Did the Cardiff City Press Officer sign it as well?
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1. Just want to apologise to Leroy Sane for my tackle today. I tried to stop the counter attack and completely mistimed my attempt. 2. I didn't mean to catch him like I did I hope it's nothing serious and he recovers quickly.
Did the Cardiff City Press Officer sign it as well?
He mentioned nothing about the Brahim Diaz tackle so I suppose he's not sorry for that one.
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Sane is just so ridiculously fast that it was obviously a mistimed tackle, can't believe the abuse he's getting for it
Radio 5 live's news just stated it's believed Sane is set to miss a number of months
Joe Bennett and Neil Warnock hang you’re heads in shame. Disgraceful cowardly possibly career ending assault/tackle. Then to defend it Mr Warnock shows the depths you’ll stoop to for media attention. You both deserve to be lashed by the British media. Not a flicker of an apology.
— Chris Murrell (@ChrisMPelican) January 28, 2018
I think that makes some sense. I don't think it was malicious, but it should have been a red. Saying that, Bennett will now be criticised at a national level and I hope it doesn't affect his future performances.
Similarly, Cardiff's overall tactics will also be coming under the spot-light. We've heard a few clubs in the Championship complaining about Cardiff's physicality - now it goes onto a national level.
One other thing, just as the top clubs started to treat the FA Cup with the respect it deserves, I wonder if injuries like the one Sane seems to have suffered will see top clubs reverting back to playing their fourth choice players when they get drawn to play lower league opposition next season? I hope not, but could anyone really blame them if they did?
Well they will be more likely to lose then, we aren't here to please them you know? Maybe next time we can lay a big red carpet down the middle of the pitch and our lot can sit either side and applaud as they score goal after goal. Footballers have been known to get injured from bad tackles in the Premier League as well, maybe the good players should just go swimming at 3pm on a Saturday.
I'm not disputing any of that. But, as a manager you'd probably be happier to risk Sane getting injured at Crystal Palace in the pursuit of 3 points, than getting injured at Cardiff in a cup tie where - in all seriousness - your second string would probably win through anyway.
It's easy to miss, you don't have one. Guardiola didn't play a strong team to impress us, he played a strong team because he wants to win the cup and a 2nd string would be less likely to win. I don't mind one bit if teams don't risk their best players against us under some false pretence that we kick people off the park.
It is pretty clear Bennett can't time a tackle against pacy players, both tackles were timed wrong. Oh well, move on?!