I have a court conference this morning at Bronx Supreme, just down the street from the scene of the 5/21 massacre (edit: henceforth "The Red Bull Wedding"). Still wearing my NYCFC lapel pin as always.
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I have a court conference this morning at Bronx Supreme, just down the street from the scene of the 5/21 massacre (edit: henceforth "The Red Bull Wedding"). Still wearing my NYCFC lapel pin as always.
If we lost 4-2 I'd expect a suspension. If we get one after 7-0 I'll be impressed.
Honestly, after the studs to knee and choking incident - two red card offenses caught on camera, if MLS doesn't suspend him for 3 games, they have zero integrity.
If anybody has images of the studs to knee, please post them. I actually want to tweet that and the choke to the MLS and ask what they're doing about incompetent refs and dangerous play.
Yes, true. But for MLS to suspend him after the game is easy to do and won't bother them too much since they already got the mega-publicity of the beat-down and a suspension (unfortunately) won't do a damn thing about the result. They're safe to do it and slap RB's hands after the fact.
I'd prefer Sam to be suspended for the next 3 Derby matches (if only that were possible). That would hit them hardest.
i think nothing will happen.....then again i have seen smaller offenses get some sort of suspension so well see.
TMac could just as easily see retro red for the five second late, flying front kick to McCartys shins.
This. I haven't watched the telecast. Would love to know how blatant this was. As a fan in the stands it's easy to get riled but hard to really see what happened on the field with any kind of objectivity.
Was the Sam hands to the throat part of the melee where the only person carded at the end was Bravo?
The only time I have seen a player choke another player and not get any discipline was Mexico playing the US in Azteca (I believe it was Torrado). And that I can understand as the ref wants to get out of the game alive.
You can clearly tell, it wasn't that it was an irresponsible or clumsy tackle or slide, instead he intentionally changes the path of motion of his cleat to make contact. 100 out of 100 times that needs to be a red.
That's a multi-game ban offense - wasn't playing the ball at all. Not sure how three officials could miss that since there aren't other players around to block the view and Sam has been on the ground a good second before Pirlo even gets to him. And in the 15th minute, losing Sam would have changed everything in the Game for RB.
Anyone see/have a clip of when Brillant was (American) football tackled from behind in the box? It looked like a Lawrence Taylor blind-side hit on a quarterback (that was my reaction seeing it live, I'm curious if it was as blatant as I thought). Not that any of these things necessarily would have changed the result, but I was just stunned by officiating (and not in a bias towards the team I root for kind of way).
Here's the thing.... if one of these incidents took place and was missed, fine, it happens and refs are only human. But the sheer number of occurrences is shocking and the type of missed calls makes it more so. Two bogus offsides on Villa, three tackles to Pirlo, Brillant rugby tackled in the box, choke-hold to Mata..... am I missing anything?
I'm not going to suggest the Fix was on or that envelopes of money (or bitcoins) changed hands, but either that indeed happened or these officials collectively are so absolutely inept that they shouldn't be given the opportunity to marshal another match again - ever.
My take is the exact opposite. I think it was absolutely pre-determined that Lampard and Harrison would make their season debuts. You could see it coming from a mile away, and it was totally expected. Biggest game of the year, biggest crowd of the year, Harrison's mum was even in town, and they thought Lamps would get a hero's welcome.
The front office had this entire thing planned out from a marketing perspective, and I think those 2 subs were going to happen no matter what (which really leaves PV with only one sub to use at his discretion). They were totally tone-deaf about the actual play on the field (and the need to sub much sooner). Advertise the hell out of the game, boost ticket sales, get the big names in the game, have the stupid halftime "show", give away freebie balls at the end, etc. All of it was gonna happen like that regardless of the actual game. I'm sure they weren't expecting an historic loss to kill their vision of a great day at Yankee Stadium though....
its just refs....im not in that "fix is in" camp for this game....its just we were so bad. the only issue i have is that if we were as physical to them then we probably would of been red carded and there is no equal officiating. if a ref wants the game to be really physical fine....but let it go both ways.
For the time being the game has its own Wikipedia page although it is currently marked for likely deletion:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_FC_0–7_New_York_Red_Bulls
The most notable aspect however, is that it was for some time called
"The Red Bull Wedding."
I have to admit that's kind of clever.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_FC_0–7_New_York_Red_Bulls
The most notable aspect however, is that it was for some time called
"The Red Bull Wedding."
I have to admit that's kind of clever.
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