Craig Bellamy
Crime: Slapping a restrained United fan in the face
Punishment: Warning
Shay Given
Crime: Turning to face the Stretford End, fists clenched, jumping up and down, celebrating Bellamy’s last minute goal
Punishment: None
Gary Neville
Crime: Celebrating Owen’s injury time goal in front of the South Stand, where he was sat, in front of United fans
Punishment: Warning
Yet another example of when the FA have come down hard on United and let another team get away with murder. If Eric Cantona had punched a restrained fan he would have been out until Christmas! How is hitting someone in the face comparable with Neville celebrating in front of the South Stand? And if celebrating a goal in a jubilant fashion is so bad then why is nobody mentioning Given’s celebration, in which he turned to face the fans in the Stretford End?
I’m not sure why we’re surprised. Manchester City’s Christian Negouai was fined £2k and received no ban for missing a drugs test around the same time the FA fined Rio Ferdinand £50k and an eight month ban.
Manchester City’s Robbie Fowler scored a late goal against United and celebrated in front of our travelling fans, holding up his five digits to represent Liverpool’s success in Europe and received no punishment. A week later, Gary Neville celebrated in front of Liverpool’s travelling fans following a late goal and was fined £5k.
Fuck the FA. For their lies about the FA Cup 99/00, for their lies about Patrice Evra and for Rio Ferdinand.
What have we learnt so far this year? If you’re a professional footballer in a bar and you ‘think’ someone is going to punch you, you and your mates can kick the crap out of them. If you’re a professional footballer and two stewards are restraining a football fan, you can hit him in the face. K?
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lol – classy article – i’d only add to your last sentence “unless you’re united player”
the funniest thing i read about neville running down the wing celebrating was” he stopped just short of the city fans ,maybe smart thinking just came in to play , but he still could of caused a riot within the away supporters”
A.K.A.
He ran down the line of the united fans and didnt go in front of the city fans But no fucking way are they going the 2nd way of thinking
It’s stunning how ABU’s see every great point you make here in reverse. They belive we get special treatment from the FA and refs because SAF welds so much power. That’s all I’ve heard nothing from them this week because of the time added on Sunday and they also reckon that Adebayour would not have been banned if it wasn’t United up next!
Bellamy getting away with this is a disgrace. Let’s hope the media at least back us on that one. (I like the wat Rio and O’Shea interveined.)
I didn’t expect bellamy to get a ban, he does’nt play for united.
gotta hate – alright mate. Yeah was pretty amusing especially when he started doing warm ups to cover his back.
They havent exactly come down hard this time though, its only a warning but how Bellamy has escaped is a fucking joke. Horrible little no necked cunt. If I was Sir Alex and Rooney didn’t care so much I would withdraw him from the Ingerlund squad permantly and see how they fare with Heskey, Crouch, Defoe and Cole.
Dave Mack – The media won’t back us up on that though mate. Last night Talkshite ran a poll on which was worse. Nevs celebration or Bellamy’s behaviour? 80 odd per cent voted Nev!!
Dave you make a valid point. To extend it further the abus seem to dominate message boards and phone ins. I am now almost entirely convinced that disciplinary matters are the FA are directly related to media hype. How many red herrings have there been of late – Rooney dive vs Arsenal (BS)/ injury time (which was legit), completely consuming the airwaves.
We might win on the pitch, but the abus are winning off it. Hell, even supposedly reasonable rival fans now seem convinced that united win by virtue of bent referees, its not just blatant wums! And the media facilitate this kind of drivel. Experts stimulate such drab and trite discussion to create false talking points.
I think people are all too willing to be ‘sporting’ and forget the context in which ferdinand was banned. We were heading for a record points total at the time. Manchester United remain the only team that can claim to have been robbed of a premiership title. Now I mention this on a forum, but its not as if I am always hanging it over our rivals. That is humility, not arrogance. It’s amazing we are branded arrogant at all. We take most of this on the chin.
Noone can justify the sort of draconian punishments we have endured in the past anymore. I am tired of incidents coming up where players attack supporters with objects eg carragher/drogba or physically – Bellamy. Now in those cases I have fully expected a Cantona type ban but no mention of it. It is baffling how Bellamy has got off a punishment.
