Sascha Riether Charged

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Fulham's Sascha Riether has becomes first player to be retrospectively charged by an FA panel for his challenge on Manchester United's Adnan Januzaj.
Previously, where the match officials had confirmed to The FA that none of them had seen an incident the match referee was then asked to review all available video evidence before being asked what action, if any, he would have taken had it been seen.
Under the new process, if an incident has not been seen by the match officials, a three-man panel of former elite referees Steve Dunn, Eddie Wolstenholme and Alan Wiley will be asked by The FA to review it and advise what, if any action, they believe the match referee should have taken had it been witnessed at the time.
For an FA charge to follow, all three panel members must agree it is a sending-off offence. In this instance, the panel were of the unanimous decision that it was an act of violent conduct.
The defender has until 6pm on Tuesday 5 November 2013 to respond to the charge.

http://www1.skysports.com/football/...iether-first-player-to-be-charged-by-fa-panel
 
Would have been a farce if he hadn't been. Enjoy your three game ban you cnut.
 
The F.A. doing something good?

Nah, it's a mistake.
 
Il Prete Rosso said:
Really? It was a horrible stamp...twice!
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I didnt expect it either. Not because it wasnt deserved, but because its the FA. They usually bottle this sort of stuff.
 
I'm surprised the FA did something. Good on them, but I can't see them doing these kind of things far too often.
 
Didn't think we'd see action. Thought we'd hear that the fourth officials cousins dog seen some of the incident on telly so no action could be taken.
 
alastair said:
Some ridiculous cynicism in here. Inevitable decision.
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I think the cynicism derives from similar instances, like the Aguero/David Luiz incident, were the evidence is clear as day. The officials and the FA always seem to have an excuse to wriggle out of taking action on acts of misconduct on the pitch. Whilst it certainly was the right decision, I had a feeling that the referee was going to write in his match report that he saw the incident but decided he saw nothing in it, which would mean the governing bodies would be helpless to intervene. It's a bonkers rule really.
 
I think the ref and his officials saying they didn't see the incident made the FA do something otherwise those cnuts are still the same useless cnuts.
 
OnlyTwoDaSilvas said:
I think the cynicism derives from similar instances, like the Aguero/David Luiz incident, were the evidence is clear as day. The officials and the FA always seem to have an excuse to wriggle out of taking action on acts of misconduct on the pitch. Whilst it certainly was the right decision, I had a feeling that the referee was going to write in his match report that he saw the incident but decided he saw nothing in it, which would mean the governing bodies would be helpless to intervene. It's a bonkers rule really.
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It's a stupid rule, no doubt, but every club has benefited from it in the past.
 
Deserved. Hopefully they charge as two incidents for the kick and the stamp, as the kick was as bad as Rafael's against David Luiz last year.
 


this ad is annoying me as I got ready to post..... great now it's above and below so I'm sandwiched :lol:

anyway, I wasn't aware of the new rule but tbh it's about feckin time they did something. will they also charge players retroactively for diving, simulating injuries, etc?
 
was always going to be banned.

Beyond cowardly stamping on a frail kid lying on the floor!

Utter twat of a man.
 
It's a deserved ban. Don't understand why anyone is mentioning Januzaj's age though. Beyond irrelevant.
 
Well deserved. He's looking at three matches, minimum, for violent conduct, yeah?

Sandikan said:
was always going to be banned.

Beyond cowardly stamping on a frail kid lying on the floor!

Utter twat of a man.
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Or, you know, an adult who plays football, professionally...
 
alastair said:
Some ridiculous cynicism in here. Inevitable decision.
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What? We've seen plenty of "inevitable decisions" not being taken in recent times. Torres blatantly scratching Vertonghen in the face for example or that bonkers McManaman tackle of last season. People here just don't have any confidence in the FA to make any sort of correct decision anymore, and who can blame them if you saw those two incidents?
 
Credit to fellaini for jumping right in and helping Januzaj out. Hes not afraid of a scuffle, we need more with that kind of attitude.
 
Apparently it is a new pilot scheme that has been put in place. When did it get put in place because Torres should have had his four match ban and yet it got scrapped. I think, although Reither deserved to get a 3 game ban, I think the "special panel", was only set up to clear up the incompetence of the official in that particular game.
 
alastair said:
It's a stupid rule, no doubt, but every club has benefited from it in the past.
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I agree. And I know we certainly have. Rooney mowing down McCarthy being a relatively recent example. No excusing that. There's lots of examples where players have gotten away with cnuty behaviour, and this could have been another if the referee claimed to have seen it but saw nothing worthy of punishing, which so often happens.
 
Terrible stamp and justifiably being dealt with. Barely deserves a thread of its own.
 
And rightly so, dirty cnut running around kicking kids.

He should be strung up. And flogged. And tarred and feathered. And kicked in the ovaries. And then beaten to within an inch of his life. And then buried, barely alive, like that scene in Casino.

Amiright?
 
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