Taylor would have had to be pretty dumb not to have realised that the Leeds player was playacting, so obvious was the tumble. In truth Taylor had no choice though. The people who run the game have created this monster and referees are not allowed to exercise common sense. My view of the incident was that the Arsenal player was foolish but not violent and would have been shown a yellow card, as would the Leeds player for simulation
Mr Taylor didn't see the incident. His attention was drawn to it by the VAR. VARs have no authority to recommend action over yellow card offences, such as simulation, so there was simply no option for Mr Taylor to caution Alioski. As for the red card:
...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.
Alioski may have exaggerated the contact but it is a stretch to say the contact was negligible. The sanctions taken were correct.
Absolutely disagree, it was a touch, not a headbutt. Alioski saw his chance and threw himself to the floor. It would not have floored a 2-year old after 3 bags of Skittles. Taylor may have missed it live but having seen it he could certainly have decided Alioski was cheating. As I said, this is why the game stinks. Cheating is encouraged and rewarded by the system and referees have no way of dealing with it now.
It was a stupid thing to do and Alioski made the most of the opportunity. Both should have been shown a yellow because it was a nothing incident. Having said that, players from both teams were constantly going down when they lost the ball im the hope that they could con the officials.
This is the modern game and this sort of behaviour is being used all the time by clubs at the top level to influence the officials ---it is not a good spectacle to behold and it is getting worse.
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