It was an ankle breaking tackle from the front instead which would have been a red card ten years ago easily. Whitehead got up straight away as well.....
Whether it was actually a dangerous tackle or not (and I think it was), if a Boro player had gone in like that on one of our players we'd most likely say it's a red card.
Really? I actually thought the Boro player reacted well. Got up straight away. It was a stupid tackle and a blatant red.
Is this the real UEA? You normally give sensible opinion but in this case you seem to be saying the complete opposite to facts to support Diakite. It was a terrible tackle, he did not win the ball, and the Boro player got straight up and did not make anything of it.
This surprised me too! UEA normally sides with the ref/rules. Even an old clogger like me who spent most of his career in the Sunday morning beergut league has to admit that that was a disgraceful tackle!
Harry has gone up in my estimation having found a mug to take him off their hands albeit temporarily.
I'll just clarify some things as I seem to have accumulated a few replies. I said it was a red card by modern standards so no arguments there. I never claimed Whitehead dived. He went down because he was entitled to and you're all right that he got straight back up. Watch the tackle again though and tell me what's so horrific about it. A previous comment called it a potential ankle breaker yet the foot which would have done that, his leading foot, got the ball and was grounded by the time it reached Whitehead who was coming in from an angle. Diatike did catch him with his trailing leg but really he got sent off because it's the fashion at the moment for referees to give red cards for what might have been. It's not something I'm particularly keen on as I would rather referees just dealt with things as they saw them but it's a FIFA/FA directive. What I find frustrating is an awful lot of the sendings off at the moment are coming about not because someone is malicious or even incompetent but just because if things had been different someone might have been hurt. To my mind that's a bit naff in a contact sport when we're talking about tackles where two players go in facing each other. I stand by what I said which is that 10 years ago that wouldn't have been a red card. It may not have even been a booking in fact. What Diatike can be criticised for, in my opinion, is the fact that he was the favourite to win that ball and should have stayed on his feet. He had no need to dive in except he was too slow off the mark in the first place.
I understand what you are saying UEA and he was lucky that he was slow off the mark otherwise it would have had different consequences which meant it had the potential (key word) to be an ankle breaker. In his challenge for the ball it was a lunge. It is a silly rule, I agree, but there is an element of the game that the referee has responsibility for the players too. Except when it is the clubs responsibility to control their players......which is the refs job in the bigger picture. It was still a stupid and terrible tackle in the sense that he thought about going in 2 footed and the danger that a challenge like that can have. What he did was wrong, we can have no complaints under the current rules. We'd all be calling for the head of an opposition player if it was the other way around.
He's an appalling footballer with all the mobility of a dishwasher. What our scouts saw in him I have no idea.
Probably the same things that led QPR to spend £3.5m on him. HOWEVER - what is the deal with his freakin shorts? looks like someone has given him a wedgie!
QPR have a bottomless pot of money and whether a signing can play or not is pretty immaterial. If they find that the player is crap they just loan him out to some other mug.
Exactly this, if he'd actually made a sensible tackle, he would have won the ball, he may have got fouled himself but that would have been Boro's problem what he did was both lazy and cowardly.
Heard on Saturday we are desperately trying to get out of this loan deal, he has been shocking on the training pitch and the management team are not impressed. This loan deal is going to cost us around 300K all in
Really? I would hope that we could just tear up the loan deal and pop him in a taxi with Eddie Oshodi to QPR.
