Quote Originally Posted by Syn View Post
Wenger had a good way of judging what he thought a fair red card is under the last man type ruling. If the player would have the team would have a better chance of scoring from the penalty spot than if the player wasn't fouled then a yellow card is good enough. Otherwise, give a red. That's quite logical but refs will be too stupid to apply that. By Wenger's idea, Suarez's handball would be a red card.

I don't have any problems with the rule the way it is. Yes goalkeepers have much less margin for error; by the rules they can be sent off even if it's not really their fault, but this is such a rare occurrence. I think that's the first time Szczesny has been sent off for us and only the 2nd time out of 100 that a goalkeeper has been sent off under Wenger.
But that's what the rule is supposed to be. It has to be a foul (not just a touch) to be a penalty and it has to be a clear (not partial) goal scoring opportunity or what has been vaguely classed as a "professional" foul. That's why the first penalty vs Liverpool was not a penalty, that's why Ozil's engineered fall wasn't a penalty and that's why Robben's outrageous dive wasn't one either and certainly never a red card. No clear goal scoring opportunities in any of those and all three barely touched plus running into their opponents to make the contact happen. In hidsight Boeteng shouldn't have been sent off because it was 50/ 50 with Ozil, at least it would be in a bloke's world. So no penalties and no red cards was the correct course for that appalling ref who only got the one decision right because he was so bad he dug himself into a hole so deep he didn't have a choice. When you see incompetent muppets like him on the pitch it really makes you wonder what they authorities are trying to achieve by hiring these cunts and by resisting technology so fiercely.