Newcastle United manager Alan Pardew will serve a seven-match suspension with immediate effect, subject to any appeal, after he admitted an FA misconduct charge. An Independent Regulatory Commission today [Tuesday 11 March 2014] ruled the first three-matches imposed are a stadium ban with the remaining four a touchline ban. Pardew was also fined £60,000 and warned as to his future conduct. He was involved in an incident with a Hull City player in the 72nd minute of the fixture on 1 March 2014. http://www.thefa.com/news/governance/2014/mar/alan-pardew-verdict#dd7CCJzyp29XYlRg.99
Should have been instant dismissal. If an ordinary worker did that to another employee they would have been sacked on the spot and may have faced criminal charges for assault. Discrace.
So should Suarez have been sacked for racial abuse? Everytime a player head butts/punches/shoves another player should they be sacked? Or each time a manager or player launches in or a verbal tirade at an opponent or official should they too be sacked? Comparing events on a football pitch to office work etc is just plain daft. Give your head a shake, it's the biggest suspension for a manager in the history of the premier league. It's about right IMO. I was thinking anything from 5-10 games and they've pitched it in the middle.
Behave It wasn't his employee that he had the confrontation with. You can't get the law involved in on pitch handbags, as you'd have arrests after very elbow, head but and ***got slap. He maybe should have got a slightly longer ban, and possibly all as stadium bans, but the fact that he threw his hands up from the minute he did it and has then had the stones to request a personal hearing to apologise to the FA in person, has obviously worked in his favour.
How is comparing a job to another job daft? I think the daft part is comparing head butting someone to 'launching a verbal tirade' Pardew has proved time and time again that he is a grade A cock.
My point was if I went in to work tomorrow and called someone in a different department a "f*cking c*nt" I'd expect to be sacked. Yet it happens up and down the country on the football pitch every weekend so you can't compare what happens on a football pitch to what happens on a shop floor or an office.
You don't excuse, it's just part of football. Sometimes passion spills over. Football is different to any other walk of life. For example when Safeways changed it's name to Morrisons their customers didn't starting protesting, signing petitions etc did they? Football is different to any other business or job. It brings out raw emotion in people and therefore the punishments for crimes on a football pitch must be dealt with much differently to crimes off the pitch.
The FA have set the standard now. For a manager to get a long stadium ban he needs to put the other guy in hospital.
If he'd have proper floored him with a full on head butt, I'd have maybe agreed with you, but he did little more than push his head into Meylers, there was no real contact.
I think it's gross overreaction. Personally think he should of got 3 game ban plus 1 more for the past. To me it's different to if a player did it on the pitch.
Still the same principle, you've been taken over by a new owner too. Just like us when Ashley wanted to change the stadium name etc. It wasn't a dig, was just pointing out that on nearly every level football is different to everyday life and as such the punishments should also be different.
