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Canuck said:Yellow Jim said:The sending off was a shocking decision, it ruined the game as any sort of meaningful contest.
It was the only desicion the referee could make, the rules are clear: Kick the ball away after play has been stopped, recieve yellow card.
The protests by Van Persie were laughable. He didn't hear? Funny how every other 130+ whistle blows were heard perfectly well. And the Camp Nou isn't exactly at it's noisiest when the visitors are attacking... crap excuse.
I've had enough of claims of referees "ruining" games.. they only apply rules, it's players' idiotic actions that usually ruin games. Van Persie knew play had stopped, it was another stupid, rash moment from another overpaid, immature, impetuous player. They've got to start growing up and taking responsibility for their actions, and stop blaming everyone else.
(And I'm a football fan by the way).
I disagree with you. For a start there is no such rule as if you kick the ball away after play has been stopped you receive a yellow card. What he will have issued the caution for is "delaying the restart of play". Taking a shot on goal less than one second after a whistle has been blown is hardly delaying the restart of play. The player had his back to the referee, was in a noisy environment and the run and shot were all in one concurrent movement. If van Persie had obviously realised that the whistle had gone, delayed and then kicked the ball away as an afterthought then it would have warranted a caution, as it was I don't believe that it did. There was a couple of occasions were other players on both sides tapped the ball away after an infringement was given last night in the full knowledge that the whistle had blown, if that's how the referee wanted to play it then there should have been cautions for everyone of those, so it's the consistency of the how the ref applied the rules that should be focussed on.
And I'm not an Arsenal fan by the way. There is enough play acting, cheating and dangerous play that the referees should be concerned with, rather than a spurious sending off like that one.