Zero f**kin' tolerance (1 Viewer)

[Nicole]

And both players have to deal with the same pressure?

Fabregas lives in a foriegn country and I doubt is fluent in the language yet. And Rooney is 100% of the time under a microscope.

 

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[#10]

++ [ originally posted by Nicole ] ++
And both players have to deal with the same pressure?

Fabregas lives in a foriegn country and I doubt is fluent in the language yet. And Rooney is 100% of the time under a microscope.

so was Michael Owen.

 

[Nicole]

So? You cant compare people, they arent the same. Some react in different ways.

 

[madlawyer1]

Ok, ok, someone can get pissed and lose his self control on the pitch and say something stupid to the ref. Should such a person be sent off? I really can't say. But someone who regulary throws tantrums on the field like a petulant 6 year old such as Wayne Rooney, should be dealt with to the severest extent of the law.

There is simply no deprecating his footballing talent and ability, but the lad is on a fast track to nowhere if he keeps up his current attitude. There is no doubt that the new rule is predicated on his on-field antics. I have lip-read the young man saying things to a ref that would make a sailor blush. His attitude has led some youth groups to cancel his name from their list of role models, and the sort of picture above isn't limited to just Eurosport. Even in Planetfootball's report of the new rule, a picture of Wayne Rooney is used.

He's rapidly becoming the posterboy of the wrong attitude to the game.

 

[#10]

++ [ originally posted by Nicole ] ++
So? You cant compare people, they arent the same. Some react in different ways.

So why cant rooney at least respect the ref?? which he cleary doesnt do at all.

 

[Nicole]

Come on! Its not like he is the only person ever to do this?

 

[Slagathor]

++ [ originally posted by gray ] ++
About bloody time too

btw the one thing I like about Rugby is that the referees wear microphones. This is good because

a) you can hear what he's saying to the players (why he made a certain call etc.)

b) the players never swear at or argue with him

I've always wondered why football referees can't have the same thing.

Yes indeed! I love that about rugby!

 

[Desmond]

++ [ originally posted by gray ] ++
About bloody time too

btw the one thing I like about Rugby is that the referees wear microphones. This is good because

a) you can hear what he's saying to the players (why he made a certain call etc.)

b) the players never swear at or argue with him

I've always wondered why football referees can't have the same thing.

We should make the players wear microphones so the entire world hears them the next time they decide to use their extensive vocabulary

 

[Respaul]

++ [ originally posted by Desmond ] ++

We should make the players wear microphones so the entire world hears them the next time they decide to use their extensive vocabulary

They did a trial of refs wearing mikes in serie a and the epl a couple of years ago... Neither game made it to half time without the feed being cut because of the language.. Its never been tried again

 

[gray]

++ [ originally posted by Shadowfax ] ++
Gray : I have to disagree that they dont do it in rugby... You hear plaayers swearing at the ref all the time... This mornings all blacks - lions game being a prime example where both sets of players could be heard swearing at the ref several times...

Hmm maybe it's different in international matches from the National Rugby League. Rugby is widely considered to be a gentleman's sport, probably due to the huge focus that private schools set on their rugby

 

[Slagathor]

Rugby is a far less dirty sport in many ways

 

[Respaul]

Never understood the idea that rugby is a genmtlemans sport...

A game where there are physical fights in almost every game... people regularly get banned for biting etc.... People stamping on people...

Regular attempts to kill people with double teaming etc

And even i remember not so long ago a gentleman banned for putting his fingers up other players arses during matches....


Oh yes such a gentlemanly sport

 

[Slagathor]

I was referring more to the likes of faking injuries and diving over non-existing tackles but thankyouverymuch for bringing up that rather colourful side of the 'gentleman' sport

 

[Chxta]

++ [ originally posted by Shadowfax ] ++
Never understood the idea that rugby is a genmtlemans sport...

A game where there are physical fights in almost every game... people regularly get banned for biting etc.... People stamping on people...

Regular attempts to kill people with double teaming etc

And even i remember not so long ago a gentleman banned for putting his fingers up other players arses during matches....


Oh yes such a gentlemanly sport

 

[swag]

Talk about a bizarre equivalent to American football's "illegal hands to the face" penalty...

 

[swag]

++ [ originally posted by Nicole ] ++
Come on! Its not like he is the only person ever to do this?

But there's an odd gravity applied to different offenses then. A player taking off his jersey to celebrate a goal will get carded every time. Yet you can have a player go into full-blown Tourettes Syndrome and somehow that won't get called because everyone else does it?

Which of those two offenses is truly the more unsportsmanlike of conduct?

 

[Nicole]

Blame FIFA and UEFA!

 

[Slagathor]

I thoroughly despise the ban on taking off jerseys (or more :lick:) when celebrating goals

It's Sepp Blatter, what can you do. He banned the jersey celebrations yet tries to issue a law that obliges female players to wear tight outfits. Anyone question this man's heterosexuality?

 

[#10]

From what i remember ...

Rugby was a thugs game played by gentlemen.

Football was a gentlemens sport played by thugs.

Cricket was jus a gentlemens sport

 

[Desmond]

++ [ originally posted by Erik ] ++
I thoroughly despise the ban on taking off jerseys (or more :lick:) when celebrating goals

Incredibly irritating,that.

I love it when players know they're gonna be carded but take off their jersey when they score anyway

It's Sepp Blatter, what can you do. He banned the jersey celebrations yet tries to issue a law that obliges female players to wear tight outfits. Anyone question this man's heterosexuality?

I don't blame him,he's prolly just trying to keep himself from falling asleep during women's games.