What will be the verdict on this one?

[L3WISR]

Wouldn't surprise me if they let it slip, what do you think?
Deliberate or not>?

Balotelli stamp on Scott Parker

 

[Modo]

Looked deliberate.

 

[jimmy]

At first I thought it was deliberate. My stream went off for the replay so it's only now that I'm seeing it again and now I'm not so sure.
I think the verdict would be innocent. I'd give him the doubt this time.

 

[Delinquent]

Of course it was deliberate. Why else would he kick his leg back when his momentum was taking him in the opposite direction? He's a cunt of a footballer and will hopefully get what he deserves for this.

 

[jimmy]

[quote author=Delinquent link=topic=48401.msg1468651#msg1468651 date=1327249456]
Of course it was deliberate. Why else would he kick his leg back when his momentum was taking him in the opposite direction? He's a cunt of a footballer and will hopefully get what he deserves for this.
[/quote]

I agree with the cunt part. However he's lost his balance and in such a situation it might have been not deliberate. it's like 50-50 or 60-40 so they'd probably let him enjoy it for now.

 

[LadyRed]

It wasn't deliberate.

Leave Mario alone!

 

[gkmacca]

Racist.

 

[HC]

Surely doing something like that should carry a Suarez like length of ban?

He's a dirty,petulant cunt. Hope bellers breaks his legs.

 

[LadyRed]

Whateves

 

[Athens]

I reckon they will hang him out to dry.

 

[jimmy]

Doubt or no doubt had it been Suarez and not Balotteli he'd be out for the season. With a 723,319 page reprt by an FA commission...

 

[gkmacca]

Leave him alone, he's a character.

 

[SaintGeorge67]

Wow, the ref was looking right at it!

 

[Athens]

I've watched it a few times and I reckon it's deliberate. I also think the FA will punish him severely for it.

 

[SaintGeorge67]

Shreeves, the master of answering his own (obvious) questions.

Oops, wrong thread.

 

[Delinquent]

[quote author=SaintGeorge67 link=topic=48401.msg1468697#msg1468697 date=1327255252]
Wow, the ref was looking right at it!
[/quote]

He turned his head just before it happened and is in the process of turning it back when it happens. It's difficult to say how much he saw of it. He certainly *should* have seen it.

 

[Squiggles]

Yep, deliberate.

 

[Hansern]

Hard to tell. Looks much worse in slow motion.

 

[SaintGeorge67]

[quote author=LadyRed link=topic=48401.msg1468655#msg1468655 date=1327249767]
It wasn't deliberate.

Leave Mario alone!
[/quote]

and if Suarez or someone else you don't like had done it?

 

[Sunny]

Deliberate. 3 match ban

 

[flava]

I like him as a character, but that was a cunt thing to do and was deliberate.

 

[Buddha]

Accidental for me. He was off balance and looking the other way.

 

[Stulikesdrums]

Jesus lads, I'm surprised so many see it as deliberate. It looked totally accidental to me.
I don't think anything will come of it.

 

[Asbo]

He can feel where the player is with his standing leg, and there was no need to stamp down at all, its 100% a deliberate case.

 

[LadyRed]

[quote author=SaintGeorge67 link=topic=48401.msg1468736#msg1468736 date=1327257875]
[quote author=LadyRed link=topic=48401.msg1468655#msg1468655 date=1327249767]
It wasn't deliberate.

Leave Mario alone!
[/quote]

and if Suarez or someone else you don't like had done it?
[/quote]

If I thought it was deliberate I would say as much, how could he plan to do that and land that way when he's off balance. He's a nuisance to the opposition and petulant, but I don't think he's malicious.

 

[Judge Jules]

Normally no, but he IS unstable and goodness knows what may pass through his mind at any particular moment. I simply don't buy the idea that a movement like that would have been accidental.

 

[mark1975]

There was no reason for him to throw his leg out like that, it wasn't a natural reaction during a fall to rescue himself, he'd already landed and realised he almost landed on the player, so he automatically turns away from the player, but then kicks out. It was petulant and unwarranted and he'll probably get away with it because he's not playing in a Liverpool shirt.

Accidental my arse. It couldn't be any more obvious.

 

[Sunny]

It's a deliberate stamp. If we was off balance he would naturally move his right leg forward to regain it. He doesn't he moves it purposely backwards.

 

[mark1975]

[quote author=jimmy link=topic=48401.msg1468678#msg1468678 date=1327253026]
Doubt or no doubt had it been Suarez and not Balotteli he'd be out for the season. With a 723,319 page reprt by an FA commission...
[/quote]

Yeah, and no doubt several opinions on here would be different aswell.

 

[jimmy]

[quote author=mark1975 link=topic=48401.msg1468784#msg1468784 date=1327265012]
[quote author=jimmy link=topic=48401.msg1468678#msg1468678 date=1327253026]
Doubt or no doubt had it been Suarez and not Balotteli he'd be out for the season. With a 723,319 page reprt by an FA commission...
[/quote]

Yeah, and no doubt several opinions on here would be different aswell.
[/quote]

Like whose? 😉