Villa Try To Have Delph Red Card Rescinded.

Aston Villa are launching an appeal to have Fabian Delph’s red card picked up in the game against Sunderland on Sunday rescinded.

The 25-year-old was shown a straight red card for a tackle on Jordi Gomez and Villa manager Paul Lambert was none to pleased about it claiming that the player is not dirty and the tackle was not worth a straight red.

The longer you look at the incident via replays, the worse it seems to look but I have to admit that even as a Sunderland fan, I found it hard to see why a yellow card was not given.

Lambert is hopeful that the decision will go Villa’s way, he told reporters: ‘I thought it was a harsh red card and we think three games is excessive. ‘Fabian hasn’t gone in maliciously at all. I can kind of understand why the referee’s done it, but I still think it’s excessive.’

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