This article just about sums up how it has worked......
http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/how-retrospective-refereeing-work-what-11173785
Definitely. Only game on Sunday, so the only thing the media really had to talk about. The incessant demand for EPL airtime and column inches...........................
Bit early to have been drinking isn't it ?? :mad::mad::mad:
Cautious CH will just stick Murray, or if he's not fit, Brown , Izquierdo or Murphy up front and be otherwise unchanged.
For me :
If the ref had seen it, would have been somewhere between a yellow and a red
The panel will back the charge and won't agree the appeal because they almost never do
The appeal won't be seen as frivolous given the element of doubt being expressed
3 game ban coming
Brown up front on...
Looks Like Friday could be D-Day.................from the FA Rules :
On the timing :
As a general guide, the following schedule will apply:
Match Day Notice and Evidence of Claim Reply Regulatory Commission
Fri/Sat/Sun Tuesday Thursday...
Partly this.......it's turned into a big deal partly because we were the only game on Sunday, and it was the only major talking point so it's been discussed to death in the media because of the relentless need to fill column inches and airtime about the PL. If there had been other games, with...
It was a 'step' more than a proper 'stamp', but it was deliberate. Whether it was a red card offence I don't know, but for it to carry the same punishment as the Britos 'tackle' is laughable.
Guess it means the Blazers couldn't make a decision, but they think he has a case to answer, so they've handed it to the refs panel.
Still a fighting chance he won't get a ban I reckon. Listening to various pundits today, including former refs, there's no real consensus at all.
When will this be reviewed/decided ?? Is it today ?
Just hearing Mourinho has avoided action for pitch encroachment at the weekend, so assuming FA are meeting today on the disciplinary stuff.
Full debate on Talksport going on now.......no consensus among those discussing it. One (Cascarino) saying 'definite ban', some not sure, Ian Abraham saying not a deliberate stamp, more a 'placing of his foot'