Re: The Football Chat Thread : Tue Jan 24, 2012 9:59 am  

sanjunien wrote:

personally I found the elbow on Kaboul by Lescott in the Citeh box even more blatant and a straight red card !

I think it would have attracted the attention of the judiciary in RL, never mind the non contact sport football has become.

Re: The Football Chat Thread : Tue Jan 24, 2012 10:09 am  

though Webb had a decent game but missed two pretty obvious indiscretions - felt we were robbed of at least a point

not much luck with the refs lately what with the Chris Foy debacle against Stoke ?

apparently it all evens out come the end of the season...

Re: The Football Chat Thread : Tue Jan 24, 2012 1:31 pm  

Catlancs

Have you heard anything about the Mourinho bust-up?

Re: The Football Chat Thread : Tue Jan 24, 2012 1:35 pm  

Roddy B wrote:

Forgot to add, it's funny seeing the FA charging Balotelli. City might have a good chance of getting the ban reduced because, after the incident, Mario was laughing and clearly not angry. Remember, this same FA appealed over Rooney's ban and were quite happy to appeal the frivolous, I wonder if this will be brought up should an appeal be made if he's banned?

The FA should be embarrassed at banning anyone for three games for violent conduct, when they clearly don't consider it an appropriate punishment for England players who commit such an offence on international duty.

Even by their usually low standards, the hypocrisy is shocking.

Re: The Football Chat Thread : Tue Jan 24, 2012 1:43 pm  

getdownmonkeyman wrote: Catlancs Have you heard anything about the Mourinho bust-up? http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog ... sfeed=true

getdownmonkeyman wrote: Catlancs Have you heard anything about the Mourinho bust-up? http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog ... sfeed=true

Re: The Football Chat Thread : Tue Jan 24, 2012 1:53 pm  

getdownmonkeyman wrote:

Catlancs
Have you heard anything about the Mourinho bust-up?

Yes, I tweeted about it a few days ago. Seems like the rumours of a dressing room split were more than just rumours. There's a good English-language account from Sid Lowe that I see LGJM has posted and that's more or less what was reported in Marca. The most telling thing for me is that sections of the Madrid media have sided with Casillas and Ramos. One leading Madrid based pundit said last night that the best thing for all concerned would be a shaking of hands between Mourinho and Perez and a summer parting of the ways.

Re: The Football Chat Thread : Tue Jan 24, 2012 9:09 pm  

There is no doubt in my mind that Balotelli aimed a stamp at Parker's head. There was absolutely no possible reason for him to move his foot backwards like he did, apart from looking to give him a bit of stud pie. He knew his head was there as he'd already clocked it accidentally, even giving him the benefit of the doubt (which let's face it, he doesn't deserve) it was extremely reckless to the point it deserves a ban anyway IMO.

Re: The Football Chat Thread : Wed Jan 25, 2012 10:44 am  

If Balotelli meant to stamp on Parker then he didn't do a very good job of it did he? To me it looks like he's accidently trod on him, it's definitely not a proper stamp, otherwise Parker would have been off having stitches!

Re: The Football Chat Thread : Wed Jan 25, 2012 11:47 am  

Goochie wrote:

If Balotelli meant to stamp on Parker then he didn't do a very good job of it did he? To me it looks like he's accidently trod on him, it's definitely not a proper stamp, otherwise Parker would have been off having stitches!

So what you're saying is that because he missed, it wasn't a deliberate stamp?

Re: The Football Chat Thread : Wed Jan 25, 2012 3:09 pm  

100% Wire wrote:

So what you're saying is that because he missed, it wasn't a deliberate stamp?

the intention was there IMO - that's good enough for me !