Rooney Charged: Faces Two Match Ban for cursing | Appeal lost

Bryan_Munich said:
As I've already said, he's lying then.
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He's either lying or being incredibly cowardly. What he's doing is telling the authorities that he would definitely apply the letter of the law i.e. what he thinks they want to hear. In reality, referees almost never book players for swearing (even though, technically, they can) unless it's particularly nasty, sustained abuse in the direction of a match official.

Either Mason lacks the balls to point out the reality of the way bad language is handled on a football pitch or the FA put pressure on him to give the response they wanted.
 
Pogue Mahone said:
He's either lying or being incredibly cowardly. What he's doing is telling the authorities that he would definitely apply the letter of the law i.e. what he thinks they want to hear. In reality, referees almost never book players for swearing (even though, technically, they can) unless it's particularly nasty, sustained abuse in the direction of a match official.

Either Mason lacks the balls to point out the reality of the way bad language is handled on a football pitch or the FA put pressure on him to give the response they wanted.
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Did you just edit the first line? :wenger:
 
Pogue Mahone said:
Either Mason lacks the balls to point out the reality of the way bad language is handled on a football pitch or the FA put pressure on him to give the response they wanted.
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I'm afraid I'm going to have to give you a 5 day ban for that Pogue.
 
There is no way in a million years Mason would have sent him off. What a complete and utter liar. And these cnuts want respect?
 
to be fair the fa have a responsibility to act. i idolise footballers and am often found spit roasting under aged girls, sending lurid pictures of my junk to random skanks, cheating on girlfriends, swearing at authority figures and stumbling out of nightclubs at half three on a school night. if it wasn’t for footballers i’d probably be a perfectly grounded and rounded individual.
 
Mason was asked by the FA to review it - and he admitted that had he seen the flashpoint originally, he would have shown the red card to the fiery star.
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I don't believe Lee Mason. He wouldn't have dared...all hell would have broken loose if he had given a red card for that and he knows it.

Feedingseagulls said:
Apparently Sky received very few calls complaining after the live broadcast.
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Naturally, no-one could really hear anything and what bit viewers may have heard wouldn't haven't made much sense. That's why most of us "viewers" didn't know anything about it until the media frenzy took off.
 
rimaldo said:
to be fair the fa have a responsibility to act. i idolise footballers and am often found spit roasting under aged girls, sending lurid pictures of my junk to random skanks, cheating on girlfriends, swearing at authority figures and stumbling out of nightclubs at half three on a school night. if it wasn’t for footballers i’d probably be a perfectly grounded and rounded individual.
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:lol:
 
PFA's Barnes slams Rooney treatment

Professional Footballers' Association (PFA) deputy chief executive Bobby Barnes has told ESPNsoccernet that Wayne Rooney needs to be understood, not persecuted, as he is set to learn his fate for swearing into a camera at the weekend.

Rooney has been criticised in the media for the 'F-word' that was caught on camera as he celebrated his hat-trick against West Ham. But, as he faces a two-match ban, he has been given the backing of the PFA.

"I am not Wayne Rooney's apologist,'' Barnes told ESPNsoccernet. "I am not condoning what he did, and of course what he did is far from ideal as there are a lot of kids up and down the country watching and players have responsibilities.

"But you have to bear in mind what a horrible year this boy has had. It is almost a year to the day that he was injured in Munich and it has been an awful time for him, he has struggled on the field and had a lot of issues off the field.

"Having gone through all of that ... this was a release of all the pressure.''

Barnes maintained that a player like Rooney, who is constantly in the spotlight, has to be given more leeway instead of being punished and that a two-match ban is "disproportionate''.

"It is often misunderstood the sort of pressure a player like Wayne Rooney is under,'' he said. ''It is always talked about the money these type of players earn, but it is not about the money, it is about not having the success, not living up to the extraordinary high expectations, it is almost a fear of failure.

"That is why it was such a release of pressure, enormous pressures on this young man's shoulders over a whole year. Obviously it was not an ideal way to react, but while I would never condone it, I can understand it, and a two-match ban is totally disproportionate.

