Fat Frank

[Aberdeen Shrimper]

Just saw a replay of that, how the hell is that not a sending-off!?!? :O

It was a Karate kick of the highest order......I bet he will suffer during the week from the FA

 

[Andy_S]

I don't like Chelsea or Lampard for that matter and I was quite happy to see them lose, but that red card was a complete joke. It was a perfectly good tackle that shouldn't have even been a free kick! Bosingwa's foot push at the end was the most blatent red I've even seen and the lino is a yard away and gives nothing!

Just how bad are these officials getting? It's getting a little silly now.

 

[BoyWonder2]

I don't like Chelsea or Lampard for that matter and I was quite happy to see them lose, but that red card was a complete joke. It was a perfectly good tackle that shouldn't have even been a free kick! Bosingwa's foot push at the end was the most blatent red I've even seen and the lino is a yard away and gives nothing!

Just how bad are these officials getting? It's getting a little silly now.

Spot on about both decisions. The way the ball went for the Lampard sending off shows that he must of touched the ball, it wouldn't have gone behind Alonso if he didn't win the ball.

Refs are far too quick to pull out the red card nowadays. If he had stopped for 20/30 seconds he would realise the way the ball went must mean he won the ball.

As for the penalty in the Newcastle game, that is the softest penalty I have ever seen. The Duff one was a blatant dive, and was rightly booked. In fact, I thought Webb was going to book Taylor for a dive to start off with.

 

[Bluesmanager]

It was a Karate kick of the highest order......I bet he will suffer during the week from the FA

But was it as good as a certain Cantona's?

 

[Kris]

Am I the only one who thinks Gerrard should have gone in the opening minutes? He deliberately booted the ball at the grounded Chelsea player from centimetres away and for me that was totally reckless and stupid. Wasn't Delap sent off for something very similar yesterday?

EDIT: It appears Slipperduke agrees with me in his column on the match.

The Lampard one was a tough one to call. It looked harsh but his studs were clearly up and these days that appears to be a red card offence. Moussa's red against Brighton looked very similar. Oh, and I hope Bosingwa is punished retrospectively. That was a scandalous challenge and the linesman, right next to the incident, didn't move a muscle.

 

[shrimpermatt]

Bosingwa's challenge was the funniest thing i've seen in a long time. Chelsea won a freekick from it too.

 

[markw]

Bosingwa's challenge was the funniest thing i've seen in a long time. Chelsea won a freekick from it too.

scolari just said on motd2 'bosingwa's tackle was a red i would have no complaints, lampards was not'

or something along those lines

 

[manor15]

yeah what was the linesman doing giving chelsea a freekick when bosingwa stamped on benayouns back
and
the fa arent taking action on bosingwa, its disgraceful its encouraging dirty play like that

 

[Pubey]

Wins his appeal

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/c/chelsea/7864085.stm