🔴⚪️ This is the best analysis on the Max Dowman red card 💯⚪️🔴

Tackle was terrible. Dowman's reaction wasn't worthy of a red.

Agree, I also find the "he played the ball" comments ridiculous. You endanger an opponent- especially with a scissors tackle like that - it's a straight red, no questions asked.

the kid could’ve rolled around trying to get the dirty Fleetwood player sent of but he stood up to these butchers and the crooked ref punished HIM for it, no one can say Arsenal players are cheats any more after what’s happened

Spot on all round. Well said

Lovely take I am a Manutd fan but immediately I saw that tackle and the red I was angry as a football fan, that's dangerous Max was lucky his right foot was not planted to the ground else he would have had a double fracture

In my personal opinion he should have been a yellow card, & nothing else, & the way Dowman was tackle brings back the bad memory of Eduardo da Silva who leg was snap in 2 places by such a stupid tackle like that, it was horrible.

As the name suggests.. I look at things in a realistic way . So I think it would be realistic for a league Two side to attempt to intimidate a Prem side with a few heavy / crunching / meaty tackles in the hope it puts them off their game , that is what cup football is about apparently. Then I believe it’s realistic for the Manager and the players of the Prem team to expect the Ref to protect them when things look like over stepping the line . It’s clear here that the ref failed in that duty of care in this instance. This wasn’t the first attempt to get Max to react as a result of one of the aforementioned challenges. He’s been on the end of a few of those earlier in the game and the ref had allowed it to go unpunished. Anyone that knows anything about the game knows a team wants to test the line on what he the ref will or won’t allow. The more the ref lets go the harder the next tackle which only increases the risk to the player. This wasn’t a nasty game in the whole but players from Fleetwood have in interviews after the game confirmed they targeted him . Was Maxs reaction worthy of a Red card , absolutely not. Was it made to look worse because of the shoving and grappling after most certainly but being able to separate the two incidents is the refs job. He failed then as he had before. So the question is was the game too big for this ref, was he unable to control the game so it was safe for all the players. I do believe if Arteta had another right sided player he would have subbed Max off for no other reason than to protect him. Saka before him has been targeted, dangerous players tend to be those that are. Once again another Arsenal winger was targeted. When are the football authorities going to step in and stop it before a future star has to retire early from the game .

Brilliant

Well said.

Spot on!

Another blind Arsenal fan.

He is actually a Spurs fan journalist 👍

He’s actually an idiot.

@nickvann1987__ you're describing yourself -- I'm so sure you'd have NO problem if we were talking about a player from YOUR team being subjected to that tackle

1 thing people don't mention about that tackle is, it happened literally on the touch line, so there was no need for the brutality of it, it was done with violent intent & there's no place in the game for challenges like that anymore. 🙏God Dowman didn't end up with a broken leg.

Hes a Liverpool fan. Nothing wrong woth tackle. It was not overturned.

I agree ☝️

The tackle is not important. Not is his age. The reaction is what the red card was for. Regardless what came before.