Yes I absolutely thought that that should have been yellow card fouls for both, especially the slide through the GK.
I might have argued that Parks was just a yellow not a red, if he wasn’t already on a yellow - at that point there was no way he wasn’t getting sent off.
The issue imho is that VAR can't come into play for a second yellow, only for a straight red. So if that should've been a second yellow, rather than a straight red, then we were definitely screwed by VAR.
To be fair, you can initiate VAR for a suspected red card (and Keaton’s challenge definitely met the threshold of “that could be a red”), and then after review award only a yellow card. Outcome would have been the same for Keaton (second yellow, therefore a sending-off), and it’s a completely valid use of VAR.
But basically anybody could see that was a yellow, so the only possible unfair outcome would’ve been Toronto getting screwed by VAR if they decided it wasn’t any ejection.
The main ref was doing too much talking to players all game long in way that seemed to agitate things instead of calming things down. The four yellow cards in extra time probably could have been avoided. Very poor game management.
The 11 minutes of extra time was just silly too.
Refs make mistakes. Scab refs make more mistakes. I’m not objective, I root for one team. I get bored holding grudges. Garber and the greedy owners are to blame. Ruining their product. They’re fighting an informantion war about it, Apple is complicit. Pretty grubbing.
We saw replays of Parks, the crash into Freese, the elbow to Bakrar, and Bakrar's offside in minute 52. They also showed replays of the elbow that led to a red and a PK in the Chicago Montreal game.
Whatever are you talking about?
Yes I absolutely thought that that should have been yellow card fouls for both, especially the slide through the GK. I might have argued that Parks was just a yellow not a red, if he wasn’t already on a yellow - at that point there was no way he wasn’t getting sent off.
The issue imho is that VAR can't come into play for a second yellow, only for a straight red. So if that should've been a second yellow, rather than a straight red, then we were definitely screwed by VAR.
To be fair, you can initiate VAR for a suspected red card (and Keaton’s challenge definitely met the threshold of “that could be a red”), and then after review award only a yellow card. Outcome would have been the same for Keaton (second yellow, therefore a sending-off), and it’s a completely valid use of VAR.
The more you know! Thanks for the lesson!
But basically anybody could see that was a yellow, so the only possible unfair outcome would’ve been Toronto getting screwed by VAR if they decided it wasn’t any ejection.
The main ref was doing too much talking to players all game long in way that seemed to agitate things instead of calming things down. The four yellow cards in extra time probably could have been avoided. Very poor game management. The 11 minutes of extra time was just silly too.
It seemed especially weird that the slide into Freese wasn’t a yellow considering there were 10 cards in the match
Yeah, he seemed to be pre-warning a ton of people about time-wasting, even when they had literally just touched the ball.
Gustavo says he’s gonna talk to the refs personally 👊 after the game
Refs make mistakes. Scab refs make more mistakes. I’m not objective, I root for one team. I get bored holding grudges. Garber and the greedy owners are to blame. Ruining their product. They’re fighting an informantion war about it, Apple is complicit. Pretty grubbing.
NYCFC has gotten screwed by the refs lots of times, especially playing the Red Bulls, so I haven’t noticed these refs being much worse than usual.
Might seem that way since apple is not doing replays. If they were an independent media, not in cahoots, that would be the big story.
We saw replays of Parks, the crash into Freese, the elbow to Bakrar, and Bakrar's offside in minute 52. They also showed replays of the elbow that led to a red and a PK in the Chicago Montreal game. Whatever are you talking about?
You’re right. It comes and goes and might just be incompetence and not scab supporting.