Aussie Keeper Charged With Violent Conduct On Ref
By: chris | February 25th, 2008
It was a weekend marked by “violent” – even if unintentional – conduct on the pitch, as the Eduardo injury pushed absolutely everything to the back pages. Arsene started out by calling for Matrin Taylor’s career on a platter, then retracted his statement, but Taylor is surely do for a spell on the sidelines. Probably won’t be as long as Central Coast Mariners keeper Danny Vukovic, however, who was just handed a 9 + 6 month ban (latter being a suspended sentence) for “violent conduct on a referee” during the A-League Final yesterday. Even if it was maybe just an overzealous high-five.
The outburst was the reaction of a penalty non-call in the dying moments of Central Coast’s 1-0 loss to the Newcastle Jets (which marks the only time a team named Newcastle is going to keep a clean sheet for the rest of the year). As you can see, Danny argues something and then proceeds to hit out at the referee’s outstretched hand – which did look like a high five. Probably not helping matters was that he started running away, proclaiming his guilt. This whole situation could’ve been avoided had he just given the ref a big hug afterwards and said “good call”.
Regardless, you can’t hit refs, and he’ll be out until late Novemeber at the least before a 6 month probation period. If he re-offends, he’ll be sat for another six months. Good to see leagues cracking down hard on player-ref interaction. (Nicola Legrottaglie should be glad he’s not in the A-League.)
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What a wienie infraction to get suspended nine months for. I’ll bet now he’s wishing he’d really taken him out.
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Curse you for implying such things about teams called Newcastle. Watch out or your jaw might end up getting its share of “overzealous high-fives” from Newcastle supporters! We’re a pretty defensive group right now…
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What about the other player who slapped the ref’s hand moments before the ‘keeper? Maybe Vukovic thought it was a game of patty-cake.
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Nine months? This has got to be a joke.
Vukovic should take lessons from Joey Barton and start punching people when they aren’t looking rather than high-fiving them.
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What Danny did was absolutely disgusting and I’m glad he has been banned. It is a pity the FFA didn’t automatically make the ban apply for international games as well, though. Hopefully they will because suspending him for 15 months and then letting him play at the Olympics is just not good enough.
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