PhoenixUnited wrote:In the overall scheme of things where does blatant cheating, as in the case of Dwight Gayle, fit in with the this (real or imagined?) Clubs charter that all clubs are signed up to?
Rightly or wrongly Leeds United rushed out to apologise for what happened in the Derby County saga. Have we heard a peep at all from West Bromwich Albion?
Their management said something along the lines that it was done in the heat of the moment with emotions running high.
EDIT: I've just found the BBC page on it.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/47259671
"We're disappointed. All I'm after is some consistency," Moore told BBC WM.
"In the context of the game, given the speed of the pass, the emotions and the timing of it, if we take all of that into consideration, when you play it back 12 hours later you're not going to get any of that.
"The video won't give you that. They'll isolate the incident, with no voice on it - just replay, replay, replay and it will channel the incident one way.
"They will not have seen the angle I had or the professional people on the pitch who understand the speed of the game."
Moore's main concern is the way Gayle's case has been treated in such isolation, when other similar-looking incidents have gone unpunished.
"Since the ruling came in, if you tell me there's only been two instances I'd say you're mistaken," Moore. "I reckon there have been lots of incidents.
"There'll probably be an incident this weekend as the game is played at such a tempo, with such energy and emotion.
"Incidents happen. We've had games in which players of ours could have come off seriously injured, when the experts could have looked back at the video evidence.
"We've never cried about that. We've just got on with it. And we stand by Dwight with this."
In other words "Wah wah wah wah wah it's not fair
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