Anyone else notice that the plum who got sent off for Pompey yesterday for taking his shirt off seemed to be grinning when he left the pitch? This raises a couple of questions for me:
Just how stupid is he to think that, on a yellow card, he would NOT get booked for taking his shirt off and running into the crowd and would he have thought it was so effing funny if he was facing a Cloughie type manager in the dressing room afterwards? The lack of professionalism shown by players is incredible sometimes and if he was looking for Christmas off, he got his timing all wrong too. Fortunately it didn't effect the result I suppose.
I'm not saying it's right to resort to violence of any sort but didn't Trevor Francis once slap a player for laughing when the oppo scored and you can see why they (managers) lose it sometimes when there are prats like this about.
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Reserve Palace keeper I think.
Emotions running high, the intense feeling of relief, then release of all that pent up feeling.
That's the human side of players - and why, despite the best efforts of Sky and the rest of the media circus, players are still just people and behave in emotional rather than commonsense ways when feelings erupt.
It would never happen at Charlton ................... would it Izale ?
I understand all that, and we've seen at least one of Charlton's "finest" get himself booked a few times this season for doing the same haven't we but firstly, how would you feel if it we're one of ours and it did effect the result? More importantly, having got himself sent off his reaction was not "S##t, I've dropped one here and let the lads down..." but to find the situation in some way funny. None of us will ever know what's it's like to score an important goal like that (unless you're reading young Mr Shelvey!) but I'd like to think that I'd have enough about me to want to stay on the pitch to enjoy the situation.
I would guess so, but question why. Especially when it is for taking your top off.
Could you pay them, then fine them at the same time?
I guess the argument would be that you should at least be professional enough to not do the exact thing that is prohibited by the rules. It's not like he's banned from showing euphoria, just that specific action.
In terms of your point about it being what Sky and the media circus want, I don't know myself the history of the rule being introduced, but was it some sort of televisual pressure for a clean image or something? (genuine question, I've never known where the rule has come from!)
The main purpose for it (at the time) was to stop the number of players from wearing t-shirts with specially printed slogans, which could prove to be offensive. Although, this has been combined in to the all encompassing "exurberant goal celebrations", which includes jumping into the crowd. Sadly, and despite this being the 5th(I think) season that it has been in force, the players still won't learn. I dosen't matter about the emotion of scoing an important goal, the fact is they have had long enough to think of other ways of expressing their joy at scoring.
I have absolutely no sympathy with any player that gets themself booked for this, let alone one doing it while already on a yellow.
Ha ha...now that 'would ' be very funny to see what would happen in that instance.
spot on
You'll be saying they should get rid of nets next. As was said above, it's got jack shit to do with the FA anyway.
The stupidest offender was Ross Wallace of Preston. He scored a free kick (very good it has to be said) v Birmingham last season which got the club into the play-offs. Already on a booking he tore his shirt off in celebration, got a second yellow and missed the first leg of the play-offs.
There are all sorts of laws over kit, shirt tucked in, socks pulled up etc, most of which are ignored by the ref.