mikepearson

"Where a player commits an offence against an opponent within their own penalty area which denies an opponent an obvious goal-scoring opportunity and the referee awards a penalty kick, the offender is cautioned if the offence was an attempt to play the ball; in all other circumstances (e.g. holding, pulling, pushing, no possibility to play the ball etc.) the offending player must be sent off." Surely by the rules above the ref believes Rico made no attempt for the ball, looking at the attempt I can't see how anyone would think that.

Any tickets going spare on this tomorrow? I happen to be down in London so worth checking

Looks to have been updated this morning, now several references to him being a footballer so definitely him. Explains his quick release from Darlington last season as well.

What I don't understand is why Santos doesn't even start running until Traff has made the clearance. If he puts the some effort tracking back he would have recovered the clearance of the line and it would be panic over.

https://www.newsandstar.co.uk/sport/20281679.bolton-wanderers-manchester-city-loan-keeper-james-trafford-coming-home-face-carlisle-united/ Good article on him this morning

Wasn't Parky the manager who froze DJ out at Sunderland? I'd be very surprised if he would drop 2 divisions to play for him again

Looks like MK Dons have got him

Tuncay Sanli Oztumer Gem Karacan Think the last 2 are of Turkish decent but I'll count them

Mino Raiola - the real superagent

Been coming that

From Wikipedia: "In association football, the back-pass rule prohibits the goalkeeper from handling the ball in most cases when it is passed to them by a team-mate. It is described in Law 12, Section 2 of the Laws of the Game." No idea how that wasn't given, terrible ref seems to be every week at the moment

Dapo gets a yellow for being kicked and shoved over the advertising hoarding

How did that not go in!