This Was Definitely a Penalty
By: Daryl | April 22nd, 2009It was 2-2 in the 87th minute of Real vs Getafe, when Pepe pushed Francisco Casquero in the back. And then Pepe kicked Casquero while the Getafe man lay on the floor. And then kicked him again just to make sure. So definitely a penalty then, and a red card for Pepe too.
But because football coaches are also in the PR business (even and especially when that involves lying through your teeth) Real’s Juande Ramos defended his player after the game with this bit of twisted logic:
“Pepe was annoyed with himself when he saw it was a penalty and wanted to kick the air, not the player. I’m sure the disciplinary committee will see that he lost his head and didn’t want to kick him.”
Yep, Pepe wanted to kick the air and not the player. Which is why he did it twice.
And if Pepe was really aiming for fresh air but twice failed and kicked a fellow human instead (and remember the quantity of air vs the quantity of Francisco Casquero is pretty uneven) then maybe Pepe should start looking at careers other than professional footballer.
And just to prove there’s absolutely no justice in the world, here’s what happened next:
Casquero took the penalty himself, but the Getafe man was so disoriented from Pepe’s beating that he temporarily confused himself with Dimitar Berbatov:
And then Gonzalo Higuain went up the other end and did this:
New Rule: If you foul someone three times like Pepe did, then the other team gets three penalties. Although the way Casquero was taking them, he’d probably need at least five.
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Tags: Francisco Casquero, Getafe, Juande Ramos, Pepe, Real Madrid, Spain La Liga, World Football, World SoccerSubscribe
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i don’t know about the initial contact though. that looked like a dive.
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That is disgusting by Pepe to kick someone while there down not one but twice……LOL at the Peace Cup in the advertising in the background as hes kicking him tho
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Utter disrespect to the opposing team, players of Getafe, and to football in itself.. am sure Pepe not going to the stands counts as an infringement of another law. He was celebrating the last goal
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“Clearly aiming for the air”?! Hahhahhha! What a kidder, that Juande!
He kills me! ajjajaja.
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Did anyone see his punching of the air soon after that? Unfortunately, another Getafe player jumped in the way and took the fist directly to the face.
Clearly Pepe was set up.
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What Pepe did was wrong. But did you see the dive by Casquero to start the whole thing off? Did not warrant a kicking sure, but if Pepe didnt touch him, it probably would not have been called a penalty. Stupid decision.
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Yeah that was a silly decision. It didn’t look like much of a push. Oh well.
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The push looked to come just as Casquero was going into his shooting motion and that’s why he looked so awkward going down. I don’t think it was a dive. Tough call on whether THAT part was a penalty. But Pepe is an idiot and should serve a lengthy suspension for his actions.
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maybe if he had stuck to one kick, you could say he was going for the ball, but that second one really is defenseless
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@marcus, even funnier was when an ad for Borat came on as Neville scored that own-goal for croatia b/c Robinson missed the ball.
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It was a penalty.Was a clear push when the player was about to shoot and then the two attempted “air kicks” were just embarrassing!
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Dives seem to really piss Pepe off! In an interview after the incident he said he’s thinking of quitting football altogether.. A ban that suits even the most die hard getafe fans..
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Very obvious penalty.
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