Mourinho wants Vertonghen banned (No action to be taken by FA)

[fortworthspur]

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/mourinho-wants-action-taken-against-194900011--sow.html

 

[Blake Griffin]

ok jose, what about this then?

 

[Syn_13]

He's just being a prick as usual. He's deflecting so that the headlines don't read about a ban for Torres' actions on Vertonghen.

 

[Kirito]

LOL Mourinho, he has lost the plot.

 

[kaz Hirai]

he needs to be mindful that a panel doesn't review Torres' Cat Paw attack instead

 

[kursaal]

The cheating git told Torres he should have stayed down. Hate that club with a vengeance. Arsenal you can have a grudging respect for because they'll at least try to do things the right way. Chavsea, however, are a bunch of classless louts from top to bottom.

 

[alfie103]

Who cares what Mourinho says, I doubt he believes it himself. As Syn_13 said, just trying to deflect attention away Torres and trying to create the 'siege' mentality for his players.

 

[nightgoat]

Typical Mourinho, trying to deflect attention from the misdemeanours of his own players. Funny that he doesn't seem to have any problem with Torres going down clutching his face form the same incident from zero contact. But of course we all know Torres should have been sent off when it was still 1-0.

I'd be interested to know what was in the referee's match report. I'd assumed at the time that Torres' first yellow was for the trip on Vertonghen. If the officials missed him scratching Jan's face then he should really be getting a minimum three match ban on review.

 

[jambreck]

Where to start?

1. Torres should already have been sent off.

2. Torres also went down holding his head. Go figure.

3. If you watch the slo-mo footage, you'll see that, because of Torres' foul, JV gets the ball in his eye and winces and turns his head immediately, in mid air. That is 100% a kosher reaction. Nothing fake about it. And even though Torres jumping into him tipped him up so that he landed almost horizontally, I'm pretty sure that it was just his eye that was troubling him as he remained on the ground. He never, as far as I can tell, made any claim or gesture about having been hit on the head.

Shut it, Mourinho. You're not special any more.

 

[markdadude]

mourinho has aged about 15 years in the past 5. What a completely miserable man. Fergie used to talk a similar amount of shiite.

 

[PeeEyeEmPee]

I don't understand how or why no-one on TV or radio has pointed out that Torres also grabbed his head

 

[kr1978]

It's no surprise at all, this is mourinhos way. Absence from the PL has helped people forget what he is really like because he can be a very personable character when he wants to be but the Only thing he cares about is winning and at the moment that means Chelsea. Apart from the hypocrisy in saying this when he never saw anything wrong with drogbas diving or IMO even worse his Porto teams blatant cheating in winning the UEFA against Celtic he also when at Chelsea before, to name a few,

- lied about a referee speaking to an opposition manager (anders frisk)
-tapped up Ashley cole
- lied about ambulance staff and their response time when cech got injured at reading

Add this to his behaviour at Madrid and inter sometimes and he maybe a good manager but he is not good for the image of football in my view.

 

[Kingstheman]

Tottenham would normally file a counter report of mal-play, but in this instance, a pre-report courtesy of multi channel media coverage has meant it has already been de factor sent.

Fully expect Abramovitch banknotes to have voided said counter report and due to lack of FA and PL testiculars, Vertongen has been banned already.

Cynic? Moi?

 

[Matthew Wyatt]

Upon consulting the DSM I find Mourinho ticks most of the boxes for psychopathy.

 

[SargeantMeatCurtains]

'For a player to do that to a fellow professional, (feign injury) its disgusting'

ERRRR...

Fuck off Jose, you two bob wankstain

 

[kaz Hirai]

it's good really, got him rattled. the premier league isn't like it was when he left it, now every team is a challenge.

 

[nightgoat]

I don't understand how or why no-one on TV or radio has pointed out that Torres also grabbed his head

Because they're all up Jose's arse.

 

[sebcole]

'For a player to do that to a fellow professional, (feign injury) its disgusting'

ERRRR...

Fuck off Jose, you two bob wankstain

Was that the game that cost us Champions League cause United were shite that day?

 

[Shanks]

Lampard going down in the middle of the park on 92 minutes, waits for play to stop, then gets up.

Went on for ages.

Thing is about the Torres sending off, I've viewed it a lot, and I am convinced that Torres did try and throw the elbow - I've done it fucking loads, try giving a shove, hit to someone without it being noticed, it goes on, as does the scratching, sneaky pinching - you name it, it goes on. Call it cheating, or what ever you want, but it happens.

I didn't like Townsend dive - in fact, thought it was fucking disgraceful, he had already beaten his man, was in his own half, and just dived, gaining us absolutely nothing.

But, it looked like either Verts or Torres would get sent off yesterday, they were kicking lumps out of each other, just lucky it wasn't verts too!

 

[Ironskullll]

Lampard going down in the middle of the park on 92 minutes, waits for play to stop, then gets up.

Went on for ages.

Thing is about the Torres sending off, I've viewed it a lot, and I am convinced that Torres did try and throw the elbow - I've done it fucking loads, try giving a shove, hit to someone without it being noticed, it goes on, as does the scratching, sneaky pinching - you name it, it goes on. Call it cheating, or what ever you want, but it happens.

I didn't like Townsend dive - in fact, thought it was fucking disgraceful, he had already beaten his man, was in his own half, and just dived, gaining us absolutely nothing.

But, it looked like either Verts or Torres would get sent off yesterday, they were kicking lumps out of each other, just lucky it wasn't verts too!

I agree. It's not at all uncommon for challenges like that to earn a yellow, for the very nature of the challenge, regardless of the nature of any contact. V was jumping to the ball whilst making eye contact. T was jumping with the flight of the ball - into V - we often see free kicks given when the ref decides that the player's jump has been more in hope than anything else and has been more at the player than the ball. I think that was the case here.

Extract from law 12:

A direct free kick is awarded to the opposing team if a player commits any of the following seven offences in a manner considered by the referee to be careless, reckless or using excessive force:
....

• jumps at an opponent

.....

(Note the requirement for carelessness, recklessness or excessive force.)

All that earns a free kick.

For a yellow card to be earned:

A player is cautioned and shown the yellow card if he commits any of the following seven offences:

• unsporting behaviour
• dissent by word or action
• persistent infringement of the Laws of the Game
• delaying the restart of play
• failure to respect the required distance when play is restarted with a corner kick, free kick or throw-in
• entering or re-entering the field of play without the referee's permission
• deliberately leaving the field of play without the referee's permission

So, if the ref felt that Torres was just jumping at V for the sake of it or similar unsporting reason (eg it was reckless - their definition of reckless brings a yellow card), or if he decided that this was the last straw and he'd had enough of T's persistent fouling. then a yellow card would be justified.

As for Mrs Maureen, the points others have made about T going to ground clutching his face are well made. The man has behaved shamefully throughout his managerial career, going back to the Porto/Celtic debacle and before.

Read more at http://www.thefa.com/football-rules-governance/laws/football-11-11/law-12---fouls-and-misconduct.aspx#Zdlm503X23kLEmfH.99