[Football] Lukaku - Retrospective Action

[Hampster Gull]

It’s big club bias. We lose out in these events more often than they will. To a disgrace really but seen too much now

 

[vegster]

Discussed on Radio Five Monday Night Football Club..Ian Wright not understanding what the three wise monkeys (my name for them) haven’t seen as it’s as clear as Day what the player has done

Yes, just heard that too.... " How can you look at the VT and NOT see an offence ? "

 

[Brighton Mod]

Just seen the video, can't believe their decision, was Lukakakaki dancing? Bong should have gone down, but then, we chose not to play like that. its now twice that he has got away with this. Its all good have a VR, but make a decision ffs.

 

[Mike Small]

Absolute disgrace. At least Lukaku is a bit of a lump but still pisses me off.

 

[Questions]

Yes, just heard that too.... " How can you look at the VT and NOT see an offence ? "

I think it rates up there as one of the worst - or most corrupt if you think that way - decisions any football panel (qualified refs) has ever made. I’m still dumbfounded by it.

Fine in the dojo but............

 

[Da Man Clay]

To be fair, I read that the three were not unanimous in their decision (not sure where I saw that, one of the online papers I think). Which means it was a 2-1 split, but don't know which way. To be even fairer, the test they have to apply was 'would they have given a red card / was it a red card offence'. Even yesterday, a few posters, and another ref said it was a free kick and a booking. That is - not even all of NSC think it was a red card offence.

I agree about the consistency though - comparing Hemed and Lukaku's actions, it's pretty bad that different decisions have been reached.

More annoying is that the goal wouldn't have happened if it had been spotted at the time.

Yes, but the vast majority of NSC have absolutely no clue about the laws of the game.

 

[GT49er]

Discussed on Radio Five Monday Night Football Club..Ian Wright not understanding what the three wise monkeys (my name for them) haven’t seen as it’s as clear as Day what the player has done

Wright got it spot on - could have done with being a bit more vociferous about it though, IMHO. Nothing like the song and dance the BBC and Sky unleashed to get Hemed banned.

 

[drew]

The FA certainly know how to shoot themselves in he foot in terms of credibility

And for that you have to admire their consistency!

 

[GT49er]

Yes, but the vast majority of NSC have absolutely no clue about the laws of the game.

I think you'll find the law on violent conduct has been accurately and eruditely expressed on here.

 

[LamieRobertson]

Wright got it spot on - could have done with being a bit more vociferous about it though, IMHO. Nothing like the song and dance the BBC and Sky unleashed to get Hemed banned.

The guy heading the show kinda squashed it a bit closing the subject down joking that they might get a phone call from JM

 

[GT49er]

The guy heading the show kinda squashed it a bit closing the subject down joking that they might get a phone call from JM

True enough. But anything that made it into a bigger fuss would have been good!

 

[OzMike]

No charges, absolute joke after what they did to Hemed, which I still think was a accident.
Lukaku's couldn't have looked more deliberate, twice.

 

[fleet]

No charges, absolute joke after what they did to Hemed, which I still think was a accident.
Lukaku's couldn't have looked more deliberate, twice.

Agree 100%

 

[fleet]

I think it rates up there as one of the worst - or most corrupt if you think that way - decisions any football panel (qualified refs) has ever made. I’m still dumbfounded by it.

Fine in the dojo but............

Along with not overturning the Middlesbrough red card for Dale

 

[Marshy]

Can't quite work out how he has got away with this one..

 

[happypig]

Question for those more in the know, do the panel act independently of each other then reveal their decision or do they, like magistrates or the Robot Wars judges, discuss it and come to a conclusion ?

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Question for those more in the know, do the panel act independently of each other then reveal their decision or do they, like magistrates or the Robot Wars judges, discuss it and come to a conclusion ?

The panel (three retired Prem referees) each watch the footage independently, and send in their decision. Only if all three deem it proven, is the player found guilty.

 

[happypig]

The panel (three retired Prem referees) each watch the footage independently, and send in their decision. Only if all three deem it proven, is the player found guilty.

So you would only need to "bung" one of them to get away with it.

Not, of course, that I'm suggesting that an organisation awash with money in an industry well known for "brown envelope" scenarios would be anything other than entirely scrupulous in pursuit of further untold riches. Heaven forfend anyone should even consider such a thing.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

So you would only need to "bung" one of them to get away with it.

Not, of course, that I'm suggesting that an organisation awash with money in an industry well known for "brown envelope" scenarios would be anything other than entirely scrupulous in pursuit of further untold riches. Heaven forfend anyone should even consider such a thing.

Yes. Whilst we are all saying 'the panel are morons / corrupt', the likelihood is that two of them HAVE reached the blindingly obvious guilty verdict.

The most angry person about all this is probably Lukaku, who presumably had planned a two week Christmas shopping holiday in New York, and will now have to cancel.

 

[Lush]

Yes. Whilst we are all saying 'the panel are morons / corrupt', the likelihood is that two of them HAVE reached the blindingly obvious guilty verdict.

The most angry person about all this is probably Lukaku, who presumably had planned a two week Christmas shopping holiday in New York, and will now have to cancel.

LOL. Can only assume that one of them has decided that while he did kick out, it was in the usual goal mouth scrum yellow card booking kind of way (rather than in anger) and therefore not a red card offence. Not that I agree.