The FA and double standards

No1newts · 14 Sep 2009 at 12:08

I am not a Man City fan nor am I an Arsenal hater before everyone has a quick read of this thread and then tosses them accusations at me. But I must say that after reading some reports in todays papers I am finally, completely and utterly sick of the FA's double standards, knee jerk reaction and quite simply the cowardly and utterly choice application of their own rules.

I could go on and on about circumstances in which players who have not deserved a ban have got one and those who deserve a ban have got away scot free. Without going into case after case one justification that the FA always seem to use for its embarassingly poor record of decision making is that if the referee sees an incident and then takes some action then the FA have their proverbial hands tied.

Now the Adebayor incident on saturday. I am not even going to try and defend Adebayor's actions nor am I going to give my personal viewpoint on what he done. The facts are that the referee saw him inciting the crowd and booked him for it, as far as things in the FA's book regardless of their opinions this should be the end of the matter. However I read this;

Although referee Mark Clattenburg cautioned Adebayor for his goading of the Arsenal support after scoring, The Times says that 'The FA is determined to send out the strongest possible statement about on-the-field conduct,' and a charge of improper conduct will almost certainly be imposed after the governing body receive reports from City and police

Got this off Football365 via the Mail (yes I know, the Mail)

So essentially once again the FA are considering applying their own rules in one circumstance after ignoring countless others. This thread has nothing to do with Adebayor's actions being right or wrong it is to do with the pathetic football association that we have and the **** poor decisions that they continually make week after week.

Will there ever be a situation in which the rules are followed or will we constantly be stuck in a system of a dithering FA who only apply their rules in certain circumstances when they can be bothered to pull their finger out. Ignoring the right or wrong of Adebayor's actions if I was him I would be ****** off at the FA for changing the rules to punish him in this case wheras countless others have gotten away with things because they have been booked during the game.

FrankJH · 14 Sep 2009 at 13:06

Being the first case in a season - I guess thats always going to add a risk factor, (after all it would have been a risk doing it at the end he scored let alone runnning the full length of the pitch)

The FA have to cut the possibility of this down without a doubt - and maybe this should be done in the summer before the season starts....better late than never though

red11 · 14 Sep 2009 at 13:08

They are a joke organisation that makes joke decisions, fall back on joke laws created over a hundred years ago, refuse to see common sense in a lot of matters, are inconsistent with their decisions, come up with football campaigns that they fail to support when push comes to shove.

Furton · 14 Sep 2009 at 13:27

UEFA, FIFA and the FA are all run by a bunch of spineless idiots who know nothing about football or basic management skills. A gentelman's club if there ever was!

Caseh · 14 Sep 2009 at 14:10

Furton said:
UEFA, FIFA and the FA are all run by a bunch of spineless idiots who know nothing about football or basic management skills. A gentelman's club if there ever was!

I don't really think you can say Platini knows nothing about football. He's a complete moron, but I think it's fair to say he DOES know about football. He's also a racist, but that doesn't take away from his football knowledge.

mcdermos · 14 Sep 2009 at 14:44

There are plenty of explayers/exmanagers in the FA and the disciplinary panels always have an explayer or exmanager on them.

Greenlizard0 · 14 Sep 2009 at 15:32

Of course they have double standards. They're all bodies used by clubs as opposed to actually governing clubs.

No1newts · 14 Sep 2009 at 18:05

Linoge said:
They are a joke organisation that makes joke decisions, fall back on joke laws created over a hundred years ago, refuse to see common sense in a lot of matters, are inconsistent with their decisions, come up with football campaigns that they fail to support when push comes to shove.

Amen

Weebull · 14 Sep 2009 at 18:36

Everybody thinks they know better than the governing body of any given sports association, and yet said sports almost always continue to thrive, and I could bet any money that same person would probably be utterly useless if they ever had the level of control over the game they seem to so desperately crave.

No1newts · 14 Sep 2009 at 19:23

Weebull said:
Everybody thinks they know better than the governing body of any given sports association, and yet said sports almost always continue to thrive, and I could bet any money that same person would probably be utterly useless if they ever had the level of control over the game they seem to so desperately crave.

Yes because we would all quit following football because the FA are a bunch of numpties?

People complain not becuase of the rules themselves, but because of the random, inconsistent and quite simply idiotic way that they are applied. If they are applied at all.

HangTime · 15 Sep 2009 at 00:47

To be honest I'm not so worried about the goal celebration, however inciteful it was, he got booked for it.

But that stamp was an absolute disgrace, I wasn't so sure the first time I saw it but they did multiple angles on MOTD2 last night and you can see him looking for RvP and them going at him with his leg. Yes he got fouled but it wasn't just a jerk reaction like you see from players arms sometimes, it was a hot-headed and extremely dangerous response.

I'd say a 3 match ban is the bare minimum he should get and lets be honest it's pretty rare the FA hand out more than that for violent conduct. Ben Thatcher got 8 (+15 suspended) but aside from that I can't remember any big bans lately, even Roy Keane didn't get his hefty one until he wrote a book about it.