CityFanFromRome wrote:It was a red all day but I agree that a sending off in the fifth minute is going to kill the match, something should be done to prevent things like these. Ok, it wasa red but you can't expect an even competition when one team plays 85 minutes on 90 down to 10 men, there should be a rule preventing sending offs so early in the game. Maybe instead of a red a penalty could be given, even if the foul is outside the box? Today I would have preferred being one goal down after 5 minutes than down to ten men, had we been down 1-0 so early on but with eleven players we would have turned it.
A red's a red if it's in the first or last minute.
What the ref needs to do is be consistant, that means not bottling second yellows.