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VILLAIN OF THE WEEK 26-3-08
Peter Owen
Welcome to Villain of the Week - the most upfront feature the face of football has ever eyed. It promotes honesty and relegates villains - and has no match.
Let's move straight on to this week's nominations...
Sears – West Ham
Diving hides in the mind of football’s bums. You should have
have walked in shame so stick that red bubble up your backside.
Mascherano - Liverpool
What goes around comes around so we knew you were on
your way to us via a red card.
Palacios – Wigan
You are another fool who begged to see a red card
Torres – Liverpool
I have pointed out before that you often take a dive and thank you
for signing my book of observance!
Ronaldo – Man Utd
It was odds-on that a dive was on the cards but the ref
was the ace and you looked the complete joker.
Arbeloa – Liverpool
This tug-bug habit is now becoming a weekly catch.
And so over to the panel...
Graham Frankland
Javier Mascherano wins this week's VOTW hands down.
There was a lot of controversy surrounding his sending off on Sunday but watching the game live I knew that he was going to be sent off within about five minutes of his first yellow card. This was because his general demeanour towards the referee was quite frankly appalling.
Some will argue - well Andy Gray did - that when he approached the referee after Torres was yellow carded that he didn't approach him in a particularly threatening manner. In fact, he appeared to be smiling.
To be quite honest, Mascherano had been chipping away at the referee's authority, questioning every decision he made no matter how obvious that decision was. There is only so much a referee will put up with and in Steve Bennett, here is a referee whose tolerance threshold is somewhat lower than a lot of referees.
Xavi Alonso desperately tried to keep him away from Bennett after the Torres caution because he knew that he was putting himself at great risk of being sent off and the manager Benitez knew this too as he screamed at Mascherano to get away from the incident. But all was to no avail.
Ultimately the second yellow card was for something that on its own looked fairly trivial but when you take into account his actions leading up to this, then he only had himself to blame.
To compound it by completely losing the plot and the control of his own emotions only served to confirm that receiving the red card was fully justified in this instance.
I wouldn't be surprised if the FA increase his suspension for what followed the red card and I for one would be delighted if they did as it would send out a clear message that this type of behaviour cannot be tolerated.
Jeff Winter
The winner by a country mile this weekend is the idiot that is Mascherano closely followed by his manager Rafa Benitez.
His rants from the kick off were worthy of a red card much sooner than it was finally produced.
Peter's analysis
Sears of West Ham stands disgraced after the most pathetic dive football has ever
captured on camera. It looked like he had been taken out by a sniper.
I bet Sir Trevor Brooking tore a strip off you after the game because he is the FA’s Director of Football Development and you are an under-developed young bubble!
The other incidents were handbags except the one below which involved the corned
beef kid from Argentina, who wants putting back inside a tin and shipping home.
Mascherano is a loud mouthed villain and if he dived into the Mersey and took one
swallow it would become a bed of mud such is his thirst to disrespect our game.
When he fell into the arms of Rafa Benitez after being shown the red card, I saw a
vision appear of Norman Wisdom pleading with Mr Grimsdale to ring the FA.
Mascherano has had his case reviewed which stinks to high Heaven and further
highlights that the FA are all aboard a pleasure boat and not a craft of fair play!
Here is my own school of thought on the above.
No appeal should be allowed to proceed unless the referee to whom it concerns is
firstly spoken to and asked if he would give his permission to let that court shine.
He is the man at the helm and if he has made a genuine mistake then he will say
so after studying a replay. If he sees it the same, then the decision should remain put.
Referee Steve Bennett had a superb game and was my man of the match. Only
he knows the full picture of those ninety minutes and hopefully that scores my point.
I am sure both Jeff and Graham, our expert panelists, will see where I am driving,
given their respective careers.
The tolerance levels of referees does amaze me given the nature of prats
like the corned beef kid. He wants a smack on the arse with a wet haddock.
Our expert panelists have duly awarded our coveted Villain of the Week prize to
Mascherano and no-one will beg to differ, surely.
Jeff Winter’s Saturday show on TFM Radio at 5.30 pm is the hottest on the air
and I never miss it because its all round coverage is fan-tastic.
Finally, please be kind enough to tell us your own opinion regarding appeals.
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