is it just me or did the ref just send Wes brown off because he couldn't justify sending John oshea off.wes then became the last man and the ref wanted to send some one off and that became Wes brown.just thinking though
All I know is that the referee has bottled telling the truth about making the mistake to protect himself...
He's basically said and will stick to his story of 'rightly sending Brown off for his challenge'. He knows it will be proven that Brown done nothing wrong and the decision will be overturned. He also knows that wrongly calling a challenge will be viewed completely different from his superiors then what sending off the wrong man would be.
Not sure, he's played it well to be fair We actually gain from this referee decision which nobody seems to have mentioned??? We should be without our main centre back and one of our better players this season but due to the referees blunder we have him available for some crucial games!
Funny how the PGMOL ( the refs body) has come out quickly defending their man. About as useless as our FA.
Because the referee has come out and said the penalty was for the foul by Brown the FA now CANNOT 'pass on the red' to O'Shea, they can only rescind Browns. Nowt been confirmed but both should be available for Hulll.
Just be like our piss poor fa appeals panel to come out with a statement along the lines of we believe that the referee acted in the correct manner,having clearly seeing the said incident.Adding further that this appeal has wasted there time,therefore an extra match ban will apply.When was that rule last applied (oh yes on serial offenders little old Sunderland for the Michael Turner incident a few years ago).It has not been applied since then. Biased cnuts
The ref didn't see it simple as that. Must have looked like brown from his angle, lets face it though, every ref in the league would give that at Old Trafford at the stretford end regardless of seeing it or not. Sending off the wrong person just proves that no official saw it at all and they should be punished.
Club to appeal red card Published: 01 March, 2015 by Sunderland AFC Statement regarding Wes Brown dismissal. SAFC has confirmed that it will appeal the red card given to Wes Brown in yesterday's Barclays Premier League game against Manchester United at Old Trafford. The club has until 1pm tomorrow (Monday) to lodge its appeal with the FA.
The rules need to be changed so this type of thing doesnt continue to happen to clubs. Hockey has a great system where there is a team of people with every angle from every camera in every stadium live. They watch and all goals and it takes them all of 5 seconds to make a call to the ice to hold up play and all of 10 more seconds to make a decision. That type of thing could happen in the PL in regards to things like what happened to Brown.
We await our FA,s ultimate decision on this,however had this exact same scenario occurred in the United penalty area the decision would be cut and dried ie there would be :- a) NO penalty awarded (even though it was a penalty) b) nobody would have been sent off ( let alone a wrong player being sent off). We have been on the receiving end of a lot of shocking decisions going against us over not just this season but over the last 3/4 seasons (yes i know that a lot of clubs could say this and usually are the teams around the bottom half of the premier),but I am convinced that we have had more than the lions share. Is it corruption (I would dearly like to think not)? Is it referee incompetence ( maybe but why dont the FA do something about this,instead of constantly siding with officials and having no accountability).Yes they do occasionally drop a referee to a lower league for a week or two just to show that they are asserting some authority. I just want a bit of fair play for all.But hey ho it evens itself out over the season (I guess that the penalty that Palace should have got early in the season against us, in the first few minutes is our evening out for the rest of the season),so we should be eternally grateful. END OF RANT
