Séamus Coleman

Fair play to Koeman though. 

What grounds do they have to hand out a longer ban for this?

I hope Ireland crash and burn."


"He was always going to get more than one match just glad it's not more than two!!The irish will be kicking off no doubt..."


"It's 1 match for a red card and further for a serious offence. He didn't mean to break Coleman's leg, so I don't see why he deserves more than 1."


"This splits opinion massively. I feel for Seamus Coleman, cracking player when I've seen him play, but I've looked at it again for the first time since the aftermath of Dublin and I still think it isn't a terrible challenge. He's gone in to win the ball strongly, which is clearly 50/50 and he's caught him in a weak spot. He's caught him high and gone over the ball which is a problem, so I think it's a red but for FIFA to revisit it and to increase the ban I don't think is necessary.

There's many more challenges that go completely unpunished they need to look at before bowing down to media pressures."


"It's a shame as he seems to be playing well. I saw his name trending and most of the tweets went back to the weekend where Villa fans were going on about how well he's doing."



Imagine if Gareth Bale had been on the receiving end of a similar tackle and left with a broken leg, out for eight months minimum, and possibly his final chance at playing in a World Cup. Imagine the reaction there'd have been on there today if one of our players had got a two game ban.

Then re-read those comments. Jokeshop. Their fans are deluded cretins.

"If Gareth Bale had suffered a broken leg on foot of the same recklessness (two feet, over the ball and out of control) would you all be saying the same thing about Richard Keogh or whichever clogging defender had meted out the tackle?

I seriously doubt it.

I don't think two games is extreme. He's lucky that a straight red for violent conduct isn't a three game ban in the first place. If sarcastically applauding a fourth official gets you a four game ban, you can't be too upset when a literal leg-breaker, possibly ending a player's career (never mind their last probable chance at a World Cup) only ends up with a two game ban. If Bale had been left with a leg dangling like a hanging chad vote for Al Gore in Florida, you'd all be marching to Dublin and Zurich with the pitchforks and flaming torches demanding a good ol' fashioned lynchin'.

And I don't see what basis you can have for complaining about refereeing decisions back in March. Sure Bale almost deserved a red card and a minimum one match ban for the flying kick on John O'Shea a minute earlier, and if it had been properly punished, Seamus Coleman would still be walking under his own effort.

Take off your red tinted spectacles for a second and you'll see you've got out of this a hell of a lot lighter than Ireland have. You're missing Bale for one match for a deserved accumulation of yellows and Taylor for two for an actual leg breaker. Ireland are missing one of their best players for the rest of the campaign (minimum) because of a combination of a weak ref and a tackle so late you were better measuring the delay with a calendar than a clock.

I'm not saying Taylor should necessarily have got longer, but to be up in arms at a two game ban is laughable in the extreme."

Sure it's the internet ffs, I know the Welsh lad that has a similar buzz to ybig going and he was very pissed of with his support in Ireland prior to the game, bandwaggoners and all that.

I'd hardly take the opinions of fools as that of the majority of Welsh supporters.