Fair Play League

Although this isn't up to date, it's the most recent one I could find and is on the official PL website.

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Key:

R/Y - Red and yellow cards
PP - Positive play
R/O - Respect towards opponents
R/R - Respect towards referees
B/O - Behaviour of team officials.

So according to the table, after six games, we were;

- Joint 6th most booked side
- 3rd most negative side behind WBA and Everton
- The least respectful towards our opponents
- The joint least respectful towards officials (with Blackburn Rovers)
- Fairly well behaved officials (on par with Wigan, Chelsea and Man Utd)

What I want to know is how are we seen as one of the most negative teams and the least respecful towards officials and opponents?

For positive play, the factors taken into consideration are;

POSITIVE

- Using attacking tactics, not defensive
- Speeding up the game
- Efforts to gain time (e.g. bringing the ball back into play quickly even if the team is in a winning position)
- Continuing to push for goals when in a winning position


NEGATIVE


- Slowing down the game
- Time wasting
- Tactics based on foul play
- Play-acting (simulation)

Six games in, I don't recall us being so disgracefully negative in comparison to the rest of the league. I wouldn't say we're a side guilty of play acting and using dirty tactics. Even Stoke were deemed a more positive team for ****s sake!

It'll certainly be an interesting read when they finally get round to updating the table a bit. I wonder if our negative play has continued or if we're being so disrespectful to our opponents.

Apologies for the length!

 

Does seem strange that we're deemed a 'negative' team. Perhaps it's our outstanding defensive record that confused them.

Also, where is 'luck' in that table?

 

was the same last year, we were deemed the least respectful to the officials and opponents

absolute joke if you ask me, i'll bet anything man utd got rated higher than we did for last weekend even though they crowded the ref during and after the game

 

I might write to the FA and ask them to put it in. Factors will include: other teams not taking their chances, woodwork, dodgy decisions and buying players that everyone else expected to be **** but are actually quite good.

I think the fact that two of our players got booked for dissent won't help us, even though I felt Man Utd should've maybe had a few bookings for that themselves. I'm not sure they take into account things that happen after the final whistle as I'm sure Man Utd would be off the scale for disrespectful behaviour.

 

Newcastle!!

ლ(ಠ益&#3232ლ Y U NO FAIR??!

 

Mike Riley is head of the referee's association, he made his intention to send a Newcastle player off everytime he refereed us.

 

Krul wastes a lot of time with goal kicks, so I guess that will count against us.

The FP league is ridiculous anyway, it's more luck than anything else.

 

Tash, stop watching that Chinese porn.....it's interfering with your postings!

 

The FP league is a load of ****e. The vast, vast majority of it is calculated by opinion instead of hard facts. How do you put a numerical figure on 'respect towards referees'? It's nonsense.

 

They also have some bullshit 'behaviour of fans' point scoring section counts towards the total points. You get marked down if your fans swear and don't support the team. You get points for getting behind your team and using acceptable language!

 

If being known as ****s gets you a CL place,i think you'll put up with it
Geordie ****s

 

Now that's just not very nice, is it?

 

Sorry I'm a ****