Attn The FA

[In Dyche We Trust]

the one touch wonder..

No touch wonder

[1959_60]

The unabridged reply from the English FA:

Thank you for your email and for the comments received.

In consideration of your comments we respond accordingly.

The recent Brighton Vs Burnley game included a penalty given by the referee for a foul on Murray. The Referee had not given a penalty in any of the previous games he has refereed this season. Clearly he believed he witnessed a foul in the penalty area. He may have got that one wrong. However, I assume that your comment "Playing the game in the right spirit" includes not elbowing into the ribs of an opponent?. The referee missed the Burnley player who did that. Had he seen it would have resulted in a penalty and a sending off. So the scales seem to have been balanced in your favour.

Divers are cheaters. And they are booked accordingly. Sometimes it may seem that the booking is harsh and that the player didn't dive but was, in fact, fouled. The only comment we have is that when it is viewed as diving action is taken at the time. Diving is distasteful. But violent action towards a fellow professional is probably a higher level of distaste.

We do however make the odd exception. For instance it would be akin to slicing off our noses to spite our own two faces if we had retrospectively banned England internationals Delli Ali and Harry Kane for perceived violent action.

Kevin de Bruyne poses a real threat to the FA's chances of pecuniary advantage and progress in the group stages of the World Cup. The English FA therefore regard players such as the immensely gifted de Bruyne "fair game" and we encourage the real possibility of putting them out of action until August 2018 at the very least.

The FA's Panel Review of James Tarkowski and his subsequent 100% certain three match ban for the criminal assault on the innocent bystander Glenn Murray, also took into account Tarkowski's previous vicious assault on Arsenal's Aaron Ramsey.

The FA simply must make a stance and protect the perceived cheats and divers, otherwise the beautiful game will fall into the hands of vigilantes like Tarkowski, who decide to take the laws of the game into their own hands and mete out their own punishment to the known divers such as the entirely innocent Glenn Murray.

The FA must also take into account the financial rewards that Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur contribute to the FA Treasurer's purse and therefore each have a FA "Certificate of Exemption" granted.

It would have been a clear breach of this protocol if Ali and Kane had been unavailable as the mighty Spurs challenge Burnley for a place in the EPL top six in the live televised BT game.

To weaken one of our own "Big Six" may well have reduced the viewing figures and again it must be pointed out the positive effect on the FA Treasurer's purse both BT and SKY bring to ourselves and our feeding partner, the English Premier League.

Please be assured that we do not view Burnley in any other light than with affection. We have great satisfaction that the league is healthy, vibrant and open to all who compete despite acknowledging that we must constantly be on our guard to protect this great game of ours.

Sincerely

The FA

That was brilliant Blueheeler!

There is a job for you at the FA anytime.

[blueheeler1]

That was brilliant Blueheeler!

There is a job for you at the FA anytime.

Hall of Fame.

It was brilliant--by BT-- who edited my views even before they were published.

BT has taken the view, using a lot of my responses, that it is hypercritical to sanction Tarks when others get away with it.

And that is fair enough, understandable, defensive of Burnley and I am with him--for most of it.

But when were things ever fair? I can sight many, many, events in my life where I was dealt with unfairly.

But you have to ask yourself one question.

Arguing that some get away with stuff whilst others get punished doesn't change the view that whilst life is often unfair if you are prepared to do the crime be prepared to cope it.

Tarks is not being potentially sidelined for NOT doing anything wrong.

Murray is a *****--fair comment.

I would love to think that when I was younger I would have done the same.

He probably deserved a Tarks hit but Barnes can be a *****, as well.

Tarks will learn.

You Fxxk up and you get done.

Don't sight fairness because I really don't know what that means.

The powerful escape the poorer get done.

So don't do it in the first place.

[In Dyche We Trust]

Hall of Fame.

It was brilliant--by BT-- who edited my views even before they were published.

BT has taken the view, using a lot of my responses, that it is hypercritical to sanction Tarks when others get away with it.

And that is fair enough, understandable, defensive of Burnley and I am with him--for most of it.

