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Published 22:16 19 Feb 2018 GMT
Updated 22:30 19 Feb 2018 GMT
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"They [officials] have to protect the players. Not my players. All players" - Pep Guardiola - January 28th, 2018In light of these comments, it was jarring to witness his furious reaction to Fabian Delph's red card against Wigan this evening, as he confronted the Latics' manager Paul Cook both before and after the half-time whistle. Now, no one was expecting Pep to shake the referee's hand and thank him for doing his job, but this display of somewhat weird aggression seemed utterly at odds with what he's preached for the majority of the season. https://twitter.com/SportsJOE_UK/status/965706543332196352 The referee, after all, had done exactly what Pep had asked officials to do. Delph's tackle - which some say was a red and others a yellow - was dangerous and reckless. Anthony Taylor, having seen the challenge, (eventually) deemed it worthy of a sending off. Whether it was actually a red card or not is pretty irrelevant. The entire point of Pep's message to officials was that the game needs to be made safer for players. That means clamping down on tackles like Delph's before an escalation of what's acceptable leads to someone getting injured. Pep would no doubt be saying the same if it was his player on the receiving end, he can't have it both ways.
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