FA Watch

Anyone who has recieved a response from an MP could you PM Monty or Moonbeams with thier email/contact details so we can include them in the future. If they have asked to be kept in the loop then we should stick to this as thier help could prove invaluble.
Cheers NMF!
 
More from the reply from Mark Hunter MP

" certainly agree with the sentiment expressed on the website. I can
just imaging the fuss Taggart would have made of this if one of his
players had been involved. Van Persie could have broken Adebayor's leg

with his challenge and it seemed to me that he simply retaliated.
Though
this can't be condoned, it is understandable given the stick he had
been
getting all game. I'm just a little reluctant to get involved in a
'posting' as such because these things are inevitably responded to and
frankly I don't have the time or opportunity to keep an eye on this
sort
of thing. However, the principle of equal treatment is of course
unarguable and I would be happy to hear more about this whole FA Watch
campaign.

On the matter of Blues in the House of Commons, I know that John Leech

(my colleague in Manchester Withington) is a City season ticket holder

and that Ivan Lewis (Bury South) and Paul Goggins (Manchester
Wythenshawe) are both City supporters, but I'm afraid there is no
formal
grouping as such. There is though an all-party Football Group
chaired by
Alan Keen.

Happy to discuss this further if you wish to follow it up"
 
Wow! Mark Hunter is one MP who has picked up on the issues and plain bias at the FA. I cannot understand how RVP has got away with his challenge.

Well done for taking it up with him, kramer.

My MP is Bev Hughes (Stretford); given the location and her reaction when we've written on other issues it's pointless taking it up with her as she is nothing but a party sheep, who drops her pre-election principles as soon as Blair and Brown offered her office.
 
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVJ57dXslo4[/youtube]

Offence: swinging right forearm to the nape of the neck.
Ref = Alan Wiley, ten yards away, clear view. No action taken.
F.A. review = no action taken.

Having reviewed replays of the collision today, however, Wiley has informed the FA that he would not have dismissed the Argentina captain had he witnessed the midfielder's flailing arm catching Beckford on the back of the head.
<a class="postlink" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2009/sep/23/javier-mascherano-jermaine-beckford" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2009 ... e-beckford</a>

He didn't see it then, and Mascherano's (single) arm position was completely natural.
 
Prestwich_Blue said:
SWP's back said:
Has anyone got it a link where it clearly shows that Ade was booked for timewasting or are we summising?
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I was told that by someone senior at the club. No reason to believe it's not true.
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this gives the fa the opportunity to charge ade for his celebration without reference to his booking for 'time wasting'. this doesn't take into account the fact that the time elapsed between ade's header hitting the back of the net and clattenburg showing him a yellow card was only 30 seconds - rather less than the celebrations following all 7 goals in the derby. so how can that be time wasting? because clattenburg's statement has no credibility and the fa is bent.
 
Grand Master Ram Rod said:
Cba reading through all the pages but has the FA Watch website been created yet, wouldn't mind having a ganders?
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Not yet GMRR, but it will be up and running shortly.
 
Our Daily look from the other side:
<a class="postlink" href="http://www.footballreferee.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=254&sid=45d5f9ed7e1d36f3b0a50fcc8b9ef7dc" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.footballreferee.org/forum/vi ... cc8b9ef7dc</a>
 
Heres an old, but intresting one, Arsenal captain on a post match Vc charge- result 1 game ban

The Football Association today reacted to criticism of their disciplinary code by insisting there is complete unity over their policy.
Patrick Vieira's one-match ban imposed yesterday for kicking Olivier Dacourt led to claims that FA's disciplinary chiefs are not following tough new guidelines, which say violent conduct should carry a three-match suspension.
FA chief executive Adam Crozier held a meeting with the FA's disciplinary sub-committee this morning, following which the FA released a statement.
The statement read: "Following recent reports surrounding the FA's disciplinary system the FA would like to make our position clear.
"At a meeting of the six secretaries this week (PFA, LMA, Premier League, FL, FA and the FAW), it was agreed the disciplinary guidelines were working well and were unanimously supported by all sides.
"The FA's chief executive Adam Crozier today met with the FA disciplinary sub-committee at which everyone reaffirmed support for the procedures agreed at the start of the season.
"After the meeting Adam Crozier said: "From the outset consistency has been our aim when administering disciplinary penalties. That remains the objective. Everyone in the game has agreed to this.
"Clubs and players need to understand what actions they will face if serious offences are committed. We must now ensure that the process is enforced rigidly."
Barry Bright, chairman of the disciplinary committee, added: "We recognise our responsibilities and are fully supportive of the system and the guideline punishments as laid down. We will enforce them fully."


Read more: <a class="postlink" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/article-22009/FA-denies-split-discipline.html#ixzz0S4I7l5Wc" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/articl ... z0S4I7l5Wc</a>
 
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