It's taken a mystifyingly long time - a scandalously long time, in fact - for this twat to get his comeuppance, but, hopefully, at last it's finally happening:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...plays-Premier-League-again.html#ixzz47zBxdfgM
How did they get the same bans? One man deliberately swings an elbow, knowing full well the damage that can be caused. The other grabs a clump of hair. Both, somehow, end up with three-match suspensions.
The more I look at the punishments that Marouane Fellaini and Robert Huth received, the less I can understand the Football Association's decision. Huth, a giant in Leicester's fairytale campaign, misses his side's big celebration for an incident you associate with a school playground.
Yet Fellaini could end up playing in the FA Cup final. Can pulling someone's hair cause the same damage as a flailing elbow? No. Not in a million years.
It can't be right that he will be available for Manchester United's big day against Crystal Palace on May 21. My personal hope is that we would never see him playing in the Premier League again.
Three games is not a sentence that will prove a deterrent to Fellaini. He is a repeat offender and it has gone beyond the point now where people can attempt to defend him by saying he is a tall lad who is using his arms for leverage.
Look at the incident with Huth again: Fellaini takes a glance around and sees where Huth is before swinging. Yes, he may have been provoked but the Belgium international knew what he was doing. Had he connected firmly, the Leicester defender could have been left with a broken cheek or jaw.
Gary Mabbutt, the former Tottenham captain, would testify to that. Back in November 1993, he was left with a fractured skull and needed a plate inserted into his face to hold his eye socket together after John Fashanu smashed his elbow into him during a game against Wimbledon.
Yet should we be surprised it was Fellaini again? No. He argued back in March that he 'doesn't want to elbow someone and only defend myself' but that simply doesn't hold any credibility because he has been involved in too many incidents.
What happened when United faced Liverpool in the Europa League? He escaped retrospective punishment for elbowing Emre Can at Anfield in the first leg on March 10 but then seven days later at Old Trafford, he did exactly the same thing only this time Dejan Lovren was on the receiving end.
When he first arrived in the Premier League, as Everton's record £15million signing in 2008, he was booked five times in his first two months. The assumption, initially, was to put it down to exuberance, awkwardness and immaturity. But here we are, eight years on, and he hasn't changed.
The figures are damning. He has been booked 61 times in all competitions since coming to England and picked up a further three red cards. He has served 18 matches in bans, including three for a headbutt on Stoke's Ryan Shawcross when he was at Everton that enraged David Moyes.
I hated playing against Fellaini. You knew from the word go you had to keep your wits because of his aggression. In one Merseyside derby, TV cameras showed me telling the referee to 'watch Fellaini's elbows' — he always featured in our team talks because he was so awkward.
He is a menace in the worst possible sense. I don't use that term lightly but he is not a Manchester United player in any shape or form.
I was never convinced he would fit in at Old Trafford when he left Goodison Park and have never been given reason to change my mind. Yes, he's a good player with some qualities but he is absolutely not United standard.
Over the years, there have always been players who have crossed the line. Luis Suarez had a habit of doing it; Eric Cantona did and so too did Patrick Vieira. They were all involved in moments that were unacceptable.
Every player will have a few moments that disappoint them when they look back. The biggest one of mine was a challenge on Nani at Anfield during a game against Manchester United in March 2011.
Still to this day I do not know how I never got sent off. I apologised immediately and did so again afterwards but it couldn't make up for what I had done.
I was on the end of a similar tackle from Lucas Neill that broke my leg and the older you become the stronger your feelings are not to see a fellow professional get hurt.
Kevin Muscat, the former Wolves player, had a reputation for doing just that and Fellaini is in danger of slipping into the same realms. For him to still be guilty of the same kind of incidents shows how big the issue has become and it was significant to see Louis van Gaal raise the issue of him having to control his temper.
He isn't learning and he is now getting the kind of reputation where players will be worried on a weekly basis about getting hurt when they come up against him.
For the next three games, that threat will be removed. But afterwards? Who knows? I can't believe that he still has a chance to end his season at Wembley when the reality is he should be banned for longer.