But when were things ever fair? I can sight many, many, events in my life where I was dealt with unfairly.

But you have to ask yourself one question.

Arguing that some get away with stuff whilst others get punished doesn't change the view that whilst life is often unfair if you are prepared to do the crime be prepared to cope it.

Tarks is not being potentially sidelined for NOT doing anything wrong.

Murray is a *****--fair comment.

I would love to think that when I was younger I would have done the same.

He probably deserved a Tarks hit but Barnes can be a *****, as well.

Tarks will learn.

You Fxxk up and you get done.

Don't sight fairness because I really don't know what that means.

The powerful escape the poorer get done.

So don't do it in the first place.

Need to get that spellchecker uploaded BH- otherwise you face the wrath of others on here and you will be hung, drawn and Bristol Rovered....

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Apologies blueheeler1, I thought I was adding to it, not editing it or changing the content.

It is just about what we should expect from the FA though.

From my point of view I did say on Saturday that Tarkowski needs to wise up and calm down!

[sinkov]

I did suggest a few weeks ago that Watford might take us to court under the Trade Descriptions Act. However on checking, it appears an offence has only occurred if Watford were encouraged to buy Mr Gray by false or misleading statements. Well some journos might have gone overboard about his ability, but the club said nothing, as is their wont, in the lead up to the sale, so they cannot be held culpable, and if anyone connected with Watford had read this forum they would have been made aware that they were buying a player who had great difficulty trapping the proverbial bag of cement, and trapped it further than my grandad could throw his cap. A player who had scored just 4 goals all season from open play, and wasn't even a regular starter by the last half dozen games in one of the lowest scoring teams in the division.

All I can say to Watford is, CAVEAT EMPTOR, you fecking mugs.

Sorry, I missed out 'a hat trick against relegated Sunderland apart' before saying he'd scored just 4 from open play all season. I have to rectify this in the interests of accuracy, and to be fair to the lad.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Sorry, I missed out 'a hat trick against relegated Sunderland apart' before saying he'd scored just 4 from open play all season. I have to rectify this in the interests of accuracy, and to be fair to the lad.

Running concurrent with this thread I suppose is my belief the way the FA punished Gray over historic tweets has completely derailed his career.

I saw virtually every game in the Championship and no way on earth is Gray a poor player.

The FA have got in between his ears where his footballing brain used to be.

I hope he recovers from the injustice of it all and goes on to become the player he should be.

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The unabridged reply from the English FA:
Diving is distasteful. But violent action towards a fellow professional is probably a higher level of distaste.

thats the problem - flagrant cheating being treated as less important than a violent action.
If a player smacks out at another - then it reverberates on the player and that team....in that he'll suffer some form of penalty.
But if players acts dishonestly - it impacts the whole game...it can affect the points on table....the end of season placing, it could mean say - a team being relegated or another losing out to a place in the CL etc, it's aftereffects are massive by comparison - and imho....is so great an assault on the game....that it should be ruled on to no less a degree than those that are punished for excessive physical aggresion....more so even.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

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thats the problem - flagrant cheating being treated as less important than a violent action.
If a player smacks out at another - then it reverberates on the player and that team....in that he'll suffer some form of penalty.
But if players acts dishonestly - it impacts the whole game...it can affect the points on table....the end of season placing, it could mean say - a team being relegated or another losing out to a place in the CL etc, it's aftereffects are massive by comparison - and imho....is so great an assault on the game....that it should be ruled on to no less a degree than those that are punished for excessive physical aggresion....more so even.

Did you see the Foxy Loxy cheat last night? I'll bet he walks away scot free as usual.

[Altobelli]

Running concurrent with this thread I suppose is my belief the way the FA punished Gray over historic tweets has completely derailed his career.

I saw virtually every game in the Championship and no way on earth is Gray a poor player.

The FA have got in between his ears where his footballing brain used to be.

I hope he recovers from the injustice of it all and goes on to become the player he should be.

And some folk still believe Tommy Cooper was a brilliant magician