Greenlizard0 Weekend Football Thread ** spoilers ** [21st - 24th Jan 2012]
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Yeah, because 4 match is laughable when you consider what he did. Surely the police should have been involved as well.
Unless City are stupid enough to appeal, which will surely mean an extended ban for wasting the FA's time, he'll miss the Liverpool game on Wednesday.
Well clearly not the times Rooney get's away with violent conduct
Hopefully now they will be a little more consistent. I can dream.
The right result if this carries on
If you're talking about the elbows against Stoke and Wigan, due to the FA's crazy rules, he couldn't be banned because it was seen by the officials. That rule is totally ridiculous though.
They're not charging Lescott and it wouldn't be nice if he appealed because he'd then be available to play against Liverpool on Wednesday, which is all that matters.
On a side note, the FA really need to have a major rethink over their disciplinary system. They need to scrap the bs about if the official sees the incident then nothing can be done retrospectively and they need to scrap fixed length bans. There's no way that Balotelli should be getting the same punishment (ignore the extra game as that was because it's his 2nd offense) as Barton did the other week.
Yeah, because 4 match is laughable when you consider what he did. Surely the police should have been involved as well.
on motd2 , whilst this was being discussed, it was taken seriously but not that seriously, hansen even had a slight smile at times, not sure whether it was because of the ridiculousness of it or the fact he thought it so blatent (though i know he agreed it should've been red and was intentional) the point is, had it been a racism 'accusation', something that is far harder to prove (suarez, evra and other recent incidents etc) that is met with stern faces and rightly so but does that mean that the pundits look on assault a bit lighter that racism? they're both evil acts that have zero place in society, let alone football.
city are the ones who need to have a major rethink over their disciplinary system. lol
Yeah, it's like saying Racism is wrong full stop, but physical violence - ie the kick in the head is acceptable.
Cannot stand the idiot, I don't know why so many people love balotelli tbh.
What? I'm saying Balotelli should be getting a ban considerably longer than Barton.
As it stands, all violent conduct, whether you push somebody in the face or whether you kick them in the head, is a 3 game ban. That's plain stupid.
edit: you edited your post before I replied :/
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sorry, read it as bizkid.
surely it's a matter of time before the FA have to involve the police in such incidents like they do with racism? it's assualt, anyone one of us did this to someone in the street, we'd be up for assault. i don't get it.
unless the club decide to appeal.....
Not saying they will, but sillier decisions have been made in the past
Had Balotelli not stamped on Parker, Lescott would have been charged for his elbow. It barely got a mention after the game though because everybody was talking about Balotelli.
I'd have rather Lescott was suspended than Balotelli
Do you think its as cut and dried as that?
Totally agree its hardly got a mention , but could have sworn somewhere mentioned (although briefly) that the Lescott elbow was looked at but not actioned , rather than not even investigated. Mind you saying that I dont know which is worse lol
Lescott would indeed be a bigger miss (and far less likely to be banned in general also lol)
Dont believe this can ever happen .
It doesnt directly affect a member of the public (like hearing racist language for example) and the pitch is a "law" unto itself
God forbid - but if a player was fataly injured (either by accident or not) by another during a game, then Im sure something would be done - maybe if violent conduct approached some level of GBH/ABH ......saying that even broken legs etc dont get any legal enquiry of any kind after the match in question
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I'm sure they did look at it but they were under no pressure to do anything about it because nobody gave a flying **** about it once Balotelli done what he done. I believe that the FA pick and choose when to take action and how severe the action depending on the pressure from the media.
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Biz stop now, you're just looking silly.
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It would take more than to just simply shut up to stop that
Balotelli very clearly kicks back with his leg and then even has the mind to throw himself forward after the stamp to fool the ref. It's one thing to try and kick a fellow professional but to try and smash his face in with the force he stamps down, with studs is utter cowardice.
I think the FA need to make an example like they did with Suarez. 8 game ban.
Biz to even to attempt to defend that does not surprise me one bit, you're a blinkered fool. That's as blatant and undefendable as Cantona's Kung-Fu kick into the crowd.
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I see the City PR team are working on overdrive tonight: http://aggbot.com/Manchester-City-News/article/15980202
I don't know if you saw the video i posted before it was removed but you video angle makes it a million times worse than the video.It would take more than to just simply shut up to stop that
Balotelli very clearly kicks back with his leg and then even has the mind to throw himself forward after the stamp to fool the ref. It's one thing to try and kick a fellow professional but to try and smash his face in with the force he stamps down, with studs is utter cowardice.
I think the FA need to make an example like they did with Suarez. 8 game ban.
Biz to even to attempt to defend that does not surprise me one bit, you're a blinkered fool. That's as blatant and undefendable as Cantona's Kung-Fu kick into the crowd.
The FA if they want to do they should have done it with Rooney, deliberate kick out v Montenegro, deliberate elbow v Wigan, attempted elbow v Stoke. As you can guess they made no example and instead actually defended HIM!
I am not blinkered at all. It is everyone who is blinkered by being desperate to talk bad about Balotelli and City that sees that as a bad tackle.
Whilst on the subject of tackles what about the "victim" himself Parker who did a 2 footed tackle on Richards in the same game and as you can guess went un punished.
At the end of this we won the game after King tried to slice Balotelli in two. Not a great challenge and could have been very bad!!!111!! had Balotelli been going any quicker.
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Oh Christ, not sure if serious...