I think as a football fan you'd agree with 90% of what Wenger says. I know I do, however the 10% "train going off the rail" comments (which all managers are guilty of) are the ones that get highlighted the most.
I think there needs to be, I dunno more consequences. Like Catermole, his tackle could never ever be interpreted as a complete accident, he was just no where near the ball, he was pee'd off from being pretty badly tackled but taking that out on someone is just wrong.
I'm thinking, if you get a red card, standard ban, if you say get a 2nd red, or get a red card and already have 5 yellows(kinda indicating you're a bit of a problem) that red gets you 3 games. If you've then got 10 yellows and get a red, or 2 red cards, then you grab yourself a 5-6 game ban. There needs to be consequences so the worst offenders actually realise its simply not acceptable.
But what certainly would need to happen is the FA to open up challenging or recinding completely incorrect yellows and red's. Lets be honest, the FA watch all the games anyway, they have people go through them for stats, its not hard to recind or award more red's after a game. For instance Ronaldo's yellow in the final, it was completely ridiculous, as was Cole's first yellow at the weekend.
Repeat offenders really do need cracking down on harshly. But at the same time overly punishing accidents is the wrong way to go. I don't think in any way Taylor jumped in to hurt Eduardo. A distinction has to be drawn, accidents get a normal ban, those who go about kicking people in an attempt to win games by hurting players need a whole other level of punishment.
Theres just little need at the moment for Catermoles, Nicky Butt's, Smiths, Bartons, etc, to not kick seven shades of blue out of certain players in an attempt to "take them out of the game".
There's a difference between stamping on someone's leg (i.e. Cattermole) and kicking someone in the leg in tackle, if you don't want to be kicked playing football you should give up really.
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