"It is unprecedented that the FA has taken action after a player has said something into a TV camera. This is totally different to what Didier Drogba did in the Champions League. He followed the referee, and was sorry for his actions afterwards.

"Wayne has not been disrespectful to any official or opponent, and I feel there has been a lot of discussion about what might happen next season. But the game needs to set parameters so everyone knows where they stand: for example, if you take your shirt off, you know you will be booked.

"There is no precedent for this, and Rooney needs to be treated differently. I would suggest a severe reprimand and suspended sentence, but surely not a two-game ban when he was clearly not intending to cause offense and apologised immediately afterwards.

"No one is saying what he did was right, I am not, but let's give Wayne Rooney a little bit of understanding.''

PFA's Bobby Barnes: Wayne Rooney ban 'disproportionate' - ESPN Soccernet
 
Kelvin said:
About time Roo! FA finally show some backbone after charging United striker

By Graham Poll Last updated at 1:27 AM on 5th April 2011

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At last I can finally write that the Football Association has found the backbone required to run the national game and be called its custodians.

It has missed so many opportunities to make a stand for decency, but what follows now is really important.

Referees are asked for consistency and the standard-bearers of the game must also answer that call.

It was almost impossible not to charge Wayne Rooney for that foul-mouthed tirade and a two-match ban looks inevitable.

Now the FA must wrest control of referees from the spurious Professional Game Match Officials Limited and instruct them to apply the law and earn respect, not allow the Premier League to promote further 'management' of players' excesses.

Read more: FA show backbone after Wayne Rooney charge - Graham Poll | Mail Online


Poll you utter cock....
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Graham Poll is a cretin of the highest order and a keen listener of his own voice.
 
Inigo Montoya said:
He rounded on England fans for booing him and his under- performing colleagues during last summer’s World Cup, failing to understand that — as the people who fund his rock-star lifestyle — this is their inalienable right.
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So it's OK for people to wish harm on Rooney's child and family? It's an inalienable right to dish out some utterly disgusting personal abuse but cry foul if Rooney dishes an expletive or two back?

Daily Mail can suck my fat one.
 
"I am not condoning what he did", "foul-mouthed tirade", whatever Samuel wrote... (Two of which were defending Rooney.) What are these people talking about? He said "what fecking what"! It's nothing, absolutely nothing. And then you even have United fans thinking it warrants a fine or a ban. Flabbergasting.
 
So you have Stevie Me and Big Man swearing their mouths away at refs week in week out and Mason's telling us he would have sent Rooney off if he heard him swear for scoring a hattrick of all things.

Respect needs to be earnt, neither the FA nor the refs are doing a very good job of earning it. So to both I reiterate - feck off.
 
At last I can finally write that the Football Association has found the backbone required to run the national game and be called its custodians.
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Now then Poll, I see things differently. I also see an FA who have no understanding of how to control, an FA who are so desperate to appear to have control that they have also lost the ability to think clearly and reasonably. When you have an FA who largely react to media demands and uproar then you have an FA who are frightened, almost scared witless that someone might rumble them as having no backbone.

Backbones, let us not forget, are naturally flexible not rigid. They allow the bearer to move and adjust to circumstances when and if the need arises.

Media inserted backbones on the other hand are inflexible and rigid.

To me they haven't found a backbone, they've had one forced down their shirts by the media.
 
Red Defence said:
Now then Poll, I see things differently. I also see an FA who have no understanding of how to control, an FA who are so desperate to appear to have control that they have also lost the ability to think clearly and reasonably. When you have an FA who largely react to media demands and uproar then you have an FA who are frightened, almost scared witless that someone might rumble them as having no backbone.

Backbones, let us not forget, are naturally flexible not rigid. They allow the bearer to move and adjust to circumstances when and if the need arises.

Media inserted backbones on the other hand are inflexible and rigid.

To me they haven't found a backbone, they've had one forced down their shirts by the media.
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I think the movement was upwards tbh.
 
How about docking him a month worth of wages. Those suggesting 50.000 fine must be joking, it's a fraction of what someone like Rooney makes a week. Hit his pocket big time and have the club address the issue with the player's reps when it comes to anger management.

