Danny murphy's tackle

[Mr Blobby BHA]

Surely he should have been off there was not much difference between that and the Barnes sending off at Wednesday as they both dived in after losing the ball

Was this because murphy's got more leighway as its a big name or was the ref just being more of a wanker?

 

[JCL]

the latter - he didn't have the bottle to wield a red card...

 

[terryberry1]

I was expecting a straight red. Could have seriously injured Liam

 

[Sheebo]

It was pre meditated and nasty. . He was arguing with the ref just before. Dirty scouse bastard.

 

[pishhead]

The fact that it was obviously pre meditated due to him being annoyed that he didn't get a throw-in made it much worse.

 

[portslade seagull]

he should have gone but ref bottled it as he was a name

 

[brightonmark1234]

if that was one of our players they would of got sent off

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danny murphy is a twat and he should of went for the tackle on bridcutt

 

[LamieRobertson]

Ref bottled it then and when Murphy fouled Lua Lua later

 

[m20gull]

Should have been straight red. Complete bottle job from the ref in front of a big name player.

 

[Cranky]

Should have seen red twice! Straight red for the lunge on Bridcutt then a second yellow for cynical trip on Lua Lua, almost identical to the trip Upson got booked for in the first half.

 

[El Turi]

Is it just me or do we almost never seem to get players sent off against us. I think I'm right in thinking Wolves is the only game this season that an opponent has been ref carded?

 

[Bazzza67]

Surely he should have been off there was not much difference between that and the Barnes sending off at Wednesday as they both dived in after losing the ball

Was this because murphy's got more leighway as its a big name or was the ref just being more of a wanker?

That's exactly what I thought...the same as what happen to Barnes at Hillsborough, he didn't get a free kick so went lunging into a tackle.
Murphy was moaning all night to the referee...

 

[chucky1973]

the FA should do what Rugby do and cite players after the game for tackles like that and then put appropriate bans in place. Murphy was a proper knob head last night and deserved a straight red. Shame AEA never got a 50 50 with him.

 

[Deleted member 18477]

from my experience of the AMEX games over the last 2 years... its safe to say the majority of ref's clearly hate brighton or poyet. it's one of the reasons these draws arent becoming wins at home. Blackburn playing without the dirty scouse Murphy for the last 10 mins could have led to a 2-1 win for us! frustrating to say the least...

 

[Silk]

Is it just me or do we almost never seem to get players sent off against us. I think I'm right in thinking Wolves is the only game this season that an opponent has been ref carded?

Newcastle?

 

[Deleted member 18477]

That's exactly what I thought...the same as what happen to Barnes at Hillsborough, he didn't get a free kick so went lunging into a tackle.
Murphy was moaning all night to the referee...

thats because he was totally outplayed by a crippled spanish magician!

 

[TWOCHOICEStom]

What I find strange is that there's such a vast difference between that type of tackle, the "tackle" by Lua Lua, the trip by Upson and their the keeper timewasting, yet they all receive exactly the same punishment.

 

[Bold Seagull]

Should have seen red twice! Straight red for the lunge on Bridcutt then a second yellow for cynical trip on Lua Lua, almost identical to the trip Upson got booked for in the first half.

Referee was very inconsistent. The first could have been a straight red, then the second tackle was definitely a yellow. The ref had also had a word with him after a foul on Vicente that at the time the ref didn't actually give. I can't believe Murphy stayed on the pitch.

Lua Lua then got booked for a foul that was no worse than Murphy's tackle 5 mins before.

Got to admit though, I wonder if some of our antics are pissing officials off?

El Abd is constantly winding opposition up which must annoy officials, plus last night Buckley made two pretty obvious dives, Leo goes down to easily, and I just wonder if we are getting a poor reputation with officials. Their current seemingly bias to the opposition appears to support this.

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

The irony was LITERALLY 5 seconds before it happened I said "Murphy looks wound up" and then BOSH.

I havent seen it again but he definitely appeared that his arms were all over the shop aswell. At first I thought he'd clotheslined him....though I may have completely misseen the incident from up high in the WSU

 

[Greavsey]

Agreed, I think if it had happened in the Premiership then Sky Sports News and Talkshite would have been all over it this morning. Awful, pre-medidated tackle by the annoying little midget.
Think Blackburn in the second half were the dirtiest team I've seen us play against and very lucky to end up with 11 men on the pitch.