There is acceptable swearing and what Rooney did.All Reina did was say ''Ah for **** sake''.Don't tell me for one minute a player doesn't say that when he is about to be booked.All players do it.So why single out Reina? Rooney ran up to the camera and told to the West Ham fans to ''**** off''.not once but twice.
When did Rooney run to the camera? Also Reina clearly swore at the ref, hardly respectful now was it? KPR do you like the new signature? Your knowledge of football knows no bounds.
Again why single out Reina?Rooney says ''For **** sake'' at a ref when decisions don't go his way.Thats acceptable. What Rooney did wasn't acceptable.Going up to a camera and telling supporters to ''**** Off''.Not once but twice.
He never said **** off to the West Ham fans at all, he said "****ing what... what... ****ing hell" and received his ban for using abusive language. If the FA were serious about stamping out abusive language in the game then Reina, and Barton who was also caught on camera in the Villa game clearly shouting "**** off" to the ref, should both be handed bans, but the fact they have done nothing to either just makes the FA look like more of a joke than usual.
Okay in future no player can be booked for shirt-pulling because Vidic gets away with it on countless occasions.And don't say he doesn't.
And so does Skrtel, Carragher and most other defenders in the league, whats your point? Unless the ref's start "consistently" punishing those offenses they won't stop, just like if they don't start "consistently" punishing swearing it won't stop neither, and then this Rooney ban serves no real purpose except to make the FA look like even more of a joke.
Vidic does it more than anyone.And he gets away with it more than the rest. From now on,unless Vidic gets sent off for shirt pulling.Its allowed,especially on Man United players.
The thing with Rooney's charge, was that it didn't seem to take the camera into account. If it was due to the camera, surely he should've been charged with bringing the game into disrepute? Charging him for foul and abusive language seems like it's just the words he said rather than the fact that it was directly at a TV camera. The FA have dropped another bollock basically.
You sad bastards. People would be banned every game at this rate. Only reason Rooney is getting band is he did it direct to the camara. Have some common sense guys.
He shouldn't have been banned for using foul and abusive language.All players do it.However,he should have been banned for doing it at the crowd.
Doing it at the crowd... you mean saying "****ing what"? How is that different to when the majority of players score and shout stuff like "****ing get in" or when players blatantly swear at a ref?
So why didn't they charge him with bringing the game into disrepute? By banning Rooney just for swearing, the FA have left themselves open to criticism if they don't ban other players for swearing.
Typical thread by KingPepeReina Say something with no foundation e.g. Man Utd introduced cheating into football or Dion Dublin then of Man Utd ended David Bussts career. Be totally humiliated when the obvious flaw i.e it was garbage spouted by some mad chimp was ridiculed by any sensible football fan. Next KingPepeReina simply buries his head in the sand and ignores all opportunities to explain his stupid posts. KingPepeReina possibly the most stupid poster I have ever come across on any football forum.
Except there is no rule about not swearing into a camera or at the crowd - the FA have just selectively applied their existing rule that says all swearing is a red card offence. They are being made to look like fools - they let players get away with swearing every game, and then get embarrassed because someone gets a camera shoved in his face whilst he is doing it. Had the cameraman come running up to the side of Reina whilst he was swearing at the ref, he'd have gotten caught out the same way. If the FA wanted to be fair and unbiased about the whole thing, they would have charged Rooney with bringing the game into disrepute. But they weren't sure they could make that charge stick, and Rooney might have gotten off with a fine or a warning, so they chose to pressure the ref into claiming he would have sent him off, when everyone knows refs never send players off for swearing. Rooney probably did deserve a ban for swearing at the camera. But he also deserved to be treated fairly and consistently under the rules, and not stitched up by selective application of said rules, just cos the FA realised that they are full of holes.
This is not about some paranoid ABU issue. It's about consistency as Swarbs has pointed out. That said I don't think the Rooney and Reina incidents are comparable. Reina did what most players do in every game, swear about a decision they don't agree with and then move on. Rooney however made a direct point of swearing right into the camera (not the first time he's used the camera to vent his frustrations) and with it left the FA with no choice but to charge him (although a two game ban is very harsh, should have been a wrap on the knuckles and a fine)
Pepe just did not swear on the pitch, he swore directly at the referee and was clearly caught on camera doing so. The whole outcry over the Rooney incident was his swearing was heard on TV but never swore at a match official or other player.
I'm on your side but I hate it when man utd fans talk about ABU's. It is paranoid, self-important bullshit that is used to justify why every criticism of your team is wrong.
