2015/16 Barclays Premier League Thread

Gabriel won his appeal.

I've just seen what Gabriel did for the first time.

As if he got sent off for that in the first place

Also Carneiro's left Chelsea, incoming lawsuit for constructive dismissal I imagine.

Costa banned for three matches.

Bit harsh.

Yeah, he should just be banned for the Newcastle game.

Tbf Gabriels red was right, kicks/flicks Costa

Bit of a joke really.

Not sure how you can kick out at a player, which was seen by the ref and then have your card revoked. But go on and ban Costa for slapping his arms into Koscielny, which wasn't deemed bookable by any of the officials at the time. Both should have either been banned or had the whole thing tossed out and ruled free to play. I suppose there'll be no action either for Gabriel failing to leave the field of play?

I genuinely don't care that Costa has been banned, he was lucky to not have been sent off originally, but the decision making at the FA and their continuously bending over to the media agenda needs to change.

I suppose the FA are still getting around to viewing Naismiths kick out at Ivanovic the other week...

There is absolutely no consistency with the FA and that's the annoying part.

http://arsenalist.com/f/2015-16/chelsea-vs-arsenal/gif-from-espn-brazil-s-coverage-showing-gabriel-s-kick.html

This is the angle that Arsenal put the case towards. Look at Cesc the fucking snake. People had the cheek to clap that cunt when he came back too.

Biggest joke of all is that Mike Dean is still a Premier League referee after all of this. He has the most arrogance I've seen on the pitch from an official, his ego is as big as Ibrahimovic's, despite being an irrelevant entity. He's an absolutely shite ref.

Yeah that's still a red card tbf no matter what angle you look at it from

What's it a red card for?

The only possible reason he could have been shown a straight red card was for violent conduct, which he quite obviously didn't do. It's petulant, yes, but its not violent.

If you correctly rule out violent conduct than you're beholden to the the normal laws governing infringements i.e. was his 'kick or attempt to kick' careless, reckless or using excessive force (except you're not going to be shown a red for kicking someone with excessive force, that would be violent conduct so we can ignore it).

I think its between the first two and had he been shown a second yellow there probably wouldn't have been much cause for complaint but he wasn't. So I think rescinding it is completely reasonable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zTne4JzgBM

Pretty much same situation

You can't just go around kicking players no matter what force is involved. I would still class it under violent conduct (yeah I know there wasn't much violence involved which kind of makes me sound like an idiot).

2007 Laws of the Game:

Violent conduct

A player is guilty of violent conduct if he uses excessive force or brutality
against an opponent when not challenging for the ball.

He is also guilty of violent conduct if he uses excessive force or brutality
against a team-mate, spectator, match official or any other person.



2007 Advice to Referees:

12.34 VIOLENT CONDUCT
It is violent conduct when a player (or substitute) is guilty of aggression towards an opponent (when
they are not contesting for the ball) or towards any other person (a teammate, the referee, an assistant
referee, a spectator, etc.).

Two quite different definitions there. I'd say he was guilty of the second one (although again, it was more petty than aggressive..) no matter how much force was put in.

To simply put, he was stupid and could have saved himself a lot of trouble. The quicker the people learn to not react to Costa the better.

He's still being charged for improper conduct so I'd expect he'd still get at least a games ban.

Just saw the kick, holy shit it was so fucking casual.

If Gab was going to be sent off/banned I'd rather he have Costa feel a couple of studs to the foot.

Anyone watch The Fantasy Football Club on Sky?

Avram Grant just picked Scott Parker over Makelele..

To be fair, is Claude Makelele t'riffic or a top lad? Didn't think so.

He got a red card for that? Mike Dean gave that and yet neither him or his assistant saw the Costa incident. What a fucking dreadful ref.

Zzzz Mourinho is still on the moan: "I don't want to comment but..." classic.

Seeing rumours on Twitter that Rodgers is very closing to being sacked. Ancelotti and Klopp linked.

EDIT: Ah, from talkSPORT. Probably not true then.

Still think there's a decent manager in him, just needs a hell lot of humble pie to curb his bullshit..

I think chewy Luis made him look a much better manager than he actually is.

What?

It's well established if you kick/slap out no matter how pathetically it's a red.

In decades to come A-Level psychology students will be taught about the The Wenger Complex as suffered by Jose Mourinho.

— Sport Witness (@Sport_Witness) September 25, 2015

Officials having abit of a shocker in the City game, that said Caballero should have saved Dier's shot, was to busy flapping his arms about at his defenders

Can't believe Spurs' goal wasn't given offside, right in front of the linesman and it wasn't even close! Poor clearance by De Bruyne though regardless.

Caballero having a nightmare

Nothing on the nightmare the linesmen are having today, i know the offside rules been changed abit but its not been removed entirely

What a striker, standing offside like a plank and nearly missing an open goal. WHAT A PLAYER INDEED.

Wasn't the easiest finish tbf

4-1 City have gone from looking unstoppable to being a shambles.

Some awful decisions from the officials but it's scary just how much worse we've looked without Silva (or Kompany).

It hasn't helped that Aguero is playing absolutely abysmally, because he's generally the one who picks up the slack.

Anybody got a stream for the Manchester United game?