Liverpool have been given more time by the Football Association to respond to the two charges that followed last week's 1-0 defeat at Fulham. The club were charged with failing to control their players following the sending off of Jay Spearing. Striker Luis Suarez was charged with improper conduct over an allegedly abusive hand gesture. The Reds were originally given until 1600 GMT on Monday to respond but have now been given an extension. Suarez, who scored the winner against QPR on Saturday, is still the subject of another FA disciplinary case after he was charged, last month, with racially abusing Manchester United defender Patrice Evra in October. Soorce:http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/16149006.stm
so what does this mean? 1. suarez is charged, thus accusing him of a serious and as terry has proved pootentially a criminal activity... yet no timeframe ofr hearing this has been set this breaks i beleive the FA's own disciplinary rules for hearings in a timely fashion. 2. We see the rules once again at least waived in the case of us responding to thier charges.... In boths cases are the FA wanting this to go away? Are they afraid of a public scalding when video's of their previous decisions are shown? why are the rules so easily changed for some and not for others?
I'm guessing the reason for the extension is to counter the arguments that Harry Redknapp swears about a ref in a post-match conference and not one word has been mentioned about it (yet). They need more time to fabricate a bullshit story to why foreign player is charged for flipping up a finger and why an English manager hasn't even been slapped on the wrist for verbally abusing a referee.
I would like to think that they are buying time, to save the FA from embarrassment.John Terry's case no headway Redknapp used 'F' word when speaking about a referee.SMOKESCREEN....SMOKESCREEN. The wisest thing to do is to drop both cases agaist Suarez.
C'mon guys - fairs fair. Redknapp didn't say "the ref was ****ing useless" nor did he abuse the ref (looks at T.Rex ). What he did say was:- I spoke to the referee after the game. I never go and speak to referees after the game, I accept defeat and have never complained about refereeing decisions in 30 years of managing. Never. 'But today he got some badly wrong. When he goes home tonight and sees them he'll know he's made a couple of terrible decisions. 'The linesman, he'll watch it tonight, when his wife's making him a bacon sandwich and he'll think: '**** me what have I done there today?' Redknapp also disagreed with Foy's decision to hand Kaboul a red card for two bookable offences. The France defender's first yellow came for back chat towards Foy, and his second for a push on Jonathan Walters late on. 'I thought Younes' second yellow was harsh and the first one he got was for telling the referee it was handball, for something he has missed,' said Redknapp. 'What's he supposed to do, not say anything when someone gets something wrong? Do you just accept it? I don't think so.' He added: 'From the start I felt he wasn't going to give us an awful lot here today. That was the feeling I had. 'I just felt he was quite enjoying not giving us anything. It was one of those days.' Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...ily-hits-referee-Chris-Foy.html#ixzz1gPbaeFjT Sportsmole - redknapp-blasts-referee-chis-foy Mirror - Harry-Redknapp-fumes-at-decisions-from-referee-Chris-Foy He employed rhetorical language to suggest that Foy would consider himself at error. However, he did swear during the interview to the BBC and if we're being consistent, Rooney got a ban for that. Not sure whether Harry should get a touchline ban for it. Just a thought. However, that last sentence is a problem for Harry - it suggests that the ref was behaving in an unprofessional manner, which the FA normally take exception to...
to counter that lets just say rafa benitiez mentioned a ref may be too young once and got done... redknapp puts words in the linesman's mouth as it were paraphrasing what redknapp would like the linesman to think... namely he got it badly wrong.... and thats ok then? no action is the fa line anyway.... kaboul gets one match for back chat and a foul while spearing gets 3 for making a clearance that dembele jumped into the way off.... go figure...
[video=youtube;BwGLUnRWPxc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwGLUnRWPxc[/video] Well having seen it yet again, I am continually appalled at the decision at the time, and mystified by Liverpool deciding not to appeal against it. its a single foot, but Dembele is running across the front of Spearing, so when the challenge was 'made' he wouldn't have been in the line of the challenge. I'm astounded to see this was not appealed. However, with the FA, you get the feeling that we'd have been dismissed anyway...
yea it wsa on and then the other foot, never two footed, and even then his right foot lamely tapped the player on the back of the calf. Again good odds on a fulham win,Kevin Friend another stinkingly corrupt ref, I am so glad I canned sky years agoand have not bought a jersey for years with this joke of a league
Well the FA have already proved that violence is ok in Football with the Rooney appeal. Maybe should bring that up.
i just felt the club thought that if they were good boys on spearing the fa would leave it at that... playing the good soldiers cap in hand... then the fa charge the club, suarez and give spearing 3 matches... plus the ref's other shcoking decisions (like booking demeble for nothing having forgotten to book him for a flying kick on carroll) Time to circle the wgons and invite a big fine but create such a stin kthe fa will think twice next time. Redknapp has proved he can do it seeing he's got away with it..... ferguson takes his licks but keeps on doing it cos he knows full well refs have it in mind.
By the way...anyone know when Utd are getting charged for surrounding the ref for the Newcastle penalty?...anyone?
Surrounding the ref..... I assume most watched the barca x real game? If I was the ref I would have yellow carded anyone asking for a yellow, anyone who touched me, and anyone who surrounded me like that. It was insane.
Generally seem's that if you're in the CL the FA tiptoes about, afraid to upset them; if you're not, you get a steel rod up yer jacksie and told to shut up and suffer.
they didn't surround him - they just gathered in the vicinity - as for the suarez finger, the fa will have to charge frimpong and meireles if they go ahead with the suarez charge
