He clearly was going for the shirt

From what I saw the lads hair was in the middle of his back. If he's trying to grab his shirt then how does he manage to grab his hair in that manner?

Looks pretty intentional to me.

I'm not sure what I make of the rule, but I see it as a needless and stupid thing to do currently.

There isn’t a rule. Thats why it’s even more ridiculous.

 

[Safc98]

The law is a mess and wrong

 

[JC22]

Red cards for stuff like that where it isn’t a deliberate thing isn’t good for the game IMO. Give them a warning or a yellow and if they keep doing it then fair enough.
See far worse things go unpunished. We lose him for 3 games don’t we? joke

 

[Sea to Shining Sea]

I'm just catching up, what did he do to deserve the red?

Very little. I was out watching it so had no sound. Took me about five watches to cotton on what the ‘violent conduct’ was.

An absolutely pathetic outcome to a pathetically innocuous coming together.

It’s decisions like that that just make me want to turn off football altogether.

 

[turbo bratwurst]

Is that the third time Mr dreadlocks has got a red card for hair pulls against his lovely hair? I know Keane was the same guy

 

[Methusalah]

Stupid thing to do. Violent conduct harsh , but is what it is.

It's on the same level as Kenwynne' s vicious prod in the chest to that West Ham lad who appeared to have been poleaxed. Absolutely nowhere near 'violent'.