0% Villa. Another bizarre red card

[Simon Ward]

You thought van Persie was harshly sent off? Check this out!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-12682897

[VillaZogmariner]

That referee is a twat and should never referee a game again. At any level.

[ian c.]

The laws of the game state:

"A player who commits a cautionable or sending-off offence, either on or off
the fi eld of play, whether directed towards an opponent, a team-mate, the
referee, an assistant referee or any other person, is disciplined according to the
nature of the offence committed."

It doesn't matter that the person "offended" against was not a participant in the game.

It comes down to whether the player was guilty of violent conduct or not. 

[VillaZogmariner]

You can't seriously be saying that the ref did the right thing there.

[darren woolley]

He made a big mistake sending Van Persie off.

[Phil from the upper holte]

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[ian c.]

In terms of natural justice he did the wrong thing, in terms of rules of the game quite possibly the right thing.

If the player was guilty of violent conduct then the rules dictate that he should be sent off Unfortunately the "or any other person" part of the rule doesn't make exceptions for tools in mankinis.

[philthebar]

That's the trouble with the rules generally nowadays, referees are judged by their peers as to how they apply the laws of the game.

In both sending off instances there was no common sense shown.   Pathetic.

[TimTheVillain]

No way should he have been sent off !

lol funny mind !!

[bartlett23]

Doesn't matter what the laws of the game state, in a situation such as this common sense must provail!

[taylorsworkrate]

It was needlessly violent

[mal]

That's the trouble with the rules generally nowadays, referees are judged by their peers as to how they apply the laws of the game.

In both sending off instances there was no common sense shown.   Pathetic.

Surely the objecct of being judged by your peers (like a jury) is that by getting a group of people involved you get closer to 'common sense'?

I am of the opinion that Arsenal wouldn't have lost if Van Persie had already scored 5 by the time he was sent off AND that the referee had nothing to do with them being as far superior to Arsenal as are Arsenal to Leyton Orient and Arsene might like to criticise the skills of his team, or lack of them. If the referee thought Van Persie did it deliberately he SHOULD have been booked regardless.
As there are public order implications shgould players get involved with fans and vice versa it should as a matter of course be discouraged. The red card is within the referee's remit althoiugh one might consider that merely reporting the player to be dealt with by the FA after the game might be a less contentious and therefore less inflammatory way of dealing with it.

[Comrade Blitz]

Referees are odious little twats who abuse their power.

[Archbishop Herbert Cockthrottle]

There should be a police check on anyone who goes into a shop to buy comedy mankinis.

I think there's a touch of the Jonathan King about them.

[Somniloquism]

He was given a yellow card for it. It juts happened that he already had one from earlier. Two others were sent off for them as well so it sound like either the ref was ultra strict or they are quite a rough team anyway.