Originally posted by TheWheels
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Watch it again because you clearly need to refresh your memory.
1. Keeper comes out and grabs the ball. Pouladi is running towards him but when he sees that the keeper has the ball, he avoids making contact with him (you can clearly see that Pouladi didn't mean to do any harm to the keeper whatsoever in the replay.)
2. Keeper gets up and starts acting like he was indeed hit on the play and then pushes Pouladi. Okay. Not hard enough to make him fall but what is Pouladi suppose to do at that point, push him back and then definitely get a second yellow?
3. Your forgetful colleague whom your are standing up for as professionals do for one another, seemed to have a real brain fart and forget that he had given a yellow card to Pouladi earlier. Tell me. Does any reasonable, half-way decent referee think that what Pouladi did warrants a second yellow card which would ruin a game of that magnitude? Well let me make it easy for you, the answer is: Hell to the NO!
Even these commentators question his decision on the spot for God's sake. And then listen to Mark Bosnich after the game unless you think he is biased too because of Poulad's origin like the rest of us!
I just hope that this was only a brain fart on Ben William's part and not some grand master plan to get revenge on Carlos and TM, which he apparently has a reputation for! If that is in fact the case, he goes from just a dumb ass ref who ruined Asian Cup for us to a no-good unprofessional unethical piece of sh*t who ruined our Asian Cup run.
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