Reading v Aston Villa - Match Thread - Sat 2nd Feb, 3pm
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DJ
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The “crime” is deamed less important because it’s not against Manchester United in the Premier League, live on Sky, with Gary Neville leading a character assassination.
Correct decision. If you look at the Ibrahimovic incident, Zlatan's head is in front of Mings so you could argue he could have made a greater effort to miss his head! On Saturday, Oliveira's head is behind Mings so very difficult to prove intent. No doubt the ref reported that he saw it as well, thought it was accidental so didn't take any action....if so, that's about the only thing he did see all afternoon which worked in our favour! Well done Mr Eltringham!
Silhillvilla
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Good decision and also hope oliveria is recovering well, might need a bit of cosmetic surgery to mask those injuries
DJ
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Still don’t agree on that. The Oliveira one looks worse. He gets bumped by Rooney in mid air on the one on Zlatan.
They are either both accidents or both intentional.
DJ
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South Side Villan
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Sick of hearing about this, incident has been dealt with time to move on.
onlyteaminthemids
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This. In fact now his Mrs is bitching about this, I hope his face stays permanently gareth southgate.
We'll have to agree to disagree then. You clearly feel that Mings deserved to be found guilty. We're all relieved on this site that he wasn't. We can now hopefully look forward to giving him plenty of game time and all being well taking him from you in the summer. Impressed on Saturday despite all the fuss surrounding this one incident.
Thomas Holte
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I'm very pleased Ming's has rightly been cleared and also so many Villa haters and twisted twitter nutters are now feeling rather disappointed and no doubt will turn their bile on the next opportunity they see.
Silhillvilla
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I can't see refs doing us any favours in the near future following all this negative media. Not that we get much anyway
DJ
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I’d just like a bit of consistency that’s all.
He’s guilty of both or innocent on both.
As it is, the FA have decided that the referee saw it so can’t take retrospective action. So it sit on the fence job.
As for taking him off us in the summer. If he actually has a run of games without injury and impresses then we’ll be keeping him.
Thomas Holte
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Stephen Jay Hawkings
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Does that mean then that the ref saw what Ryan Fredericsk did to Grealish in the play-off final? Is that why he wasn't punished?
DJ
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Blimey, here was me thinking this was a fan message board. Didn’t realise you only dealt with personal statements from managers.
He signed a new contract in 2017, he cost £8million and was our record signing. He just hasn’t played as he was sidelined with a knee injury for over a year and then suffered a back fracture which kept him out once again.
He needs regular football to be in contention to play for us in the Premier League.
That’s why he’s out on loan.
DJ
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Again here was me thinking this was a fan message board. If you don’t want debate I won’t post.
Ooh get you with the small stadium comment. You realise we play away every other week if big stadiums are really your thing. I’m sure the players however don’t see that as the only reason to play football though.
