The reason there are more red cards now then there were in the 80s, which he references with the 1985 FA Cup final, is because there are more fouls that are deemed red card offences, even tackles from 10 years ago which would have been yellows are reds now, it’s nothing to do with VAR and just shows how desperate he is for a point against it
He follows that up with the fact there were 30 odd red cards last season compared to 25 so far this season. He’s making the bigger point that the recent increase in VAR intervention and upturn in dismissals is leading to shite uneven matches far too regularly.
That does also gloss over the fact that we have seen new rule changes too.
We’ve seen that dissent and time-wasting and now punished a lot more harshly, which has also contributed to it and those aren’t down to VAR interventions.
Have you even been watching the games this week? Rashfords was never a red card but slowed down 10000% it looks terrible and the refs are using that to send people off. It happens every weekend and is ruining the game.
I didn’t watch united because I was at the emirates so I don’t know the details of the rashford red but reds are now given more often because IFAB seem more challenges and more things a red card and issue stupid guidance that ends up with more things being penalised and less consistency season to season
His anti-red card thing is clearly nonsense
The reason there are more red cards now then there were in the 80s, which he references with the 1985 FA Cup final, is because there are more fouls that are deemed red card offences, even tackles from 10 years ago which would have been yellows are reds now, it’s nothing to do with VAR and just shows how desperate he is for a point against it
He follows that up with the fact there were 30 odd red cards last season compared to 25 so far this season. He’s making the bigger point that the recent increase in VAR intervention and upturn in dismissals is leading to shite uneven matches far too regularly.
We had far, far too few red cards last season.
That does also gloss over the fact that we have seen new rule changes too.
We’ve seen that dissent and time-wasting and now punished a lot more harshly, which has also contributed to it and those aren’t down to VAR interventions.
Why is he blaming VAR instead of the players for committing more red card offenses?
Have you even been watching the games this week? Rashfords was never a red card but slowed down 10000% it looks terrible and the refs are using that to send people off. It happens every weekend and is ruining the game.
I didn’t watch united because I was at the emirates so I don’t know the details of the rashford red but reds are now given more often because IFAB seem more challenges and more things a red card and issue stupid guidance that ends up with more things being penalised and less consistency season to season
If you think that or Curtis Jones would have been given without var I don’t know what to tell you