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Post by Fairscup on Mar 20, 2013 8:38:21 GMT 1
Lambiarse to stand up to FA and PL - Now that should be interesting. For once I agree with him but doubt it will come to anything.  |
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Post by Nattfare on Mar 20, 2013 10:37:57 GMT 1
The FA are a disgrace and a joke. As always they stick their heads down in the sand and hide behind their stone age rules to allow assaults on the pitch.
The thug has just been told that he is free to continue with trying to ruin other players' careers. To me it also looks like his lunge was intentional. Should be a criminal offense and the FA and Whelan should be condemned for defending a criminal. Won't happen but I can always dream.
It's Mongo de Thug's assault on Ben Arfa all over again.
A bloody farce and I'm very angry about it and very sorry for Haidara.
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Post by LeazesEnder47 on Mar 20, 2013 11:53:14 GMT 1
Absolutely spot on Seb!!!
Probably why Whelan has made the comments he has!! He and Martinez know damn well the rest of the football world are appalled by the incident.......shocking let-off for McManaman......'king disgusting!!!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2013 14:35:47 GMT 1
Change his name to "McMaimaman".......fn thug, and not for the first time.
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Post by supermac on Mar 21, 2013 16:51:09 GMT 1
As though it were possible, the FA continues to look worse and worse...from The Guardian: " Richard Scudamore, the Premier League chief executive, has insisted that Wigan's Callum McManaman should have been charged by the Football Association for his horror tackle on Newcastle United's Massadio Haïdara.
The FA announced this week 21-year-old McManaman would not face action as one of the match officials had seen the incident, even if not the full extent of it.
Scudamore said: "I don't think anybody in the Premier League, perhaps bar Wigan, would have complained had they decided this was exceptional. That's where the Premier League is on this, I don't think the rules need changing, I don't think the line needs moving.
"If they have the ability to deal with an exceptional incident, it looked to most of us that was an exceptional incident. What we don't want is re-refereeing, everyone is agreed on that. I think the current system works and no one would have criticised the FA if they had decided that was exceptional."
The FA's rules limit retrospective action to off-the-ball incidents unseen by match officials unless they are exceptional circumstances and the governing body said this had been agreed with the leagues, the PFA and referees.
Scudamore insisted that no change to the rule was necessary but that the FA should have accepted that the McManaman tackle should be dealt with.
Speaking at the launch of "Creating Chances" - the Premier League's annual report of its work in communities - he added: "I can understand why given what's happened this week the FA are looking for some cover and I don't blame for that.
"Yes there is a system that says there are some very clear guidelines that says under what circumstances they can effectively apply retrospective disciplinary action and like all guidelines and rules there is in their view a fixed line. But we live in a nuanced world, nothing is that precise, and my view is that currently they have the ability in exceptional circumstances to take retrospective action."
Haïdara suffered knee ligament damage as a consequence of the challenge, but no action was taken by match officials. The player himself has also condemned as "ridiculous" the decision not to take action over the tackle at the DW Stadium on Sunday.
He told Le Parisien: "It's tough to take. I don't understand why. He could have ended my career and ruined my whole life and he will play again before me – ridiculous! You must protect players. This type of tackle cannot be condoned in football. You have to take all measures to ban these sorts of things from the game. It spoils the game. The authorities must take action.
"At the time I was very angry. I thought he'd ended my career. Now I know I escaped a serious injury, I have taken time to stand back from it and I am not angry. I simply hope it will serve as a lesson for him and the next time he will think twice before making a tackle like that. I hope when he watched it back he told himself that wasn't who he really was."
The Newcastle assistant manager John Carver and Wigan assistant coach Graham Barrow have been charged with misconduct by the FA after they clashed following the incident." www.guardian.co.uk/football/2013/mar/21/scudamore-fa-haidara-mcmanaman-tackle-exceptional |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2013 17:09:31 GMT 1
Like the new avatar Supermacs!
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Post by LeazesEnder47 on Mar 21, 2013 17:25:57 GMT 1
Like the new avatar Supermacs! Aye, ........canny that ;D   |
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Post by supermac on Mar 21, 2013 17:39:49 GMT 1
Like the new avatar Supermacs! There was one I liked a bit better, but I couldn't get the size to fit ( that's what she's never said)... ...I figure this one at least has powerful mutton chops... |
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Post by Fairscup on Mar 22, 2013 9:16:48 GMT 1
Like the new avatar Supermacs! Aye, ........canny that ;D +1 |
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Post by Pollypeterborough on Mar 22, 2013 14:37:57 GMT 1
Aye, ........canny that ;D +1 +2 |
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