There's no way those numbers are right. He must have given them 5 or 6 in the first half, which means he gave 10 or so to Argyle in the second half. He must have given them 10 in the first 10 minutes of the second half. They had at very least 30 free kicks today, which is one every 3 minutes. Except the ball is out of play for at least half a typical match (sounds untrue, but Opta tweeted this last year, and their stuff IS accurate). So that's one FK for every 90 seconds that the ball is in play. Except that you can only win a free kick when you are in possession, and since we had 50% of that, it means that they got a free kick, on average, every 45 seconds of the match in which the ball was in play and in their possession.gullsflyinghigh wrote:Fouls:
Torquay United 16
Plymouth Argyle 5
Tells its own story - we weren't even the dirtier team. He was very picky and didn't let the game flow at all. Then in the Purse/Howe aerial battles Purse got away with all sorts of climbing and then Rene pulled up for anything. Regarding the back passes, first one came of the bloke's knee and went back to the keeper - don't know whether that makes any difference or not? Second one I didn't see any reason it wasn't a back pass....
Given that they were perhaps fortunate (given Mr East's proclivity towards red cards) not to be down to 9 men after barely 5 minutes, with the horrible challenge on [someone] and the neck high, studs-to-knee on Nathan Craig just moments later, quite why he chose to become an Argyle supporter for the second half is beyond me. I suspect if we check, we will find a large cash deposit being made into his bank account, first thing Monday morning.
Spoilt a good game, gave Argyle something to crow about (they were utter rubbish, both halves, difference second half was that, rather than having to try to win the ball back/waste time on their own, they had the referee to do it for them) and cost us two points. There is no way that Argyle could have kept throwing bodies in front of shots in the second half in the manner they did in the first. It could have been 5-0 at half time, and wouldn't have remained 0-0 had TUFC been allowed more than 10 consecutive seconds of the ball before being robbed of it by the bloody officials.
Matt.
