Scholarship table
In any sport with a ball, if one player kicks/throws the ball at another, should they be thrown out because of that single act?
I guess that's fair. It seemed beyond uncalled for though.
In this situation, it could have been either a 2nd yellow for unsporting behavior, after the first yellow for the foul or a straight red for violent conduct.I would have gone with 2 yellows myself, but I also don't have FIFA apparently telling me not to send anyone off.
I'll stick with my opinion on Gold. He'll be in foul trouble within the first eight minutes.
17 yellow cards for the match. Nobody received 2.Messi talking smack to the old men in suits
Messi should have gotten about her yellow for the blatant dives he took…
Yes, 2nd yellow.But I was asking about the solo act of kicking a ball at an opponent. I guess other sports are slightly different, but I don't think it should be straight red for that individual act.Yellow? Sure.
I think one of the subtleties here too, Muggs, is that there really isn't a way to kick a guy out in soccer without making his team play short the rest of the game. There isn't a comp to the second technical rule in basketball that ejects someone but then his team subs someone else on. If the ref had kicked him out of the game, Argentina would have had to play short, which seems a disproportionate impact on the game for the infraction. (Not disputing your read, Zig, I think by the letter of the rule you've got it exactly right.)
I'm usually all-in there with you. Can't imagine anyone not rooting for Morocco tomorrow. But I think semifinals can tend to be conservative and uninspiring anyway, so watching the Dutch and the Croats sit between the twenties sounds no fun. Plus Nigel Powers was right.
Grant Wahl dead? Wtf?
Need an autopsy done SUPER quick. And not by the qataris
Someone Tweeted that he wrote he was sick earlier this week, maybe with bronchitis.
Terrible news, and another potential stain on this World Cup.@jacksettleman: Absolutely bone chilling stuff Soccer journalist Grant Wahl who was kicked out of a stadium in QATAR for this shirt has reportedly collapsed and passed away during the Argentina game todayHis brother says on Instagram that Grant was fully healthy & believes there’s foul play https://twitter.com/jacksettleman/status/1601397864051396613/video/1