TONY PULIS is ready to compile a DVD of what he says are refereeing cock-ups after suffering at the hands of the FA again. Stoke boss Pulis is fuming after FA officials refused to overturn Robert Huth’s dismissal against Sunderland last week and is preparing to take drastic action. Huth has been banned for three games for the challenge on David Meyler and Pulis will make a video of other contentious decisions that have gone against his team. Pulis is convinced far more dangerous challenges have gone unpunished and will take his case to the FA and referees’ boss Mike Riley. He said: “We are going to put together a compilation of incidents in a very professional and proper manner and send it off to the FA."
The FA were wrong. You either suspend him or let him go. You said it yourself, in any job that is what would happen. Then you're contradicting yourself by saying they're right? Which is it, suspend people on full pay or or just punish them by taking away senior responsibility? Whichever way you wriggle, the FA have completely balls this up. Lets face it to, they have a long list of previous. There are only ever two courses taken in employment, suspend on full pay or allow to work. Both are acceptable but you must consider whether their presence would affect other employees. By allowing him to play the FA have admitted his presence is not disruptive. Actually the law affords the same presumption of innocent until proven guilty regardless of the crime, and that is the point I was driving at. To overlook it as it suits is wrong. As I say you either bar him from playing or let him go. The halfway house the FA have found is indefensible. The captaincy is not part of it and not part of the FA's remit by their own admission. Its the managers, always has been and always will be in any functional team set up. (something England can't be because of the FA's incompetence) I don't need to defend Capello as its not the issue being discussed but he is statistically the best manager England have ever had. 2 competitive defeats and a 67% win ratio speaks for itself. Two comfortable qualifications and the introduction of around 8-10 youngsters all capable of serving us well this summer and more realistically 2014. A poor 2010 performance with a defeat to world no.2 (no.1 think this summer) much further along in their development is not the end of the world unless you write for the Sun. We had a poor pool to pick from, we just need to buck up and follow the progressive trend Capello and Brooking have us on. We're behind technically and need to drop the arrogance and catch up. Englands problems run deeper than the manager as you'll see in the summer. we will not win the Euros with Harry, Wenger, Jose or whoever you want. Players win tournaments and that is where we have been short. Why? Because coaching has not been up to scratch and we've been too arrogant to learn. And there is no book by the way.
