Chelsea contest Lampard Dismissal

[sheringmann]

I remember keano going for the ball in a fair challenge. red card upheld

Lampards shoves a opposition in anger...red card withdrawn....

Says it all really.!!

 

[DoublePivot]

The EPL is a joke. It really is. The fucking Italian league is less corrupt. A fucking week after giving a Boro player an extra game ban while not punishing a big four player, they rescind another big four player's punishment. If Lampard were at Wigan, this would have never happened.

 

[jondesouza]

Outrageous decision. It was violent conduct - even if poorly executed - and the red should have stood. The real problem is the consistency though; even if it weren't a red then why was this overturned and other, when other offences which were more obviously not sendings off, have stood.

 

[paul_1979yid]

What a surprise! Big Fat Frank gets away with it. See as i said, money talks. More bungs in football than ever before!!! :bang:

 

[Has1978]

I remember keano going for the ball in a fair challenge. red card upheld

Lampards shoves a opposition in anger...red card withdrawn....

Says it all really.!!

was my first thought too.

Steve Gibson was right about the FA.

 

[SpurSince57]

Outrageous decision. It was violent conduct - even if poorly executed - and the red should have stood. The real problem is the consistency though; even if it weren't a red then why was this overturned and other, when other offences which were more obviously not sendings off, have stood.

Yes. Boa Morte should have received the same punishment as Lampard, whether a red or a yellow. I thought it was a yellow, to be honest. And Mascherano laid hands on Aliadière, provoking the pat—why wasn't he punished? Makelele should definitely have been off, and Eboué put in some disgraceful red-worthy 'challenges' before he finally received his marching orders.

Not only incompetent referees, but an incompetent FA.

 

[Rocksuperstar]

I sometimes wonder if the FA are getting a bit long in the tooth for all this lark - they see in black and white and all have enough loose skin to fit a second person in there.

These guys are so old, two of them are tehcnically fossils and another is only being kept alive with dandelion and burdock and 60 Capstan full-strength per-day.

The FA - does exactly what it says on the tin.

 

[Rocksuperstar]

What's 30 feet long and smells of piss?

The Conga line at the FA Christmas party.

 

[Flatters]

Yes. Boa Morte should have received the same punishment as Lampard, whether a red or a yellow. I thought it was a yellow, to be honest. And Mascherano laid hands on Aliadière, provoking the pat—why wasn't he punished? Makelele should definitely have been off, and Eboué put in some disgraceful red-worthy 'challenges' before he finally received his marching orders.

Not only incompetent referees, but an incompetent FA.

In my opinion Mascherano should be punished a lot more than Aliadiere. Mascherano was intending to provoke him and piss him off. Aliadiere just did what anyone would do in that situation.

 

[jondesouza]

...and Eboué put in some disgraceful red-worthy 'challenges' before he finally received his marching orders.

Not only incompetent referees, but an incompetent FA.

The kick out at Downing after the ball had gone springs to mind. Missed by the ref, caught on camera; therefore a perfect example of a challenge that should be followed up in retrospect. The silence from the FA was deafening.

 

[SpurSince57]

That was the one I was thinking of, too, but there's been at least one other.

Not only does that underline the FA's incompetence, it highlights Wenger's hypocrisy.

 

[Rocksuperstar]

The most infuriating thing is, ALL fans feel exactly the same about the FA - they are a completely ineffectual governing body who are ONLY seeing to the interests of the clubs that can make them money and raise the profile of the English game.

The only way to get anything done about the FA would be for the CLUBS to lobby parliament to have them removed, to force a vote of no confidence, and AS ONE refuse to play in the FA Cup. Lobbying the Premier League will achieve nothing because, despite them being notably better businessmen than the FA, they are so busy snuffling around the people who hold Sky's wallet they are also only interested in advancing the best and leaving the stragglers to die.

I hate the state of the game right now and i hate the fact that, no matter how many letters we send, how much we voice our disgust at the fact our national game is being run by a bunch of archaic f*cks, most of whom i expect can't even wipe their own arse's without a care nurse present, who are skimming huge wages for doing NOTHING.

If i was passed some information about a potential paedophile, or violent applicants by the police and failed to act on it, i would be ignoring my responsbilities and would rightly be fired for not doing my job - well, are the FA not here to "govern" our sport? Do they not say, quite clearly, that they will look into any case where the ref hasn't already made a decision? Have they failed to do that with alarming frequency over the last few months, especially when it comes to the biggest clubs?

Yes.

Sack the f*cks. Sack them with sticks - no stairs, out the window, you coffin dodging, selfish fat-cat pr*cks, and take you're biscuits and special donut-cushion with you.

 

[Rocksuperstar]

I know i hate them as much as the next man, but has anyone started a petition to get the entirely ineffectual FA thrown out and a new lot of members introduced?

I know they are a The FA Ltd. but is there no way that we can force the government into making them a PLC, seeing as they are now supposed to act on far more than just the dealings of a few privately run football clubs, like they used to. Now they are, indirectly, meant to be dealing with PLC's as a Limited company - surely that's not right, is it? Private shareholders getting to dictate the entire environment that they will earn from, at every turn reducing the power of the PLC's so the public have less and less say, giving them more and more power to remain where they are, above questions like "Why do you all just sit around doing F*CK ALL for months then, when you are finally asked to do a couple of simple tasks, f*ck them up to, not stick to your own rules and make a judgement that is wholly inconsistent with even just the last months worth of decisions."

They will never be removed, never held accountable - unless a club is prepared to sling it all in and hire a really, really, really good lawyer to question their effectiveness and whether they are in fact making biased calls based on financial or material incentives.

As with most, even if they did i would imagine the FA would come out of it smelling of roses, once again, to the astonishment of every single football fan in the country, but it would at least maybe make someone sit up and wonder...