An independent Regulatory Commission has today dismissed a claim from Wolverhampton Wanderers midfielder Nenad Milijas, following his red card for serious foul play in Wolves’ game against Arsenal on 27 December.
Milijas has received a three match suspension starting with immediate effect.
What. A. Joke .
It's fair to say Stuart Atwell isn't my or any Wolves fan's favourite ref, he's cost us before, but he's made it ten times worse now. His failure to admit that he got this one wrong is ridiculous. We now miss an important player for three games, with no O'Hara and possibly no Edwards in the next game it leaves us with few options in midfield.
Time after time the FA promote their respect campaign, make captains at even Junior level where 'respect' armbands, but it needs to go both ways. He lost control of that game, and failed to admit it. He made horrendous decision after horrendous decision, and as a young ref he will hopefully learn from it, but why can't they reverse the decision?
Had Sir Alex Ferguson and Manchester United appealed against a red card for a tackle like this, do you honestly think it would have been dismissed?
How do the people also reviewing the appeal conclude that a one footed, sliding tackle that catches the ball is a red card offence anyway? Milijas hasn't got a dangerous bone in his body, and the footage shows that it isn't a dangerous tackle.
On video evidence, can they also not see that they missed two horrendous tackles by Song, which he only got booked for one of them? Both were stamps, and red cards in my eyes.
The FA really don't help themselves do they?
Spot on, the FA are covering up for a ref who totally lost the plot
ReplyDeletenot to worry - we have clattenberg the next match followed by walters!
ReplyDeleteif he'd been playing for arsenal it would not (quite rightly) have even been a free kick. and just imagine what arsehole wenger would've had to say if Song's two challenges had been made by Karl Henry?!
ReplyDeleteBoth our playmakers are out now. I believe D.Edwards goes in and takes his place.
ReplyDeleteLooking at the bright side of our situation (it's always a big moment when new players are making their debut): we'll probably watch Eggert Jonnson play after new year, or another midfielder.
Disgusting - just about everyone's said this already but that would have been a free kick at worst if Milijas had been playing for Arsenal!
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