He made a serious misjudgment, you’d assume the occasion got to him and you hope he’ll learn from it. Important thing is Mateta’s okay.
Millwall fans chanting “let him die”, on the other hand. Clowns
Perspii7 on
It’s not like he meant it, it was stupid asf and he definitely deserves a ban for a few matches or a month or something but it wasn’t malicious. Those people are crazy
averagebmlistener on
Millwall fans have a crazy victim mentality considering they claim to not care that people don’t like them.
No, it’s not because you’re Millwall, it’s because Roberts made a stupid decision and nearly took JP’s head off. Deal with it and stop pretending YOU’RE the victim here.
ADGM1868 on
No it’s not fucking okay. He’s human and people act like Mateta was actually murdered. Even piers Morgan – a bloke who self proclaims everyone is woke and loves to witch hunt these days – jumped on the bandwagon.
Utterly reckless challenge but overblown reaction from people. He was sent off, he’ll be banned for three games, his legacy is this vile tackle.
BojanKrkicc on
This is never ok and you hate to see it, but you can’t seriously think it’s because he plays for Millwall.
If anything, your fans have made it much worse with the chants and reaction to it
Ok_Music253 on
No of course its not OK, but the problem with social media is it gives all the moronic idiots in the world to chance to feed abuse direct to whoever the target is this week. The poor guy’s phone has probably buzzed itself into self-destruct mode by now.
I would 100% believe he meant no malice in the challenge whatsoever, instances like Keane v Haaland are incredibly rare, even though it was of course horrendously badly executed and he had to be sent off.
And you know, this may be a slightly controversial view, but I wouldn’t even vilify the fans chanting “let him die” that much. Firstly, for as long as I’ve been going football (30 odd years now…) that’s been a pantomime style chant every time someone’s been down injured, in an instance where fans don’t know how bad something actually is.
There’s never once been an instance (to my knowledge anyway) of inappropriate chanting when fans realise there’s a real medical emergency taking place on the pitch, or an injury is seriously bad. Fans in the stand cannot see the extent of injuries in that sort of instance, if they could see the guy covered in blood all over his face (25 stitches, ouch, real nasty) they almost certainly wouldn’t be chanting it, because they’d realise how bad it was.
So yeah, I’m no fan of Millwall (sorry guys) but in this instance I feel you could be getting attacked a bit unfairly.
cultureshook on
mstfasmy self reporting it seems
WildFrontier52 on
Obviously not okay, but having your studs up and hitting a bloke who’s standing 6 foot 4 in the head is a bit more than a mistake. Utter disregard and stupidity, and even saying that would be generous
OBWanTwoThree on
Is it any surprised when you’ve got the chairman of Crystal Palace going on live TV midway through the game to publicly crucify him. The entire world could see it was a bad challenge, nobody needed Steve Parish’s view on it.
Neil had it spot on, it’s a misjudgement of a long ball plain and simple. He’s not lined it up and thought if “I get this right I can cave his head in”
TheDroidYouLookinFor on
I think it should be a prerequisite for any troll to publicly share all the stupid mistakes they have made and wade through the online backlash.
I suspect, unless he’s a total Tuesday, the Millwall keeper is feeling pretty fucking awful about it, will apologise and think twice before taking such a reckless risk again. Without the need for a bunch of people to call him a murderer. Especially when nobody actually died.
cockaskedforamartini on
Probably not the time to be playing the victim after how your lot behaved.
darthwookieee on
This shit always happens when a game is on free to air tv – the 1 game a year cretins that spend the rest of their time moaning about women on love island start abusing footballers as if they’re down at a game every weekend; “job as a keeper is finished forever” is the most ‘I love the footy me’ comment going
Illeaturgerbil on
“You suck at soccer!!!” 😂😂
Much-Impression-5284 on
“You suck at soccer” said the american
RespectFearless4233 on
“You suck at soccer” 🤣
Dead_Namer on
All encouraged by that twat of a chairman. Palace fans are such snowflakes.
He will get a 3 game ban. He won the ball and nothing would have happened if the player hadn’t have put his head in there.
Nothing like Schumacher as some have claimed where the ball was gone and the goalie went out of the way to target his head. This bloke has a cut and Batison needed plastic surgery FFS.
