Man City’s Kompany has appeal rejected by ever more vague FA
So Vincent Kompany is going to serve a four-game ban for his red card on Sunday, as the FA have declined Manchester City’s appeal. From The FA’s website:
An Independent Regulatory Commission has today dismissed a claim of wrongful dismissal from Manchester City’s Vincent Kompany following his red card for Serious Foul Play in The FA Cup Third Round tie between Manchester City v Manchester United on 8 January 2012.
Kompany will serve a four-match suspension with immediate effect. The suspension consists of a statutory three-match suspension for Serious Foul Play plus one additional game given this is Kompany’s second dismissal of the season.
Is that it? Few things are as frustrating as the FA’s disciplinary procedures.
It’s quite staggering that, given how the game has advanced and the amount of interest in it, the FA don’t see a need for greater transparency here. I happen to think that Kompany’s challenge wasn’t worthy of dismissal, but regardless, I’d be interested to know how the Independent Regulatory Commission arrived at this decision.
What was it? Was it the two-footed nature of the challenge? The overly-aggressive nature of the tackle? Sport never benefits from ‘grey areas’, so why are the FA so reluctant to clarify their position here. Currently, the Premier League’s disciplinary system is very much in the mould of a ‘because we said so’ style of playground officiating.
Why not add in some details here from the referee, because not only would the FA be justifying their decision, but they’d also be setting a precedent for what can and cannot be appealed in the future.
Is it too cynical to suggest that their reason for not doing this is because it doesn’t really fit in with their ethos of ‘making it up as they go along’?
While we’re at it, is there any comment coming out of Wembley about the standard of Chris Foy’s performance on Sunday. Whether you’re a Manchester United or City fan, or whether you were just a neutral at the weekend, I think everybody is unanimous in their agreement that the referee’s contribution was unacceptable.
But yet another aspect of the game that’s veiled from the supporters – is it any wonder that there’s some much aggravation about how the game is governed. It’s a very amateur approach.
Posted on January 10, 2012, in General and tagged Appeal, Discipline, FA, Manchester City, Vincent Kompany. Bookmark the permalink. 4 Comments.
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It would be helpful to know how they came to their decision, but we will never know and neither will the players, nameless buffoons handing out so called justice so it will continue to be as clear as mud,at least with Foy he is consistantly poor so that should help.
Agree with you that the lack of explanation is very unhelpful. It makes less clear the rules regarding tackling which is an important area of the game. After seeing this I guess players with two legs will be best advised to avoid sliding tackles completely!
I may be wrong but has this “Independant Regulatory Commision” got anything to do with the decision to send Wooney and a bunch of lawyers to get his ban reduced when he assaulted (not tackled) the Montenegran player? Either way its all under the FA’s umbrella and stinks of hypocricy. No surprise there then!!
I don’t think the FA or the referee’s association agree with your verdict of his performance because he has been given another game in the Premier League this weekend. It was dreadful, but us supporters don’t seem to matter in the grand scheme of the English Football