Next thing you know one of our players will be getting hauled over the coals again….
I’m in danger at sounding like one of the rival fans that I am endeavoring to condemn but one only has to look at the inconsistent punishments suffered by united players to see where the truth of the matter lies.
king eric that is unreal poll but talksport
that means if a player scores and the keeper punches him because he was celebrating in front of the keeper
80% back up the keeper
hello by the way ive been out cold most of the day after a wind pipe op and only seen the news that making your own way over to,and ,punching a fan in the face is a telling off
dont forget the screw up in the community shield with that cunt ballack cheating his way through the game…the only reason we dont get bullied more than we already do is because of Sir Alex Ferguson, he’s the greatest manager in the game and the entire football world respects him and he’s the only thing keeping the FA from going fuckin nuts on us, our players, our transfers etc… Long Live FERGIE!!!!
Hughes as called Bellamy’s actions as being defensive. Seriously? Am sorry but, I can’t refer to him as Sparky anymore. I know he doens’t have Ade and Robinho but, it is plain as light of day for world to see that Bellamy was at no risk.
Hughes also said Bellamy didn’t know how much time was left so he was just trying to get the guy off the pitch.
So which was it, was he trying to get the guy off the pitch or was he active in a defensive manner because big bad Bellamy was scared?
The FA have not done themselves any good. They’ve basically chickened out as there is already undue controversy to the winning goal. Nevermind that Atkinson let Bellamy’s tirades continue for 5 minutes before the 90th since he was already on a yellow and another yellow would have seen him sent off.
I can’t wait till the next time Bellamy pulls some crap because he can claim he was defending himself. Gerrard and Bellamy have got to be the biggest fucking pussies if they were afraid for themselves. Gerrard with having a group of his mates around against 1 guy, Bellamy for being afraid of someone being restrained by 4 stewards, not to mention he is this fighting fit athlete.
Oh well. At least the ABU that keep saying FA favour United can STFU now.
Another kick in the sack for what little faith I had left in the FA. If you’re United the bar is twice as high. Fuck it.
Good points brett, we took the cantona and evra bans on the chin, imagine if it were chelsea’s players or the dippers, then again they wud ave got of wiv a warning.
I’m stunned! All over again. :O
Common sense has left the building!
@ Billy Meredith
what ya think of giggs beating your derby record on sunday
if someone comes up with a good chant about the legend that is Jake Clarke ill have emily singing it in no time and upload the video on her partnered youtube channel
Of topic leeds liverpoo match is there anyway the 2 of them can go out.
@ghtt
I got that answer wrong i thought it was the lawman, wudn’t ave thought of billy meredith.
Hey lets just fuck the lot of them and get on with winning the PL again. We beat Shitty – end of! The FA said they didn’t ban Bellamy because the referee looked at the tv pics and said that he wouldn’t have sent Bellamy off for it if he had seen it. Says a lot when refs feel it is okay for soccer players to go to a fan, who is restrained, and for no reason other than he has lost a game, lamp that fan. Still lets cut off all the Man Shitty conversation, and get on with making Jake – 4-3 mate – tea shirts, and giving him the support the FA and ref refused to give him because Mark Hughes and Bellamy are good liars. I don’t want to waste any more time on talking about the Shitty, or the ABU’s – we are Man United – lets give them all the fucking silent treatment.
willierednut
giggs is now the most capped welsh man to play in manchester derbys
but to beat the record from a guy who spent 670 games split between manchester united and manchester city is unreal that giggs beat that record
also Giggs was never a dick to managers thinking he’s the big man looking for more money and constantly threatening to walk out of teams if he didnt get his way all the while trying to bribe opponents to lose matches so he could bet against them
good footballer thou ha
Jake Clarke chant comp scott?????
As i said to my mate in a bar watching the derby, there will be a lot of defenders happy wen giggsy retires must be the best premership player of all time.
If G.Nev has got a warning for running towards the city fans, then Adebayor is likely in line for the same ‘punishment’.
We all know Nev did nothing wrong and even the FA have tacitly admitted this as he has previous regarding running towards the pool supporters. If they genuinely felt he had misbehaved on this occassion then it would call for more than just a warning- wouldn’t it?
I don’t want to give the FA ideas though!
anyone has the link to Neville’s celebration?
