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Today’s Football 2019/20 Season

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This is it for me on this.

There is a part of the rules that says "Advantage should not be applied in situations involving serious foul play,violent conduct or a second cautionable offence unless there is a clear opportunity to score a goal." To me that means regardless of anything else that the laws say regarding advantage, it should not be played if the ref deems the foul to be worthy of a red card, straight red or otherwise, unless the attacking team has some kind of clear chance to score (a 1v1 with the goalie or whatever). I know there are other laws about when advantage should be played and how that works but there is this part that is straightforward in saying that you do not do it in this situation.

Now if that is indeed how it should be handled, and I'm really struggling to see why it wouldn't be, the ref in that Chelsea-Ajax match screwed up because he didn't stop the play to send off Blind despite it being far from a clear goal scoring opportunity and as a result created a situation where Ajax were giving away a penalty and down to 9 men instead of conceding a free kick and being on 10.

And for the record I'm a bit fired up about this because I like Ajax, Ajax played very well, and despite making mistakes they lost their lead primarily do to refereeing errors in my opinion. Whether it is the advantage being screwed up and causing two men to get sent off or the handball decision which was also wrong, they got put into a place that had the laws been enforced correctly they wouldn't have been in. They got Everton'd and I kind of wish every football team I like didn't have that happen.

The rules quoted are the rules and the refs interpret them the correct way no matter what you or I say. What he did was correct.

I couldn’t care less about Chelsea or Ajax I just find you getting sassy over a team you have zero connection with to be very strange indeed.
 

I know it's bitter, but those goals have really wound me up.

A lot of people have used how Liverpool would have handled such a situation as the Son/Gomes one as a comparison to how we’ve handled it, but for me a more telling comparison would be how would Alex Ferguson have handled it. You can guarantee he would have slaughtered Son in the post match press conference and would have used the situation to call for (and probably get) much better protection and treatment of his players from officials.

Instead our own reaction as well as the general media reaction has astounded me. On the totally football show podcast a contributor said that for Son and Aurier it must have been as traumatising as witnessing a car crash. How about the poor sods actually in the car? The poor sods driving along who then get rammed into by a careless driver. That’s where the sympathy should be. This situation just proves that the media don’t really have an agenda against us- they just don’t care one iota about us.
 
Thought that was a decent gesture from Son. Don't bear much of a grudge against him, more against the media circus around the whole thing, and the flipflopping from the PL about the card.
 

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