Eric Dier

[kr1978]

They’ll probably wait and do it before our most important game. If he gets a ban of course.

Bingo-just in time for the NLD

 

[Shadydan]

lol yeah FA derailed our season in a glorious attempt to finish 7th

Time to bring this back out

 

[SpartanSpur]

At the end of the day he went into the crowd and regardless of the reasoning (which I fully believe was related to protecting his brother and I am fully sympathetic to) the FA had to make an example of him to avoid setting a dangerous precedent.

It feels extremely harsh when you consider Guendouzi escaped punishment for grabbing someone by the throat in plain sight. Although it seems Arteta has bombed him out himself anyway since that game!

What I find weird is that they took so long to come to this decision, especially as the documents state that the case was seen over video conference.

 

[buckley]

so If you see a member of your family in trouble you must ignore it and turn your back on it brilliant .

 

[wrd]

lol yeah FA derailed our season in a glorious attempt to finish 7th

Time to bring this back out

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They really want Sheffield United in Europa of course

 

[G Ron]

Very disappointed by this news, he’s probably been our most consistently good performer since the restart (not hard I know) and the closest thing we have to a leader in the pitch. Typical bloody spurs.

Looks like it’ll be Dav and Toby from here then.

I know you can’t do what he did, but 4 games seems excessive to me.

Hey ho - send him on his holidays early.

 

[midoshairband]

jesus. yet Gwendozy got away with a throat grab in plain site. doesn’t make either action acceptable, but its shocking double standards.

 

[Johno1470]

FA in deliberate attempt to derail our season shocker.
They had months to make a decision on this, but waited until he was a regular fixture in the starting line-up.

Yes exactly that. The FA decided to wait through a whole pandemic before receiving the results from a police investigation that was likely delayed due to COVID. They also decided to prioritise talks to get the season up and running ahead of deciding on player bans knowing full well that we would be a regular in our team once it resumed before they dished out a ban ...

 

[Shadydan]

jesus. yet Gwendozy got away with a throat grab in plain site. doesn’t make either action acceptable, but its shocking double standards.

How are in any way either of those incidents comparable?

 

[nailsy]

Apparently there was first a police investigation and they had to wait for that to be over, and then an independent committee was formed due to it being an unusual case (Alasdair Gold). But to be honest it's good timing. We're out of the CL race anyway, have no excuses if we can't grab Europa without him, and he doesn't miss the start of next season.

Not sure about the good timing. We've got Arsenal at the weekend.

so If you see a member of your family in trouble you must ignore it and turn your back on it brilliant .

Or maybe don't ignore it, but tell a club official who can deal with it?

I don't blame him for doing what he did, but we all knew he'd get a ban for it.

 

[Jamturk]

We knew it was coming, the puzzling thing for me is that JM must have known it was coming as well.

 

[nattydredd]

..is it just me, but surely that ban could have been a lot longer ?

He deserves his ban, hope he's learnt his lesson.

 

[HildoSpur]

4 matches seems about 1 match too many but regardless of that you can't have players running into the stands like he did - it just can't happen so we can't complain.

 

[SE Spurs]

4 games is better than I was thinking tbh. I thought they'd stick him with about 6.

 

[Deleted member 27995]

The FA are glad that they have more fans in this thread - cheques in the post lads.

 

[Cochise]

The length of time on the ban feels like too much for me.

 

[Shadydan]

Just be thankful the ban doesn't go into next season, I remember when Dembele got banned for the eye gouge and it went into the following season which didn't help.

 

[Athenspur]

Wait, I thought Dier is useless and should be nowhere near the starting XI?

 

[midoshairband]

How are in any way either of those incidents comparable?

well in my opinion they are both a clear breach of FA rule E3, which is what Dier has been charged with breaching:

‘a participant shall at all times act in the best i terests of the game and shall not act in any manner which is improper or brings the game into disrepute or use any one, or a combination of, violent conduct, serious foul play, threatening, abusive, indecent or insulting words or behaviour’.

so yes, i think grabbing someone by the throat breaches that rule, and are therefore comparable.

 

[wrd]

Wait, I thought Dier is useless and should be nowhere near the starting XI?

Well that was what the fan he was fighting with was trying to get across, he'll be happy with his ban.