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Anelka banned for 18 international games.


Evra for 5 matches.


Still waiting for the others.


What do you all think?
 
lolFrance.

I can't remember exactly what happened, wasn't it just Anelka disagreeing with the manager? I would have thought Evra being a childish tit would have got a longer ban for refusing to train (whilst captain).

Anyway, it depends how much they love playing for their country, but their antics suggested not a lot, so can't see either of them being bothered.
 
Azza said:
Anelka banned for 18 international games.


Evra for 5 matches.


Still waiting for the others.


What do you all think?
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Bit harsh on Anelka and very lenient on Evra but both deserve their bans for the way they behaved. Quite surprised Abidal hasn't been banned as well.
 
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mysticsniper said:
Banning Anelka for that amount of time, is just cutting off their nose to spite their face. What a joke :rolleyes:
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Couldn't have put it better myself.

To be fair should Anelka want to still continue with France I'm guessing the sentence will be lessened once they realise they don't have an equivalent striker to put up front.
 
SSN just said that it was made worse because he didn't turn up himself.

He decided to stay and train at Chelsea so he sent a representative.
 
It may be harsh but what did he expect, a pat on the back. It’s France’s loss and he probably doesn’t give a hoot.
 
Azza said:
SSN just said that it was made worse because he didn't turn up himself.

He decided to stay and train at Chelsea so he sent a representative.
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ITs a complete joke, they called up the players at different times, like Ribery was called up right before the start of the season, as with Anelka, I think other players were called in earlier, but theres nothing to say players have to come in and talk to them, clubs are required to release players before internationals but aren't required to release players for these kind of ridiculous things, considering they went out the cup months ago now its not hard to talk to them in that time, rather than in the week or so before the season starts.

ANelka was supposedly being absolutely abused by the manager for daring to go and try to help win the ball in midfield, at which point Anelka supposedly under his breathe told him to go **** himself or something along those lines. So a manager incapable of managing a team complains because the striker tried to , you know, help, rather than stand on their penalty spot doing nothing and he responds.

THe manager blows it all out of proportion, gets the player sent home, after he's left the other players choose to strike and somehow Anelka is the most at blame, its laughable.

The investigation is laughable, sending him home was laughable, the strike was ridiculous but completely understandable and made entirely no difference to the outcome of the tournament. Everything points to the manager being a complete **** for YEARS, with multiple players speaking out on how ridiculous he is and how bad France are BEFORE the world cup, yet they all let their best players take the blame and think that will help the French team.

Seems to me Anelka is being made the scapegoat by Platini who doesn't want to dump his best friend in the muck, a manager who only kept his job while the entire country wanted him sacked for years because Platini was his best friend.

At least one team is more laughably inept than ours, and even their FA makes ours look competant, thank god for the French.

Remember that Ribery is supposedly one the key guys who have a go at the posh kid, he also didn't go to the meeting and he was one of the players who went on strike, Anelka wasn't there to go on strike. IF they've decided the players were moronic to go on strike thats one thing, but Anelka wasn't sent home for punching the manager, or spitting in a ref's face, he told a manager where to stick it, after the manager had a go at him, this on top of what is a huge scandal in France of Ribery banging the underage hooker, of all the players they could have thrown the book at, Ribery would be the one, not Anelka who really did very little wrong.

I doubt theres a player out there who hasn't told his manager to f off at one point or another.
 
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drunkenmaster said:
ANelka was supposedly being absolutely abused by the manager for daring to go and try to help win the ball in midfield, at which point Anelka supposedly under his breathe told him to go **** himself or something along those lines.
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"My biggest regret is that I was not given the chance to play in my best position," Anelka said in an interview with France Soir.

"If the coach wanted to take a player which stays in the box, he shouldn't have picked me. He made a casting mistake."

He recalled: "We returned to the dressing room and, for five minutes, the players talked. The coach arrived and said to me: 'Damn, Nico, I've told you to stop dropping back and stay up front'.

"I told him if I stay there, I do not get a touch of the ball, and said: 'Stop telling me to stay up front. I won't stay up front.'

"It carried on, but at that moment my head was gone. I wasn't even listening to what he said."
 
Supposedly he also told the manager to "go [fornicate with] yourself, you son of a [prostitute]".

Domenech is a rubbish manager (I was staggered that he was kept on after Euro 2008) but you simply can't tolerate that sort of behaviour, he / the French FA would be even more of a farce if they let players get away with vocally refusing to follow instructions and abusing the manager.
 
it is a difficult situation.
the players need to be punished, but you still need your best team.
they have effectively retired Anelka.
but as mentioned above, have they got a striker of his quality to replace him?
and i wonder how long the other suspensions are in regards to the European qualifiers.
 
HangTime said:
Supposedly he also told the manager to "go [fornicate with] yourself, you son of a [prostitute]".

Domenech is a rubbish manager (I was staggered that he was kept on after Euro 2008) but you simply can't tolerate that sort of behaviour, he / the French FA would be even more of a farce if they let players get away with vocally refusing to follow instructions and abusing the manager.
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It's not just the insult though. He then refused to apologise when asked by the FFF, and then failed to even turn up for the hearing. He dug his own hole here.
 
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Nicolas Anelka laughs off ban handed down by French 'clowns'

"Who told them that I wanted to play in blue again?" Anelka asked. "I should not even have been mentioned by this kind of commission. For me, ever since the South Africa World Cup, the French team is part of the past."

Referring to the French football authorities, he added: "They are real clowns, these people ... I am doubled up with laughter."
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Haha :D Looks like he won't be playing for France ever again.
 
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