With Man U and Spurs to come I am sure we will get something given against us - even more so after yesterday !

What goes around comes around.. Capoue will get his.. I don't mean by us but when you go round making 'tackles' like that, eventually karma has a habit of catching up with you

C'mon let's be realistic... There's always one side who are s*** that start the season well.. This year is their turn... They will finish mid table/bottom half once the bubble bursts.

No, we wouldn't. The failure of the football authorities to take dangerous play seriously and protect players from deliberate attacks like the one perpetrated by your player yesterday is treated with the utmost gravity in these fora. Maybe we have particular reason to be concerned about this, but the only circumstances in which we would be "peeing ourselves" would be if it were our player being accused and if he were wholly innocent (highly likely).

For example, many of us were critical of Jason Puncheon when he appeared (false alarm, fortunately) to have injured de Bruyne in the final moments of our 0 - 0 home draw with Manchester City, and incident in respect of which he could very easily have been sent off. He however was not malicious and deliberate, as your player was, but merely clumsy and panicking.

And in case you think the idea of players being prosecuted for deliberate attempts to injure opponents is that ridiculous:

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Now, be a good chap and f*** off to Away Fans.

HTH.

Edited by chateauferret (27 Aug 2018 5.07pm)

I reckon you missed the point there. I think Superhorns3 (a good poster on HOL) was saying that Capoue generally doesn't make tackles. He also indicated he thought that particular tackle was dangerous and reckless. No point being nasty to SH3, it's not his fault and he isn't defending Capoue.

Meanwhile SH3 you also seem to have misinterpreted KBLF. He was saying exactly that, Watford will start well but likely go off.

I thought Watford looked workmanlike and somewhat cloggy. They did not look as cultured as the Palace overall and I don't see them in the top half on that performance. The weather suited Watford better than Palace.

trying to think of bad tackles by Palace players down the years...Henry Hughton on Ryan...Punch on Dr Bruyne...are 2 that spring to mind.

my impression is we don't criticize our own that much. only capoue knows if that was pre-meditated.

Didn't Dann "do" Aguero a few years back?
Anyone old enough to remember Bert Howe who regularly put wingers into the terracing, think his nickname was shovel foot