Originally posted by Gillespie:
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OK Livvie.You're pretty decent on here.Tell me how you saw it.
a)Did you think it was intentional?
b)Did you think OGS made a meal out of it to get Sol sent off?
and c)If you think it wasn't intentional,would you have given only a yellow,for at best,reckless use of the arm?
Do you think Sol deserves a 4 match ban and miss out on the rest of the season? Tell me what you think.</strong><hr></blockquote>
I don't think he intended to hurt Ole - I don't think any player would deliberately do that, but I do think it was careless and therefore dangerous. Looking at it from the linesman's angle, I would definitely have sent him off.
I can't say Ole didn't make a meal of it any moe than you can say he did - but Sol is a big bloke, and Ole isn't - if he caught him with his arm at speed, it's going to hurt - and the pictures show that he made contact.
If you see shots of Ole afterwards, you can see his nose was affected - and these are off the ball shots, so he wouldn't have known the cameras were on him.
I don't think there was maliciousness, but it was reckless. By the laws of the game, he had to be penalised. Is there a yellow-card option for use of an elbow, intentional or otherwise?
I've seen players sent off for unintentional handling of the ball in the penalty area - next time you get one of those decisions, will you accept it happily?