Tyrone Mings

[chrisw1]

If this wasn't a Villa player, I'd be saying he looked at the guy on the floor and shortened his stride deliberately to catch him.

However, as he is a Villan I agree entirely that it was a pure accident.

[darren woolley]

I thought he had a good game looking forward for the rest of the season with him in defence I also thought the incident with there striker was an accident.

[pooligan]

I see that prick Mark Halsey who i use to hate when he refereed our matches is calling for Mings to receive a lengthy ban ,this despite the match referee not seeing anything untoward. Just a couple of weeks ago i saw the Small Heath defender Colin stamp on a Norwich player in the televised game but hardly anything was said .

[Risso]

FA awaiting referee report apparently:

https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/11627783/tyrone-mings-stamp-on-nelson-oliveira-investigated-by-fa

[auntiesledd]

Knowing the lynch-mob attitude that social media brings, I wouldn't be in the least bit surprised if the FA issue a ban. The incident was clearly horrible to watch, but the only person who really knows if the stamp was deliberate is Mings himself. Seeing as he's also got 'previous' for stamping on Ibrahimovic, I fear he could be already guilty in the eyes of those who will soon be deciding his fate. Triffick.

[Duncan Shaw]

Bollocks, knowing our luck with the FA there is only one way this is going isn't there?

[Diablo]

If the ref says he saw it and saw it as a coming together (accident) would that mean the fa would be unable to act/give a retrospective ban?

[Jon Crofts]

Surely if the ref saw it as anything other than a coming together he should have acted immediately & should explain why he failed to act at the time.

[Rigadon]

Surely if the ref saw it as anything other than a coming together he should have acted immediately & should explain why he failed to act at the time.

Unless they are allowed to include stuff they saw on TV after the game in their match report that is... 

[AsTallAsLions]

At the time on Saturday when I saw this I thought it was completely innocuous and that Mings couldn't have avoided it but after watching again a few times it does look negligent at best and potentially intentional at worst. As someone else has said, he seems to shorten his stride and could definitely have hurdled him safely if he had tried.

I feel immensely sorry for Oliveira who will likely be left with a fair degree of facial scarring so I wouldn't think us hard done by if Mings gets a lengthy ban.

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He's tripped up by Oliveria. It's a contact sport. You accept there's risk of injury from collisions, coming together and tackles.

[AsTallAsLions]

He's tripped up by Oliveria. It's a contact sport. You accept there's risk of injury from collisions, coming together and tackles.

None of which indicates that he didn't intend to stamp down on him.

[pooligan]

Only Mings knows if it was a accident or not ,the referee who was just feet away did not even give a free kick. I can't see how the FA can charge him without solid proof that it was intentional .This is Aston Villa though and as we have seen often in the past seem to be treated different to other clubs So i am half expecting him to be charged

[andyh]

I have watched it over and over again and I just have this nagging doubt that there was some intention there.
Yes, Mings was tripped but he does appear the leave his trailing leg in there.
Maybe it happened so quickly he couldn’t pull away from it, but there is a little bit of a nasty taste here.

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He's tripped up by Oliveria. It's a contact sport. You accept there's risk of injury from collisions, coming together and tackles.

None of which indicates that he didn't intend to stamp down on him.

Burden of proof rests elsewhere.