Let’s not forget thierry henry running the length of the pitch to celebrate in front of tottenham fans, an act for which he got no punishment whatsoever. The way the press and the governing bodies treat him, you’d think the man shits rainbows and strawberry ice cream.
FA are fucking cunts.
Lets get things real. This blogs starting to sounf=d like a bunch of bitters or a bunch of moaning scousers.
Bellamy rightly got a warning. The fan shouldnt have been on the pitch in the first place, its illegal. The fan spat at Bellamy. Yes, Ballemay shouldnt have got involved, but the fan shouldnt have been there, simple.
Schmeichel didnt get done when he threw a fan from the pitch.
Neville got a warning as he run off celebratingin front of the city fans.
When Neville got done foe the same offence against liverpool a few years back, he had a warning about his future conduct, hence his warning now.
Its time people looked at the full picture, rather than making Utd fans look like a load of bitters.
Citehs assistant manager came out and said that Bellamy ‘thought’ the fan was going to spit on him. I’m pretty sure that even if that is the case, the best way to avoid being spat on is to not go near the fan. It will also encourage future fans to act out as he got the Blues all riled up.
When I saw this incident while watching the match, my first thought was city are done, bellamy’s going to get sent off. next thing am doing is scanning my eyes, looking for a red card raised by the ref, there was nothing. after the match I was saying to my mates he won’t get away with it, that’s for sure, he’ll get a ban. fuck the FA. hardcore ABU’s.
“Fucking disgrace!”
Didier Drogba.
Well said tufty. The fan shouldn’t have been on the pitch at all.
Bellamy is a horrible little spunkstain but whats done is done.
United got the victory on the pitch and i believe a moral victory after the game.
Celebrate the victory over the massive club
Tufty- shouldn’t you be scowering the web looking for pictures without copyright or something?
lol sanj.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cN1LCLynkAM
Sanj, your not very clever are you. When this site gets closed down for breach of copyright, you wont be laughing then.
Tufty, please, we don’t sound like them cunts. are you sure you’re on a utd blog, because according to you you seem to be reading bitter/scouse comments. bellamy rightly got a warning, you’re saying. for walking 10 yards over and punching a restrained fan who was forced on to the pitch by a wild celebrating crowd where it’s clearly obvious that the fan didn’t even come near him/spit at him. he shouldn’t have been there, but bellamy still deserves a ban. this is typical of the FA anyway, the FA can keep treating us this way, we’ll respond by shoving trophies up their noses.
lol @ sanj
Tufty, I am quite clever actually- clever enough to make fun of you and your constant bitching.
Tufty – WTF you on about mate – No way did Jake spit at Bellamy, thats just a made up City fecking lie to get Bellamy off. Didn’t you watch the scenes on TV. Bellamy was the one spitting’spouting in Jake’s face. No he shouldn’t have been on the pitch, but leave out with your lies that Jake spat at Bellamy – everyone saw what happened. Bellamy the aggressor! Stop believeing the City lies – are you a bluenose in disguise mate?
tufty mate that Peter Schmeichel is 100% different
what if that fan had a knife or something
ya never know
there wasnt 1 never mind 4 stewards near him
and Peter Schmeichel got him off the pitch
not ran over to him and punched him in the face after he couldnt kick a ball in a straight line and hit him
i agree with ya the guy should of been on the pitch but it doesnt mean its a free for all
what if the guy on the pitch on Sunday had a knife?
Don’t you think it would be tough to use a knife while you’re being restrained by 3 stewards?
thats what the fuckin 4 guys holding him down the dragging him off are there for
how the fuck cant you see the difference
The FA, FIFA and UEFA generally have very $h!t disciplinary policies. They seem to change depending on the way they feel, the team or the way the media is pressuring them. Gary Neville gets 5000$ fine they so should Given. The leagues should publish the rules and keep to them. Otherwise it makes them look stupid.
Same for diving, drugs, and tapping up.
Would rooney have got away with it? Not a chance!
Jake should report him for assault.
No surprise from the spineless FA. There has always been one rule for United, another one for everybody else.
