Final Score Brighton 2 Brentford 0

[damsgard.szn]

Just remember folks, if you’re Gabriel you get to headbutt Haaland without punishment and if you’re Madueke you get to headbutt MacAllister without punishment and if you’re Cole Palmer you get to slam into the head of Fernandes with so much force that you rock his head back.

A narrative is created that we’re physical and all of a sudden what is obviously accidental and is seen by the referee and dealt with all of a sudden ends in a 3 match ban.

arsenal get reffed different to the whole league, point is it’s brain dead from thiago.

 

[Harrison]

This is on Andrews, this line up and formation was a f***ing white flag waving joke before we even started !

How is that on andrews, what can he do? Stop thiago getting sent off? This game is alot easier to turn around with 11 players on the pitch

 

[BeesManMax]

Even before the red card it’s men against boys. Their press is unbelievable and we’re not getting any time on the ball. The red card is soft but again and again we give referees decisions. Unfortunately he did catch the Brighton player (bloody lip proves it) and that’s basically the game done.

 

[Untouchable]

FYI, the laws of the expressly require intent. He’s walking away and trying to push him away.

Law 12:

“In addition, a player who, when not challenging for the ball, deliberately strikes an opponent or any other person on the head or face with the hand or arm, is guilty of violent conduct unless the force used was negligible.”

 

[Tudor bee]

Who is the commentator? Saying Thiago was a forearm smash. f*** off

 

[RhodeIslandBeeUSA]

Trying to stay optimistic today - a lot of match left to play

 

[KD]

It’s a red but he didn’t mean it. Was just pushing him away and the arm went a bit high. This win wasn’t to be - the bigger worry is losing Igor for three tough games ahead

 

[Adam]

Struck him with force?

What a con.

I mean he did split his lip!

 

[whyteleafebee76]

I'm afraid in the modern game that is a red card. Bit fed up with players trying to get other players sent off now though. Seems to happen in nearly every game and it's horrible to watch.

 

[thomasBee]

We're developing a victim complex

How about our players don't give VAR a chance by simply not headbutting and shoving their arms into people's heads?

 

[johndub]

Commentators have been lavishing praise on Brighton from the word go. Nauseating!

 

[jamiehaslow]

Well. Thiago has to go but on what basis can a player jump up, stick his face into someone’s face and not expect a reaction? Is that where football is?

 

[jamiehaslow]

Yes you can expect a reaction but not an arm in the face. Stupidity from Thiago

 

[SWL Bee]

Can you imagine if an opponent hadn’t been red carded for it?

sh*t ref.
Anti-Brentford bias.

Out victim culture on here is getting really tedious.

We saw far worse not get punished when VAR didn’t send off Joao Pedro in this exact fixture two years back…

 

[Aylesbury Bee]

Thiago was pushing him away in the heat of the moment. I might be wrong but he wasn’t even looking at the player as his arm moved upwards. No intent whatsoever but of course their player goes down rolling around. This game is ruined.

 

[Untouchable]

It’s a red but he didn’t mean it.

If he didn’t mean it, it isn’t a red. The laws require the strike to be deliberate.

 

[lanzabee]

I'm afraid in the modern game that is a red card. Bit fed up with players trying to get other players sent off now though. Seems to happen in nearly every game and it's horrible to watch.

Agree, at least Chema got a yellow but it's unedifying behaviour

 

[jbee]

FYI, the laws of the expressly require intent. He’s walking away and trying to push him away.

Law 12:

“In addition, a player who, when not challenging for the ball, deliberately strikes an opponent or any other person on the head or face with the hand or arm, is guilty of violent conduct unless the force used was negligible.”

He is aiming a bit high if he's just trying to push him away. Thiago was wound up for some reason from minute one. He smashes him in the face.

 

[A Real Mysteron]

We saw far worse not get punished when VAR didn’t send off Joao Pedro in this exact fixture two years back…

And still it comes.

 

[sussexb]

Even the BBC called it very soft.

 

[Miss Isabella]

I'm done. I think that is the most anti-football decision. Utterly ridiculous.

I'm sick of it too.The whole game is gone.

 

[TorbayBee]

It will be deemed nonsense by many but I think Dango did well at Muff at 9 so it may be good to see him up front in the next 3 games

 

[NZ Bee]

This will be an interesting test of how much we can ‘game’ the match now - can we take fouls, get their players yellow cards, sh*thousery. Can we do that and stay in the game?

 

[Isleworth_Bee]

Anyone defending Tiago needs to give their head a wobble. Any player doing that against us and this place will be in uproar.

