Navarro handed lengthy Uefa ban

[Kinell]

Navarro handed lengthy Uefa ban

Navarro handed lengthy Uefa ban
Uefa has suspended Valencia's David Navarro for seven months for his role in the on-pitch brawl which marred the Champions League game with Inter Milan.

Both clubs have also been fined £106,000 by Uefa's control and disciplinary committee.

Navarro broke the nose of Nicolas Burdisso in the fight which broke out at full-time in their second leg game.

Shocked but decision is justified IMO.

[Joey Jones]

Navarro handed lengthy Uefa ban

Navarro handed lengthy Uefa ban
Uefa has suspended Valencia's David Navarro for seven months for his role in the on-pitch brawl which marred the Champions League game with Inter Milan.

Both clubs have also been fined £106,000 by Uefa's control and disciplinary committee.

Navarro broke the nose of Nicolas Burdisso in the fight which broke out at full-time in their second leg game.

Shocked but decision is justified IMO.

[dww]

I have to say I'm shocked they have been so hard, but it is totally the correct decision. I hope it is the start of a new more sensible regulatory regime, but I doubt it.

[Bob]

It will be appealed. He will then get 3/4months

[Shaggy]

I have to say I'm shocked they have been so hard, but it is totally the correct decision. I hope it is the start of a new more sensible regulatory regime, but I doubt it.

This is the point. The punishment doesn't fit in with previous punishments handed out. There is no consistency in UEFA's regulations and punishments. None whatsoever.

Both clubs fined over a hundred grand, yet whenever a club is guilty of failing to control racim on the terraces, it's a six thousand Euro fine. ****ing joke.

[anfieldanfield]

7 months!

****ing hell that's harsh.

[DannyMan2006]

People do jail time for that on occasions so a 7 month ban from football aint so bad. Id guess he'll continue to get paid to, so he wont feel to hard done by.

[Red Chilli]

THe thing is though some of that time will be the summer holidays plus he's the sub keeper. He's hardly going to play for 7 onths anyway

[Joey Jones]

Some more details:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/europe/6425359.stm

Valencia's David Navarro has received a seventh-month European ban for his role in the on-pitch brawl in the Champions League game against Inter Milan.

Navarro broke the nose of Inter's Nicolas Burdisso, who was banned for six games along with team-mate Maicon.

Valencia's Carlos Marchena was banned for four games, while Inter's Ivan Cordoba and Julio Cruz received three and two-match bans.

Both clubs have also been fined about £106,000 by Uefa.

Uefa's disciplinary body announced the decision on Wednesday after examining the official reports of the delegate and referee, along with video evidence.

But Uefa opted not to impose a stadium ban on Valencia, who play Chelsea in the quarter-finals of the competition.

Valencia progressed on away goals after a 0-0 draw in the second leg at the Mestralla, but the result was overshadowed by events on the final whistle.

Valencia midfielder Marchena appeared to kick out at Burdisso after exchanging words.

The incident sparked the brawl and Navarro, a substitute who had not featured in the match, ran on to the middle of the pitch and punched Burdisso.

Several Inter players tried to kick Navarro as he ran off the pitch and the fighting continued in the tunnel and outside the dressing rooms.

Inter coach Roberto Mancini has dubbed Navarro "a coward" for his act.

Mancini said: "There's nothing else you can say about someone who throws a punch like that and runs away."

Navarro has said sorry for his role in the fracas and offered to go to Italy to apologise to Burdisso in person.

He said: "I want to say sorry for what happened, what I did was not good.

"It was a lack of respect for the football world and that's why I wanted to ask forgiveness from the Inter player.

"If I need to go to Italy to say sorry, I will.

"This is a bad time for me, nothing like this has happened before because I am not a violent person. I am setting a bad example."

Valencia's Italian defender Emiliano Moretti has expressed his surprise at his team-mate's actions.

"Navarro is a perfectly normal person and I don't know what would cause him to do such a thing," he told Italian television.

[Bob]

People do jail time for that on occasions so a 7 month ban from football aint so bad. Id guess he'll continue to get paid to, so he wont feel to hard done by.

True.

[Kinell]

THe thing is though some of that time will be the summer holidays plus he's the sub keeper. He's hardly going to play for 7 onths anyway

Plus he's still earning 10's of thousands a week.

[disco]

re. 7 months - surely most of it will be when the CL isn't played anyway?

[LadyRed]

That is so harsh.

He's just been chosen as the fall guy for the whole fiasco. Making an example of him.

[nobbylad]

That is so harsh.

He's just been chosen as the fall guy for the whole fiasco. Making an example of him.

Yeah...like it wasn't him that broke the guy's nose.

Not only should he be banned from footy, he should be in the slammer for ABH. Wasn't it worse than what Drunken Ferguson did to the guy in the SPL?

[Joey Jones]

That is so harsh.

He's just been chosen as the fall guy for the whole fiasco. Making an example of him.

Fall guy? UEFA had picture evidence that he threw a punch and broke another player’s nose, they have been right to make an example of him IMO.