Simple_Fact530 on
The Millwall fans chanting let him die probably didn’t help.
Alex Neil’s post match press conference was also pretty disgraceful and very disrespectful.
The fans and manager are extremely scummy
fatreddituser1234 on
Millwalls first ever Var decision is a studs up “racially motivated, attempted murder” kick to the head.
Fuck me i love football.
boringman1982 on
Millwall in trying not to make themselves the victims challenge: failed.
HawayTheMaj on
It’s fuck all to do with him being Millwall. No one cares that he plays for Millwall
Swonko1 on
Well Mane did the same thing to Ederson. People forget fast, so even though it was close to assault nobody will remember this “challenge” the next season.
duckierhornet on
Is it just me or is nothing said there particularly bad/offensive? Don’t get me wrong I know people love to hide behind social media and say things they wouldn’t say in person. But in the context of abuse players normally get (eg. Racism, threats to life, threats against family) is calling somebody a murderer, whilst a bit dramatic, that offensive?
Keeper is probably feeling bad about the situation and these comments probably making him feel worse but I don’t think these comments are THAT bad
Sola-Nova on
They had to open Instagram, find him on Instagram and then actually type something. I’m on fucking reddit and even i think they need to do somthing better with their time.
Cov_massif on
Dangerous, stupid, reckless but thankfully could have been worse. Went for the ball but took the player out, no malice involved but social media doing what it does best and turn it toxic
404errorabortmistake on
not alright. i thought even the remarks from the palace chairman were over the top. shades of ferguson’s “he could have killed him” stupidity. yes it reckless and the injury mateta got is regrettable, but it was an accident & he will be fine. it’s not exactly trench warfare, there are more serious injuries almost every game in rugby. recently read a book about the all blacks – there was a story in there about how a player had his scrotum ripped open by a stud, had stitches without anaesthetic & came back on later in the game.
maybe exaggeration but so is “he’s lucky to be alive” in the case of mateta here. the average football fan is not very bright & the proof of that is evident from those comments. fans & pundits love histrionics
ccfc1992 on
This one I’m confused about. He comes out recklessly but cmon he’s gone for the ball. He’s even played the ball. Just took my mans head off in process. Can’t understand why everyone is crying over it so much.
InnocentPossum on
This has come about because everyone has been acting like Roberts went into that challenge with a desire to kick Mateta in the head when it just isn’t true. He clears the ball and his leg swings up on the follow through. Incredibly dangerous, wildly out of control. Deserved a red and a several match ban.
But did he TRY to kick Mateta in the head, not at all. He kicks through the ball and the collision happens with the follow through. Everyone acting like he went into the challenge trying to kill the man has blown it up to the point people are now threatening him on social media, which is absolute insanity. Even the Palace Manager came out and said he knows Roberts didn’t intend to cause harm (and if he can be rational with his emotions in that moment, armchair fans should be able to) but everyone continues to act like the bloke attempted murder and is questioning why he’s allowed to walk our streets as a danger to society. All Rogers cared about was clearing the ball, but he royally fucked it up. At no point did he think “fuck yeah I’m going to kick this man in the skull, fuck the job I’m being paid to do rn, this opportunity is too good”
Ahegaopizza on
Not gonna lie, 15-20 years ago that might’ve not even been called a foul
d14w11r on
That’s his teammates commenting, tells u how bad the challenge was!
DuomoDiSirio on
I think people saw the Millwall fans reacting in a certain way, and then assumed the players would react in a similar manner. It’s purely emotional, and not fair. Just an endless whirlpool of toxicity.
Possible_Argument374 on
The “keeper” and I use that term very loosely is a maniac.. YES he deserved it.. no remorse at all from him! They had to reattach mateta’s ear for crying out loud!
Practical_Board_5058 on
For what? A cut above his ear 😭
Final-Read-3589 on
It was a mistake. Like people need to get over themselves.
BruiserKarlito on
Football fans on the net are just low class scum.
Memento_Playoffs on
Anyone saying soccer isn’t worth listening to
MarcosR77 on
“You suck at soccer” lol 😂 imagine being American and telling someone they suck right now 🤣
Jamiemdh- on
Don’t show them 70s football. If they think this is attempted murder.
