Massadio Haidara has called the Football Association's decision not to punish Wigan forward Callum McManaman "ridiculous". http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/21878467 McManaman will play before Massadio after that tackle. Ridiculous. Whelan has friends at the FA I have no doubt he called ina business favour or something. the worst tackle I've seen for a long time. Halsey apparently seen it? no he didn't isn't that why McManaman got no foul given against or a red card. Halsey is a useless **** and deserves all the abuse he gets about his referring. It has to be up there with the worst challenges of all time not least cos Haidara didn't even make a challenge. Will the FA now take action against Haidara for making comments? They could have made this a special case in the interests of protecting players and their livelihoods. The guy thought his career was over and says he is still in shock, it will affect him for a long time yet that cowardly **** gets off scott free. Either way I hope justice finds McManaman one way or the other.
It does make me laugh that they're using the 'the ref saw it' excuse when no freekick was given. So basically, he saw the two players near each other
The Wigan fans are shocking, Martinez is a douche, so so glad we did not get that useless windbag puppet flatter to deceive muppet. Whelan has def pulled in a favour. McManaman was out of control and studs up, a red and ban even if he did not hurt the player. he literally had no feet on the ground, well he had a toe. Wigan fan "Ah you poor lad. Somebody actually tackled you during a football match!!! Man up you baby!!! That's how it used to be and how it should be now. Tackling is part of football. Ok it should have got a card because it was a little high but that's it! Not people still talking about one tackle one week on. Get over it Geordies!" All very well when you support a team that can't play football ^ I mean, what inbred 24 toe'd webbed fingered tool thinks this way
MartÃnez did what 9/10 managers would do. Did what was in the best interest for his player. Publicly scolding him like those in the witch hunt after this young lad's blood wouldn't help anything. The FA and McManaman himself are those most deserving of the criticism
re Martinez, maybe you got a point but that other ****, if I played for newcastle I'd be marking his cards should Wigan survive and he'd be missing a fair few games next season ban for me or not. I like it when things even out and will have a beer if McManaman gets taken out Cowardly ****
I bet you've moaned about Roy Keane's tackle on Haaland before but you've just said you would do the same thing.
I referred to it as a tackle so keep your inaccurate comments to a minimum please. Judging by, sounds like corporate speak to me
Also, keane took out Haaland for having a go at him while he was done, he did not do keane, keane done himself. If I was Halaands team made I'd have made a tackle on keane for sure I'd stick up for my team mate. unlike some it seems now off with you to fail at poking holes in someone else's argument
I wouldn't criticise McManaman - it was a bad tackle, but he was going for the ball, not like he set out to hurt the player a la Keane. Many players have done the same when overcommitting to a 50:50 - you make that decision you know you risk getting sent off. I've seen worse challenges that didn't injure the player, so you can't criticise him for the injury as that's largely down to luck. And at least McManaman was making a genuine effort to win the ball - players like Rooney and Gerrard have gotten away with blatant elbows under the same 'ref saw it but didn't punish it' rule. If anything FIFA are the ones to blame with their blanket "What the ref says goes" approach to everything. It's a FIFA rule that if the ref sees it then it can't be punished after the game even if the ref sees it completely incorrectly. Heck, the FA had to fight FIFA just to put an appeals system in place to overturn incorrect red cards - no other country is allowed to do that.
Video evidence MUST be available for use in every instance like this. mistimed maybe but.. if I go about the itch like that without even considering the impact of my actions on other players, I've gonna end up dong someone. in so many ways it was a bad bad challenge, the image clearly shows it was dangerous and that he was in no way in any control of his lunge as he went in. That's why it is a ****ed up tackle, it was an accident born of stupidity at the very least and careless cowardly recklessness at worst. You just can't challenge for a ball like that, someone WILL get hurt. Haidara saw McManaman but apparently McManaman didn't see Haidara ? so, he only gave a **** about getting the ball and not getting hurt himself, not good enough.
Sisu... You said: Which suggests you would want to take actions into your own hands and get revenge. Roy Keane was tackled by Haaland and got injured (cruciate ligaments in memory serves me right) and Haaland then stood over him claiming Roy had dived and was faking it. Subsequently, Keane took matters into his own hands and lashed out at Haaland the next time they met up. Later admitting it in his book. Looking at those two situations, they are the same to me. Just thought it was ironic that you said what you did considering you would have argued with mancs about Keane Edit: as for taking sides, **** that ****. We're all human beings on here and just because people support diffeent clubs shouldn't mean we can't talk or (occasionally) agree on things
Other way round mate. Keane tackled Haaland from behind and injured his own cruciate ligaments. Haaland then accused him of faking injury to avoid getting booked for the challenge. The rest of your point is fair enough, tho' it depends on how far BBF is talking about going. Overdoing it in a 50:50 and trying to clatter the other player is still wrong, but Keane knowingly went out of his way to try to injure Haaland, when the ball was nowhere to be seen, which is a heck of a lot worse imo.
Fair enough but, as yous aid, the point still stands Sisu... I'm not having a dig at you pal, just pointing out the irony Edit: I'd be looking for McManaman too but I never disagreed with Keane either, just think he went a little too far with his words in his book