Rooney is the worst culprit when it comes to verbal abuse towards referees during matches, for example. Many players do that from time to time but he's been getting away with quite a lot because of who he is. He clearly has a serious problem containing his temper and nothing has been done about it for years.

Suspending him from playing is a ridiculous punishment, he should be allowed to play on. I say, take large chunk of money out of his wallet and see him and others take notice on what they can or can't do in front of millions of tv viewers.
 
antihenry said:
he's been getting away with quite a lot because of who he is.
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I can't believe otherwise sensible posters (and you:smirk:) still come out with this shit.

He's been getting away with not because of who he is but because everybody gets away with it. Who are all these other players with less-known names who get into trouble for it? Or is he the only player who does it?

There is absolutely no precedent for players getting in to trouble for being foul-mouthed and, as discussed at length, if refs were to suddenly start sticking to the letter of the law and sending players off, no match would get past about 10 minutes before being abandoned becfause a side was down to fewer than 7 players.
 
antihenry said:
How about docking him a month worth of wages. Those suggesting 50.000 fine must be joking, it's a fraction of what someone like Rooney makes a week. Hit his pocket big time and have the club address the issue with the player's reps when it comes to anger management.

Rooney is the worst culprit when it comes to verbal abuse towards referees during matches, for example. Many players do that from time to time but he's been getting away with quite a lot because of who he is. He clearly has a serious problem containing his temper and nothing has been done about it for years.

Suspending him from playing is a ridiculous punishment, he should be allowed to play on. I say, take large chunk of money out of his wallet and see him and others take notice on what they can or can't do in front of millions of tv viewers.
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Can't argue with this really.
 
antihenry said:
How about docking him a month worth of wages. Those suggesting 50.000 fine must be joking, it's a fraction of what someone like Rooney makes a week. Hit his pocket big time and have the club address the issue with the player's reps when it comes to anger management.

Rooney is the worst culprit when it comes to verbal abuse towards referees during matches, for example. Many players do that from time to time but he's been getting away with quite a lot because of who he is. He clearly has a serious problem containing his temper and nothing has been done about it for years.

Suspending him from playing is a ridiculous punishment, he should be allowed to play on. I say, take large chunk of money out of his wallet and see him and others take notice on what they can or can't do in front of millions of tv viewers.
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Oh the hilarity.

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Is he getting reading to say 'fanks' here?
 
R_Nick said:
Oh the hilarity.

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Is he getting reading to say 'fanks' here?
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Terry does that often, so does Gerrard and quite a few others.

Rooney does it more than anybody else, though. I can't remember a game where he didn't get to vent at referees. I'm not saying it because he is United player, in fact I don't think anyone else in your squad comes even close to him in that respect.
 
:lol: Sky Sport News just interviewed a load of Spurs fans live in a square in Madrid, loads of swearing, fingers stuck up, chants... they apologised about 4 times.

Its probably down to Rooney but wont someone please think of the children!
 
Eyepopper said:
:lol: Sky Sport News just interviewed a load of Spurs fans live in a square in Madrid, loads of swearing, fingers stuck up, chants... they apologised about 4 times.

Its probably down to Rooney but wont someone please think of the children!
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Get on the phone to their complaints department, let's get Spurs kicked out of Europe, see how 'Arry likes that the tax dodging twat
 
Seeing as he has til 6pm to respond, does anyone else reckon he should phone them at 5.59 and shout "what? fecking what?" down the phone?
 
He said feck on the telly. My word, this is utterly ridiculous!

Cameramen follow players around and chase them when they score. Why don't they feck this nonsense off. Who really is offended by him saying feck anyway?
 
whilst all the press are wetting themselves over this, only a couple of mentions about the possible racial abuse of players families has taken place.

If that is proven, lets see the medha and the fa make an example of west ham, under the kick racism out of football banner and force them to play behind closed doors. That way clubs and fans alike will take note. As we know, it isn't united and no action will be taken.
 
Tribec said:
whilst all the press are wetting themselves over this, only a couple of mentions about the possible racial abuse of players families has taken place.
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:lol: and yet a minority of united fans singing about Hillsborough and Heysel at an FA Youth Cup game makes national news,
 
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