Now that the organization has had a few days to analyze and evaluate the situation, Seattle Sounders general manager Garth Lagerwey told reporters on Thursday the club does not intend to appeal the red card shown to Brad Evans in Sunday night’s win against the Vancouver Whitecaps. Lagerwey stressed the club’s first priority is to support its players, but league rules make it so that an appeal is not always a worthwhile notion.
“What matters in situations like this is not what we believe but what we can prove,” said Lagerwey, an actual lawyer before he started working in MLS front offices.