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I really don't think you can call Evans tackle anymore two footed than Shelvey's watch this:



Both players both feet leave the ground, Evans lands his left foot wide of the ball in no danger to Shelvey and Shelvey makes his lunge with his foot coming round eventually in a scissor movement. Neither of the players use the extra foot in any meaningful attempt to win the ball.

I think it's hard to argue with any of these points.
1. Shelvey makes greater contact with Evans than Evans with Shelvey
2. Shelvey throws himself harder into the lunge than Evans
3. Shelvey makes contact with the ball only after Evans kicks it into him
4. Evans' tackle is off the ground, but no higher than the height of the ball. Shelvey comes over the top of it.

If Shelvey had tackled normally I don't think he was posed any great danger by the tackle that Evans had made. That doesn't make Evans tackle a good one, but if he had made a better tackle he still would have been caught half way up the shin by a tackle thats made minimal contact with the ball and that is why Shelvey was the player that walked.

No, but it doesn't exactly make it just as bad.

Shelvey's tackle is far more wild, far more dangerous and far further over the top than Evans'.

I really don't doubt there's much difference between Van Persie's and Evans' tackles, and Evans almost certainly wouldn't have escaped without a booking without Shelvey's tackle upstaging it almost.

I think in situations like these it's always wise for the referee to deal with the most serious incident primarily, I think it's hard to deny that Shelvey's is the worst of the two tackles made for the ball so the correct decision was to send him off, any additional punishment for Evans' be it a red card, a yellow or no further action should be dealt with as a secondary consideration.

I genuinely think there is only one tackle that we saw yesterday that endangered a player's safety and two that were reckless.

Let it go.

Anyone can see what Evans did wasn't on par with what Shelvey did, no matter how many slow motion videos you pointlessly inspect.

Emailing them later

Ok cheers

Can't do the bloody nutmeg shot in training, pissing me off.

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