Are Premier League refs becoming too casual with red cards? | The Cooligans
Christian Polanco and Christine Cupo react to Manchester United’s 3-0 home loss to Tottenham - including a controversial red card handed out to Bruno Fernandes. Hear the full conversation on the “The Cooligans” podcast - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen.
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But we have to start with Manchester United and Tottenham.
Tottenham go to Old Trafford win three nil.
And there's obviously a red card in this game that was clearly a little controversial.
So we haven't spoken about this off air yet, but was it a red or do you think it was not?
I mean, I can understand how it would be a red, by the way, the angles that we saw.
Um, if you're standing there as a ref it looks like the reach is extending and he's like lifting his leg high enough that it would cause damage.
And yes, like while it wasn't a super hard egregious tackle, I think that that's what red cards are there for, right?
Like to prevent the fact that we don't want somebody breaking a leg in the middle of a match.
A red card is issued.
The, you know, the internet goes uh old blaze and everybody because nobody wants their team to be playing a man down.
The reality of it is you're not giving a red card for intention.
I'm not a Manchester United fan.
I am not a Tottenham supporter.
I have no skin in the game.
This is a, I've had it, I've had it with this.
The, the, it's not even about inconsistency.
It's, I think the rest in the premier league are getting way too casual.
This is meaning too harsh, casual, too harsh.
Yeah, too like, oh, we gotta, we gotta make sure we gotta get, get the side of the game or whatever.
But so, I mean, look, you can't, every situation, the, the arsenal stuff and the delay of game like they're all circumstances.
So I'm not saying all of them are the same.
All I'm saying is that as a neutral, I wanna watch these games at 11 V 11 and anything that for, for you to send off a player, they gotta do something to me, at least in my opinion, in my subjective opinion that is like worth sending them off and changing the, what this game is going to look like.