He’s faked our game on the same way YY did.

Don’t give the ref the opportunity to brandish the red

 

[Friji]

22 yellows, 3 reds so far for us this season - in 10 games, something is definitely off, it's not all bad decisions against us..

 

[Untouchable]

Even the BBC are stating Thiago ‘tried to shrug him off’

 

[Justybfc]

Brighton pressing high and aggressively with the extra man.
One advantage of this could be the space in behind which Thiago toom advantage of earlier. Hopefully Outtara and Schade can sit on the shoulder of the last man and run in behind as an outlet

 

[Windmill Rd Bee]

We're developing a victim complex

How about our players don't give VAR a chance by simply not headbutting and shoving their arms into people's heads?

Agreed. Also, as pathetic as Jacquet’s and Chema’s behaviour was, it’s possible that managers are telling their players to provoke Brentford players because they know they’ll react. Now I’ve slightly calmed down I do sympathise with Thiago in that I do think he’s trying to push him away rather than strike him, but honestly, just walk away. How has that conversation not been had already after Yarmo?

 

[mundee4england]

Clear red, silly boy! If you deliberately thrust your arms at an opponent and they make contact with their face with force, you’re off. Struggle to see any debate against that.

I’m more bothered about the three game ban than the impact on today as they were looking very decent and already up.

 

[brentfordfc4ever]

We've done it to ourselves. f***ing stupid.

 

[walterbee]

I don’t remember Kev having too many touches yet. Not his fault as we cannot get out 🫪

 

[NZ Bee]

Thiago’s fault for giving the ref a decison to make. Always going to be a red when the arm is raised and he gets hit in the face.

 

[NickThe(Half)Greek]

Really surprised by those defending Thiago. He’s f***ing split the guy’s lip open with a forearm smash. How much clearer does it need to be?

 

[HaylingBee74]

Radio Sussex (both commentators incl. Warren Aspinall) didnt think it was a red card

 

[beeeehive]

I don’t remember Kev having too many touches yet. Not his fault as we cannot get out 🫪

Every time the ball goes near him he has a defender with two arms wrapped around him, same with Thiago earlier, zero protection.

 

[Miss Isabella]

I'm afraid in the modern game that is a red card. Bit fed up with players trying to get other players sent off now though. Seems to happen in nearly every game and it's horrible to watch.

That is why I cannot watch football anymore.'The Modern Game' is a pile of sh*te.

 

[Houghton Bee]

Radio Sussex (both commentators incl. Warren Aspinall) didnt think it was a red card

Aspinall wouldn't see much wrong with a decapitation on the pitch tbf

 

[Argus]

Now a pen for Brighton

 

[walterbee]

Radio Sussex (both commentators incl. Warren Aspinall) didnt think it was a red card

It’s spoilt the game, but we weren’t too clever before the incident. Oh no penalty now ffs

 

[Hippobee]

Anyone defending Tiago needs to give their head a wobble. Any player doing that against us and this place will be in uproar.

He’s faked our game on the same way YY did.

Don’t give the ref the opportunity to brandish the red

It is just unbelievable the shift on this forum, especially this season, to defend the indefensible.

Someone said victim complex earlier. The worrying thing is, I think those posters that defend our lack of discipline genuinely believe it is all the refs and VAR's fault and we are picked on.

100% if a Brighton player does that and these same people will be screaming for a red.

 

[Carps]

Game over

 

[beeeehive]

Technically a red card but VAR tried to find the worst possible angle when the other showed the hands went more past his face as he tried to shrug him off.

Ah great, have a pen too Brighton.

Brighton are a dirty team off the ball tbh

 

[TW3Bee]

FFS

 

[TW3Bee]

Now a pen for Brighton

KLP pulls his shirt.

 

[CincinnatiBee20]

It strikes me as a red, same as yarmo’s, but both proof the rules are broken. Jacquet and Andres instigated by getting in their faces, and both drew reds with flops. It incentives the Macallister absurd and embarrassing behavior last week. You see it every game. Instigate, get touched, then flop. Everyone does it. It’s getting hard to get watch

 

[Downbeat Bee]

Well. Thiago has to go but on what basis can a player jump up, stick his face into someone’s face and not expect a reaction? Is that where football is?

In answer to your question it’s absolutely where football is

 

[North London Bee]

Not getting much are we

 

[RhodeIslandBeeUSA]

Optimism fading

 

[damsgard.szn]

never a f***ing pen.

 

[A Real Mysteron]

Stonewall