The last time was after Atkinson missed a clear penalty on Mertesacker while giving Arsenal players soft
yellow card when we lost at Tottenham almost exactly a year ago.
Not only was their defence having a nightmare trying to deal with the pace, movement and passing fluency of the Gunners, but Chelsea could not get anything going the other way either, with Diego Costa cutting an increasingly frustrating figure up front and finally picking up
a yellow card when his anger boiled over.
Unfortunately for the Championship side there was also another decision which the manager feels favoured the Gunners, with Mohamed Elneny only receiving
a yellow card when bringing down striker Nelson Oliveira.
Welbeck then gets an underserved
yellow card when Moreto kicked him and pretended it was Welbeck who kicked him.
Laporte was perhaps lucky to escape a second
yellow card when he was late into a tackle on a furious Pickford shortly before half - time, referee Paul Tierney seemingly judging the City player's contact with Everton's goalkeeper to be accidental.
Gomez is the next one for Liverpool to get
a yellow card when he stops Ramsey on a promising run on the flank.
Not exact matches
Elis is a young player and has to learn there are times to tell the ref he's an idiot and times
when you should keep your mouth shut — a
yellow card away from suspension is
when you keep your mouth shut.
Both players are banned after picking up their fifth
yellow cards of the domestic season
when United and West Ham drew 1 - 1 win the Premier League on Sunday.
So, enlighten has
when did he accumulate 4
yellow cards.
Coquelin was
yellow carded in his first touch
when he was introduced as a sub in the Southampton game, so what is your point with Flamini getting a
yellow in 18 minutes.
It was surely no surprise to Arsenal fans
when Jack Wilshere fouled Hull City's Gaston Ramirez after about an hour on Saturday and even less of a surprise that the referee showed him a
yellow card for the challenge.
I believe Wenger and our players need to get better at the little things, deceiving, taking players down at the right time, knowing
when a
yellow card is the safer of two bets, or even at times red.
When the game is so rife with simulation you can see how teams are drilled to essentially try and get a player on a
yellow card sent off.
Again,
when they are called for
yellow cards, Gabriel tries to being calm, while Costa is busy complaining to ref.
Xhaka fragility will come
when attacking players charges him with the ball enticing him on a one on one chase, his sluggest acceleration seems to let him down, he has no resolutions to these tactics
when used against him other than attempt to break the opposition player fibula and hope he only get a
yellow card.
What has happened to the times before
when we hardly gave a monkeys about these distorted stats, all of a sudden we are looking at stats that don't tell you anything that matters, the only stats we we were shown after each games were; possession, goals scored, shots made, clear cut chances, assists, corners,
yellow cards, red
cards.
I think we became over cautious
when the referee was awarding us
yellow cards for spud play acting — Rose was disgusting, yet giving us nothing for what looked to me borderline red
card offences against us.
However, the tide turned in Chelsea's favour on 35 minutes
when Ander Herrera was sent off for picking up a second
yellow card for a foul on Eden Hazard, seconds after referee Michael Oliver had warned his teammates against persistently fouling the lively Belgian.
That all threatened to change
when Aguero got past Aurier just before the half hour mark and goalkeeper Kevin Trapp was forced to leave his goal to make a desperation challenge to keep Aguero at bay — but his tackle was clumsy at best, bowling the striker over and handing Manchester City a penalty, while earning himself a
yellow card that could easily have been a red.
Against Chelsea he escaped being
yellow -
carded and conceeding a penalty - kick
when he held Hazard's shirt.
When Le Coq eventually serves his inevitable
yellow card accumulation suspension, we need suitable cover.
It was only moments later that Paulo Dybala committed an absolutely mindless foul to earn his second
yellow card of the match — the first coming in the first half
when he dove in the penalty area — and put his team down a man in addition to the confidence - breaking two away goal deficit they already were under.
I know articles will still flows in
when Bellerin performs very well jst to criticize Chambers for collecting
yellow card per match.
A bad night for United was compounded
when Angel Di Maria was sent off late on for two
yellow cards, almost instantaneously.
Belgrade's downfall was orchestrated on the 79th minute
when Milan Rodic was dismissed for a second
yellow card offense.
The ref didn't seem to want to give us anything except
yellow cards and that penalty call became even more of a sore point
when Kane rose to head his second in the 87th minute.
