FA are embarrassing & thats why everyone laughs at Engalnd

[Barriecuda]

Few words can really express my surprise, shame, and disgust at the FA's choice. And it is that, it's a CHOICE not to act. Saying "oh some world football body that has no actual consequence on our domestic association has decided we can't act, so we won't"... what a cop out. "The ref decided it wasn't a bookable offense" is one thing, but this takes the cake.

Absolute injustice. We're just lucky Song is still walking, let alone playing. That was a butcher's tackle by a spineless, classless individual who proved he shouldn't have been on the pitch all night. Taking him off probably would have been a favor to Mancini.

[k1tsun3]

Graham Poll admits the FA's decisions are baffling

The former official reacts to the news that Mario Balotelli won't face retrospecitve action for his lunge on Alex Song and that Shaun Derry's red card won't be rescinded.

http://www.talksport.co.uk/radio/kickof ... ing-169395

[DB10GOONER]

Graham Poll admits the FA's decisions are baffling

The former official reacts to the news that Mario Balotelli won't face retrospecitve action for his lunge on Alex Song and that Shaun Derry's red card won't be rescinded.

http://www.talksport.co.uk/radio/kickof ... ing-169395

When someone as shit as Poll is mouthing off you know your organisation has problems!

Balotelli is an arsehole. He is all about him, fuck his team mates and his club, it's all him. Geebag.

His "challenge" on Song was disgraceful and fair play to Spiv Neville he called it on Sunday. That chop over the ball onto the planted leg is a c*nt's tackle, end of.

In the old days, Balotelli would have received a "calmer" from one of our centre halves about 2 minutes after he did it.

[I Hate Hleb]

I think what has been over-looked here is the financial loss I incurred because of the awful job Ballotelli made of 'damaging' Song!! That's another £100,000 down the swanny!! And to think Italians are supposed to have a reputation for being good hit-men!!


(Oh, before anyone gets overly excited or overcome by their moral outrage, this is meant to be a joke!! Everyone knows it doesn't cost that much!! )

[Rocky Number Seven]

Can somebody enlighten me as to what the difference is with this
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/footbal ... 339964.stm
and Balotelli's challenge regarding retospective action after an official has seen an incident on the pitch.

This is the best quote "Aware of the severity of the incident, the FA circumvented its own rules to lodge a charge of "serious foul play" "

Absolute disgrace.

[diggerdan]

English football is a laughing stock ..for years we have seen how the officals help certain teams, and penalise others ..then the old farts who are supposed to run the game dish out punishments for very little and do nothing about serious issues !

career threatening tackes go unpunished yet bans dished out for genuine errors.
they make excuses for poor officiating then hammer managers for speaking their mind !

no wonder football is such a shambles with historic teams going bankrupt ..lower league players not being paid ..while some players are earning outragious amonts of money with the responcibilty of being a role model.

[Bedford Gunner]

They are a shambles. Inconsistent and poor decisions have made them a joke.

They strip the England captaincy and the England team are now in tatters as a result. A decision that should be left to the manager over an issue that has yet to be proven. The FA are meant to be the independent governing body for English football but this value has been lost.

[safcftm]

They are a shambles. Inconsistent and poor decisions have made them a joke.

They strip the England captaincy and the England team are now in tatters as a result. A decision that should be left to the manager over an issue that has yet to be proven. The FA are meant to be the independent governing body for English football but this value has been lost.

To be fair to the FA, much though I think Capello should have taken the decision, Terry losing the captaincy was absolutely the right decision. If you work for a company and an allegation (unproven at that point) of racism is made against you, you would be suspended (on full pay), you wouldnt be able to come into the place of work until the allegation had been fully investigated. Equally if you go to a match and are accused of racism, you will immediately be told that until you have been cleared of the allegation you are not welcome to attend matches (and when the police say no further action is to be taken you wont even be refunded for the games you've missed ). It pisses me off that a fan accused of what Terry has been wouldnt be allowed to even set foot into a stadium, whereas he is still allowed to play and might, had the FA not stepped in, have been allowed to captain the country. We couldnt have him as captain with an allegation like that hanging over him. The FA are generally twats though

[SteveO 35]

Yep, everyone laughs at England. Shame we can't rely on all that expertise and know-how that UEFA or FIFA normally show in these situations.

The rules are dictated to the FA

Perhaps we should have 32 officials on the pitch

[UTU The Arsenal]

Paul Davis was banned for 9 games for breaking Glen Cockrell jaw, the ref and neither linos saw it but he was done on video evidence.
The Punch up on the pitch at old trafford was starting but Brian McClair who kicked Nutty Boy when he was on the floor. The Arsenal deduced 2 points and the manc 1 point

Alan Shearer kicks Neil Lennon in the Head and No Action is taken, imagine if Ian Wright had done it

The Ref and FA didn't see it cos they are corrupt.

[StuartL]

If the ref or lino saw the challenge and deemed it to be ok then they are incompetant and should not be refeering at top level where they are responsible for players safety.

If they didn;t see the incident or view it clearly enough to see its severity then the FA need to impose retrospective action on a challenge ( I won't call it a tackle) that could have ended a players career.

Ref's must be the only profession where their mistakes are overlooked or even backed by their bosses, everyone else in life gets a bollocking.

[augie]

Am I right in saying that they are now claiming that the 4th official is the one that seen it ? Given that the c**t has no authority to intervene in what happens on the pitch then how can they tie this in with the "the officials seen it at the time but deemed it unnecessary to take action at the time" line of defence ? As I said before, I didnt want the crazy italian hit with a 9 match ban (and I feel that turning down qpr's appeal was a worse decision) but there has to be some level of consistancy with the c**ts at the fa

[safcftm]

Am I right in saying that they are now claiming that the 4th official is the one that seen it ? Given that the c**t has no authority to intervene in what happens on the pitch then how can they tie this in with the "the officials seen it at the time but deemed it unnecessary to take action at the time" line of defence ? As I said before, I didnt want the crazy italian hit with a 9 match ban (and I feel that turning down qpr's appeal was a worse decision) but there has to be some level of consistancy with the c**ts at the fa

*pedantic hat on* the 4th official can get involved- only in cases of mistaken identity and if he witnesses a violent challenge that is missed by the other 3 officials but, since that would cover the incident, the FA can claim easily enough that it was missed by the 3 officials but seen by the 4th official who didnt deem it worthy of bringing it to the refs attention. But I agree that there is no consistency

[Supagoon]

Remember the appeal against the 3 match ban that the FA did on behalf of Rooney for kicking a player.
Yet they insist 3 games is standard for violent conduct in England.

Hillarious organisation

[LeGinge (Northern Branch)]

Btw I couldnt give a f**k if they suspend ballotelli or not - I aint defending the guy and it was a horrific assault on song but I do feel that the media have had their knives out for him for a long time and are trying to crucify him over everything at the mo. Can anybody remember a similar outcry when taylor and shawcross assaulted our players in the past ? Was there a media demand for a 9 game ban and exiling them out of the country ? Was there f**k and of course their nationality doesnt come into it when the media defended them

This 100% Great post!

The media (and by that I mean Sky, BBC, tabloids, mail (worse than tabloids) and Express) show ridiculous double standards between foriegn and British players in my opinion. There was actually a great article in The Times by that Syed guy (pointless posting link as it's subscription required) yesterday saying much the same thing with regards to diving / cheating.

Seems there are some journalists that are on to what's happening...