Genuine question - kicking the ball away.
I, totally forgot the game had started cos my mate was en route from Paris. When I realised it had, I went and found a stream about 2 mins after we'd scored.
A bit later NU had an attack and fouled one of us in the area. The ref blew for a foul. Everyone heard. The Geordie {Gordon??????} only had Raya to beat but when the whistle went for the most blatant of fouls, Raya stopped trying to prepare for a shot and put his arms down.
The peessed off Geordie, now well after everyone in the ground knows that the foul has been given to us, still decides to have a shot out of frustration and hits the bar.
No yellow card for kicking the ball away. Would have allowed us a quick free kick. 99.9% nothing would have come from it, but there were two of them just in front of Raya and a quick FK would have gone passed both of them, allowing the chance of a counter.
No yellow. Would also have meant that he couldn't have later taken one for the team if he'd been on a yellow.
Yet later, MA gets booked for kicking the ball away near the technical area.
I don't want to sound like a paranoid conspiracy theorist, but why is taking a shot long after everyone knows the whistle has gone allowed? Gordon even dropped his head in frustration when the whistle went, and waited a bit before taking the shot.
It was longer after the whistle than Leo vs City. It did more to delay a quick FK than Dec's 2nd yellow. But that's ok.