DreamingofBouncer on
Ridiculous behaviour (those commenting) and I say that as a Palace fan
s0ngsforthedeaf on
As stupid as going on a players social media is, players get worse than this every week in their DMs just for being on the winning side.
LucarioLegendYT on
He really doesn’t deserve this amount of backlash, he made a bad mistake he went for the ball and caught Mateta afterwards, I genuinely believe take the context of him being a Millwall player out there wouldn’t even be half of the reaction
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He made a serious misjudgment, you’d assume the occasion got to him and you hope he’ll learn from it. Important thing is Mateta’s okay.
Millwall fans chanting “let him die”, on the other hand. Clowns
It’s not like he meant it, it was stupid asf and he definitely deserves a ban for a few matches or a month or something but it wasn’t malicious. Those people are crazy
Millwall fans have a crazy victim mentality considering they claim to not care that people don’t like them.
No, it’s not because you’re Millwall, it’s because Roberts made a stupid decision and nearly took JP’s head off. Deal with it and stop pretending YOU’RE the victim here.
No it’s not fucking okay. He’s human and people act like Mateta was actually murdered. Even piers Morgan – a bloke who self proclaims everyone is woke and loves to witch hunt these days – jumped on the bandwagon.
Utterly reckless challenge but overblown reaction from people. He was sent off, he’ll be banned for three games, his legacy is this vile tackle.
This is never ok and you hate to see it, but you can’t seriously think it’s because he plays for Millwall.
If anything, your fans have made it much worse with the chants and reaction to it
No of course its not OK, but the problem with social media is it gives all the moronic idiots in the world to chance to feed abuse direct to whoever the target is this week. The poor guy’s phone has probably buzzed itself into self-destruct mode by now.
I would 100% believe he meant no malice in the challenge whatsoever, instances like Keane v Haaland are incredibly rare, even though it was of course horrendously badly executed and he had to be sent off.
And you know, this may be a slightly controversial view, but I wouldn’t even vilify the fans chanting “let him die” that much. Firstly, for as long as I’ve been going football (30 odd years now…) that’s been a pantomime style chant every time someone’s been down injured, in an instance where fans don’t know how bad something actually is.
There’s never once been an instance (to my knowledge anyway) of inappropriate chanting when fans realise there’s a real medical emergency taking place on the pitch, or an injury is seriously bad. Fans in the stand cannot see the extent of injuries in that sort of instance, if they could see the guy covered in blood all over his face (25 stitches, ouch, real nasty) they almost certainly wouldn’t be chanting it, because they’d realise how bad it was.
So yeah, I’m no fan of Millwall (sorry guys) but in this instance I feel you could be getting attacked a bit unfairly.
mstfasmy self reporting it seems
Obviously not okay, but having your studs up and hitting a bloke who’s standing 6 foot 4 in the head is a bit more than a mistake. Utter disregard and stupidity, and even saying that would be generous
Is it any surprised when you’ve got the chairman of Crystal Palace going on live TV midway through the game to publicly crucify him. The entire world could see it was a bad challenge, nobody needed Steve Parish’s view on it.
Neil had it spot on, it’s a misjudgement of a long ball plain and simple. He’s not lined it up and thought if “I get this right I can cave his head in”
I think it should be a prerequisite for any troll to publicly share all the stupid mistakes they have made and wade through the online backlash.
I suspect, unless he’s a total Tuesday, the Millwall keeper is feeling pretty fucking awful about it, will apologise and think twice before taking such a reckless risk again. Without the need for a bunch of people to call him a murderer. Especially when nobody actually died.
Probably not the time to be playing the victim after how your lot behaved.
This shit always happens when a game is on free to air tv – the 1 game a year cretins that spend the rest of their time moaning about women on love island start abusing footballers as if they’re down at a game every weekend; “job as a keeper is finished forever” is the most ‘I love the footy me’ comment going
“You suck at soccer!!!” 😂😂
“You suck at soccer” said the american
“You suck at soccer” 🤣
All encouraged by that twat of a chairman. Palace fans are such snowflakes.
He will get a 3 game ban. He won the ball and nothing would have happened if the player hadn’t have put his head in there.
