Greenlizard0 Weekend Football Thread ** spoilers ** [19 - 23rd April 2013]

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BaZ87 said:
As with McManaman and Agueros challenges, the ref only needs to have seen the players coming together, not necessarily the details of the challenge.

Edit: The Rooney elbow vs Wigan is actually a better example. The ref saw them come together but not the actual elbow and that saved Rooney from a retrospective ban.
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With the first two tackles, fouls were given even though the severity of the nature of the foul was missed, but essentially the "tackle" was punished according to the ref/FA. Rooney playing for England/Utd is what saved Rooney from punishment.

In either case the fa can punish anything they want, they just have to deem it extraordinary.... in other words, they can pick and choose who to punish, Englands top striker.... will get a lot of leniency, so will others.

The simple situation of the backlash over two horrendous on field situations being let off recently may well be a deciding factor. FA think they look bad, managers are talking about the rules needing to change, FA throws them a bone with a deserved ban then can bang on about how the existing rules work fine.

ALmost everything like this is more political than it is down to the rules, they've got the room to interpret most of it however the hell they want on a given day.

Thing is some bans get carried over into other leagues, some don't, I can't remember if Barton was banned for a bunch of games in France or not in the end, the FA wanted the French FA to hold up the ban IIRC. Will the FA take into account his previous bite to increase the punishment is what i'm getting at?
 
Talking of twitter the level of abuse Shreeves is getting is embarrassing, talk about defending the indefensible :o

Glad to see no one on this forum is subscribing to those brain-dead morons opinions :)
 
The officials do not need to issue a foul for the challenge for it to then mean the fa can't take further action DM. Bosingwa kicked Benayoun in the back the other year and the lino somehow decided it was a Chelsea free-kick. The FA decided that they couldn't punish Bosingwa after because the lino saw the incident.

If one of the officials saw the incident in some form, he shouldn't be banned. If they didnt, he should be banned for 3 games.
 
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The Football Association have said they will review match footage that appears to show Liverpool's Luis Suarez biting Chelsea defender Branislav Ivanovic.

The Uruguayan striker - who later went on to score a 97th minute equaliser - tangled with Ivanovic during the second-half of the Sky Live clash at Anfield, which finished 2-2.

No action was taken at the time by referee Kevin Friend and both managers - Brendan Rodgers and Rafa Benitez - said they would have to review the incident before commenting.

In 2010, Suarez was banned for seven matches for biting an opponent while playing for Ajax against PSV Eindhoven in the Dutch league.
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Tom84 said:
Talking of twitter the level of abuse Shreeves is getting is embarrassing, talk about defending the indefensible :o

Glad to see no one on this forum is subscribing to those brain-dead morons opinions :)
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I can't see it, just really bad jokes about Suarez has rabies and delivering bad news to ivanovic again
 
Azza said:
****ed up Liverpool fan from Chester on 5 Live defending Suarez.


Saying it could be a "simulated bite".
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I heard that too. Unbelievable that he thought Suarez was a poor victim again. Hopefully Liverpool fans will actually have enough of this player dragging their name through the mud.

Or hopefully the owners will, cash in and move on.
 
An utter **** game of football punctuated by 1 unbelievable culinary incident & some utterly unbelievable decisions by Interim.
We have to start Torrid on Thursday as Ba is cup tied so Ba *had* to start today, even if he doesn't then he should've been given 30 mins at least as Torrid was torrid++. Then taking Hazard off for ****ing Benayoun is just ****ish.
A point at the Benefit Bazaar is never a bad thing although looking at Spuds fixtures they have it pretty easy from here on in, not too optimistic about getting a CL spot now TBH.

Purdy said:
Please do not lose to this massive set of *****.
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Once again you win the massive set of ***** award thanks to Suarez.
That'll be the shiniest award in your cabinet as the rest are just gathering dust, odds on you'll win it next year too if you keep that ****.
 
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