I feel like I’m constantly coming to the defense of Major League Soccer’s disciplinary committee; some folks wish the whole thing would go away.
But how, in the name of Diego Armando Maradona, can you see the following clip and not by happy the DC is around to police this stuff?
You are about to watch Alvaro Saborio undo Seattle’s Leo Gonzalez with a secret, powerful bit of kung fu witchcraft. Saborio, with the lightest of black-magic packed touches, fells the Seattle fullback, who rolls around as if hit by Jeff Gillooly’s baton.
Either that, or he was clearly embellishing. Which is how the DC saw it, fining the Seattle Sounders veteran today.
Gonzalez has already been suspended and fined once this year, previously for stepping on the leg of Philadelphia Union right back Sheanon Williams. Here’s the incident from Wednesday night:
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- dhagentj - Jul 6, 2012 at 10:13 PM
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As a Sounder, I’m glad he got fined. That crap has no place.
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- ndnut - Jul 6, 2012 at 11:19 PM
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He did embellish, but from what Ross Fletcher and Kasey Keller gave me Saborio was not on his best behavior on multiple occasions. I’m probably looking through rave green tinted glasses but I think that people need to look before the embellishment on any of these sorts of situations. And it seems to me that the DC will look at each tackle alone and not a player’s behavior for the entire match. Probably some bias in there but it would be nice to see in all situations.
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- bcoug - Jul 7, 2012 at 3:14 AM
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How can you not be happy?
How about because the DC lets stuff worse than this slide 98% of the time (see Lenhart, Steve) so when they do make a ruling it ends up feeling arbitrary. I guarantee you that every game this weekend will have incidents more farcical than this and at most one will be addressed, more likely none.
Either crack down on it or don’t, but be consistent.
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- ndnut - Jul 7, 2012 at 10:54 AM
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I’m happy that this was called, and you make a great point in there. Consistency would be good.
