What will be the verdict on this one?

[Y1]

[quote author=Squiggles link=topic=48401.msg1469683#msg1469683 date=1327410671]
4 games for trying to stamp on someones head with studs.

8 games for maybe saying something offensive.

It's totally the wrong way around.
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That is the FA justice for ya.

 

[jexykrodic]

He's foreign. It's definitely deliberate.

 

[Sunny]

[quote author=jexykrodic link=topic=48401.msg1470048#msg1470048 date=1327479387]
He's foreign. It's definitely deliberate.
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Its good to know the same will be applied to our brave English players. Like this classic example, when Neil Lennon has the audacity to headbutt Alan Shearers boot.

Leicester City v Newcastle United (1998)

 

[Athens]

I'm surprised Shearer could walk after such a head butting to the foot.

 

[Mystic]

You know what really annoys me, Baloteliio gets four matches forms stamp of questionable intent, Wayne Rooney gets fuck all for deliberately going out of his way to elbow someone full on in the head. Im going to go out on a limb here and say, if this wasn't against Tottenham (or United), he wouldn't have been banned.

 

[gkmacca]

David Spoonface Platt blamed it on 'super slo-mo'. I've only seen it in slo-mo and it looked blatant to me. If the FA can work out what Suarez said from slo-mo footage of him appearing not to say anything, they can surely work out what Mario was up to.

 

[Woland]

what a scumbag


deserved to get kicked in the face

 

[Jack D Rips]

Balotelli got what he deserved, but it is a bit funny the he was banned by the same FA who successfully appealed Rooney's international ban, received for kicking an opponent

 

[Judge Jules]

It's as funny as the fact that the body supposed to be concerned with the good repute of the English game is steadily becoming a laughing-stock everywhere but here.

 

[gkmacca]

[quote author=Jack D Rips link=topic=48401.msg1470141#msg1470141 date=1327488131]
Balotelli got what he deserved, but it is a bit funny the he was banned by the same FA who successfully appealed Rooney's international ban, received for kicking an opponent
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This special exemption is known as The Shearer Principle, m'lud: any England player found to have kicked an opponent in the head is ipso facto deemed to have lost his balance.

 

[jimmy]

David Battie certainly cannot understand what the problem is there...