The FA have today confirmed that they will not be taking any action on Jose Bosingwa for kicking Yossi Benayoun in the back.
They will certainly rescind Frank Lampard’s red card for his high challenge on Xavi Alonso, with Mike Riley cocking up in a spectacular and unsurprising fashion, meaning the blues are off the hook once again.
Whilst we’ll never know what the result had been had Lampard stayed on the field, maybe they would have been awarded another dodgy penalty at Anfield, you’d be hard pushed to suggest that Chelsea deserved anything based on their first hour of play. Not that Liverpool were much better, but they could string a couple of passes together and they did at least look like they might score. Whilst that doesn’t make it right that Lampard got sent off, they are only one point, at best, off what they could have been, with all their players suspension free for their next match.
Chelsea have already been lucky with decisions this season, given that John Terry saw his rugby tackle on City’s Jo go entirely unpunished, with them viewing the tape after the game and deciding a rugby tackle in football isn’t counted as “serious foul play”.
Then there was the FA report that saw Patrice Evra fined and banned for a massive four matches, despite the report admitting that there was no CCTV footage of the alleged punch they were punishing him for. There was CCTV footage of Chelsea’s groundstaff swinging for and missing Evra though, according to their report, so how they could make their decision to ban Evra for something they had no proof of is beyond me.
The DVD evidence does not itself show whether or not Evra actually struck Bethell. Evra denies it but we accept Bethell’s evidence that he was struck on or near his right ear and it was clearly Evra who struck him. We note that Evra is right-handed but do not see that as a reason to reject that conclusion.
Then against Liverpool, the eyes of the World saw Bosingwa raise his leg and plant his studs in Benayoun’s back, kicking him off the pitch.
“I apologise for what I did and it was never my intention to hurt him,” said Bosingwa afterwards. “I know it was wrong and I apologise.”
You bloody kicked him in the back, you mug. How can you claim you weren’t trying to hurt him?
Ashley Cole, who lost the ball then assisted Liverpool’s second goal, reckons everyone is against them.
“All the players watched what happened with Shaun Wright-Phillips and no one gets booked or questioned about it,” said Cole, referring to Wright-Phillips’ kick at Rory Delap at the weekend. “We do one little tackle and we seem to be getting yellow and red cards.”
Now the same can be said of Bosingwa. Everyone saw it but nothing is being done about it. Happy?
It appears as though the madness of Rafa’s new bff, Scolari, is rubbing on the Chelsea players. Leading up to the game, Scolari suggested that teams travelling to Stamford Bridge commit up to 60 fouls before they are booked, whilst his players pick up all the bookings. However, Chelsea commit, on average, 10.92 fouls before a yellow card is shown, whilst the visitors are booked, on average, every 7.46 fouls. FACT.
When you consider Ronaldo has been sent off this season for not burying his free header in to the back of City’s net because he thought he heard a whistle, I don’t really have much time for the likes of Ashley Cole whining about Chelsea being hard done by, considering the shit they’ve already got away with this season!
Typical, these things dont surprise me anymore.
chelsea rentboys.
red-manc is spot on, i expect the idiots at the FA to continue their ABU decisions. oh well, i bet the rentboys and scousers would trade a few 4 match bans to be top of the league.
You demean your selves with this sort of rubbish. Man Utd currently very clearly has the best team and the best squad in Britain. Pretending that the FA is biased to support us is ludicrous.Most impartial comments would suggest Rafa and Scolari looked stupid with their rants but there was some truth in suggestion that the FA, like BBC and Sky, are scared of Man Utd as you have so much ‘purchasing power’ in terms of your fan base.
BBC Scouse!?! are you sure Rentboy?
in fairness mate…your point about sky isn’t too bad (although I don’t quite understand how we would effectively exercise our power against the multi-billion pound corporation that bankrolls our league) but what hold could we have over the FA and BBC, threaten to remove ourselves from MOTD or the League, that would go down well with everyone wouldn’t it? Plus the BBC still refuse to apologise to Ferguson over a year on so they can’t be too bothered about us…In fact, it’s in the interests of the Premier League to have a healthier competition and peg us back a bit… however I don’t believe anyone is biased against anyone but it’s good for a laugh and if we kick up enough of a fuss one of our players will get away with their next infringement..
ChelseaR, I personally dont think its anything to do with chelsea the fact is that the FA are idiots, inconsistant and unfair. at times they favour chelsea, at times its ridiculously ABU but 100% of the time its pro scouse.
Lampard’s tackle wasnt a sending off (anti chelsea), Delap kicks a ball at a player gets sent off, GBH gerrard does the exact same thing yet doesnt even get a yellow (pro scouse)
Boswingwa should of got some punishment but even so it would of changed what happend in the match so i dont particually care about it, i only care about United.
FUCK THE FA.
that doesnt mean i like you lot btw, your still rentboys
and yes Jakes right to agree about Sky, Man Utd Heaven and Hell and Man Utd greatest goals programmes are a bit baffling but i guess they are acting on public demand, maybe one day when (if) chelski have some history and a huge fan base they’ll do a chelski heaven and hell, no prizes for guessing the no.1 of the hell section……. Viva John Terry.
Fuck the FA . It is now time to withdraw Rio, Rooney, Carrick etc out of the england set up all together. I only wish we could but as we know Rooney, in particular loves representing his country.
