Most managers would be appalled if their captain stuck two fingers up at the referee for booking them, particularly when the yellow card was totally justified.
As the FA try and enforce their Respect the Referee campaign, it doesn’t say an awful lot when the player who captained the England national team just last week is showing such obvious disrespect for the referee.
Wayne Rooney has been booked for sarcastically applauding a referee before now, which meant he was sent off, a punishment which at least matched Gerrard’s crime.
However, Rafael Benitez has launched a defence that even Gerrard’s lawyers would be proud of.
“Sometimes you move your fingers. It was nothing. We are not considering it, it was nothing.”
Of course. Sometimes you just move your fingers. We all do it. Everybody moves their fingers and that is all Gerrard did.
The defence rests, your honour.
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Gerrard is not going to get fined/banned for that gesture so we should stop scraping the barrel now.This kind of harping is not going to achieve anything.
The defence rests your, honour lol……Classic.
Well the cunt does have court experience ma Lud lol
A typically pathetic and dim witted bollocks excuse from the Fat Spanish Waiter.
At least Fergie is increasingly acknowledging when our players over step the mark and I hope he continues to do so because it gives us and him more credibility.
And typical of the blithering buffoons who run the FA to do fuck all with lovable Scouser Gerrard, or should that be total wanker from the planet cunt Gerrard.
I am moving two fingers right now and they are directed at you, you FSW.
Gerrard got away with beating the shit out of somebody in a bar “because he thought they were going to hit him first”.
Perhaps he was just getting the insult in first?!
The 2 fingers where directed at the fsw, 2 months to you get the sack.
Of course, you’re right , Rafa!
Sometimes we move our fingers which transform into a fist … and we still have to move that fist to get contact with someone’s face … and keep that moving forward and backward… one after another… moving!!
It’s all down to moving fingers,… we’r all do that… no biggie… whatsoever.. well done, you! Well Done!!
Rafa, if you’ve lost your day time job at ruining a club.. you can be my solicitor.. anytime..!
Im telling ye. All hes saying is that he only did 2 starfish dives in the match.
His Trademark along with those scissors tackles.
C’mon lads, give Stevie Me a break – can’t you see he was just pulling his fingers out of his arse when they came up a little high?
What would expect from Steven Gerrard????
Typical wanker.
Wouldn’t it be awesome if, during our game vs the dippers, Gary Nev stuck 2 fingers up @ Rafa. And then, in the press conference after Rafa’s Inevitable complaint on the issue, Gary calmy leans back and says, “Sometimes you just Move your fingers.” It’d be interesting to see how the FA would deal with the situation, seein s how they’ve let Stevie Me get away with it against a ref.
Did Neville get banned or reprimanded for swearing at Tevez? I can’t remember.
He’ll get away with it cos Marriner has given Liverpool loads of favourable decisions this season (wasn’t he the ref at Anfield that didn’t send off Carragher?), and he’s not black or foreign.
Anyway, if he gets a ban it may mean him missing the game at Old Trafford. I’d rather he was on the pitch whilst we batter them.
I’ll remember this if a United player ever decides to stick 2 fingers up at a ref.
have you seen the fsw latlely he looks like a dead man walking he’s mumbling taking gibberish i think he’s finally cracked it made me think of those pink panther movies were at the end as the credits role you see herbert lom in a straight jacket after clouseau has driven him mental. i’m waiting for two guys to show up at the news conference and carry him away.lol
who gives a shit, why are we talking about a mid table team?
i’m just looking forward to fergie having his say on it. Not sure whether he’ll wait until a united player gets slammed by the media for coughing in the general direction of the referee, but you just know he’s got his opinion on it. Knew for sure the scouse thug would get away wi it, and i agree wi those who say if it were united player it would be all over back pages and on news. I don’t think it’s so much the fuck off the fucking idiot said coz anyone who’s ever played football will know how much of a throwaway comment it0is but to top it off with a ‘waving of the fingers’ just shows the classless fucking twat for what he is.
Like Gerrards girlfriend (now wife) I guess, bet she wished she thought of that when she had an affair. sometimes your arse just moves – up and down up and down up and down. ……
Lay off the FSW, he’s only telling the truth about Stevie Me whose fingers do move a lot of the time. Like most wankers.
The whole episode speaks more about the FA itself. We all knew what a cunt Stevie Me is. One only wonders if the old farts at the FA have any decency at all?
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LMFAO!! Brilliant Mate
He was never going to get charged…if you can escape punishment for running over kids, hitting DJ’s he was hardly going to get done for this.
Benitez should be a lawyer…… NOT.
it’s fucking outrageous. We all know if this was one of ours they’d be fucked over by the Fucking Arseholes. Gerrard is a fucking prick who gets away wi everything. Not fit to wear the england shirt never mind armband. I hate the scouse twat
Hmm, could only come from the FSW!
what next “the chewbacca defence”?
Any guy that gets away with GBH by saying I punched him 1st milord coz i thought he was going to hit me after beating up my 6 mates is going to get away with whatever he wants.
Gerrard be found guilty catch a grip. Saint fucking stevie me no a chance. Cunt can punch anyone he wants to, tell refs who to send off and throw himself to the ground regardless, it is a wonder that the media isn’t critising the ref
If Rooney had of done that he’d be sitting on a 3 match ban
Get real people, he’s gesturing the number two. Quit whining about everything.
Stevie Me can get away with murder. Let us face it there are no laws that apply to the media’s darling. If Michael Owen or any other Manchester United player had done that then they would have nail holes in their hands and feet.
brett1985 – Is he fuck mate, I watched the game and I can assure you it is the fingers and he mouthed fuck off as well.