James McClean

Lenny82 wrote:

Great response from him to a poster on Twitter who offered him a lift to Derby if he needed one. He said he had a Range Rover, BMW and a Mercedes so he would drive himself!

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Tried to hack down De Bruyne ref played advantage and de Bruyne went on to score, mcclean got booked

Most on twitter are saying it was as bad if not worse than the tackle on Sane on Sunday

https://imgtc.com/w/D7VPxiX here's the career ending tackle

Roberto Baggio wrote:

Luckily De Bruyne was too quick
Was high and reckless

McClean fairly put some speed on as well.

I thought it would be worse after reading twitter
Nowhere near as bad as the one on Sane

After seeing it on MOTD, it was a pretty bad tackle now. Looks worse on the TV as opposed to a phone
No intentions of getting the ball

Edited by Roberto Baggio - 31 Jan 2018 at 11:20pm

Match of the Day went through all the bad tackles in the game and didn’t mention it. It’s a massive nonevent.

I much rather players like de bruyne than mcclean. McClean gets so much leeway on here becAuse of the effort he puts in on the pitch for Ireland. If he was a rangers player I don't think he would get the same leeway.

AKA pedantic kunt

9fingers wrote:

Roberto Baggio wrote:

After seeing it on MOTD, it was a pretty bad tackle now. Looks worse on the TV as opposed to a phone
No intentions of getting the ball

You’re an absolute clown.
First you didn’t see it, just what twitter told you, then you did see it but on a phone and it looked fine, then you saw on it on tv and it was awful despite getting f**k all coverage.

just keep digging

I admit, I have flip flopped over the incident a few times.

Several journalists reporting from the game on Twitter said it was worse than the tackle on Sane. I reported this. This was bollocks.

I saw it on my phone and it didn't look as bad, but being honest and with the blinkers off (I'm a big fan of McClean, but call things as I see them) it didn't look too good on MOTD whether they highlighted it in the after game analysis or not.

I got a clearer view of it on a widescreen TV than a phone. He flies in, nowhere near the ball and kind of leads with his heel. His only intention is to take the man down. In a way its similar to the tackle on Sane, in that the only intention is to stop a man running at their defence, but the only difference is he doesn't make contact. It looks bad as the gasps by the crowd and commentator prove. De Bruyne was lucky. Yellow card was a correct decision

Edited by Roberto Baggio - 01 Feb 2018 at 9:47am