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Message: [QUOTE="Sleepy, post: 4677341, member: 1248"] While I love the fact that the team stood up for their new teammate Balogun, I still stand on the side that believes that McKennie and Dest shouldn't have been baited into getting red cards; however, with further reflection, I realize that the ref had completely lost control of the match and was trying to do the "fair to all sides" crap which means coming down on the victims of the crime instead of penalizing the actual guilty parties-I think he was going to card an American along with a Mexican player no matter what; he basically did the exact same thing with every incident, when Mexico did something to deserve a Yellow or Red, he made sure to find an USMNT member to give an equivalent card to, no matter what actually happened. In that scrum with McKennie and half the Mexican team, the ref and the VAR official refused to give ANY of those players even a yellow card, despite one player just about head-butting McKennie and ripping his shirt-somehow McKennie was the only player in that mess who got carded, because to give more cards to Mexico would have upset the "balance" that he was trying to maintain since Montes had already gotten a Red (clearly deserved)-that's just complete garbage, and shows the incompetence of both that ref and CONCACAF that there hasn't been any post-match penalties for the Mexican National Team or the players for their actions during the fights in the game, or the FMF for the continued "Puto" chant. As for Greg, I've calmed a tiny bit, and I hope he's magically become a better coach over the past six months, because we're stuck with him. He's not the worst coach in the world, but he's clearly not anywhere near the best, and the fact that Soccer House has chosen him AGAIN is infuriating as a fan of the USMNT; he's not a low-floor, high-ceiling guy, nor a high-floor, limited ceiling guy-he's just completely average and mediocre in all aspects, and that's not what I want for anything representing the US. [/QUOTE]

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