Personally I hope we don’t see his elbows in England again.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...plays-Premier-League-again.html#ixzz47zBxdfgM
How did they get the same bans? One man deliberately swings an elbow, knowing full well the damage that can be caused. The other grabs a clump of hair. Both, somehow, end up with three-match suspensions.
The more I look at the punishments that Marouane Fellaini and Robert Huth received, the less I can understand the Football Association's decision. Huth, a giant in Leicester's fairytale campaign, misses his side's big celebration for an incident you associate with a school playground.
Yet Fellaini could end up playing in the FA Cup final. Can pulling someone's hair cause the same damage as a flailing elbow? No. Not in a million years.
It can't be right that he will be available for Manchester United's big day against Crystal Palace on May 21. My personal hope is that we would never see him playing in the Premier League again.
Three games is not a sentence that will prove a deterrent to Fellaini. He is a repeat offender and it has gone beyond the point now where people can attempt to defend him by saying he is a tall lad who is using his arms for leverage.
Look at the incident with Huth again: Fellaini takes a glance around and sees where Huth is before swinging. Yes, he may have been provoked but the Belgium international knew what he was doing. Had he connected firmly, the Leicester defender could have been left with a broken cheek or jaw.
Gary Mabbutt, the former Tottenham captain, would testify to that. Back in November 1993, he was left with a fractured skull and needed a plate inserted into his face to hold his eye socket together after John Fashanu smashed his elbow into him during a game against Wimbledon.
Yet should we be surprised it was Fellaini again? No. He argued back in March that he 'doesn't want to elbow someone and only defend myself' but that simply doesn't hold any credibility because he has been involved in too many incidents.
What happened when United faced Liverpool in the Europa League? He escaped retrospective punishment for elbowing Emre Can at Anfield in the first leg on March 10 but then seven days later at Old Trafford, he did exactly the same thing only this time Dejan Lovren was on the receiving end.
When he first arrived in the Premier League, as Everton's record £15million signing in 2008, he was booked five times in his first two months. The assumption, initially, was to put it down to exuberance, awkwardness and immaturity. But here we are, eight years on, and he hasn't changed.
The figures are damning. He has been booked 61 times in all competitions since coming to England and picked up a further three red cards. He has served 18 matches in bans, including three for a headbutt on Stoke's Ryan Shawcross when he was at Everton that enraged David Moyes.
I hated playing against Fellaini. You knew from the word go you had to keep your wits because of his aggression. In one Merseyside derby, TV cameras showed me telling the referee to 'watch Fellaini's elbows' — he always featured in our team talks because he was so awkward.
He is a menace in the worst possible sense. I don't use that term lightly but he is not a Manchester United player in any shape or form.
I was never convinced he would fit in at Old Trafford when he left Goodison Park and have never been given reason to change my mind. Yes, he's a good player with some qualities but he is absolutely not United standard.
Over the years, there have always been players who have crossed the line. Luis Suarez had a habit of doing it; Eric Cantona did and so too did Patrick Vieira. They were all involved in moments that were unacceptable.
Every player will have a few moments that disappoint them when they look back. The biggest one of mine was a challenge on Nani at Anfield during a game against Manchester United in March 2011.
Still to this day I do not know how I never got sent off. I apologised immediately and did so again afterwards but it couldn't make up for what I had done.
I was on the end of a similar tackle from Lucas Neill that broke my leg and the older you become the stronger your feelings are not to see a fellow professional get hurt.
Kevin Muscat, the former Wolves player, had a reputation for doing just that and Fellaini is in danger of slipping into the same realms. For him to still be guilty of the same kind of incidents shows how big the issue has become and it was significant to see Louis van Gaal raise the issue of him having to control his temper.
He isn't learning and he is now getting the kind of reputation where players will be worried on a weekly basis about getting hurt when they come up against him.
For the next three games, that threat will be removed. But afterwards? Who knows? I can't believe that he still has a chance to end his season at Wembley when the reality is he should be banned for longer.
Personally I hope we don’t see his elbows in England again.
