MAKALELE - you cheating SCUM

[Easy 10]

Makalele is a weasel of the highest order, and should have a 6 match European ban for what he did last night. I am absolutely fed up to the back teeth with the playacting from players, and its time UEFA / FIFA actively DID SOMETHING to crack down on it. Here is a case where we have clear and irrefutable video evidence that Makalele got a player sent off with an outrageous piece of playacting. OK, Zikos was bloody stupid to have pushed him in the first place, but the punishment in no way fitted the crime. I nearly put my boot through the TV when the camera went back to Makalele still gingerly rubbing the back of his head after Zikos had been red-carded - does he think we're all f***ing STUPID ?

I don't blame the ref - he saw a hand raised, and made a judgement based on the fact that Makalele was writhing around on the floor in mock agony as if he'd been punched. But this is where they need some help. These cheating SCUMBAG players need to be aware that their actions will be reviewed by a video panel after the match, and they should expect a massive fine and a lengthy ban if they trick an official into sending a fellow professional off.

FIFA had a chance to make a high-profile stance against this crap in the last World Cup when Rivaldo went down clutching his face after the ball had struck him on the knee, but typically, they just fudged it. To my mind, the governing bodies lose more and more credibility when they just allow this type of thing to go on in the game. Nothing annoys me more than play-acting, but all the while the players know nothing will be done about it, they'll carry on doing it. And that SUCKS.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Cheats never prosper

11 / 11 men 1-1
11 / 10 men 1-3

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

no need to worry bout it. surely uefa can just look at the video and ban him and reverse the red card for the monaco bloke.

 

[Easy 10]

Course they can. But they WON'T.
Makalele will get away with this scott-free.

 

[Marshy]

Agreed. Ban him.

 

[bhafc4eva]

In the laws of the game raising your hand warrants a sending off so the ref was only doing the right thing.

 

[Simster]

I actually thought Desailly was worse. It's one thing to make out that a foul is worse than it is but at the end of the day, the ref saw it as a foul - it's just that Maccalaccalaylee made a meal of it.

Desailly elbowed an opponent in the face when the ref's back was turned. Cheating and pure cowardice. And Shearer has done that plenty of times so it's not a foreign disease...

 

[fatbadger]

It may well have been the case that Makalele's reaction drew the ref's attention to the offence, but the simple fact is that in the rules of the game, what Zikos did was a sending-off offence, so his red card most certainly should not be rescinded. He hit out in anger. Tough. Makalele is a little different - yes, he touched the face of Zikos, and perhaps (but only perhaps) it was deliberately intimidatory, but there was no apparent malice, so FIFA and UEFA would expect the ref to show discretion and not give Makalele a red card for it. Now, a yellow card for winding the player up seems fully justified, and that's what he got. No problem. Strikes me that, although Makalele's behaviour was reprehensible, and the ref may not have done something if he hadn't acted as he did, the ref got the incident right.

Two other red cards should have been shown, though - to Desailly (although I can understand the ref not seeing that) and Morientes for kicking out at Parker (which the ref did see, and did nothing about it). If Desailly and/or Morientes had gone off, Chelsea would have won the match.

 

[Bwian]

In the laws of the game raising your hand warrants a sending off so the ref was only doing the right thing.

So why wasn't he sent of too? He raised his hand and gave Zikos a couple of slaps.

It's a shame the FA can't ban the cheating twat for bringing the game into disrepute.

Like many-I actually wanted Chelski to get to the final (for Ranieri) and THEN blow it but after that cheating bastard's antics I cheered every goal against them. Sorry Claudio!

 

[Easy 10]

Zikos was stupid to raise his hand and push Makalele in the back of the head, so I don't really blame the ref for sending him off. He put himself in that position by doing what he did.
But my main bone of contention is that Makalele will get off scott-free for his antics, when everyone knows he was playacting. That is what winds me up. Like I say, incidents like this should be cracked down on restrospectively with the video evidence, and cheating little pricks like Makalele should be PUNISHED.

 

[The Large One]

Just got a message from the Press Association (I am on their editors' mailing list) that UEFA are looking at the MAKALELE incident, and the DESAILLY elbow incident.

More soon.

 

[Meade's Ball]

I saw the incident as both of them exchanging friendly pats with an undercurrent of anger. No part of the exchange was violent.
I was rooting for Monaco from that moment on and will do so in the second leg too.

 

[Schrödinger's Toad]

No-one hit anyone! It was stupid handbags that should never have come to anything if it wasn't for Makelele's cheating - he is an embarrassment to the professional game, and should be banned, but I have no faith in UEFA's commitment to deal with cheating and to do so

 

[Hungry Joe.]

I hate seeing anyone playing for an English team cheat so despicably. I agree that Chelsea got what they deserved after that. I see way too much of that kind of stuff in our game now. I'm not pretending it never happended in the past, Rodney Marsh admits he went down every time he was tapped in the penalty area for example (and he wasn't the only one) but that is way different to feigning injury in order to get a fellow professional sent off. The management must take responsibility and make it clear to their players that it's just not acceptable. The trouble is that the pressure for success is so great many of them seam to either turn a blind eye of quietly encourage it.

 

[Lammy]

Totally agree Easy 10. When the video is as compelling as last nights eveidence then Uefa should have no hesitation in fining him 2 weeks wages and banning him for 3 games.

Which brings me onto another thread about fining...

 

[fatbadger]

Just got a message from the Press Association (I am on their editors' mailing list) that UEFA are looking at ... the DESAILLY elbow incident.

Why does this not surprise me? Are they looking at the Morientes incident? Why do they only ever retropectively look at incidents involved the head when their own rules say you will not lash out with any part of the body?

I am happy to agree with everyone that Makalele was a disgrace; so, too, was Desailly. But Morientes was an absolute twat. He whinged, and whinged and whinged, all the way through the game. It seems a shame that either he or Makalele will 'grace' Europe's premier match. I don't want either of them to get away with their behaviour.

 

[tedebear]

What a disgraceful display last night by several players....

Makalele - cheating girls blouse
Desailly - childish thug
Morientes - like fatbadger says - whinged and wined...

I seem to see this kind of behaviour come to a head in European players.... unfortuantely half of Europe now plays for Premiership Teams...

 

[GUNTER]

Whatever happened to great European players like Platini?

 

[Marc]

I too was disgusted at Makalele's antics, UEFA must do something about this and use him as an example to others and he deserves that fact aswell. One job in this world I would like would be a Video Panel Bloke and report on incidents like these and make sure bans are made for players...that would rule.

 

[Reading Posh]

Out of curiosity, wasn't there a live game at the start of the season involving the Albion - where an Albion player took a tumble that led to an opponent being sent off?

I'm genuinely hazy on this - can anyone help?