And what were the stewards doing?
Stood around doing nothing! !
Ref did us a favour. What Christie did is violent conduct & a red card. If the ref didn't book him the authorities could have dealt with it retrospectively. The yellow means its been dealt with.
What I actually noticed was the ref wasn't looking at the time of the kick, their two centre halves ran up and told the referee what he'd done, trying to get him carded. Fellow professionals?? Should be embarrassed.
Violent conduct?
If that was violent conduct then I am a nun.
All he did was trip him to slow him down, so the stewards could get to him.
Violent conduct my arse! Booking was totally unjust.
If he had kicked him it would have been quite different.
The stewards are instructed not to chase the people who run on the pitch as this only makes the problem worse (or maybe not..ask Chris Kirkland?)
The offending person in theory has to exit the pitch at some point, so supposedly thats what they were doing, waiting to see where he comes off then catch him and subsequently kick the f**king shit out of the twat once out of sight of the public..(well admittedly I added the last bit in lieu of Cyrus' card)!!!