Lol at tufty ‘Your not very clever are you’
im lying here in this hospital bed bored out of my head waiting to continue talking to tufty about how im wrong for think punching a helpless man is right
but he just went away
Brilliant, Scott, expressing exactly what I felt . The FA have not treated United fairly for years, and it riles me every time it happens.
I don’t know who Tufty is, but it sounds like he’s just entering puberty , judging by his name, so we must make allowances.
@Tufty
Attention seek much? Honestly, every topic you respond to, you just take the opposite view to most people, in order to be the centre of attention.
Now for Jake Clarke to escape punishment, as well as for coin thrower
And Manchester-police action against people throwing lashes to those in custody
No surprise at all – saw it coming all day long.
The FA have proved time and again to be a bent, racist, ABU organisation full of suits without a brain cell between them.
I’m also glad to see the police appear to have turned a blind eye to physical assault, but no surprises there either. Hopefully, if that’s the case nothing happens to the guy who threw the coin and Garrido (sounds like I’m defending him, I’m not, I’m just hoping for some consistency in all of this – there is no difference in either case, both Jake and Garrido were struck by another person)
Red Scott, if Eric had hit a fan, not only would he received a lengthy ban, but there would be calls for United to sack him. Same would happen to Rooney, would have done to Ronaldo or Keane as well.
How the fuck can these people view the footage (which sky did well to quickly brush under the carpet, I must admit) and not see that (A) In no way what soever did this lad attempt to spit at Bellamy; and (B) Was being physically restrained by two stewards, as Bellamy RAN x amount of yards to confront him, and then the twats at city say he was acting in self defense? What the fuck is going on?!?
It’s at times like these I miss Roy Keane on the pitch – I’m not afraid to admit it, but had I been playing for United, first chance I had, I’d have gleefully broken Bellamy’s leg.
The FA – stands for Fuck All.
And that’s exactly what the pricks know about football, or justice.
What a sick joke regarding leniency for Bellamy from the F.A. Notice how the media also kept calling it an “alleged” assault on the fan? “Alleged” ffs! It was televised to millions! Also -even sicker -if Bellamy’s “plane” celebration is something associated with the disgusting “Munich” song -why was that not seen as something that could cause a riot.
This is despicable from the F.A. As for “Talk Sport” -my advice to anyone with a half-decent I.Q is -avoid it like the plague -it’s run by thickos For thickos -and is beyond the pale.
just read sparky’s comments about these incidents
i think he has totally lost it
according to him bellamy’s act was an act of self defence……wtf?!
i think if he continues like this he is in line for hypocrite of the year award.
Get well soon GHTT, Bell end always was and always will be a nasty little shite with the sort of face you could happily punch all day and not feel guilty. A lot like Denis Wise.
The only thing in Bell ends favour this time was that he wasn’t punching a girl which he allegedly has done in quite a few Discos up and down the country.
Utter bitter twat.
4-3 mate was enough punishment for bell end !
Sometimes people say the referee and fa favours us but in such substance like punching our punishment is so bad. Next time if a fans runs on to the pitch, first thing is to punch the player because if not the player will punch you and get away.
Cadelin
thank you very much
any chance you wanna take part in my little Jake Clarke chant request
Would love to mate, seeing Emily sing the chants on You Tube is priceless.
PS – I reckon Tufty disappeared because it was past his bed time.
Cadelin thank you
to everyone goodnight
i’m turning the phone off to charge
but if tufty comes back 2 words
your wrong
Bellamy usualy hit’s women so this is a suprise (although he was restrained so I can see Bellend’s thinking), running on the pitch was wrong, but running 20 yards and unprovokedley hitting someone is a bit different in my book.
Tufty, you’re hilarious, are you a traffic warden by any chance?
So far all I have is (to the tune of Swing Lo Sweet Charriot) …
Jake Clarke, he pissed off Bell End (Emily may need to sing “he annoyed”)
Telling him the score was 4-3
Weak I know but its a start !
: )
you know what we should do? get one o fus to stage an invasion on our own players, and allow them to “slap, punch, touch” our own faces. see what the fa do, and then reveal to them what we’re on about!
if the freaking give our players more than the bellamy indictment, then we have proof that they are wankers! obviously we know that already, but then the rest of the world can get off our back!
anyone wanna give me a home game ticket to try it?? lol!
