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Southampton FC ‏@SouthamptonFC #SaintsFC goalkeeper Adam Parkes debuts for @england's under-17s against Portugal at the Algarve Tournament:

Of course, Clattenburg doesn't always keep his cards in his pockets....

The only possible outcome of 'accumulated warnings' is a yellow card for the next foul. As The9 has already highlighted, you don't get a straight red card purely because you've been 'spoken to' a few times beforehand. It was either a straight red or it wasn't. What happened before that doesn't come into it (logically).

Which is probably why Clattenburg's initial instinct was seemingly to pull our the yellow card...

I've been wondering this too. Given the sending off is open to different interpretations, what would be the harm in lodging an appeal. Even if there is only a slim chance that the appeal committee would overturn the card, surely that's a chance worth taking? I can only think there is some sort of cap on the number of appeals a team can lodge in one season, or that there is a punitive fine for having an appeal turned down. Otherwise, what's to lose in not lodging an appeal?

Here's a useless tosser....

Sew, back to the thread....

Glad to see we can trust the likes of YouGov again after last year's election debacle. I thought it would take longer to repair their reputation but fair play that they've managed it in such a short timeframe. Bravo. What next? People believing pig stories in the Daily 'Fail' ?

A tinpot manager for a tinpot team. A match made in heaven.

Fulltime: Chelsea 1 Man Utd 1 That'll do nicely

Get in Chelsea!

Austin to start this one for me... Forster Cedric VvD Fonte Bertrand Targett Clasie Romeu Davis Long Austin Subs: Stek, Yoshida, JWP, Tadic, Juanmi, Mane, Pelle

They've been revolting for as long as I can remember

Meltdown

So why is that not a red Clattenberg? Tackle from behind

Because it looks like Koeman has decided to protect the 1-0 rather than go for a second. Probably sensible tactics when going down to ten men

That's a yellow for me, not a red

Lol @ Saintsweb Forum intelligentsia (yet again)

Lol. This could start to get *really* funny.

Foresight built on foundations of rationality and pragmatism is even more wondrous IMO

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So, with Targett out and Davis facing a last minute fitness test, we could be looking at something like this then? ------------------------- Forster --------------------------- Cedric -------- Fonte --------------- VvD ------ Bertrand ------ Wanyama ------- Clasie --------- JWP------------- ---- Mane --------------- Long ----------------- Tadic ---- Subs: Stek, Yoshida, Martina, Romeu, Juanmi, Pelle, Austin

Koeman: "Targett is not fit. Ankle injury. Not major but he is out for tomorrow. Austin is back and in contention to start. Davis is back in training but there is a doubt that he will make the squad. Decision to be made after today's training"

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No. (not full training ) It's OK, no-one will notice the crafty edit