The Football Thread - 17/18 Season

[Talal]

Carl2291 said:

Talal said:

Do you have a source on that? Because I legit only found one site saying that it should have been red. On the Soccer section of Reddit everyone thinks that a yellow card was the correct call.

http://metro.co.uk/2014/06/12/world-cup-2014-should-neymar-have-been-sent-off-before-equalising-for-brazil-against-croatia-4759800/

70% of the poll (however many people that is) say he should have been off.

http://www.crunchsports.com/category/soccer/brazil-3-1-croatia-neymar-scores-twice-amid-controversy-201406130001/

He was lucky to stay on.

http://www.goal.com/en-sg/news/3999/world-cup-2014/2014/06/13/4879171/lovren-slams-referee-after-croatia-lose-opener

Lucky to escape a red card.

http://www.asiantribune.com/node/79985

Lucky to survive
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I could go on and find more, but I wont. The football world is split on it though.

Yeah, a lot are saying that he's lucky because it's true it could have been a red card. Although few sources say that he should have been sent off. It's not a black and white call to make. I'd say less than 50% of refs would have given a red for that. Anyway that call isn't as outrageous as you and Kowen are making it out to be. The only outrageous call in my opinion was the penalty awarded to Fred.