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Mousa Dembele
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Robbo
Ian Walker
About 50% more serious than racism too, apparently. Or so the FA say.
I have no problem accepting his punishment, it's the glaring inconsistency on the FA's part that annoys me. You don't really know how they will react to stuff like this. It's like bingo, abd Dembele didnt win.
Baleforce
Mark Falco
Spur of the moment
Jimmy Neighbour
Context, context. With kids watching you cannot be seen attempting to gouge someone's eye out - even though it was only handbags.
Can't we tie it up in some other court for ages until the FA is bankrupt?
I think that as a protest, every single one of our players should go in shin-high at every chance at the weekend.
Bedfordspurs
Gary Lineker
You can't swear either
You can't use racist language
You can't kick people
You can't bite people
You can't pull hair
You can't elbow someone
The list goes on
Players get away with stuff all the time
Baleforce
Mark Falco
ftfy
parklane1
Teddy Sheringham
Good GHod does that mean we are going to get more paranoid fans ( as if we do not have enough).
Modric THFC
Jimmy McCormick
Can people stop calling it a gouge? It wasn't a fudging gouge.
Can you imagine someone getting a ban for shaping to punch someone but instead brushing their fingers against them.
This was an eye gouge. No ban
Can you imagine someone getting a ban for shaping to punch someone but instead brushing their fingers against them.
This was an eye gouge. No ban
Bullet
Paul Stewart
No surprise, it is a disgusting act to try and gouge somebody's eye.
Shameful scenes with all the pushing and shoving and fouling, I hope this is the end of it and we don't get any other serious punishment (i.e. just a small fine)
Perhaps this will persuade Levy to buy a good midfielder before the start of next season.
Shameful scenes with all the pushing and shoving and fouling, I hope this is the end of it and we don't get any other serious punishment (i.e. just a small fine)
Perhaps this will persuade Levy to buy a good midfielder before the start of next season.
glorygloryeze
Dimitar Berbatov
I wonder if the FA felt they wanted to go for Lamela, Walker and Dier but didn't have enough so have instead thought fudge it, we'll make Mousa take extra games on their behalf
thfcsteff
Teddy Sheringham
They don't like us. It really is that simple.
glorygloryeze
Dimitar Berbatov
Why do you think that is Steff? I mean does it go bck to something in the past, etc?
thfcsteff
Teddy Sheringham
There comes a point when that particular 'excuse' gets old too. It appears that anything we have endured in the Premiership era undergoes a 'rule change' soon thereafter. We are in the midst of educating an entire association that we won't be their pushover tossers anymore. Fergie knew, it's why despite the hatefest for him I always liked and admired him because he fought for his club.
thfcsteff
Teddy Sheringham
This post will be general mate, just using your words as a launching pad!
Still wrong though. 4 would've been 'just about' understandable. I think the most amusing thing is how people (including some here) have run riot with the words 'eye-gouge'...he didn't! He grabbed his face. Not clever and not excusable by any stretch (a flat-hand to the nose or even a shove to the forehead would've clearly been better - or the hold grail - take him out in play a minute or two later) but there were no fingers in the eye (or eyes). The way this one got spun, you'd have thought he blinded him through the socket!
Let's be honest here. Moose is paying the price for
1) a lack of discipline - no problem, 3 game ban on the chin IMO and don't do it again
2) Clattenberg's pathetic 'performance'
3) 3 weeks of pre-match public comments by Chelsea players and management
4) an immediate intimidation and bullying which escalated as the game went on
We lost it, yes. At 2-0 we should've been hitting the deck at every single thing they did to us, not retaliating clearly and obviously. That is how you win dark arts football. But again, we will learn, and sadly, I think some of our supporters ned to get to grips with this reality, that in order to win you have to engage, or else go decades without a trophy. It doesn't mean sacrificing your football, it means supplementing it when necessary and in the face of tossers. Like Fergie's Utd.
I was surprised that they let Lamela away with it, and can only assume that they knew if they penalized him, they'd have had to ban Fabregas for several things, not the least of which was inciting a brawl at the final whistle and (of course) starting all this with his 'informed' comments on Sky.
thfcsteff
Teddy Sheringham
I think generally you can deduce we are not a popular club. Let's face it, we don't do thing the 'old school' way, you know, the 'Fat Sam/Pulis' way, the 'old-school-chairman' way...goes back to post-Scholar IMVHO...
Bedfordspurs
Gary Lineker
Lamella got away with it as he was clearly seen by the officials as they discussed it at the time and it's hard to even claim intent when he wasn't looking at him (although I think it was clearly intentional)
Spur of the moment
Jimmy Neighbour
Of course. But it's solely about what it looks like, especially when it's being transmitted all around the world. Actual harm done doesn't come into it.