Nothing like Schumacher as some have claimed where the ball was gone and the goalie went out of the way to target his head. This bloke has a cut and Batison needed plastic surgery FFS.
The Millwall fans chanting let him die probably didn’t help.
Alex Neil’s post match press conference was also pretty disgraceful and very disrespectful.
The fans and manager are extremely scummy
Millwalls first ever Var decision is a studs up “racially motivated, attempted murder” kick to the head.
Fuck me i love football.
Millwall in trying not to make themselves the victims challenge: failed.
It’s fuck all to do with him being Millwall. No one cares that he plays for Millwall
Well Mane did the same thing to Ederson. People forget fast, so even though it was close to assault nobody will remember this “challenge” the next season.
Is it just me or is nothing said there particularly bad/offensive? Don’t get me wrong I know people love to hide behind social media and say things they wouldn’t say in person. But in the context of abuse players normally get (eg. Racism, threats to life, threats against family) is calling somebody a murderer, whilst a bit dramatic, that offensive?
Keeper is probably feeling bad about the situation and these comments probably making him feel worse but I don’t think these comments are THAT bad
They had to open Instagram, find him on Instagram and then actually type something. I’m on fucking reddit and even i think they need to do somthing better with their time.
Dangerous, stupid, reckless but thankfully could have been worse. Went for the ball but took the player out, no malice involved but social media doing what it does best and turn it toxic
not alright. i thought even the remarks from the palace chairman were over the top. shades of ferguson’s “he could have killed him” stupidity. yes it reckless and the injury mateta got is regrettable, but it was an accident & he will be fine. it’s not exactly trench warfare, there are more serious injuries almost every game in rugby. recently read a book about the all blacks – there was a story in there about how a player had his scrotum ripped open by a stud, had stitches without anaesthetic & came back on later in the game.
maybe exaggeration but so is “he’s lucky to be alive” in the case of mateta here. the average football fan is not very bright & the proof of that is evident from those comments. fans & pundits love histrionics
This one I’m confused about. He comes out recklessly but cmon he’s gone for the ball. He’s even played the ball. Just took my mans head off in process. Can’t understand why everyone is crying over it so much.
This has come about because everyone has been acting like Roberts went into that challenge with a desire to kick Mateta in the head when it just isn’t true. He clears the ball and his leg swings up on the follow through. Incredibly dangerous, wildly out of control. Deserved a red and a several match ban.
But did he TRY to kick Mateta in the head, not at all. He kicks through the ball and the collision happens with the follow through. Everyone acting like he went into the challenge trying to kill the man has blown it up to the point people are now threatening him on social media, which is absolute insanity. Even the Palace Manager came out and said he knows Roberts didn’t intend to cause harm (and if he can be rational with his emotions in that moment, armchair fans should be able to) but everyone continues to act like the bloke attempted murder and is questioning why he’s allowed to walk our streets as a danger to society. All Rogers cared about was clearing the ball, but he royally fucked it up. At no point did he think “fuck yeah I’m going to kick this man in the skull, fuck the job I’m being paid to do rn, this opportunity is too good”
Not gonna lie, 15-20 years ago that might’ve not even been called a foul
That’s his teammates commenting, tells u how bad the challenge was!
I think people saw the Millwall fans reacting in a certain way, and then assumed the players would react in a similar manner. It’s purely emotional, and not fair. Just an endless whirlpool of toxicity.
The “keeper” and I use that term very loosely is a maniac.. YES he deserved it.. no remorse at all from him! They had to reattach mateta’s ear for crying out loud!
For what? A cut above his ear 😭
It was a mistake. Like people need to get over themselves.
Football fans on the net are just low class scum.
Anyone saying soccer isn’t worth listening to
“You suck at soccer” lol 😂 imagine being American and telling someone they suck right now 🤣
Don’t show them 70s football. If they think this is attempted murder.
Ridiculous behaviour (those commenting) and I say that as a Palace fan
As stupid as going on a players social media is, players get worse than this every week in their DMs just for being on the winning side.
He really doesn’t deserve this amount of backlash, he made a bad mistake he went for the ball and caught Mateta afterwards, I genuinely believe take the context of him being a Millwall player out there wouldn’t even be half of the reaction