Adam El Abd - Pathetic

[oh ah stantona]

Think i may have fallen over if that fat pie eater had pushed me..come on i no his old man is a legend but Mellor junior is one fat sh*te...and b4 you all start with the i wish we had signed wait and see who we unveil this week....

 

[8ace]

Oh and whoever said f*** off and support Arsenal, I paid my money to go and travelled there as I have the nearly 700 other Brighton games I've been to in the twenty years I've been going...

What was your reply to this at the time?

 

[Sheebo]

I will probably get flamed for this, i dont like slagging players off, but El Abd is a total embarrassment.

There is absolutely no place in football for PATHETIC cheating trying to get a fellow player sent off.

He is built like a brick shit house, he gets shoved in the chest and goes down holding his eye, and rolls around like a little girl. Then to call on the physio to treat his "injury" was just ridiculous.

No need for it, ridiculous behavior like this needs to be eradicated from the game, especially our club as we try to attract fans going into Falmer

For being such a pathetic embarrassment he should be suspended by the club. I know we are short of centre backs but he needs to be made an example of as it's not the first time he's done it.

El Abd disgraced himself, should have been booked, and therefore sent off when he took out Mellor later on in the first half

Rant over

Sounds similar to what Elding did last week though!

 

[Guy Fawkes]

Pretty sure pushing in the chest is a yellow card offence at best mate, when you go throat upwards it becomes a red. Which is why what El Abd was doing was trying to con the ref into sending Mellor off, thankfully the lino saw it and made sure it was just a yellow.

Stupid on Mellor's part regardless though.

It was violent conduct, he raised his hands and struck a player (El Abd) off the ball which is a red card offence, there should be no argument about it. I am sure that if it was the other way around and our player was the aggressor and was shown the red card, they would be slating our player rather than critising their player for exaggerating.

The ref bottled it, and the 2 footed, high challenge in the second half on Painter which should also have been a straight red, oh and the penalty claim when Barnes was brought down from behind when though on goal in the area etc...

The ref and Lino seemed very biased towards the home side - any time we got close to their players they fell over and got awarded a free kick where we were not in the same circumstances and the Lino was constantly flagging for offside, even against players coming from deep and obviouly onside. The decision to flag late for the ball going out for a goal kick even though it was no where near crossing the line showed just how poor he was.

 

[IsuckOFFCats]

everyone who has slagged him off are complete shit heads, hes one of our best players in the defence and should be our captain. its not embaressing a foul is a foul and if your going to slate someone for going down after being pushed in the neck..... your a wanker

 

[Lord Bamber]

It was me, and I didnt say F### off thank you very much. Keep your pikey language to yourself.
Second i don't care how many games you have been to. You have your opinion I have mine. Unless of course you think yours is more valid with the "look how many games ive been to"
It reminds me of one of nsc's top posters saying.... "don't listen to him, he only has 150 or so posts" Now that's pathetic.
Thirdly, my point wasn't actually aimed at you specifically.
Fourthly, I have pmt today.

I too am with him on this. Its not the first time but it needs to be the last time.


ps Ive been to over 1,000 games so I know what Im talking about.

pps Ive only posted less than 300 times on NSC so I probably don't

everyone who has slagged him off are complete shit heads, hes one of our best players in the defence and should be our captain. its not embaressing a foul is a foul and if your going to slate someone for going down after being pushed in the neck..... your a wanker

Dont worry he's only posted 13 times he clearly does not know what he is talking about.

That is unless he has seen a lot of games

 

[Guy Fawkes]

I can't believe how naive some of the comments are on here about El Abd and how we should be above exaggerating something when fouled. Why should we be the only club to have players who don't act professionally (as every other club does) and ensure that a foul is seem and punished by the ref rather than trying to keep going and play with honesty.

How many points would that cost us over the season, how many times would the team we were playing get away with not having a player sent off or not having a penalty given against them because we were too honest. What if by being completely honest in games meant we were to miss out on promotion / play offs or were even relegated because of the lost points that resulted. The opposition won't be as honest and would still try to gain an advantage by exaggeration which could cost us.

It is a part of the game because there is too much money riding on the results, so why should we handicap ourselves?

 

[theonesmith]

I can't believe how naive some of the comments are on here about El Abd and how we should be above exaggerating something when fouled. Why should we be the only club to have players who don't act professionally (as every other club does) and ensure that a foul is seem and punished by the ref rather than trying to keep going and play with honesty.

How many points would that cost us over the season, how many times would the team we were playing get away with not having a player sent off or not having a penalty given against them because we were too honest. What if by being completely honest in games meant we were to miss out on promotion / play offs or were even relegated because of the lost points that resulted. The opposition won't be as honest and would still try to gain an advantage by exaggeration which could cost us.

It is a part of the game because there is too much money riding on the results, so why should we handicap ourselves?

Very well said fella

 

[silky1]

He shouldn't have made a meal of it, but why is it acceptable to push somebody in the chest and not the face. If the ref had seen him push him in the face I think he would have given the red card. It just seems an odd law?

 

[Sheebo]

I can't believe how naive some of the comments are on here about El Abd and how we should be above exaggerating something when fouled. Why should we be the only club to have players who don't act professionally (as every other club does) and ensure that a foul is seem and punished by the ref rather than trying to keep going and play with honesty.

How many points would that cost us over the season, how many times would the team we were playing get away with not having a player sent off or not having a penalty given against them because we were too honest. What if by being completely honest in games meant we were to miss out on promotion / play offs or were even relegated because of the lost points that resulted. The opposition won't be as honest and would still try to gain an advantage by exaggeration which could cost us.

