Slur Alex

[themn]

£20,000 fine (great) and two match touchline ban.

Oh, for slagging Whiley off.

More to follow....

 

[themn]

He's also got two more games suspended, which lasts until the end of next season.

 

[Judge Jules]

Wiley, and particularly the Referees' Union or whatever they call themselves, may yet consider that not tough enough. Here's hoping. 8)

 

[Buddha]

Great, fined a days wages and two games in the stands. So much for the respect campaign then.

 

[gkmacca]

The FA seem to have forgotten that they already put Ginsoak on a warning last season because of an attack on Martin Atkinson. So now someone on a warning has been warned. Utterly shambolic.

 

[Richey]

I'm not sure what they really can do though? Bigger fine? Longer touchline ban? The sanctions are pretty limited

 

[Y1]

Henry Winter defends Fergie shocka

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/leagues/premierleague/manutd/6555854/Henry-Winter-what-Sir-Alex-Ferguson-has-done-for-English-football-deserves-respect.html

 

[Jack D Rips]

I love the bit where wants ferguson to get credit for supplying more than half the likely English at the World Cup finals.

Foster, Brown, Ferdinand, Carrick, Hargreaves, Rooney.

If those guys are in the English team they will be on the first plane home.

 

[Dahuge]

It is a joke.

They can't really do much but should have gone for a longer ban and bigger fine e.g. 2 match stadium ban additional 2 match touchline ban with a further 2 suspended and a £100,000 fine.

That would have sent a better message.

 

[gkmacca]

Well, they at least need to understand how warnings should work. It's no good warning a manager after an offence and then, when he does the same thing again only worse, warning him again. I mean, that doesn't actually make sense. Is he now supposed to be anxious in case he makes it a hattrick of warnings? The FA actually employs a large group of legal advisors, and pays them very well, but they still give the impression they don't know anything at all about how these things work. The ironic thing is they appear perfectly happy to be at the opposite extreme when it comes to players being punished. Apparently we took advice before appealing against Carra's red card and were advised by some ex-FA employees that, if we DID appeal, the FA would respond by not only rejecting the plea but also by doubling the ban! There's no consistency, in a good sense, at all.

 

[Judge Jules]

I wonder if, deep down, it's any more complicated than the FA not daring to confront somebody whom they've allowed to build up a psychological ascendancy over them.

The Refs' Union guy seemed pretty naffed off about the level of "punishment" in interviews yesterday. Maybe they'll still try and take it further.