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Ilios said:
The current rules NECESSARILY favour players with long hair. That is ridiculous, and it shouldn't happen.
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No, the current rule is that you aren't allowed to pull an opponents hair.
So, you think that someone with 'long' hair has only got himself to blame if an opponent pulls it (his hair)?
 

Should sort it out by making players wear their hairs up or get them cut. Was always the way when at school: jewellery off or taped up; hair up.

If you’re a bloke with hair beyond your collar then you’re partly at fault.
 
seahamstar said:
Ok.
Having hair the length of your back with it 'flopping all over the place' is a little bit different to an opponent deliberately pulling your hair, which is what was deemed to have happened yesterday.

There's only one person who knows for definite whether it was deliberate, but the call was made that it warranted a red card.

If it wasn't deliberate, then he was unlucky, but the ref/var had a decision to make and made what they thought was the correct one.

By grabbing an opponents hair, you run the risk of being sent off.
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If you watching the replays and Ballards eyes unless he’s got a third eye I’m not sure how he sees that the blokes hair is where he normally grabs at an opponent. There’s a big difference between the Ballard one and that one linked above of the pull on the Chelsea player which is clear and blatant.
 
seahamstar said:
No, the current rule is that you aren't allowed to pull an opponents hair.
So, you think that someone with 'long' hair has only got himself to blame if an opponent pulls it (his hair)?
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No...it's just called an accident and the ref should give a foul as he usually would for a shirt pull. Or if he didn't see it, as was the case yesterday - the game gets played on.

It's madness to slow things down with replays and look under a miscroscope to see what a player has clung to when jostling for the ball genuinely and fairly.

Players can't be expected to be less physical with a player with longer hair because of a fear that he might grab onto a shit haircut and end up sent off with a 3 game ban...it's ludicrous.
 
What’s stopping getting all our players to wear wigs next game against Man Utd and falling down at every contact complaining about a hair pull? Ref doesn’t have proof
 
Sidewinder2 said:
According to some on here he’s trying to grab his shirt, what part of his shirt is halfway up his heed man
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Obvious you haven’t played the game. Hart and Rooney both on Ballard side yet you can’t see it.

Looking at the ball and going to grab the shirt. He grabbed hair but 100% not intentional. Anyone not seeing this is either blind or daft.
 
Basically he isn't the type of player to do that anyway and made up with their forward after game. He will have said it was accidental and no doubt their gadgy will have agreed.
 
Vilanova Mackem said:
Which clearly gives an advantage to the long haired player, how are you not seeing this? 😂
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Really?
I'd say , more to the point - just cos a player has long hair, should he expect (and accept) that an opponent can just tug at his hair to gain an advantage?

Where does the 'long haired ' player get the advantage from?
 
MackemMagic said:
We’ll have to agree to disagree - for me, he was clearly trying to grab the shirt and got his hair too
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One of the many, many issues with VAR is the slow motion creates a distorted version of reality. “Keeps hold of it” when it’s a one second incident, slowed down to 3-4 seconds. It makes it look intentional, when he probably didn’t even realize in the moment what he has grabbed.

Totally different to deliberate hair pulling which is shan and needs stopping.

As ever, VAR making things a total farce.
 
seahamstar said:
Really?
I'd say , more to the point - just cos a player has long hair, should he expect (and accept) that an opponent can just tug at his hair to gain an advantage?

Where does the 'long haired ' player get the advantage from?
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Simply the fact that he has it. As said before it could be tucked in or tied up or whatever. But let loose it’s simply an unfair advantage knowing that if any player accidentally grabs the hair while challenging, it’s a red card. Players won’t want to challenge them.
 
seahamstar said:
Really?
I'd say , more to the point - just cos a player has long hair, should he expect (and accept) that an opponent can just tug at his hair to gain an advantage?

Where does the 'long haired ' player get the advantage from?
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Much more likely to get an opponent sent off if you have long hair. Clear advantage.
 
Vilanova Mackem said:
Simply the fact that he has it. As said before it could be tucked in or tied up or whatever. But let loose it’s simply an unfair advantage knowing that if any player accidentally grabs the hair while challenging, it’s a red card. Players won’t want to challenge them.
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It's not an unfair advantage if somebody is pulling on their hair, it's against the rules.
Players an still 'challenge' - just do it fairly.

I'd like to know how somebody can 'accidently' grab somebody's hair
scott934 said:
Much more likely to get an opponent sent off if you have long hair. Clear advantage.
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But that opponent is only more likely to get sent off if he actually PULLS on the hair.
Does it not apply if a player pulls on an opponents short hair?
 
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Honess10 said:
you have to be some sort of nugget to be going near a players hair after all the coverage the last couple of weeks. Just brain dead and yeah I’d have made him wark home anarl as others said

BUT the lad is our best defender. An absolute beast who has also discovered he can carry the ball out to great effect. So let’s all hope he learns and comes back even better
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He was trying to grab his shirt man ffs he wasn’t going for his hair he’s not even looking at the player
 
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