Luis Suárez

[fah-q]

I hate Ferguson, the Premier League and the FA will be a much better place without his sphere of influence but there is just no comparison between absuing an official post match and getting fined a book token and what Suarez has done

Suarez was warned for the first offence, his card has been marked and they've hammered him this time

Barton got off lightly imo but again this only goes to highlight how arbitrary the punishments are. Without clear guidelines you will have hugely inconsistent punishments

It's not the same offence no, but repeated breaking of their rules should mean that they apply the same principles of "totting up" regardless of the offence.

[Lecter]

I didn't say there was but you can't arbitrarily decide to start increasing bans for repeat offences just because an offence is deemed by someone as more severe than others. The principle has to remain the same, surely, regardless of the offence. You either increase punishments exponentially for repeat offences or you don't - and this FA appear to have never done so in the past.

You can if you are the FA and you dont have any guidelines laid down in the first place

[Shaggy]

It's not the same offence no, but repeated breaking of their rules should mean that they apply the same principles of "totting up" regardless of the offence.

They're clearly just making it up as they go along, despite no precedents.

[Lecter]

It's not the same offence no, but repeated breaking of their rules should mean that they apply the same principles of "totting up" regardless of the offence.

They should but Fergie is untouchable and really because of that I'm not sure what real relevance you can give towards the Suarez case

[Lecter]

They're clearly just making it up as they go along, despite no precedents.

Making it up is a bit far

Decisions are clearly too arbitrary, probably because the review panels are all different and they have no real rules or guidelines to follow

[Shaggy]

They should but Fergie is untouchable and really because of that I'm not sure what real relevance you can give towards the Suarez case

It's not just Ferguson - countless have been "warned about their future conduct", offended again and not been subject to "totting up". Pulis, Allardyce, Brown, Benitez, Rooney, Cattermole, Ferdinand etc. It just never applies. Except we're told it does now

[Shaggy]

Making it up is a bit far

Decisions are clearly too arbitrary, probably because the review panels are all different and they have no real rules or guidelines to follow

What do you think they're doing then? They seem to be plucking figures from thin air - completely arbitrarily. That's making it up. As you say there are no guidelines, no precedents, no consistency, no **** all - so they make it up.

[fah-q]

If they wanted to be seen as impartial they should have a regular panel made up of non football people with legal experience with no club affiliations of any kind.

Let's face it, football people tend to be a bit dim.

[Fan65]

I still can't believe he did it, WHY ??? just plain crazy, it was always going to be public hanging, even when his name was bandied about for the player of the year I heard journo's saying they doubt he'd win it because of the Evra incident and what has that got to do with it but I think they're right..

Get Big Andy back for the six games and let him throw his weight about the penalty area and knock a few teeth out, wont be great but at least it'll cheer me up a bit.

You never know he might do well alongside Sturridge and his market value could rocket up to around £10 million

[Shaggy]

Some Scotch journo (Graham Ruthven?) thinks Suarez should have been given community service! LMAO!

I won't link to his drivel. What a tool.

[fah-q]

He could always send his "double" along to do it, like Mark Morrison did.

[fah-q]

****, I've just realised. I may have just invoked Clint Doggy Dogg.

[Fivex]

Diggity

[Sarb]

Some Scotch journo (Graham Ruthven?) thinks Suarez should have been given community service! LMAO!

I won't link to his drivel. What a tool.

Not sure why he moans about getting absuse off LFC fans when he comes out with drivel like that. Isn't the first time

[Shaggy]

Training this morning