I think that FA doesnt want to do much about these incidents… they just want to sweep them under the carpet, there has been to much negative news and thats not good for England´s hopes to get to host the World Cup.
Bellamy got away easy as did Man Utd (for the coin toss) and Neville (he had been warned before). Its a solomons verdict to try to keep everything at eas and hopefully prevent those stories to influence the World Cup pick.
I think we should do as the FA likes and get on with our lives and not make a much fuss.
Tufty – If you had a brain you’d be dangerous mate lol. If the fan had a knife, then Bellamy approaching him would have been the most idiotic thing he could have done. Bellamy had no reason to approach him, and was asking for trouble doing so. But then, Bellamy hasn’t got a brain, just a load of mush between his ears. Bellamy is an interfering useless piece of grot mate!
Look people! Who cares what happens to Bellamy, they can do what they like, he’s not our player so I don’t care.. Nev got a warning – big deal. We won the game, they lost, that’s what matters.
It’s not exactly exclusive news that FA don’t like our club, so why be so surprised..
I’m impressed with with Jake Clark’s spitting ability. He can hit hunchbacks from 30 yards. Fergie sign him up !
FA: Fans of Arsenal
@Isaido: Bellamy doesn’t have a brain? Geez, I thought he had one but a size of a peanut.
FA abriviation for FUCKING ARSEWIPES!!! fukn pack of cunts! we’ll show them bunch of fuckers WE CAN DO IT AGAIN with them AGAINST US AGAIN!!
http://www.manutd.com/default.sps?pagegid={B4CEE8FA-9A47-47BC-B069-3F7A2F35DB70}&newsid=6640122&page=1
a brilliant long interview from the twins
@ ghtt lol at your preempting tufty (your wrong)… guys I heard the fa is workin on a case that will charge united with wrongful deaths at heysel and hillsborough haha…and please get a jake clarke chant goin
p.s. scotts post just reminded me of how much i hate robbie fowler!!!!
Martin Atkinson…favour United?….
This is the same Martin Atkinson who reffed the FA tie at OT when Harry Redknapp’s Portsmouth knocked us out of the FA Cup. The same Martin Atkinson that waved away the Distan Challenge on CR7?
yeah right. He added on the time in then hope Shitty would score and win!!!
Fucking stonking result, lost my voice for a hour afterwards
Can’t wait to see what SAF thinks of all this non-sense. If I were Jake, I would file a personal suit against Bellshamy. Why? Well Jake’s got all the video evidence in the world and approximately 60000 eye witnesses. Jake is truly a legend in my book. If I were Gill, I would ban him for the rest of the season and every year send him a United kit with every players autograph on it to show appreciation for his legendary fanatics.
I know we’re all disappointed with the FA, but I believe not many of us could say that we are at all surprised. It’s just typical of them. Now the press will have a field day, and United will be dragged to the ground.
What they don’t realise is that their hatred just motivates our club, our players, and our fans. So I say Fuck off FA. Punish us all you want but we will never break for we are UNITED!
4:3 Mate!!!!!
Absolute Class!!!!!!
lol @tufty
The fan spat on him huh? Someone inform Guinness then. That was one hell of a long distance for a spit. Might challenge the current world record.
The so-called “decision” by the FuckAll was BOTH ridiculous and predictable as well as being predictable and ridiculous.
Does this mean that Evra’s five-match ban for slapping that racist groundskeeper is no precedent ?
Does this mean that RedNev’s five thousand quid fine is no precedent ?
Of course not ! These were just an attempt to tilt the table against UTD – how could anyone think otherwise ?
They didn’t punish our Nev so they can let Bellend go and looked like they’ve acted fair to both clubs. If Neville’s case didn’t happen, they’d looked foolish and stupid to just slap a warning on that twat Bellamy.
great scott, ive just read martin Samuel, the guy with half a brain supposedly,
but he 2 is comparing gary nevilles celebration.
to bellamys verbal and physical assault, on a man, being held back by 2 big security guards.
well first off to celebrate in front thousands of opposition fans is foolish but and act of a man not a cowardly act like bellamys.
and what on earth happened to the FA, WHY WAS CANTONA BANNED FOR 9 months for an assault on a fan, and nothing is happening to bellamy…. its not like the guy was running to attack him, the guy was restrained bellamy approached and assaulted him. this is just as bad as what cantona got 9 months for.
