Sorry lads wasn't on line this morning.
Same as Man City match really, 2 teams couldn't defend, suprised it took them so long to score and it was only 1-1, awful defending.
Both Bent and Kenwyne missed decent chances in teh first 10 minutes, Kenwyne for some reason let a ball bounce on him and then went in with a high foot, and Bent missed a fairly easy heade from about 10 yards by about 10 yards, one of those things that you wish the chances had gone to the players the other way around.
FAO dinho
You want to see what a sending off looks like have a look at Cahill's elbow on Mensah. he stood took a look at Mensah waited for him and swung the elbow, everything about it was delibrate yet got a yellow card, everything that Turner didn't do last week.
i didnt see that incident, and the way you described it i wouldn't doubt that was deserving of a red card.
But regardless of whether you think Turner's was intentional or not, the rules are very clear on this. You cannot jump in for a header with raised elbows. It is extremely dangerous and it is a clear red card offence.
This is not to suggest that you don't see alot of defenders doing it to get elevation, but still where there is contact like what happened with G. Barry, the referee has little option.
Have to agree to disagree on this, my simple reasoning behind it wasn't a red card was that Turner was way above Barry in the incident, you have to use your arms to jump (strangely includes the elbow), there was no look from Turner to see where Barry was and there was no real (intentional or not) movement of his arm/elbow towards Barry either. If Barry had of got to roughly the same height as Turner his arm would be on Barry's chest, still a sending off. The pundits mostly ex players almost to a man say it was no sending off and can't believe the extra game ban for a "Frivilous Appeal".
Sunderland look and play like the TnT national side - Pure shit. Horrible decisions on the ball, no midfield. Ive seen better standard of play in MLS.
I real like Henderson and Reid though. Forget KJ, any re-building on this team needs to be done around those two.
Be careful BNS he was the reason Bruce let Carlos go, I think he is a good player in the making but not as a CM where BRuce has been playing him due to injury of Cattermole (again), he is also making the mistake of using him too much due to the same circumstances, needs to be out wide just lacks that very quick pace.
Sunderland look and play like the TnT national side - Pure shit. Horrible decisions on the ball, no midfield. Ive seen better standard of play in MLS.
Missing Cattermole and need a 2 wide players, Henderson is only a kid and needs bringing on properly, the problem is the defence, if you watch the games teh RB gets very little cover usually from Malbranque, the LB (McCartney) just hides in the box leaving Reid to cover out there most of the time, they all drop back too far so when they get the ball back it usually has to be hoofed to either Bent or Kenwyne. The players available actually suit either 451 or 1441 better than 442 but will still be tata(?) at defending, the team is going nowhere until the defence is sorted, Mensah hasn't really played due to injury and is now missing January for ACON. As a priority the team really needs a LB, CH and WM, we only have 2 real CM's at the club Cattermole & Cana the others are nuisance value only. Its fairly obvious with teh run of results lately they lack any real belief or confidence imho.
