This view was reinforced by
his awards of yellow cards to our players — setting them up for later sendings off.
Not exact matches
By analyzing games between professional Italian soccer teams, he found that matches played between intra-city rivals resulted in a substantially higher number
of red and
yellow cards, a fairly good indicator
of unethical behavior in sports because
cards are typically
awarded for dangerous tackles or attempts to deceive a referee by taking a dive.
A
yellow card for 7fouls (would have been like 3red
cards on the same player because a good number
of them were nasty), that double tackle from ivanovic on Sanchez was a clear red
card even to the blind, but not even a
yellow card was
awarded, chambers beats Shurle to the ball and it's a straight
yellow card not to mention that clear hand ball from fabregas....
Unfortunately a member
of the opposition team attempted to take down Lewis despite not being in possession
of the ball and the frustration led to two
yellow cards being
awarded both ways.
80 % overall, bias against both teams 15/85 and three wrong Important Decisions Min 44 Penalty wrongly
awarded to United (there was no movement
of hand to ball), Min 58 Cleverly should have second
yellow card for a reckless challenge, Min 90 Arteta was
awarded a
yellow card (he should have had one in Min 30 and so should have been sent off).
Real believed he should have been
awarded a penalty instead
of being shown a
yellow card following a challenge from Rayo defender Antonio Amaya.