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Originally Posted by LondonRoad
Had 0-0 written all over it. 
It was a pity about the red card though. (although it was a stonewaller). It killed the game as a contest. Even if it was 2-2 at half time I think Blackburn would have had a chance if they'd still had 11 players on the park. |
to be honest I didn't view it as a pen or a sending off. I think it was Samba who slide in and went for the ball and missed the ball by a less than an inch. The Villa player then fell over his legs. At no point did the Blackburn player kit or attempt to foul the Villa player.
This is the whole reason we have so much cheating and diving going on because a defender player football and someone falls over him we get a pen. A few years ago this would be a talking point at most and a decade before that it wouldn't even have made MOTD.
It is a physical game and to send someone off for going for the ball and not fouling anyone is rediculous