it was like
Completely unecissary scissor challenge by the corner flag, you cannot ridicule de jong and claim bartons was ok tbh
Barton got the ball and it was not a two footed lunge. A yellow, maybe, but a red? Not in a million years if he'd not been Joey Barton.
could say the exact same about de jongs
No, you couldn't. De Jong's tackle was blatantly vicious, did not get the ball and was not one footed in the slightest. Only real similarity is that they were both tackles on a football pitch.