Chris Foy

anicoll5 wrote:Having had the opportunity to look at it several times I think it was a reckless challenge that, if it had caught Nani, would probably have caused the Manyoo player a serious injury - a yellow would however have been the right response in my view. It was reckless not malicious. On balance though I can understand why Foy gave him the card.

The problem for Foy is that he does not have the luxury of seeing it again and again til he gets it right. He got no guidance either way from the assistant referee or the 4th official. He saw what he saw. Whether he should have blown faster than Rooney managed to get his arm waving and squealing going might be arguable. Foy did not appear to have any doubt at all which card he was taking out. WTF referees do not pull out cards more often to discourage the pathetic appealing I do not know. Welbeck was bleating that Kolarov should be sent off a few minutes later with the penalty.

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Loughtonlegend wrote:like dj said the ref didnt even blow for a foul untill rooney had a word with the ref.

i see rio been tweeting saying it was a red. i doubt he wouldbe happy if it was him.

would the ref had given red if it was up the other end.

like lampard tackle last week thatwas worse and foy bottled it

Peter Walton bottled it with Lampard at Wolves last week Lought - dreadful tackleand entire deserving of a red card - as I said though he saw it once - I saw it a dozen times

Loughtonlegend wrote:why cant there be a secound ref watching the game on a tv screen and only goal mouth or bad tackles is he allowed to intervein

if its a red card then just buzz the ref simple

anicoll5 wrote:Straight red imo - I only saw the first ten minutes last night so I did not see the "tackle" - where was the ref ?