Tonight's footy

[Vegas Claret]

City 1 up v Leicester and the ground is seriously empty

[Vegas Claret]

let them off, apparently a ticket price protest

[ElectroClaret]

Saints 1 Palace 0

[ElectroClaret]

Industrial challenge by Tarks.

[Vegas Claret]

Tarks is lucky

[claret wizard]

That should be a red for Tarks, nasty cowardly tackle.

[distortiondave]

Tarkowski with a good old fashioned proper ball winning tackle but is probably lucky to avoid a modern day red card.

[aclaretinstevenage]

Tarkowski should be off after that tackle.

[ClaretTony]

A bit fortunate there was Tarky

[NewClaret]

Tarks should be off. Very bad challenge. Lucky boy.

[NewClaret]

Industrial challenge by Tarks.

“Industrial”

[Leyland Claret]

Red card all day. Endangering an opponent. Irrelevant that he got the ball

[Buxtonclaret]

He's got away with one there.
Straight red for me, any time.

[TPClaret]

Very good tackle but the follow through was ridiculous. Should be off

[distortiondave]

It wasn't 'very bad' or 'cowardly', IMO. He came in with force, but won the ball as clean as you like well before the opponent got there.
I can totally see the argument for a modern day red card, and if the ref had sent him off it wouldn't have been overturned, but that kind of tackle is what football is missing.

[ElectroClaret]

Citeh 2 Foxes 0

[daveisaclaret]

It was a great tackle, but it was a choice to put his studs through the bloke's leg afterwards. Can't really believe they've not sent him off.

[Goliath]

Tarkowski does that tackle most weeks. He's genuinely dangerous and cowardly is the exact word to use. He knows what he's doing, and he does it in situations where he knows he can't get hurt. He will break someone's leg some day and still people will say he won the ball so it's OK.

[Poulton-le-Claret]

Got the ball ref

[CoolClaret]

Naughty that from Tarky

[wilks_bfc]

Ipswich 1 up at Bournemouth

[jrgbfc]

Tarks seems to get away with murder. How is VAR not overturning that?

[ClaretTony]

Beto should have scored

[claret wizard]

It wasn't 'very bad' or 'cowardly', IMO. He came in with force, but won the ball as clean as you like well before the opponent got there.
I can totally see the argument for a modern day red card, and if the ref had sent him off it wouldn't have been overturned, but that kind of tackle is what football is missing.

April Fools was yesterday.

[RVclaret]

Unbelievable that Tarkowski got away with that. Very dangerous and lucky he hasn’t seriously injured MacAllister.

[NewClaret]

Beto should have scored

He’s in great form. Causing Liverpool all sorts of problems. Top signing by Dyche.

[NewClaret]

Unbelievable that Tarkowski got away with that. Very dangerous and lucky he hasn’t seriously injured MacAllister.

I think this is the first time uptheclarets is in unanimous agreement

[IPAclaret]

Bad challenge and should have gone no doubt but to describe him as cowardly is ridiculous

[Jimmymaccer]

Unbelievable that Tarkowski got away with that. Very dangerous and lucky he hasn’t seriously injured MacAllister.

Looking forward to next season where VAR only get involved in the clear and obvious…………

[NewClaret]

Bad challenge and should have gone no doubt but to describe him as cowardly is ridiculous

Ah, spoke too soon

[distortiondave]

meh

[wilks_bfc]

Theres a difference between he should have been sent off and he could have been sent off.

Could he have been sent off for it? Yes
Should he have been sent off for it? Maybe, but on one of those rare occasions the officials have used common sense in that it wasn’t out of control, malicious or intended and it was his momentum after clearing the ball

We saw those challenges often enough from Tarky whilst he was with us, one in particular against his current employers.

We weren’t saying he should have been sent of after those.

[Tricky Trevor]

Dipped into Derby v Nobenders during HT and Eustace has had a rotivator on that cabbage patch pitch. Won’t suit our passing at all.
Derby 2 up. Looking for 4 straight wins.

[StuWestMidsClaret]

Wasn't malicious

[RVclaret]

Dipped into Derby v Nobenders during HT and Eustace has had a rotivator on that cabbage patch pitch. Won’t suit our passing at all.
Derby 2 up. Looking for 4 straight wins.

Just about to say the same re. the pitch. Another shocker.

[Tricky Trevor]

Theres a difference between he should have been sent off and he could have been sent off.

Could he have been sent off for it? Yes
Should he have been sent off for it? Maybe, but on one of those rare occasions the officials have used common sense in that it wasn’t out of control, malicious or intended and it was his momentum after clearing the ball

We saw those challenges often enough from Tarky whilst he was with us, one in particular against his current employers.

We weren’t saying he should have been sent of after those.

Rubbish. The raising of his boot after playing the ball was both malicious and intended. Very lucky fella to still be on but one where VAR won’t overrule the ref.

[RickyBobby]

Unbelievable that Tarkowski got away with that. Very dangerous and lucky he hasn’t seriously injured MacAllister.

Premier league, corrupt as…
The only reason not to give that is corruption. There is no other reason. How Mac Allister hasn’t broken his leg is a miracle. A true horror challenge.

[fatboy47]

The day that kind of challenge is legit will be the day that players like Benson, Anthony and Edwards will no longer have a place on the pitch.

[DAVETHEVICAR]

We say our referees are awful but that clown at Liverpool is worse than any we have had and the guy on VAR is dreadful
Most obvious red card and a leg breaking tackle
Hope both are denoted to League 2 for a month

[Dyched]

Leg breaking?

The guy is literally still playing

[beddie]

I’d like to hear an explanation from the VAR team as to how Tarkys tackle wasn’t a red. Doesn’t that prove the point that’s it’s down to opinion rather than the rules. It’s shocking.

[distortiondave]

The day that kind of challenge is legit will be the day that players like Benson, Anthony and Edwards will no longer have a place on the pitch.

That kind of challenge has been legit since football was invented until about the last five years, and even then it's legit in most of the pyramid, and most players at all levels of the game don't suffer career ending leg breaks and most pick themselves up and carry on playing. Just like MacAllister did.

It's certainly a modern day red card, I'll not argue that, but it's not even against the spirit of the game never mind the content of the laws.

[Buxtonclaret]

Brilliant goal!

[ElectroClaret]

Great goal Liverpool.

[Conroy92]

Should be offside. This interfering with play rule needs looking at. Tarks has to challenge due to the offside man. That's enough to have affected it for me.

[Claretincraven]

Why wasn’t that offside. Played a pass to a player in an offside position. The games lost to the law makers.

[Vegas Claret]

I see Derby are 2 up v PNE, gonna be another tough away game for us

[boyyanno]

Yeah the way the rules are applied in some of these situations is awful in my opinion. That should never be allowed as a goal but there's been lots of them over the season.

[Conroy92]

These poor decisions are also supported by the new measures of not flagging an offside until the player touches the ball.

It's been an exceptionally poor change to the rules.

[Poulton-le-Claret]

Some goal from Tonali if he meant it

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