Sean Dyche says ‘cheat’ Ivan Toney’s free kick was ‘what’s mistaken with soccer’
Sean Dyche has slammed Ivan Toney’s free-kick in opposition to Nottingham Forest, branding it as “what’s wrong with football”.
Toney, 27, was seen to maneuver the ball – and the referee’s vanishing spray – to the proper of the place it had initially been positioned final month following Orel Mangala’s foul on his Brentford team-mate Damsgaard. The Englishman then curled the free-kick into the again of the online.
Forest, who misplaced 3-2, have been outraged, Nuno Espírito Santo stated in his post-match information convention that he was sad with the “ball displacement”. While Sky Sports reported Forest officers spoke with referee Darren England after the sport.
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Dyche has now added extra gas to the hearth talking to The Times. He stated: “I don’t have a problem with gamesmanship, where a player is clipped and they go down. That has always happened. But how it is right that someone goes down without any contact at all?
“How is it proper {that a} participant brushes one other participant’s head they usually collapse as if they’ve been assaulted? That is black and white dishonest.
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“In a way, it’s wrong to single out any one player because it happens all the time, but let me give one example. A couple of weeks ago, Ivan Toney moved the ball on a free kick when the ref wasn’t looking and scored.
“And you know what? The pundits said, ‘Oh, that was clever; that was smart.’ He was lauded. That is what’s wrong with football, right there. A billion kids are watching and thinking that it is clever to cheat, because that is what they are hearing from the people on TV.”
FA guidelines state free-kicks should be “taken from the place the place the offence occurred”. However, Toney appeared to break these rules, but speaking days after the incident Nuno revealed Forest had a response from PGMOL: “We have received a response from the incident.
“It is obvious that the legislation says VAR can’t do something about ball displacement.”
