Red Card Offences

[Glassman]

Following the early red card for Manchester City's Dedryck Boyata after his tackle on Marouane Chamakh, there was quite a bit of debate about whether or not it was a sending off offence.

Listening to TS, a few suggestions were made to let the managers decide on what course of action should be taken, eg, send the player off, or take a penalty (in a last man scenario like the Boyata challenge on Chamakh) instead.

Other suggestions were to sin bin the offending player.

Is there a call for a change in how/when the red card is used?

[Glassman]

There is the argument that (obviously depending on at what point in the game the man is sent off) a team playing with 10 men can kill the game. In City's case, they raised the tempo and at times it didn't seem like they were missing a man, but playing at that tempo against a passing side like Arsenal, was always going to be a matter of time.

[Glassman]

Dan_1981 said:

I mean sure it looks easy but things like this sometimes happen....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPkKAufv6wU

With five to the good, it was no real drama tbf

[Glassman]

hornetrider said:

Spot the obvious mistake.

I know what you mean, but it was largely the listeners' opinion I was referring to.

Honest.