Stupid red card of the week (Video)
During this years League Cup final between Swansea and Bradford City there was a rather unsavoury moment between Swansea’s Nathan Dyer and Jonathan de Guzman.
With Swansea three goals up already they were awarded a penalty. Dyer, who had already scored twice, quite understandably wanted to complete his hat-trick. I mean, who wouldn’t want to score a hat-trick in a cup final at Wembley? It is the ultimate dream for an English footballer.
But, for some reason, de Guzman did not want to hand the ball over to Dyer and an argument broke out between the two before Dyer reluctantly backed down and de Guzman scored the subsequent penalty to make it 4-0.
Personally, I am on Dyer’s side here and he had every right to feel aggrieved. If I was him I would have exchanged some strong words, and maybe a couple of headbutts, with de Guzman after the game for denying him a dream hat-trick at Wembley.
Anyway, I believe that Dyer was fully justified to argue with de Guzman over who should take the penalty. This incident, on the other hand, between two team-mates from Honved of Budapest is completely ridiculous.
Davide Lanzafame (the chap with the interesting haircut) manages to get himself sent off after acting in such a pathetic and petulant fashion upon discovering that he would not be taking a penalty.
What a prat.
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