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So much for RESPECT!!!

The BBC website have just announced that the ?ex-wunderkind? Rooney will only be suspended for the next Premier League game against Aston Villa and will be available for selection against the Blues in the FA Cup semi-final. I thought I understood the 2 yellows = 1 red card policy but obviously I don?t.

Nor do I understand the FA?s well publicised ?Respect? program as I didn?t see anything in what happened at Craven Cottage on Saturday from Manure that had anything to do with respect. Now if acting like a spoiled brat, throwing his ball out of the pram and trying to do a ?Tiny Tim? impression to the corner flag does not show disrespect to anyone who has their eyes open, the obviously anything goes. Oh now I understand he didn?t swear at Mark Halsey? silly me for not realising that!!!!

Far be it for me to suggest that Red Baron Ferguson managed to influence the FA. Or that Sky wanted the ?ex-wunderkind v former club that gave him his chance? story line to be available for promoting the Wembley extravaganza. Oh well I?m sure we would feel cheated if we beat the Devilled Reds without our ?favourite son?!!!!! COYBs
David Cooper, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada Posted 23/03/2009 at 20:58:27

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Michael Kenrick

David, a double yellow equals red, but a red card does not equal a 3-match ban.... it depends what the red is for.

If it's violent play, it's 3-match ban; if it's for two booking offences, it's a one-match ban.

Just a pity the FA did not add a few on for his disgusting petulance, but did anyone seriously think they would?

Kevin Jones
1 Posted 24/03/2009 at 09:32:53

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If you can purposely jump onto somebodies leg from 2 yards away, and be playing again within 3 weeks, while your victim’s still on crutches, then it just shows the inadequacies of the "57 old farts" that are ruining, sorry running football.

Anthony Dyer
2 Posted 24/03/2009 at 10:15:31

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Given the fact that he threw the ball albeit with some force back in the direction of his team mate, he was in my opinion unjustly given a second yellow card.

However, he should be warned about his reaction after his 2nd yellow card.
He obviously realises that his stupid remarks about the other lot prior to the game may have handed the initiative to those he loves to hate.

Referees have this season completley lost the plot and until someone like St. Gerrard is badly injured by a Taylor-esque challenge they will continue to allow the elbows and grappling as well as the dangerous tackling to go unpunished.
If Rooney plays against Everton it will make it all the more sweeter if we beat United.

Joeynkoo Ludden
3 Posted 24/03/2009 at 10:49:36

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Cant help feeling that if the tosser had done exactly what he did at Craven cottage, but in the Royal Blue of Everton, it would be a 3 match ban and they’d be no point in trying to overturn it.

Mac Smith
4 Posted 24/03/2009 at 11:01:33

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Michael, I understood the rules the same as you: ?If it?s violent play, it?s 3-match ban; if it?s for two booking offences, it?s a one-match ban.?

However, can someone please tell me how Vidic only got a 2 game ban for his ?professional foul? on Stevie Meeee last week?

Anthony Whitley
5 Posted 24/03/2009 at 11:10:17

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I thought that Vidic got a one match suspension for a professional foul (which is correct), and then the additional game suspension was because it was his 2nd red card of the season.

Rob Hollis
6 Posted 24/03/2009 at 13:04:21

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I am shocked that Rooney is suspended at all. After allowing Utd to lose then I would have expected the referee to be banned and Utd awarded the three points anyway because Ferguson wanted them!

Anthony Dyer
7 Posted 24/03/2009 at 17:43:21

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The more worrying aspect of the ’respect’ campaign is the overturning of the Referees Red Card decisions. I don’t know whether Brad Friedel’s red was deserved or not, but it must have been wrong as the FA have recinded it so he can play against Man U in the next round of PL games.

What would have happened if Friedal had been sent off at 0-0 and then lost the game by five goals. Would AF have been happy with the outcome?

Also have our neighbours beaten anyone in the top 5 who have finished the game with eleven men at the end of the game.

If a referee deems an offence a sending off that should be the end of the matter, this allowance for error is not helping the Referee or the game.

A Referee can now send someone off, safe in the knowledge that it will only affect that particular game as a ban will not apply if it is deemed as an unwarranted sending off.

It won’t be long before goals are knocked off by some faceless committee men so as the more favoured clubs can achieve what they are supposed to achieve.

Keith Hackett was never my personal favourite as a Referee, as an adminstrator he is far more dangerous than he was in the middle of the park.

James Dawson
8 Posted 24/03/2009 at 18:24:29

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I can?t help feeling that we?re heading towards some very dodgy ground. If the referee?s decision is final, then what is the basis for rescinding these red cards? To me, we?re only one step away from reviewing goals after matches and disallowing those that should have been ruled out (for offside etc.) or alternatively reinstating those goals that have incorrectly been ruled out during the game itself.

It?s simple ? the ref?s decisions are either sacrosanct or they?re not. The FA can?t have it both ways. And if a referee shows himself to be a buffoon by having a poor day then either give HIM the suspension, or for the worst cases get rid altogether.

Surely that has to be the starting point for the whole Respect campaign ? make the referees stand up and be counted.

Micky Norman
9 Posted 24/03/2009 at 19:42:55

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The words "Respect" and "Rooney" should never be in the same book. But I’m glad he isn’t suspended for Wembley because we need to show we’ve got over his desertion and it will be so much better if we win and he spits his dummy out again.

Mike Allison
10 Posted 24/03/2009 at 21:04:53

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Since when was throwing the ball back to the correct spot for a free kick to be taken a yellow card offence anyway? Phil Dowd got it wrong, and he overreacted because he?d bottled out of sending off Ronaldo for dissent, despite clearly giving him two ?last warnings?.

Garry Martin
11 Posted 25/03/2009 at 12:52:02

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Don?t worry about our favourite ex son Wayne "Dickhead" Rooney, if he plays he will definitely lose the plot & get senty off - demonstrating again he?s still a tosser and liabilty. I say, "Bring on the fat little dickhead!!"

Roger Osborne
12 Posted 25/03/2009 at 21:41:45

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So Rooney can give the referee more profanity than "Nil by Mouth" in previous games and the official turns a blind eye, and yet in West London at the weekend, the rotund one gets a sending off for throwing the ball at the referee. Maybe I’m sadly lacking, but explain that to me.

I did enjoy his "Cahill" moment with the corner-flag however. Great viewing!