Is it wrong for me to say i hate mark hughes?
tufty i am disappointed by your attitude and suprised by your seemingly low IQ. I dont know how could you compare Bellamy and Schmeichel, those two are totally different situations. Schmeichel just threw the fan out of the field, the fan was loose. Bellamy walked almost 10yards towards a fan, who has been held by four security personnel, and shoved/punched him in the face. You see, Schmeichel did not hurt the fan, he just threw the fan out, while Bellamy had no reason to shove Jake. Jake spat at Bellamy? are you making that up? that made you look a whole different level more stupid you know. Even Bellamy said he THOUGHT Jake was going to spit at him.
I commented in the other topic regarding the Welcome to Manchester banner, i had respect for you, but now i am not sure anymore. I think you are just being bitter because of the banner.
But anyway i think i can just let Bellamy’s escape slip. Because i fear FA will punish OT for Garrido’s incident, which also went unmentioned.
ghtt.hi mate.hope you are fine
i have made a chant but it is poor.apologies i am poor at these things.Here it goes
Jake Clarke is a big hit
Craig bellamy is a piece of shit
jake ran onto the pitch to celebrate a dramatic win
which certainly is not a sin
and yet the cunt bellamy threw a punch
which proves he is one of a clasless shitty bunch
and despite the coward bellamy showing his hate
what does jake say?
“4-3 mate”
lol I love the chant myself,AIG,but Emily can’t say cunt.Or shit.
Let’s see what GHTT says.I don’t what tune you intended,but I got one that goes with the words.
@boogeyman
good afternoon since you too are from india.i ting we can put forward our chants and ghtt can do the editing part but as he says the lad jake Clarke definitely deserves a chant.oof to see the derby natch on MUTV.last few minutes remaining.thats what i wanted to see
The photo tells it all. Bellamy being attacked by the United fan!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.adifferentleague.co.uk/default.aspx?Tab=1&Page=6&Article=426
Mark Hughes should be ashamed of himself. As for the FA, not worth mentioning them at all.
aig, dunno about that as a chant – is it catchy enough? lol. Nice as a poem though!
I hate Liverpool like most fans but i’ve got a mate that worked on the Gerrard case and there was stuff that was left out of the media, the DJ apparently kept playing a song like who’s ya daddy over and over and that’s what got Gerrard angry and provoked Gerrard to hit him and that’s why Gerrard got off free while we were all questioning it. Defo fuck the FA though i’m so angry nothing has happened to Bellemy, what he did was bang out of order!
bigphil
i am poor at these things.just made up something.to be fair i am shocking at such things.took me barely 5 minutes.
Chant,poem,whatever,it’s fun to read…
Yeah, that’s all I meant, it’s well written, fun to read and made me laugh! I certainly couldn’t do any better so well done for your 5 minutes work!
Bellamy ran 15 yards to get involved with the fan when he didn’t have to, I cannot believe they’re not taking sterner action. The situation was under control until Bellamy got involved. Neville was just enthusiastic after an amazing winner, as we all were. What next, FA rules stipulating that all players must stand with their arms by their sides like Subbuteo men after a goal is scored?
The only thing i can think is that it was some sort of deal. We give them neville and escap trouble for the coin throwing? Probably the worse of the three incidents in the FAs eyes
Ok GHTT, second effort for Emily to have a go at and apologies for the rude word in the third verse
To the tune of que sera sera … (The old Doris Day song for anyone old enough to remember).
Oh JC JC
He shouted at Bellamy
The score it was 4 to 3
Oh JC JC
Oh JC JC
Punched by the dwarf Bellamy
FA let him off scot Free
Oh JC JC
Oh JC JC
As red as they come you see
Hit by that twat from City
Oh JC JC
Stretford end then burst into the usual … UNITED UNITED UNITED etc etc
Fuck FA….
Because MU is too good until FA try to weakest them….
Fao ghtt. To the tune if ya born in manchester.
The score woz 3-3 the atmosphere woz tense. Then michael owen scored so jake jumped the fence. The feelin woz of ecstasy the emotion woz raw. The bitter blue bastard bellamy punched him in the jaw