The link is an Italian publication. Good reading exercise for me. Lot's of specific technical and colloquial words too. Getting the gist though. Ta. Typical first line: The volcano is ready to explode. There's that Italian metaphor again. EDIT: So the gist is that Wenger has spoken to his players informally, at Arsenal's training ground, that he'll be leaving at the end of the season. Speculation that It could mean the end for Alexis Sanchez and a lot of other players at the club [Exodus.!]. The future for Wenger looks uncertain although he's definitely leaving. That's about it. A lot of waffle really.
Still fuming that Zlatan will be back to play us, whereas he would have missed our game if it hadn't been rescheduled. I demand a recount!
Lets look at it another way. They guy has been playing two games a week for two months and has been **** hot. Now lets see how he does with a bit of rust around the edge, and an angry Mourinho on the side lines. No need for us to fear, we WILL beat them.
Mings gets a 5 match ban: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39210644 Clearly, the FA have decided that he meant it. I don't know how they can be that certain. I would have thought a 3 match ban, same as Ibrahimovich, would have been enough.
How does Ibrahimovic, who clearly stamps AND elbows Mings get a lighter sentence? Mings is unfortunately guilty of playing for a smaller club.
Fully deserves a 5 match ban. Firstly because that stamp was horrific. Secondly it provoked Ibrahimovic into reacting (not justifying it by the way) and thirdly he denied the charge. 3 games for Ibrahimovic and 5 for Mings is right IMO. What Mings did was outrageous especially as it was unprovoked.
So the fact that Ibrahimovic stamped on Mings first is OK then I take it? You need to look at the whole sequence of events Tom, just as the FA do, apparently.
FA didn't charge him for that though. He got charged for the elbow only. And I'm not convinced that was a stamp anyway. From what they've been charged with the bans are correct.
In your post you justified Ibra's actions as saying they were provoked - but this makes his elbow even worse. In your terms it is pre-meditated. By your own definition he is provoked into a violent act - one he acts out seceral minutes lates. On the other hand no pundit is sure whether Mings meant to actually stamp on Ibra - and he is clearly shoved by Rooney as he goes to move past him. Add to that that Ibra also stamoed on Mings? I agree with BFC. Ludicrous.
You also obviously didn't notice Zlatan throwing Mings to the ground earlier in the game either. You are just using weasel words as far as I can see. If it wasn't clear that Ibrahimovic's stamp was deliberate, then neither is it clear that Mings' was either, they are either equally bad or equally inconsequential. Throw in Zlatan's retaliatory elbow, plus the throwing to the ground, and the ban should have been up to at least 8 games. Big club bias, no two ways about it.
3 ex referees looked at that independently and all said it was a deliberate stamp by Mings. It's not bias at all.
