So Cisse admits it and apologises and gets a six match ban (the seventh match is for a linked offence). Evans denies it and a committee finds it was disgusting and yet he gets a six match ban. Why bother ever admitting to having done anything!!
Both players received the mandatory penalty for the offence stipulated by FIFA adopted by the FA prior to the season starting. As for Cisse, he could hardly deny it, unless he wanted to look an even bigger p****. No sympathy for either of them, got their just deserts as far as I'm concerned.
just read this, what the FA think about Evans still can't believe that he didn't get an extra game ban for being an arse about it http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/31862900 Jonny Evans: Man Utd defender's spitting simply disgusting - FA Manchester United defender Jonny Evans's actions in spitting at Papiss Cisse were "simply disgusting", said the FA panel which found him guilty. Evans, 27, denied spitting at the Newcastle striker during the Red Devils' 1-0 win over the Magpies on 4 March, but was given a six-match ban. "The ordinary man in the street will find his action to be simply disgusting," said the three-man panel. "It should not be allowed in any walk of life, let alone any football field." The written reasons for the punishment given to Evans and Cisse, 29, were released by the FA on Thursday. Manchester United argued that a six-match ban against Evans was excessive, the report also revealed. Cisse, who accepted the original charge, will miss seven games through suspension for his part in the incident. "It is clear that Mr Evans is looking directly and indeed aggressively at Mr Cisse. His lips are 'pursed' and he is close to Mr Cisse," added the report by an independent regulatory commission. "If he was, as alleged to be the case, a person who 'habitually spits', then the commission were concerned as to why he did not turn his head away from Mr Cisse when so spitting. "If that had been a family member or indeed another team member or his manager in front and below him would he still have carried out the same manoeuvre? "Mr Evans had (and has) a duty of care, if spitting for whatever reason, not to direct the same in the general direction of an opponent, or indeed anyone else. The video clips clearly show that he failed in his duty of care." Manchester United and Evans accepted that spitting has "no place in football", but hoped that the Northern Ireland international would receive less than a six-match ban. But the panel, which admitted Evans had a "good and maybe commendable" previous disciplinary record, did not believe there were any exceptional circumstances to warrant a lesser punishment.
I've no sympathy for either I just don't understand a system whereby you can get added games for 'frivolous appeals' against dubious cards and yet no added punishment whatsoever for denying violations.
Both were guilty imo. And both were playing the system imo. 1 admitting it to gain favour for admitting it, 1 denying it to not be labeledld a spitter/help appeal etc