It is a part of the game because there is too much money riding on the results, so why should we handicap ourselves?

And perhaps with the Greer and Sparrow incidents your point is proven. On both occasions the players made a fecking meal of it (not excusing our players' actions) which without doubt helped / got them sent off. Had Elding stayed on his feet which I'm sure he could have done then I doubt Greer would have gone.

 

[Lush]

Presumably you can be sent off (or at least booked) for playacting just as you can for diving - right?

 

[Uwinsc]

everyone who has slagged him off are complete shit heads, hes one of our best players in the defence and should be our captain. its not embaressing a foul is a foul and if your going to slate someone for going down after being pushed in the neck..... your a wanker

Can I point out that having a go at el-abd for cheating is in no way saying he is not a good player? I think he is great and his defending will probably save us many times this season but that doesn't mean I think his behaviour is acceptable.

 

[The Merry Prankster]

My problem is that he is so bad at it. His reaction time is so slow that he drops several seconds after the push. It is always appallingly theatrical. We were laughing at him yesterday and we were only listening to it on the web but we knew exactly what it had looked like. That's why I find it embarrassing, his complete ineptitude.

 

[Guy Fawkes]

My problem is that he is so bad at it. His reaction time is so slow that he drops several seconds after the push. It is always appallingly theatrical. We were laughing at him yesterday and we were only listening to it on the web but we knew exactly what it had looked like. That's why I find it embarrassing, his complete ineptitude.

How does that work then? - you were listening to the game and can see that? - really, wow you must have an amazing connection then..

No one at the game (me included, thought he took a long time to go down after being pushed, i think they were more interested in their guy getting a deserved red card and then what a tosser the ref was for bottling it. (made worse by the sense of injustice following Greers red for an almost identical incident against Rochdale)

 

[Deano's Invisible Pants]

At the end of the day Mendoza Neil Mellor raised his hands and that is a straight red card. Whether El Abd made a meal of it or not is irrelavent.

All i ask for is consistency. Given what happened to Greer and Sparrow i probably wouldnt have dropped like a sack of spuds aswell.

Regards his recent performances he really has gone up in my estimation. Been solid everytime ive seen him this season.

As a whole though i do think the squad needs some tacking lessons. Otherwise we will be blighted by suspensions all season long.

Spot on. This is professional sport and rightly or wrongly, going down after being shoved or struck has been shown to influence the ref to give a red card. If one day the authorities take a stand against this sort of play acting then I will be the first to say we should comply. Until then, we play the game as it is and we play to win.

It should have been a red card anyway, El Abd did the right thing and had another outstanding game. Very difficult to knowck him at the moment and will be harsh if Greer gets his place back immediately.

 

[Guy Fawkes]

Ashley Barnes also, falling over (although it looked more like he just sat down of his own accord) and catching the ball, thus the ref awarding handball against him and costing us a good attacking chance, who knows, we could have made it 1-1 from that attack?...

I don't want my team to be full of DIRTY CHEATS, why do we have to lower ourselves to others standards?...

I thought Sheffield Wednesday were one of the dirtiest teams i have seen play in many years, they were a very physical side and how they finished with all 11 still on the pitch was down to either a miracle or biased, incompetant ref (i'm going for the second option) The refs failure to sent of their guy for that shove on El Abd set the tone and showed Sheffield Wednesday that they could get away with murder.

They were constantly fouling our players and we were not getting anything from the ref (shame the FLS didn't show our penalty shout(s) as that was a great example) & yet they were going down extremely easily and dived a lot (Mellors dive was an embarrassingly bad) and were getting a lot of free kicks for nothing awarded by the ref.

We were trying to play football in the way the game should have been but were struggling a bit in that game because they were so physical - I would say that we are not a dirty, cheating side.

 

[Braders]

I will probably get flamed for this, i dont like slagging players off, but El Abd is a total embarrassment.

There is absolutely no place in football for PATHETIC cheating trying to get a fellow player sent off.

He is built like a brick shit house, he gets shoved in the chest and goes down holding his eye, and rolls around like a little girl. Then to call on the physio to treat his "injury" was just ridiculous.

No need for it, ridiculous behavior like this needs to be eradicated from the game, especially our club as we try to attract fans going into Falmer

For being such a pathetic embarrassment he should be suspended by the club. I know we are short of centre backs but he needs to be made an example of as it's not the first time he's done it.

El Abd disgraced himself, should have been booked, and therefore sent off when he took out Mellor later on in the first half

Rant over

see I felt Mellor went to the floor like a sack of shit when El Abd barely touched him there

so swings and roundabouts really.

 

[The Merry Prankster]

How does that work then? - you were listening to the game and can see that? - really, wow you must have an amazing connection then..

No one at the game (me included, thought he took a long time to go down after being pushed, i think they were more interested in their guy getting a deserved red card and then what a tosser the ref was for bottling it. (made worse by the sense of injustice following Greers red for an almost identical incident against Rochdale)

The point is we have seen him do it so many times that we know what it looks like. Although if you are telling me that yesterday was the exception I am happy to believe you.

Not everyone at the game agreed. Two people have told me it was classic El Abd.

 

[Djmiles]

Just watched the highlights on Seagulls player.

Mellor can be clearly seen pushing with both hands in the CHEST. No contact whatsoever with El-Abd's face or neck. However Adam falls over holding his face.

Well done Adam, did you go to Drama School?

 

[Djmiles]

But on the other hand, the two footed lunge was horrible, and should have been a red.