UEFA Euro 2012 - Group B - ** spoilers ** (Denmark, Germany, Holland, Portugal)

Azza said:
Bendtner fined €100,000
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€100,000? was it proved that he took money from Paddy Power and this was deliberate advertising? If so then not a lot of sympathy. If this really was a case of 'lucky pants' that might just as easily be Clavin Kleins or M&S, then the fine looks very unreasonable.
 
Azza said:
Bendtner fined €100,000 and given one competitive match ban... for showing his paddy power boxers... the ****?!?
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******* ridiculous. Massively overtop. So showing off your "unofficial pants" gets a worse fine than racist chanting. Says everying about UEFA and the Russians get a fine of less than a third of that for not being able to control their fans...

The Football Union of Russia has been fined €30,000 by UEFA for spectator-related incidents at the UEFA EURO 2012 Group A match against Poland in Warsaw.
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Uefa, absolute joke.
 
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Oh dear. That sums it all up about UEFA.

Fans run riot (150 Polish fans arrested) beating people up, no action.
Racism? 20k fine.
Paddy Power boxers - 100k

They are sick, bent, corrupt and disgusting. They run our game. How? Why?

Money, sponsors revenues and basically anything that involves a bit of cash, a bit of a sweetener in their back pockets are important. Football doesn't even exist in their universe. They're raping football of as much money as they can.
 
One match ban, and a 100K fine for showing your boxers?

Christ, what a joke UEFA are. Try tackling the important issues instead of acting like retards.

edit, FIFA/UEFA, all the same **** to me.
 
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Azza said:
Bendtner fined €100,000 and given one competitive match ban... for showing his paddy power boxers... the ****?!?
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So the silly man gave PP free advertising. They must be laughing all the way to the bank by now. He'll probably get twice as much back from them. :p
 
Moses said:
On the other hand, fines against national governing bodies do nothing, in terms of improving fan behaviour, as fans will be despicable regardless of whether the fines bigger/smaller/the same... whilst fines against people revealing unauthorised sponsors can be stopped through decent sized fines (and if they don't crack down on the latter, loads of unauthorised sponsorship will creep in).

Then there's the side of it where Bendtner had 100% control over the situation, whilst it's quite hard for national governing bodies to control thousands of people in another country.

Obviously terrible fan behaviour is bad, but I'm just saying that increased fines against governing bodies wouldn't stop that, and the fact that Bendtner's fine is larger does not mean UEFA doesn't care about fan behaviour, or that they consider Bendtner's behaviour to be worse than the fans'.
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Don't fine them then, there are other punishments than money (I realise the irony in saying this whilst talking about UEFA). Even still, they fined Russia 40k or whatever when 5% of the arrested fans were Russian, 95% Polish

100k must be one of their biggest ever punishments.

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It's just sad really. I know they can't make money out of racism (I imagine they have tried), so I realise that's the reason. Still, very sad.
 
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Next to a 100k fine for this, that is not reasonable. Given the decisions were made just days apart, it's glaringly wrong. I know there's no official scale of wrongness, but can you honestly say that the two punishments are sensible when put next to each other?
 
Yeah, a suspended points deduction is not a deterrant either. If they wanted to sort out racism like they want to protect their sponsors they'd give Russia a real punishment, they are massively disproportionate because they care about one thing and not the other
 
jakeke said:
Next to a 100k fine for this, that is not reasonable. Given the decisions were made just days apart, it's glaringly wrong. I know there's no official scale of wrongness, but can you honestly say that the two punishments are sensible when put next to each other?
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the money i can understand, it's the match ban that i find very unfair.
 
Moses said:
It's more of one than a fine. If they do anything else wrong, they can see their team losing six points... which would severely damage their chances of qualifying from the next qualifying group (especially as group winners). Furthermore, that's just the first punishment on a scale which can ratchet up, in terms of severity.
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Yes, why give them the first punishment on the scale for something which is more serious than that? How many goes at racism do you get? Why suspend the punishments? You could y'know, actually punish them, like they did to Bendtner.
 
lol, people need to get a grip, I like Bendtner obviously but he was a douche here. Hope he got more than 100k for it otherwise he's screwed himself as well. If they'd gone through and he was banned for the next match for a marketing stunt he might well be thrown out of the team for good. IT wasn't lucky pants, anyone who thinks that is daft, a one match ban is harsh but, maybe fair.

Don't forget, this is a PLAYER, other issues have been for FANS. THe team can't ever have full control of the fans, any control, they are individuals and the team/club has nothing to do with them. They fact they have a suspended points ban for what their fans did is incredibly severe. End of the day we live in a free world where fans can go where they want and choose to behave how they want.

If any one of you went to work today, picked up your keyboard and smashed it over the head of a co-worker, could anyone in your office have been capable of predicting that behaviour?

A player directly doing something himself should indeed get direct bans on himself that are more severe(for the team) than the fans doing something off the pitch, anyone who thinks the two situations should be comparitive are nuts.
 
Only got to see Holland/Portugal in a crowded Airport but it seemed to me like it was the best game of the tournament so far, end to end and 3 great goals :cool:

Glad Portugal went through :)
 
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