“At the time I didn’t know, I was too far away to see, but I’ve seen it a few times since and I do think it should have been a red card.
“We ask for players to be honest, and I’m quite sure if Alireza goes down clutching his head, for that moment there would have been a different outcome.
“You have to look at the action — the heads are together, and what I do accept is that there isn’t distance between them, so in regards to him hurting Alireza, that wasn’t the case.
“But if you’re looking at aggression from one player to another, then that certainly would have been a red card on other occasions.”
Chris Hughton post-match comment on ARJ-Walker tussle
This should unite every single damn iranian on this site.
I'm sorry.
But the gheyrat that JB shows was amazing.
Anyone who has criticised him aggressively recently: Kas-R, Hoorad, I want you guys to come out and support our boy.
Sure he's been disappointing early on and hasn't scored or assisted as much as we would have wanted, but he's our boy and he could have fallen down and got Walker red-carded, but he shows what a rolemodel he is, and has always been since he grew up in Gilan and has worked so hard to get here
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Never been more proud
Man looks so weird seing an iranian player all over big news sites and on twitter :P Weird way to feel relevant...
I just watched the highlights...he definitely played aggressive but he also seems to have made a lot of mistakes...not sure if that’s the case ...anyone know what rating he got?
Watched the montage of the touches he got in this game. Lots of good moves but there were 1 or 2 fast counters he definitely should have acted differently in. I dont know. There's just one thing for certain: he objectively was all around a much more confident and effective player last season, regardless of the type of opposition he faced. This year, it just seems like he's a fish out of water and he has a mental block or something.
Watched the replay till he got subbed out..!
he was largely anonymous in the first half ....blew hot and cold in 2nd... mostly hot till he got subbed out ..! overall he performed slightly above avg. today..!
overall, imo, he put on a better shift vs Chelsea than today...! off course they got raped last game and as a team they hardly managed to even get out of their half of the pitch, so it was easy for fans to be more critical of his performance..!
lets just hope and prey now that they manage to shake off this loosing run and amass a few more points before the end of the season to avoid relegation ...!! i fear its all going to boil down to their clash vs Cardiff as to which ..!
AJ was very good. Considering the circumstances and opposition I would say it is one of his best performances in a Brighton shirt. He just needs to improve in the final third.
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