You look at what really happened, and the guy behind the line gives the penalty and the red
card when the referee had given a
yellow.
I stll wince
when I think of the irresponsible challenge Dubuchy received resulting in his dislocated shoulder; the offender didn't even receive a
yellow card!
They can not talk about Offiside goal and handballs occurred in that match or
when other players elbowed arsenal players and referees still do not give them even a
yellow card, Steven G must shut up and mind his own team as i do not see them on top four.
when people were shouting Kante, everyone was like «we have the big Coq», now Kante has taken the EPL cup from Leicester to Chelsea, and we got the handsome boy Xhaka, no steel in him, just a
yellow or red
card in the making
Still no
yellow cards though, even though Stoke admit what their tactics will be
when facing Arsenal.
When Mike Deans went over to the first situation rather than pulling out random
yellow cards he should have asked for a video replay and would have seen that the instigator was Costa and given him a Red
card.
On Wednesday,
when the Gunners face Chelsea at the Emirates we will have another ref from Manchester in Anthony Taylor, who is thought to be a much more even - handed and careful whistle - blower, and we can happily say that Taylor has only been in charge of one Arsenal game this season in which we easily beat Bournemouth 3 - 0 and we got through the whole 90 minutes without sustaining even one
yellow card.
His 16
yellow cards during that time suggests that he is not afraid to put his foot in
when involved in the heat of the engine room battle.
An even worse decision for me, although it did not have the same impact, was
when he didn't book Smith for a much more vocal bit of arguing after a clear
yellow card tackle, but that was typical of the man in black today.
Referees: Generally that Turkish ref had a good game, but really pissed me off
when Kroos cleaned out Khedira and he did nothing, while Bentancur got a
yellow card for clean tackle..
-- How the referee didn't clamp down on Stoke fouling, often not giving a foul at all,
when in actual fact a lot of Stoke fouling was not accidental but «professional» and deserved a
yellow card.
When the keeper gets the ball and walks from one side of the goal to the other side to keep the ball out, give him a
yellow card and then the next time he'll take it where the ball is.»
I would like refs to issue more
yellow and red
cards when our flair players are taken out deliberately just to stop an attack.
I expect,
when I walk towards the referee with respect and ask him a question, I would like him to answer me in a normal way and not give me a
yellow card and say nothing.»
Ok so Aston Villa were the underdogs but look at the fuss made out of a possible disallowed penalty and free kick outside the area for AV on the BBC,
when Ozil was clearly brought down inside the penalty area, but didn't make a fuss about it, got up and carried on, Bellerin was smacked by Agbonlahor with what looked like a forearm smash, or possibly an elbow in head and was down for a while,
when the ball was on it's way, but hadn't even reached him and we weren't even allowed a replay by the BBC, let alone a comment on a possible penalty / free kick /
yellow card.
Fearful that he could lose grip on the match, referee Martin Atkinson had to issue the game's first
yellow card after just 11 minutes,
when Miiko Albornoz crunched in on Brazil's number 10.
'' A player with Victor's experience knows he can not make a tackle like that
when he already has a
yellow card,» the manager continued.
When Ozil took on SHREK and turned him around right, left and centre like a small school kid... The
yellow card and the tomato red faced look on SHREK were just the icing.
Without the west African, the Saints were a muted force, and their cause wasn't helped
when Wanyama — the Kenyan midfield general who is often so critical to the club's hopes — was sent off for a second
yellow card.
My Man Of The Match must be Chambers — although he sullied his performance by getting a silly fourth
yellow card in his four starts
when pulling Aaron Lennon's shirt for no reason at all...
Tottenham and his other reported suitors will get a good chance to scout Kohr, who has no goals and 11
yellow cards this season,
when Liverpool visit Augsburg in the Europa League last 32 on Thursday.
Everton were doing a lot of fouling, yet we never got a free kick, unless it was to break up our play
when we'd of much rather played the advantage, yet most of our fouls got a
yellow card, and they were given free kicks even
when there were no fouls.
The game could well have been changed on its head had David Luiz been sent off for a high boot
when attempting an overhead kick, but he was only
yellow carded, although he did get a red into the dying minutes of the match.
Barca won the replay 3 - 1 with a big help from the officials
when the referee took the bizarre decision to show Robin van Persie a second
yellow card for shooting at goal after he had blown for a free kick.