The funny thing is the Scousers being such a “everyones against us” city think that they are mistreated by the media and FA etc. If only that was the case. How Boswinga is getting away so lightly is beyond me but as numerous people have said at least it was a dipper he was kicking in!
Whats honestly even more shocking is the refs demand for “respect” when absolutely none is due. Lampard is shown a red card that was hardly more than a FK and Bosingwa isnt shown a red for planting his boot in the back of a Scouser just one yard from the so called “assistant”. Its shocking really.
We saw it on OT versus Chelsea aswell – when Rooney took the corner fast and Giggs dribbled away with the ball. The assistant called the ball back because “they didnt tell him what they were doing” – theyre demanding respect and they cant even see whats going on right in front of them.
Of course Lampards red card from yesterdays match should be cancelled – but Bosingwa shouldve gotten a long ban instead.
ChelseaR, You cant argue with facts. Things do tend to go mysteriously your way.
I guess this is what we get when there’s too much money, large sums, involved in everything. FA’s being more and and more of an insult to the game. Even FIFA’s fooling themselves now (Vidic’s case). These things has become so frequent that every injustice looks normal and predictable.
The beautiful game has definitely changed a lot, some for the prettier, some for the uglier. You will have mixed feeling when you read these facts of injustice and watch video clips of the game’s beautiful moments. At the end of the day, i am grateful that MU’s the one i love, because we are the most beautiful and the most succesful right now.
GGMU!
I read the official statement on the FA website
http://www.thefa.com/TheFA/NewsFromTheFA/Postings/2009/02/Bosingwa_statement.htm
Apparently Riley didn’t see it at the time but the assistant Mo Matadar saw it. Why he didn’t blow his whistle is beyond me. The FIFA rules stipulate that you can’t take action against a player for an on field discretion after the game if the officials saw it during the game and didn’t take action.
Priceless isn’t it.. 4 match ban for an alleged punch with no conclusive video evidence. Kick a player off the field in front of millions and “NO action will be taken”
I agree about the absurdity of the FA. Even Scolari said he would understand of Bosingwa was red carded!!!
the good news is that evra went on a 4-match ban and we did not conceed a goal,ronaldo missed a match and we still survived. But even with Chelsea’s rugby captain they have always lost. SHAME. Kudos to our team, the fans, the managers and everything that is MANUNITED. The pretenders should take time off to visit Old Trafford for inputs above management.
Simply unbelievable. I don’t wanna get worked up cos im about to go out after my last uni exam (ever), so many things i wanna say about this but i’m pretty sure the videos speak for themselves. The FA are actually the most incompetent organisation ive ever seen.
It’s irrelevant that United kept winning during Evra’s 4-match ban. It was an injustice by the FA, as ably shown in Scott’s detaled analysis at the time, and it’s in keeping with other decisions by the FA going back some way in recent years (Cantona, Rio, Scholes etc). As for anti-United bias at the BBC, I used to work there (not in Sport) , and I found it to be there some of the time, but not consistently, although Brian Barwick was certainly anti-United in my view when he was Head of Sport, hence the downgrading of the Treble on Sports Review of the Year etc. At the time of the Cantona kung-fu episode I protested at the endless hyping of the story, out of all proportion to what he’d actually done, as I knew from being a close eye-witness at Crystal Palace (Jeez , is it really 14 years ago??) The endless replays of the kick made that excessive court sentence (overturned on appeal) plus the over-the-top FA ban inevitable.
The FA is a disgrace to the football nation.
Considering Evra can be banned for 4 matches for a truly off-field incident that can never be proved upon, that how Bosingwa can escape a blatant red card is out of this world.
People argue about using video-evidence to punish the dirty players of diving and elbowing opponents, but this blatant kick is WITNESSED but no action is taken.
Crazy crazy world.
RESPECT ref campaign will never succeed with this kind of officials, and FA.
I already stated yesterday my thoughts on respect campaign, so I will not go there, but I will put my opinion as to why FA is more lenient with rent boyz. The answer is much simpler then you might think:it’s because they are lenient to FA. In last game Riely literally ended rent boyz’s title challenge. He screwed up, No doubt about that, but did you see what Scolari said. He just asked to cancel the red card. SAF would have crucified them. He would have insulted everyone, from assistants to the chief referee and rightfully so, as far as I am concerned. SAF behavior increases the pressure on the reffs and they try their best not to fuck up, but when they have us at their mercy, they show none. When people say the SAF pressures them and manipulates, they are right, but we do pay the price for that too and the others who don’t get other benefits from FA.
don’t you guys think it will be sweet when they hate us and we force them to come over to wem-ber-ley and hand over the carling and fa cups to us? and more importantly, the premiership trophy? i think that is actually the only way we can get back at them. they would not have a choice or they can say they missed their flight or they all ate poison the previous day and so they were having running stomach.
it is really not compulsory they come around in may, they can alsways send the cups and we present it to ourselves.
Imcompetent lot!!!
Told some guys on here some weeks ago that mo matadar is a muppet in black. Known the lad 20 years…guy lives 10 seconds away from me. He’s the muppet who didnt see ronaldos strangulation boro game. Something ive reminded him off and laid into him about numerous times since.
Bosingwa the twat should have got a ban. Happy though that that crap benayoun got some nice stud marks.
Surprised though matadar didnt wave for a foul. The guys a hardcore dipper fan ever since ive known him…something the FA dont know about i guess