Leandro Bacuna - Sold

[adrenachrome]

I don't think they really care that much about swearing, Gary O'Neil of Bristol, if my rudimentary lip reading skills are up to much, screamed 'you fucking cheat' into the face of the Lino in the weekday match and he didn't bat an eyelid.

Garry Barry got sent off for saying something to a lino once.

I met him at a nightclub in Brighton later that season, and he told me what he said to the official. I would love to share it with you all, but I am sworn to secrecy in case he wants to stick it in his ghost-written biography.  Bloody nice bloke, by the way, as was Michael Standing. 

My opening drunken salvo was "Did you inquire : Are you, you dismal spunk bubble, a ***t without portfolio?". He replied that life was too short for punctuation and subordinate clauses, and that the short and sharp epithet was the essence of modern vernacular. He further ventured that 14 words would be the maximum length of a communication before too long.   An idiot savant whose wife rode horses or a man out of time? We may never know.

[PeterWithe]

Well, quite.

It's very rare that I have even the faintest clue what you are on about but I tend to read anyway.

[LeeB]

I don't think they really care that much about swearing, Gary O'Neil of Bristol, if my rudimentary lip reading skills are up to much, screamed 'you fucking cheat' into the face of the Lino in the weekday match and he didn't bat an eyelid.

Garry Barry got sent off for saying something to a lino once.

I met him at a nightclub in Brighton later that season, and he told me what he said to the official. I would love to share it with you all, but I am sworn to secrecy in case he wants to stick it in his ghost-written biography.  Bloody nice bloke, by the way, as was Michael Standing. 

My opening drunken salvo was "Did you inquire : Are you, you dismal spunk bubble, a ***t without portfolio?". He replied that life was too short for punctuation and subordinate clauses, and that the short and sharp epithet was the essence of modern vernacular. He further ventured that 14 words would be the maximum length of a communication before too long.   An idiot savant whose wife rode horses or a man out of time? We may never know.

Agreed 110%

[cdbearsfan]

Any word yet on the blind linesman's condition?

I'm nominally an atheist but I can't stop praying for him.

[phantom limb]

Just out of interest I googled what Michael Ballack's punishment was for chasing a referee down the field, screaming at him all the way and buffeting him with his arms because he didn't give Chelsea a penalty in a champions league game. Nothing happened to him, and from what I can gather Drogba only got into trouble because he swore in front of a TV camera after the game.

The problem here isn't that Bacuna got banned, it's the inconsistency. Governing bodies don't seem to adhere to guidelines for punishing players, don't seem to look at previous precedents set and just make decisions at random, much like the on field officials themselves. If they agreed to embrace video technology it would sort out all of this, offside calls, throw ins, corners, fouls, goal kicks etc. and ensure that every team was treated the same. In every single game I watch, in any league, there are always mistakes made by the officials.

[SoccerHQ]

I just assumed the other two games were for Bacuna's lack of apology after the game....on his twitter and stuff.

I agree given Wenger and Akpan got 4 games that should've been the standard punishment.

[CT]

I said at the time I thought he was an idiot, and I stand by that. He can show all the "passion" he likes - squaring up to an official isn't showing passion at all.

Earlier on in the game, David Nugent continually swore at the ref for a good 30 seconds, along the lines of "every fucking time ref, you're giving them fucking everything".

Bacuna would have been much better served trying that instead of acting the tough guy with a lino, now meaning he's out until mid-late April.

[Chris Jameson]

They should have the refs wearing some kind of recording device one weekend without telling the club's and then release them online to shame some of these professional 'sportsmen'. Hughes was non stop whinging at the referee, a yellow card would have soon shut him up.

[Chris Jameson]

Having said that Kevin Friend is having a shocker today!

[dave shelley]

Just posted on the other football thread.  Classic case of inconsistency.   Awful refereeing.

[wolfman999]

Man U v Bournemouth: stamp on a players head second yellow probably a one match ban. Elbow player in face not even a yellow. Bacuna six match ban for slight touch if any on Lino. You work it out cos I can't.

[dave shelley]

The player,  Ming's, was the one doing the stamping is still on.  Surman got sent off for two yellow's, the second for pushing Ibrahimovic over.  It's farcical and does the game no good whatsoever.

[Chico Hamilton III]

They should have the refs wearing some kind of recording device one weekend without telling the club's and then release them online to shame some of these professional 'sportsmen'. Hughes was non stop whinging at the referee, a yellow card would have soon shut him up.

Davis Elleray was fitted with a mic for an Arsenal Millwall game in the late 80's and he got dogs' abuse from players like Adams. Seem to remember one of the arsenal players calling him a cheat.  Probably be on Yow tube somewhere. Hard to feel sorry for Ellleray though, the smug twat.

[Chris Jameson]

I remember that, Elleray was a pompous bastard, wasn't he a house master at a school?

[Chico Hamilton III]

I remember that, Elleray was a pompous bastard, wasn't he a house master at a school?

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