yeah found that extremely weird too. refs are really messing up the games, seriously we have good footballers, can't we have better refs? and if they cant ref for s**t, seriously, lets talk about video replays because these wankers really cant ref for s**t. it makes me angry every time because it just ruins really good matches.

The rules state that if the referee plays advantage then he can only book a player after the incidence if it was for violent conduct. Fair enough really. The keeper has made a legitimate attempt to win the ball, despite it being a foul, and regardless Spurs scored anyway. Not one of the Spurs players complained to the referee about not booking Cech.

I think people are clutching at straws here...

Yes, it is true that the ref can go back after giving at advantage and discipline players. And we have seen a lot of keepers see red for play like these. But ref didn't show red here for these two reasons. First, the reasoning behind showing keeper red in this kind of play is not the ruthlessness of the tackle, cause seriously these fouls are pretty soft in soccer nature, but the fact that keeper tries to stop a potential goal threat via a foul play. So in this case, no threat was made to the potential goal in question, cause Bale was there. And second, Adebayor is a honest player. As soon as he hit the ground, he gets back up not pulling any fiasco like Busquets will always do. Therefore, red obviously have no reason to punish Cech.

Thanks, I appreciate the clarification.

Zolamagic, my post was more about questioning the rule and learning than wishing Cech was carded.

look at the links i posted below, it was a goal, it clearly crossed the line before assuo-ekotto brought it back in play, as u can see from the reply, he is the only player NOT protesting the goal because he knows what he did

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2604407369338&set=a.1019835996044.3124.1829518192&type=1&ref=nf

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2604399649145&set=a.1019835996044.3124.1829518192&type=1&ref=nf