El Abd is a

[Easy 10]

CHEAT (arsed up my thread title, damn).

"I tried to help him (Taylor) up to his feet and he just slammed an elbow on my foot. I don't know whether the ref saw it but in my view that's a sending-off if he did."

PATHETIC over-reaction from El Abd. I was thoroughly EMBARRASSED to see him rolling around on the floor on Saturday. I don't even think the guy did elbow him on the foot - it looked to me like he just threw an arm out in a "get OFF me" kind of way when El Abd went to help him up. This "elbow slam" on his foot sounds like a limp excuse he's thought up in hindsight to cover up his own discomfort at his toe-curlingly embarrassing reaction. If the guy on the floor DID somehow elbow his foot, for fucks sake there's no need to go down like you've been SHOT is there ?

El Abd has been a revelation in midfield, and I've always rated him as a player. But he needs to cut that kind of shit out of his game right now. I expect that kind of cack in the Prem, I DON'T want to see it from our players. Made me bloody cringe, that did.

 

[Del Boy]

shut up.

 

[ali jenkins]

After being described as the Albions hard man i think its really embarassing.

You wouldnt see Roy Keane or Dennis Wise or Vinnie Jones do that sort of thing would you?

 

[Freddo]

CHEAT (arsed up my thread title, damn).

"I tried to help him (Taylor) up to his feet and he just slammed an elbow on my foot. I don't know whether the ref saw it but in my view that's a sending-off if he did."

PATHETIC over-reaction from El Abd. I was thoroughly EMBARRASSED to see him rolling around on the floor on Saturday. I don't even think the guy did elbow him on the foot - it looked to me like he just threw an arm out in a "get OFF me" kind of way when El Abd went to help him up. This "elbow slam" on his foot sounds like a limp excuse he's thought up in hindsight to cover up his own discomfort at his toe-curlingly embarrassing reaction. If the guy on the floor DID somehow elbow his foot, for fucks sake there's no need to go down like you've been SHOT is there ?

El Abd has been a revelation in midfield, and I've always rated him as a player. But he needs to cut that kind of shit out of his game right now. I expect that kind of cack in the Prem, I DON'T want to see it from our players. Made me bloody cringe, that did.

yes, i disagree with his reaction, but i still don't like calling our own players cheats

 

[Easy 10]

Boss Dean Wilkins accused Tranmere of trying to get El-Abd dismissed. El-Abd confirmed: "They definitely were. Their manager (Ronnie Moore) had a chip at me. He knew I'd had a booking and wanted me to retaliate at the end of the game"

Pot...kettle....
By going down feigning injury, was El Abd not trying to get Taylor sent off as well ? He's already said as much himself.
NOT his finest hour.

 

[the wanderbus]

seeing as football boots are more like slippers these days is it any wonder he went down like that? besides ,as El-Abd rightly says striking an opponent is a red card - wether the opponent over reacts or not is irrellevant.

 

[Easy 10]

Re: Re: El Abd is a

yes, i disagree with his reaction, but i still don't like calling our own players cheats

Nor do I.

But what else was it ? Someone in a sitting poisition apparently elbows him on the foot (through a leather football boot), and he rolls around like someones dropped a pallet of bricks on it.

What else is it if its not cheating ?

 

[Easy 10]

as El-Abd rightly says striking an opponent is a red card - wether the opponent over reacts or not is irrellevant.

The letter of the law (rightly) confirms that is the case. But I cannot STAND seeing players milk every little thing for all its worth in an attempt to get an opponent sent off. If the ref see's an act of aggression from an opponent then let him deal with it - but please DON'T roll around in mock "agony" to bring the refs attention, its f***ing EMBARRASSING. I found it personally embarrassing to see an Albion player resort to that.

The ref handled it well I thought - yellow card for both, and hopefully a sharp word to tell them to stop behaving like a couple of DICKHEADS. The stick and grief the ref got from the crowd over that cringeworthy incident was well out of order.

 

[the wanderbus]

I thought the ref was appalling, the amount of "afters" that went unpunished during the game was unbelievable. The El-Abd/Taylor incident was a result of the ref not controlling the game & failing to punish numerous instances of elbows/ shirt tugging ect

 

[Del Boy]

The letter of the law (rightly) confirms that is the case

So the ref should of sent him off

The ref handled it well I thought - yellow card for both

He didn't therefore he handled it well?

The stick and grief the ref got from the crowd over that cringeworthy incident was well out of order.

He didn't give a red which by doing his job correctly he should of and got given stick which is out of order

 

[Easy 10]

The El-Abd/Taylor incident was a result of the ref not controlling the game & failing to punish numerous instances of elbows/ shirt tugging ect

Typical.
The ref gets blamed for the players behaving like pricks. Yet if he HAD blown the whistle for every little incident, no doubt he'd be described as "niggly". EXACTLY the same in that Worthing game when 4 players were sent off. Alan Pook came out with:

"The referee brought it on himself. If he'd nipped it in the bud earlier we wouldn't have had all the trouble.

Why is it somehow the REFS fault when the players spend the match f***ing about and cheating ?

 

[Easy 10]

So the ref should of sent him off




He didn't therefore he handled it well?





He didn't give a red which by doing his job correctly he should of and got given stick which is out of order

From my view of the incident, I think El Abd is lying about being elbowed on the foot, in an attempt to justify his reaction. All I saw (from Block D) was their player waving an arm and shrugging El Abd off irritably when he went to pick him up - I don't think El Abd was "struck" at all.

The ref was (obviously) much closer, but if he also didn't see this alledged "elbow to the foot" either, then thats presumably why only a yellow was brandished.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

seeing as football boots are more like slippers these days is it any wonder he went down like that? besides ,as El-Abd rightly says striking an opponent is a red card - wether the opponent over reacts or not is irrellevant.

And play acting is a yellow card...so maybe El Abd should shut up.

The whole episode was embarrassing. The Tranmere guy did lash out but what El Abd did was as bad, he first feigned injury, then feigned a limp when he hobbled to the ref, once booked the limp disappeared.