Quote Originally Posted by PSRB View Post
You do have to wonder about the officials.

Their number 8 and Diaz both should have been booked for clear shirt pulls before he finally booked Konate. Konate then doesn't get a 2nd yellow for kicking the ball away or for the barge on the Wolves lad. Diaz doesn't get a yellow for a blatant dive and neither does Jota even after they sent the ref to watch the bloody thing again!
Been saying it for a while. Yellow cards are how refs tilt the game these days, given that they can't rely on VAR to consistently get things things wrong and overlook their errors.

Yellows are also used to 'control' a game, where a guy (Xhaka) will get a booking for virtually nothing after the ref has let 5 or 6 far more serious incidents go. And that is how you get ridiculous red cards like Tomiyasu's, who was sent off for brushing an opponent's shirt on the half way line and taking 7 seconds at a throw in.