0% Villa- Tevez Cleared of Charges of Refusing to Play

[Villanation]

First thing you have to take on board is in clearing this player he becomes sellable again and some chance of recouping a decent fee for him, the other thing that should concern Mancini is the fact that nobody else could corroborate Mancini's version of events, that should really bother him.

[The Man With A Stick]

I see his 4-week wages fine has been reduced to 2-weeks, thanks to Gordon Taylor sticking his oar in.

[Mr Diggles]

What is more odious - a club with limitless wealth buying the league, an obscenely overpaid egotistical player exercising limitless power, or a clueless and insipid old boys club style overseeing body blinded by the same greed that infects the rest of the game?

Football is great isn't it?

[The Laughing Policeman]

I see his 4-week wages fine has been reduced to 2-weeks, thanks to Gordon Taylor sticking his oar in.

According to Taylor there were mitigating circumstances.
Apparently this young man had been told to warm up during the previous two matches and didn't get on to the pitch so he was 'entitled ' to feel a bit miffed at being told to warm up during this game with no promise that he would get on to the pitch.

So that's ok then, if as a professional footballer you don't get to play when you want to, it's quite alright to refuse to obey the manager and bring the game into disrepute, that nice Mr. Taylor will come to your rescue and make sure you get a cuddle and he'll pick all your toys up and put them back into the pram ready for the next time.

Gordon Taylor, as the players union leader yes you do have a duty to look after players interests but you also have a wider duty to football to ensure that players who bring the game such bad publicity are dealt with as severely as possible.
You have made yourself part of the problem that is modern football by your actions over recent years.

[ktvillan]

Why do a bunch of multi-millionaire couldn't care less players need a frigging "union" anyway.  Fair enough for the lower paid  journey men players but I doubt very much  the founding father's of the PFA had in mind ensuring that massively overpaid lazy spoilt brats were entitled to continue to be lazy spoilt brats.   Taylor would have won a lot of kudos if he'd told Tevez "we're not interested, you're paid a lot of money to do a job, so don't complain to us when you're asked to do it."

[johnc]

  Taylor would have won a lot of kudos if he'd told Tevez "we're not interested, you're paid a lot of money to do a job, so don't complain to us when you're asked to do it."

He wouldn't have won a lot of kudos from his members, who are the people who put the bread on the table in the Taylor household, through their no doubt extensive contributions. He who pays the piper etc. etc.

[WA Villan]

I see his 4-week wages fine has been reduced to 2-weeks, thanks to Gordon Taylor sticking his oar in.

According to Taylor there were mitigating circumstances.
Apparently this young man had been told to warm up during the previous two matches and didn't get on to the pitch so he was 'entitled ' to feel a bit miffed at being told to warm up during this game with no promise that he would get on to the pitch.

So that's ok then, if as a professional footballer you don't get to play when you want to, it's quite alright to refuse to obey the manager and bring the game into disrepute, that nice Mr. Taylor will come to your rescue and make sure you get a cuddle and he'll pick all your toys up and put them back into the pram ready for the next time.

Gordon Taylor, as the players union leader yes you do have a duty to look after players interests but you also have a wider duty to football to ensure that players who bring the game such bad publicity are dealt with as severely as possible.
You have made yourself part of the problem that is modern football by your actions over recent years.

Ex Blues player, what do you expect

[LeeB]

I see his 4-week wages fine has been reduced to 2-weeks, thanks to Gordon Taylor sticking his oar in.

According to Taylor there were mitigating circumstances.
Apparently this young man had been told to warm up during the previous two matches and didn't get on to the pitch so he was 'entitled ' to feel a bit miffed at being told to warm up during this game with no promise that he would get on to the pitch.

So that's ok then, if as a professional footballer you don't get to play when you want to, it's quite alright to refuse to obey the manager and bring the game into disrepute, that nice Mr. Taylor will come to your rescue and make sure you get a cuddle and he'll pick all your toys up and put them back into the pram ready for the next time.

Gordon Taylor, as the players union leader yes you do have a duty to look after players interests but you also have a wider duty to football to ensure that players who bring the game such bad publicity are dealt with as severely as possible.
You have made yourself part of the problem that is modern football by your actions over recent years.

Ex Blues player, what do you expect

And a Manc.

What a combination that is.

[The Laughing Policeman]

The puzzling thing about Tevez is his stated aim of wanting to be closer to his kids so that he could visit them. A laudable thing for any young father to want. But what has he done to achieve this?
He's alienated the whole of Manc land by saying that Manchester is rubbish ( have to agree with him on that one) put in a transfer request and following that said he would quite like to play for Real Madrid ( how much closer to Buenos Aires is Madrid?).
Then he refuses to play/warm up for his current empolyers.
If what he said about his kids is true wouldn't it be easier for him to buy out his contract and move back to Argentina and take any job at all, milkman, street sweeper etc?

Now for the arm around the shoulder fatherly advice bit...............
Get rid of that leech Joorabchian and follow your instincts.

[JUAN PABLO]

I was listening to Gordan Taylor on the radio last week , what an idiot that man is...

[Toronto Villa]

while Tevez is an utter wanker, the clubs and the game itself lends itself to creating the environment for them to exist. If every time Rooney or Tevez or the like has a strop or act like a complete fucking knob a club didn't step in and pay them more, then this kind of thing won't happen. The next Rooney or Tevez that will emerge knowing that a precident has been set for behaviour.

[Dave]

Why do a bunch of multi-millionaire couldn't care less players need a frigging "union" anyway.

They probably don't, any more than a bunch of Chief Constables need a Police Union.

But although it's not really there to specifically help them, if they were offered help they probably wouldn't turn it down.