Eduardo Appeal Upheld

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Coppo d' Gooner wrote:Good and so it should be.
Especially as that w@nker taylor only got a 3 match ban for breaking Eddie's leg.
Finally some common sense has prevailed
Common sense seems to be lacking at UEFA, if there had been some, Eduardo would never have been charged in the first place.

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Why do I bother listening to talksport. I turned it on at 8.50 to hear the sports headlines at 9 and they had Eduardo's agent on defending his player and saying that Arsenal had video evidence and the the support of the ref from the Celtic game. Alan Brazil talking over him told him that only 1% of people thought it was not a dive.

They go on about giving the ref support and respect but then in situations like this they ignore that.

I hate talklsport

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Post by Boomer »

Brillant news! :barscarf:

All Eddie needs to do is now to stamp on Platini's head and run over to the CL official delegates in the stands to celebrate in there faces! It's the new done and acceptable thing!

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Post by DB10GOONER »

richpye wrote:
I'm certain he still has it in for English teams.
I think he was just cornered with this one. The comment that Wenger made re Messi's headbutt probably hit home.
Platini will want to ban Englishmen but not if it means hes got to ban a Barcelona player as well or UEFA would have ended up in court
Agreed 100%.

Not sure, but I don't think Platini is on the appeals committee? He got sideswiped on this one. He'll be back after the PL and Wenger soon enough...

I still think Eddie dived though, tbh... :(

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Post by Bendtners Drinking Buddy »

Excellent case made by the club, really defended the player well there!

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Post by Bergkamp-Genius »

harrietharmman wrote:This is great. All this hassle is probably worth it in a way. The verdict now means Eddie has officially been ruled as a non-diver! Not many players can say that! :barscarf:
It means nothing of the sort...this case was about Uefa trying to selectively change the rules..it was about them trying to impose a red card in retrospect for an offence that had it been punished at the time would have got nothing more than a yellow..I doubt even Wenger believes he didn't dive..

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Bergkamp-Genius wrote: It means nothing of the sort...this case was about Uefa trying to selectively change the rules..it was about them trying to impose a red card in retrospect for an offence that had it been punished at the time would have got nothing more than a yellow..I doubt even Wenger believes he didn't dive..
Well at the very least the ruling means it wasn't a clear dive and thus these idiots in the media can get off their high horse when there are so many genuine undeniable cheats around

A proper dive involves both a lack of contact AND an appeal for a penalty, neither of which occurred in Eduardo's case.

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Post by I Hate Hleb »

Alas it still hasn't stopped some sections of the media from making out that Uefa's seemingly sensible climbdown will result in even more cheating!! :banghead: And it's all Eddie's fault, apparently!! :roll: :lol: :wink:

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Post by proudtosaythatname »

Eddie has been judged innocent and it clearly means a lot to him and probably the rest of the guys. Cascarino, Colleymore and even Matt Dickinson in the Times can go jump - they are only trying to justify what had become an untenable view following closer examination of the evidence. A hat-trick v Liege would shut them up :twisted:

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