Stoke City manager Tony Pulis has accused Ireland’s own David Meyler of deliberately getting Robert Huth sent off on Saturday. What do you think?
Meyler was starting his first game for Sunderland in more than a year after recovering from a cruciate knee ligament injury.
Playing Stoke away is never a comfortable experience. Playing Stoke away on a freezing pitch in your first start after cruciate trouble borders on craziness from Sunderland manager Martin O’Neill.
Still, O’Neill can do no wrong at the moment and Meyler came through unscathed – although he was at the centre of the game’s most controversial incident when Robert Huth was red-carded by referee Martin Atkinson just before half-time at the Britannia Stadium.
The 22-year-old Cork lad has effectively spent the past 18 months on the sidelines with back-to-back cruciate ruptures, so you would probably be forgiven for giving him the benefit of the doubt.
But that wasn’t the way Stoke manager Tony Pulis viewed it. He blasted Meyler for rolling around on the ground and deliberately getting his man sent off, and also urged the FA “to do something” about this type of play-acting.
So what do you think? Did David Meyler dive?
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