Taylor Harwood-Bellis

[Miltonaggro]

I have it on good authority that what he said to Ayling was 'fucking massive thermoplastic' talking about the new advertising boards.  Luke seems to have a hearing impediment as well, poor bloke.

[benjii]

8 minutes ago, Miltonaggro said:

I have it on good authority that what he said to Ayling was 'fucking massive thermoplastic' talking about the new advertising boards.  Luke seems to have a hearing impediment as well, poor bloke.

Absolutely. If you're not skilled in lip reading or if there's a lot of background noise you might think he said, "fucking gibbering gob-spastic" but he didn’t. 

[Miltonaggro]

6 minutes ago, benjii said:

Absolutely. If you're not skilled in lip reading or if there's a lot of background noise you might think he said, "fucking gibbering gob-spastic" but he didn’t. 

An easy mistake to make for the unqualified.

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I don't know how Ayling heard anything, he had completely lost his head (and was in danger of being sent off) before Harwood-Bellis even said anything to him.

At one point the ref looked like he was reaching in his pocket to bring out a second yellow, but got talked down. Then went and said something which Tonda obviously thought was complete bullshit (and Hellberg must've said something), but like everything in the build up to the match, probably a mountain out of a molehill! 

[JustinR]

Social media experts (lol) have deduced from lip reading that he said "sp-sp-sp, spit it out mate". 

If the FA find cleaner evidence of that, Sky player cams etc, then that's discriminatory language and the starting point is a 6 match ban. 

But he'll have weeks to respond so likely applied next season. 

Players often instinctively cover their mouths when talking on the pitch these days, but not sure he did that