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I understand the response will simply be a series of photographs of precisely the same thing happening in 50 other games.
With just the words 'grow up' at the bottom
They had the chance to bury this embarrassing incident but chose this instead. Pay the fine and move on. Whole thing is incredibly petty.
We need to get back to the days when the officials did it for free and were therefore not expected to know anything about the Laws of the game, the rules or even indeed, football in general. The days when even an unashamed disdain and contempt for the game and all who played it was considered a healthy, desired advantage.
Better that than the humourless, faux-righteous, unironic ****show we have nowadays.
"Plenty of strikers can score goals," he said, gesturing to the famous old stands casting shadows around us.
"But a lot have found it difficult wearing the number 9 shirt for The Arsenal."
It is the age old problem though.... you can't do it, and we did it. The fact that everyone else always does it and that refs never punish it is irrelevant. If they choose to single out one team and make an example of them there is nothing you can do about it other than point out how often we are the team singled out. And that only leads to being branded whingers and singled out for more 'letter of the law' stuff.
The timing of this charge tells you all you need to know. FA are furious about the panel overturning the red card and they just cant bring themselves to accept it and move on. Perfect example of a dysfunctional institution that has lost sight of its role and is taking things personally.
Not fit for purpose and should be abolished.
Where headmasters, coppers, and prison officers just did it on the weekend for a few extra bob and to get away from the wife?
I think they have to take var away from the refs. Have specialist var officials that are trained differently and report to somebody else.
More than anything else, we have seen in the last year or two that it isn't var that is the problem. It's the people operating it.