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Aberdeen v Motherwell SFP

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Clip is at 1:37


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The clearest camera angle is not in the video but put a couple of stills above from BBC coverage. I think UK viewers can see it here from 0:28.

Pundits on Sportscene did not like this SFP one bit and said it was a C&O error due to winning the ball. I think it's a great decision by Craig Napier. Motherwell have said they are appealing it, don't see that going anywhere but don't know what the process in Scotland is like.
 
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Might raise some eyebrows, but i'm struggling for SFP here, I just think it's just a reckless foul with disregard to the danger to, or consequences for, an opponent and must be cautioned*, I don't think there's any force in the challenge, it's just a lazy leg, however, the concern is the height of the foot.

Remember that Doku on Mac Allister wasn't even a foul when he booted him in the chest.

(*amended)
 
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JamesL said:
Careless = no sanction
Reckless = yellow card
Endangering opponent ('s safety) = red card.

It can't be all three in laws of the game speak.
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It's an accident, but the game went soft many years ago, so not the Ref's fault to deem it 'endangering'
On balance, i think it's reckless, but the red card is a point scorer with the observer

I was reminded earlier, that Bill Shankly said of Referee's, 'they know the Laws, but they don't know the game'
I would agree with that, but I don't.... because it's the Law Makers and those organisations that tell Referees how to Ref the game who 'don't know the game'. The Referees are not so much the problem
That's a bit off point, but I'd like a world which recognizes the difference between an accident and malice
 
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