This is worth a six-game ban?

By: Bob | October 18th, 2006

Yesterday, I wrote about the choking incident that occurred on the sidelines of a match between Adelaide United and Melbourne Victory in Australia’s A-League. Adelaide United coach John Kosmina has now been handed a six-game sideline ban by the league for choking Melbourne’s Kevin Muscat. After watching the video above, particularly the replays towards the end, I find it hard to believe that the punishment is that severe. It is not like Kosmina really squeezed hard or made Muscat’s face turn purple, something many people who played against the former Millwall skipper would love to see. The whole thing looks like a big accident and just a minor incident compared to what we see happen on the pitch in leagues around the world.

Category: World Football

Tags: A-League, adelaide united, Australia, John Kosmina, Kevin Muscat, Melbourne Victory, World Football

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• blueblood58 |  October 18th, 2006 at 11:24 am

  
  
  

  Howabout the Australian Officials transferring to the Premiership, then maybe HUNT might get a lifetime ban then!!!

  GET WELL PETR
  COME ON CHELSEA

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• Salvo |  October 18th, 2006 at 11:55 am

  
  
  

  It would have been better if he picked up the chair and started beating the player. I guess I have been watching to much WWE

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• Steven Gerrards Double |  October 18th, 2006 at 2:21 pm

  
  
  

  Give it a rest about Stephen Hunt, it was an obvious accident…………. As for the Muscat choke well….. Kevin Muscat is a complete idiot, that is a player that if he’d of kicked Cech then there would have been no doubt he meant to hurt him!
  Likewise get well Mr Cech, but stop blaming the poor lad who was unlucky enough to be involved, Jose Mourinho is still whinging about everything and anything…. he’s now pissed that the ambulance didn’t come quick enough, even though it was HIS staff that didn’t want one!!!!!!

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• Bense |  October 18th, 2006 at 6:59 pm

  
  
  

  WTF? So, the player gets a 1 week ban here in Germany for tossing. But that fucking choke sends this manager or what he was out for half of the season, that’s about it!

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• Drfatal |  October 19th, 2006 at 11:18 am

  
  
  

  Well deserved, should of been worst. You’re a coach and that should mean something. It was an accident. The action of wanting to choke a player degrades the meaning of a coach…

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