Guardiola fined £20,000 for wearing yellow ribbon (p140)

mag said:
Any ideas on what happens next?

Papers suggested should Pep wear it at the Wembley final, he faces a touchline ban ... so is that expected soon? Arsenal away and Chelsea home next ...

Or given that Pep has openly stated that he’d continue to defy FA, is this one going to get lawyers involved and going to an arbitrator?

I mean if they give him a game or a couple of games touchline ban, he’d go serve that, and then on his return again have the yellow ribbon (which he has already said he will) so what does the FA do then?
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Well they could do what they did with the GPC and just keep it low key and quietly fine him - when he refused to talk to the BBC. I guess they won’t but they are creating a major issue where there wasn’t one but I guess the likes of United and Arsenal have bitched so the FA felt compelled to act.
 
Damocles said:
My view on this is actually super simple.

The FA decide the rules.

That's it really, it's their competition and they get to decide what you can and can't do if you participate in it. If they say no yellow ribbon then no yellow ribbon. Pep can wear a yellow ribbon for 22 and a half hours a day if he really feels like he has to (and I admire and encourage him to do so). But during this time, he is paid and expected to be managing a Premier League team under the jurisdiction and rules of the FA.

People can argue that the rule is stupid, and I agree somewhat, but it IS a rule and he should respect that. Why stand in his technical area? Why not play 15 players in a match? Why not manage bollock naked? Why respect SOME rules but not other rules?

This isn't a freedom of speech issue to me because the FA is not the Government. They run an invitational league that is owned by the Premier League and can exclude people for any, many, or no reason. If they wanted to dock City 50 points then they could an nobody could really stop them if it was within the rules.

If you want to get rules changed then you work within the system to try and change things. That's how the whole of civilisation works, generally.
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I suspect you'd had an opinion on FA disciplinary matters, and if they docked City points I suggest you'd also have something to say about it.

As for working within the system for change, the most profound changes in human civilisation did not proceed that way:

The French revolution brought an an end to the ancien regime of aristocracy, and the rise of the capital, whilst the Russian revolution sought to establish a new organisation of society. The last century was dominated by world wars proving that the human civilisation is still conflicted.
 
geoff clipp said:
Can't believe it's taken so long for someone to "go there". You are of course correct but the backlash will be strong. Good luck!
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If it was any other Manager in the same situation we'd probably be calling them a hypocrite. No two ways abt it. I had a feeling this question would be put to him & certainly an awkward one to answer for Pep. He wasn't exactly going to have a pop at our owners and the regions human rights issues, gave the best answer he could.

I still love him anyway.
 
The blue phantom said:
If it was any other Manager in the same situation we'd probably be calling them a hypocrite. No two ways abt it. I had a feeling this question would be put to him & certainly an awkward one to answer for Pep. He wasn't exactly going to have a pop at our owners and the regions human rights issues, gave the best answer he could.

I still love him anyway.
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what did pep say?
 
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