my views on the swansea reading game

Leon Britton joins our legends in having played for the same team in all four divisions, well done lad and Noel Hunt wins the campest goal celebration of the year award

 

Leon Britton is in his 2nd spell with Swansea though, so not quite in same league as our legends IMO.

 

Your right tigerscar, that I did not realise and he's gone down in my estimation, Hunt is still a camp bastard though

 

My views on the Stoke Liverpool game:

Robert Huth is ****, he epitomises what Stoke are about with his constant thuggery.

Luis Suarez is a ****, in the aforementioned Huth incident he really didn't need to roll around like he did, and I don't think I've seen a game this season where he hasn't comically thrown himself to the floor for a penalty. Why doesn't someone stop it? He's so notorious that he never gets penalties for it any more, but why don't they just ban him every time he does it? Yesterday the ref took no action so doesn't that leave the door open for the FA to punish him themselves?

 

I thought that the FA could only take action if the officials didn't see the incident?

 

Seeing the incident = no action, and
Not seeing the incident = no action

Are two totally different things, if the ref didnt think he dived, and didnt think it was a foul (go figure) then the FA cant do anything.

 

In Serie A Adriano famously got a 4 game ban for diving to win a penalty. The pen was given but tv replays showed he dived so they took action retrospectively. It really does beg the question why they dont do it here?

 

There was a comical dive by Bale as well that should go punished along with Suarez.

Van Persie elbowed Cabaye and gets no punishment.

Huth stomps and doesn't get any punishment.

Ashley Cole tweets something and he will get punished..... what are the FA's priorities.

 

Our very own Mr Aluko was banned by the SFA last season for 2 games for doing the same thing

 

For once I agree with BCC that Italy is superior in this respect.

I'm really starting to think that our football authorities prefer having this constant drama that arises every week because it makes talking points and 'excitement' which probably support TV revenue. There must be a reason that simple things like diving, 'jostling' in the penalty area, and repeat offenders of horrific tackles/acts of violence are ignored for so long.

 

I don't understand why certain teams haven't decided that it's better to injure Suarez early on and away from the penalty area so that he doesn't get the opportunity to constantly con the ref later. It's not a tactic I'd approve of, but it does surprise me that nobody has done it yet.