Lambert given touchline ban

[The Villa Werewolf]

http://www.thefa.com/News/governance/2012/nov/paul-lambert-fined.aspx


Aston Villa manager to serve one-match touchline ban
Aston Villa manager Paul Lambert has admitted a breach of FA Rule E3.

It relates to language and/or behaviour amounting to improper conduct following his side’s game at Manchester City on 17 November 2012.

Lambert accepted the standard penalty for the charge and will now serve a one-match touchline ban to commence with immediate effect.

He has also been fined £8,000.

Words fail me.

[ACVilla]

Let's hope it has the same effect as when Gregory got his touchline ban.

[olaftab]

So the  8ucking blind linesman cost us a pen and £8000 for Paul to pay...Great!

[CJ]

So this was presumably for complaining about an incompetent linesman waving his flag furiously to give a penalty for a non-existent handball. Wonder if that official got anything by way of a reprimand - or will he just be spoiling someone else's game this weekend.

[darren woolley]

So he wont be on the touchline for the Arsenal game that's all we need.

[mrastonvilla]

Rather he was banned for the Arsenal game than the Reading game the following Tuesday.

[Toronto Villa]

it's ace. First offence and he gets a ban, yet Wenger,Ferguson etc practically threaten the lives of officials yet they walk away scot almost every time. Kind of ironic really with Arsenal coming to VP this weekend.

[Ron Manager]

They have walkie talkies dont they? If not I will hop into Maplins (when the rain stops) and get him one. Agree its far more important hes on the bench for the Reading game.

If that linesman has a game this weekend it will show how morally corrupt the game has become.

[mrastonvilla]

it's ace. First offence and he gets a ban, yet Wenger,Ferguson etc practically threaten the lives of officials yet they walk away scot almost every time. Kind of ironic really with Arsenal coming to VP this weekend.

True! The pointing at the watch thing particularly boils my piss, yet nothing is done about it.

[David_Nab]

Also according to Tim Abraham from the E&S the linesman in question looks to have been dropped from this weeks games ...

[Ron Manager]

Also according to Tim Abraham from the E&S the linesman in question looks to have been dropped from this weeks games ...

Quite right as well. Should be a month out in my opinion.

[Irish villain]

it's ace. First offence and he gets a ban, yet Wenger,Ferguson etc practically threaten the lives of officials yet they walk away scot almost every time. Kind of ironic really with Arsenal coming to VP this weekend.

To be honest this kind of thing is killing my interest. I hate the way the game has become a sky four lovefest. I hate that we were reduced to chasing that dream when in fact we already have won pretty much all there is to win and should be up there in any case.

[PaulWinch again]

Outrageous.

[eamonn]

The managers are obliged to come and talk to the press after a game. The press ask obvious questions about the flash-points in the game, the manager in this case gives his honest opinion. Again, which what the press want. He then gets done for it. A load of horseshit.

Make the fucking match officials explain themselves in public rather than punishing a manager for stating his opinion which happens to be the truth.

[Surrey Villain]

Lambert didn't contest the assistant referee's parentage or anything like that. A far as I am aware he only said in public that he made a mistake but that's part of the game. That was only stating the obvious. I wouldn't mind betting it was a report by the fourth official about what was said at the time that resulted in this ban.