In my experience if you choose not to accept the punishment offered and ask for a personal hearing, the punishment is often increased. Last season the FA used the euphemism frivolous nature of the appeal, when dismissing appeals where the offender was clearly bang to rights a la 'Elbows' Beckford. -original message- Subject: Re: [LU] Beckford From: [email protected] Date: 11/02/2009 14:25
not quite - gets "offered" a 3 match ban. How did the FA get round the FIFA regulations you might wonder? Well apparently Wiley said he booked beckford for a pushing incident with the keeper BEFORE the elbow.. therefore officially the booking was not for the same incident. As far as video evidence goes, I think it is pretty fucking clear that the ONLY pushing Beckford did was with his elbow, before that he was pushed and knocked in the face by the defender and keeper. So the FA are being their usual bunch of crafty little shits in engineering this so they can punish Beckford/Leeds. What actually happened was that the linesman saw evidence of some jostling between keeper and beckford BECAUSE the keeper dropped to the floor like a sack of shit. So they guessed he had been pushed, but didnt know how, so they booked Beckford for it. It is only because the game was on Sky that Wiley saw the incident replayed endlessly on TV later and realised he missed the seriousness of the 'push'. Well tough shit, the "incident" you booked him for was the one and only incident that he was involved with, you therefore dealt with the incident and that, according to FIFA rules is the matter over with. According to the rule books, you know those ones that use used to the letter to prevent us getting promotion last year. Fucking wankers the lot of them.. talk about trial by media... > Gets a 3 game ban for throwing his elbow! > > _______________________________________________ the Leeds List is an unmoderated mailing list and the list administrators accept no liability for the personal views and opinions of contributors. Leedslist mailing list [email protected] http://list.zetnet.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist Sorry Macca - it's the curse of Bates old lad
