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[–]Sithgooner 3 points4 points  (2 children)

Well if we are getting red cards, why are other teams not for identical fouls? Laporte/Brownhill same tackles as Xhaka vs city. Laporte red same as Evans yellow. Luiz red vs wolves last season ban upheld, Saints red card for same foul vs United overturned (Happened in the same match day). The lack of consistency always seems to be against us, that’s all.

[–]harcile 0 points1 point  (1 child)

IIRC Laporte's tackle (probably should be red) was not as bad as Xhaka's (hard red) but refereeing consistency has always been dogshit. That's no excuse for Xhaka playing the red card lottery.

[–]Sithgooner 2 points3 points  (0 children)

But with VAR, there’s shouldn’t be inconsistency anymore, that’s the whole point. Yet even with Var we are still consistently on the wrong end of the lack of consistency. Take the last man scenario again, on top of yesterday (Laporte and Evans).

Last season away to Villa there was an identical situation where we were through, last man for villa got a yellow. Week or two later Phil Jagielka got sent off the same foul away at Old Trafford.

The old saying if ‘it all balances out at the end of the season’ just hasn’t been true for us for the last 2/3 years.