Comments on: Chelsea Defender Gets 12 Month Ban For Spitting

By: suzanna

suzanna — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 14:53:24 +0000

Naughty boy, yes, large fine or small ban, but it was only spitting, not careeer threating to others like some of the things we see most weeks.

By: j

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:38:54 +0000

Surprised to see how lightly people taking order and rules in sport much less society. My how things have changed.

By: Nikola

Nikola — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 19:37:43 +0000

It was widely expected he would recive a 12 months international ban, which would prevent him from playing in the NT, but not for his club. Even that would be harsh, but you couldn’t say he didn’t deserve it and the Serbian NT would probably survive without him. But this is outrageous, this could actually ruin his whole career, and what a career it could’ve been! And not to mention that the Olympics aren’t in FIFA’s calendar, it’s unbeleivable that a player can be so severely punished at an event he doesn’t even have the right to go to and play in according to those very same FIFA rules. It doesn’t have any sense.

P.S. I know it doesn’t matter now and does not reduce the players’s guilt, but the referee from Oman was very very bad. Every football player, however, must learn to accept injustice and live with many of the officials’ errors, so it doesn’t improve his position whatsoever. It’s a pity, really, it had happened at all.

By: chris

chris — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:05:25 +0000

Roberto Alomar got 5 games. I think that’s about right.

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:02:49 +0000

A fucking year? Outrageous.

By: Laurie

Laurie — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:44:58 +0000

If memory serves, Fabien Barthez got a six-month ban for the same offense — spitting at a referee. (His other longterm suspension came for recreational cannabis use. I love this man.)

Even six months seemed excessive to me, but this is not something FIFA takes lightly.

By: Corey

Corey — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:37:59 +0000

What a crock of shit, FIFA has lost it.

By: matt

matt — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 12:24:03 +0000

he didn’t spit at Tevez, get over it.

By: Bertie

Bertie — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 09:12:24 +0000

Should have been

By: liveD

liveD — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:58:24 +0000

I was half expecting it was Terry for spitting at Tevez in CL Final when I read the title in RSS…