Comments on: FA on Chelsea: Rugby Tackle? Fine. Kick In The Back? Fine. Alleged Post-Match Tussle? 4 Match Ban

By: suhayl

suhayl — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 15:31:46 +0000

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

By: olusanjo

olusanjo — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 06:18:02 +0000

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!!!

By: Orez

Orez — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 06:00:19 +0000

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.

By: zhixiang

zhixiang — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 03:36:00 +0000

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.

By: Giles Oakley

Giles Oakley — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 23:32:29 +0000

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.

By: RedBoyo

RedBoyo — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 20:53:56 +0000

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.

By: rotimi oladipo

rotimi oladipo — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 19:59:38 +0000

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.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:58:13 +0000

I agree about the absurdity of the FA. Even Scolari said he would understand of Bosingwa was red carded!!!

By: Axeman

Axeman — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:52:07 +0000

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”

By: klauq

klauq — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:25:02 +0000

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!