posted Apr 24, 2008

Rubbish. It is selective. Ashley cole embarrasses a ref gets a yellow and based on video evidence should heve been sent off for dissent yet nothing happens and the referee don't even see it during the game and he gets a three match ban baed on video evidence?

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posted Apr 24, 2008

barca4ever are you a complete r e t a r d? They can only punish people retrospectively when the referee has not seen the incident at the time of occurence!!

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posted Apr 24, 2008

i totally agreee hes slapping like a women he should be banned for 5 gmes not 3 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

man united fan all tha way

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posted Apr 24, 2008

Got himself a nice early holiday too hasn't he. Time to go house hunting in Milan i guess

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posted Apr 24, 2008

arsenal picked on a bit manu and chelsea get away with things week after week the whole ashley cole thing is a joke he gets away with it coz ref didnt see it and fa cant act now everyone one is paying 4 it

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posted Apr 24, 2008

Naughty kids have to be taught a lesson.

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posted Apr 24, 2008

I think it's ironic that Murty gets blamed for Hleb's ban by anyone. Hleb raised his hand and hit him. Neither Murty nor Reading have anything to gain by this. Quite the opposite in fact. We will lose out as you have one less player to pick from when you play our rivals.

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posted Apr 24, 2008

See, I'm an Arsenal fan, and I think this is correct, I'm a big admirer of Hleb, but I guess he snapped, and it's unacceptable.

I think the big issue is that decisions need to be reviewed, like what happened here, when they're gotten wrong, even if the ref can see it. Everyone says "their human, they can make mistakes," well then we need to change these mistakes.

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posted Apr 24, 2008

Strange, yes he raised his hand to Murty, Murty hit the ground like a sack of potatoes, he complained to the referee at the time, the ref does nothing, why didn't the referee's "assistants" see the incident, they a complete waste of time and money, because they definitely don't "assist" the ref, plenty of incidents, nobody saw Hleb being hacked down in the box by Liverpool?
Chelsea's John Terry and crew surrounding the ref far too often, Wayne Rooney shouting at the ref and not getting booked, the FA are a joke, Hleb was wrong, but does Hleb warrant the same punishment as Martin Taylor of Birmingham City (I don't believe Martin intended to injure Eduardo) got for breaking Eduaro's leg?
Murty was not punched but grazed, and was up and running within seconds of the incident.
The FA need to improve their act, it's deemed to be contact sport, the real question that the FA should be looking at is the number of serious errors the refs are making and start using the technology available to correct decisions at the game.
It is a little use the FA telling us that the refs have a difficult job, so just give them the resourcres to make the right decisions.

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posted Apr 25, 2008

Does this mean that poor decisions, that could affect a teams season, should be reversed after the fact? Why don't we just introduce in game replay decisions?

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