Eoin wrote:
look, if it was say Darlington vs Ipswich game this happened in nobody would be even having this conversation.
True but that still wouldn't make it right. Of course Rooney et al are more in the spotlight and will get pulled up on things like this more often. I'm pretty sure their £200,000 a week and playing at Old Trafford are some compensation though as opposed to £200 a week and playing to more empty seats than fans at the Darlington Arena or whatever it's called this month.
Eoin wrote:
The rule that prevents anything being done is actually FIFA and not the referee or even the FA. Apparently the rule is there to avoid referees going into games with a mindset of 'if I fuck this up I can sort it Monday' kind of attitute which I can agree with otherwise we would without doubt be looking at more bottled decisions and controversyhe pitch. Yes Rooney could be banned perhaps after the event but he will still have been on the pitch for 90 minutes and got to do the damage, point oin the bag.
Whoever's rule it is, it's still wrong. Yes "if i fuck it up i can sort it out Monday" is a bad idea. But what about "if the camera clearly catches you fucking it up and you're blatantly an idiot you get sent back to fucking referee school". Yes it won't help Wigan if Rooney is banned after the event, but that doesn't mean he still doesn't deserve a 3 game ban. Where's the deterrent if you just say "well that game is gone now anyway, let him off". If a murderer doesn't gwet caught until 20 years after the event, do we say "well sod the life sentance, the police fucked up catching him at the time, off you go sunshine"?.
Eoin wrote:
Surly what we should be looking for is total justice and decisions on the pitch and looking at technology is a no brainer to help the officials, it works fine in all other sports its such a no brainer to bring it in only question to be answered is under what terms and what scope so as to aviod changing the dynamic of the game, you cant make decisions 2 days after the event. Unless you agree with that you have to accept that this stuff will happen in the game going forward as it always has done long as the on field decisions are made by humans with one angle, one live real time view of play,
This is one aspect that can be corrected after the event though. Yes, again, from Wigan's point of view it's no consolation, but at least Rooney still gets punished.
30 seconds for someone to glance at a monitor could have sorted it during the game, by the time the ref had finished blowing for the free kick the fourth official could be in his ear telling him what had happened and the potato headed bastard should be sent off.