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Adebayor











Billy the Fish

Technocrat
Oct 18, 2005
17,594
Haywards Heath
i know what you're saying ,but infront of tv cameras ???

I agree he should get done for it. As you say he's been caught on camera and it was in the blokes face. But some people are saying a 6 match ban and I think that's well over the top. Things like this happen on the pitch all the time, just not quite as obvious.

Like I said, a retospective red card and two match ban.
 


JJ McClure

Go Jags
Jul 7, 2003
11,113
Hassocks
Don't see how they can impose any ban for the celebration. (1) He has already recieved a yellow card for it (2) The FA already set a precident when the ugly neville sister did a similar thing to Liverpool fans, he got a £5k fine.
The stamp is altogether different. From the first angle it look like he was just trying to put his foot down, from the second angle though there is a clear defined movement towards Van Persie which IMO is deserving of punishment (from the FA not the police obviously).
 




Easy 10

Brain dead MUG SHEEP
Jul 5, 2003
62,429
Location Location
The guy is a tosser.
And here's the proof.

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Acker79

Well-known member
NSC Patron
Nov 15, 2008
31,921
Brighton
The stamp is altogether different. From the first angle it look like he was just trying to put his foot down, from the second angle though there is a clear defined movement towards Van Persie which IMO is deserving of punishment (from the FA not the police obviously).

If one angle shows one thing, and a second angle shows another, how can the FA conclusive say anything about it? One shows it to be accidental, one shows it to be deliberate, how do you know the angle showing it to be deliberate is accurate?
 






Uncle Spielberg

Well-known member
Jul 6, 2003
43,098
Lancing
The most OTT statement on this thread amongst some serious competition.

Adebayor - The new Rodney King. More inflammatory than Poll Tax. All that by sliding on your knees.

This takes the debate to a new level of absurdity. Did I compare with anyone else ?. NO. I said his actions incited a riot and it did.

To bring in Rodney King and the Poll Tax has ratcheted this whole binfest to a new level. Well done. :thumbsup:
 


Easy 10

Brain dead MUG SHEEP
Jul 5, 2003
62,429
Location Location
To be fair, I thought the Ian Huntley, Hitler and Bin Laden comparisons had already got us well on the way.
 












Hannibal smith

New member
Jul 7, 2003
2,216
Kenilworth
This takes the debate to a new level of absurdity. Did I compare with anyone else ?. NO. I said his actions incited a riot and it did.

To bring in Rodney King and the Poll Tax has ratcheted this whole binfest to a new level. Well done. :thumbsup:

Come on Unc it was hardly a riot. A few fat blokes lobbing hot dogs making the nobber sign does not a riot make. Unless I missed the news of throwing Molotov cocktails and drive by shootings in Islington over the weekend.

At the end of the day we are talking about an overpaid prima donna running ninety yards and sliding on his knees. He hasn’t mugged anyone’s Granny.

The references to Rodders etc were taking the piss if that really needed pointing out.
 


El Presidente

The ONLY Gay in Brighton
Helpful Moderator
Jul 5, 2003
40,018
Pattknull med Haksprut
How was the reaction to Glenn Murray pathetic and embarrassing?
I was there and thought it was justified, the player deliberately ignored fans applauding him at the end, fans that had up until then stuck by him even though he had handed a transfer request in.

I thought Murray was a bit of a plum, but to get dogs abuse from the fans just because he didn't 'respect' them by clapping them was pathetic and embarrassing......................IMO.

Not all the fans were clapping him before or during the game too.
 


El Presidente

The ONLY Gay in Brighton
Helpful Moderator
Jul 5, 2003
40,018
Pattknull med Haksprut
That's the astounding thing. SOMEHOW that celebration is overshadowing the REAL issue which was stamping on a fellow human beings face. as I said previously, an inch more and it could have got him
in the eye with a stud. Not even worth bearing thought about. I know it's a what-if but it has to be considered.

Just as well you have never seen a rugby game then.

Adebayor was a bit twattish, but

1: It was former rape suspect van Persie, who had gone through the back of him.
2: The Arsenal fans have been giving him stick all summer, what do they expect him to do?

As said before Mark McCammon showed us lot of smartarses who had been giving us stick at Donny a couple of years ago how to go about it the proper way, and respect to him for it.

But Adebayor didn't kill or maim anyone, he slid on his KNEES on the PITCH to celebrate a goal. By all means give him a ban for the Van P incident, but I have seen far worse regularly.
 


Simster

"the man's an arse"
Jul 7, 2003
54,983
Surrey
Just as well you have never seen a rugby game then.

Adebayor was a bit twattish, but

1: It was former rape suspect van Persie, who had gone through the back of him.
2: The Arsenal fans have been giving him stick all summer, what do they expect him to do?

As said before Mark McCammon showed us lot of smartarses who had been giving us stick at Donny a couple of years ago how to go about it the proper way, and respect to him for it.

But Adebayor didn't kill or maim anyone, he slid on his KNEES on the PITCH to celebrate a goal. By all means give him a ban for the Van P incident, but I have seen far worse regularly.
Full agreement.
 




Lady Whistledown

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Jul 7, 2003
47,645
As I see it, they can't ban him for the celebration because the referee saw it and took the correct action as per the laws of the game ie showing him a yellow card for what I presume is unsporting behaviour. They can't go giving him a retrospective red for that particular incident because the laws of the game state unsporting behaviour is a cautionable offence, not a dismissal one.

I imagine he'll get another three matches for the stamp, which is quite obviously deliberate, though I stand by my earlier assertion that he was actually aiming for van Persie's hand rather than the Dutchman's perennially bewildered little face.

US: if you think a couple of dozen fat, pissed Londoners bundling towards the front of a stand to throw a couple of hotdogs, programmes and ten pence pieces in the direction of the pitch constitutes a "riot", then you must have led a very sheltered existence. He wound them up, they bit, but then the stewards calmed it down.

You should change your username to Disgusted of (Wherever).
 


Uncle Spielberg

Well-known member
Jul 6, 2003
43,098
Lancing
It had the potential to start a full scale riot. The danger is if he gets away with it it sets a precedent that a player can do whatever he wants when he scores. Will we see this celebration every week ?. Its utter madness.
 


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