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VILLAIN OF
THE WEEK 8-10-08
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:
Game: Manchester City v Liverpool, Player: Pablo Zabaleta of Manchester City
Your two-footed lunge on Alonso had a red card stamped all over it.
Game: Manchester City v Liverpool, Player: Martin Skrtel of Liverpool
How you escaped the appropriate card after your foot was deliberately
hammered into the back of Jo at that height is beyond me.
Game: Chelsea v Aston Villa, Player: Stiliyan Petrov of Villa
You lunged at Joe Cole and it was no surprise the lad had to be substituted after the incident.
Game: West Ham v Bolton, Player: Herita Ilunga of West Ham
Your tackle on Steinsson was just a little heavy for ref Mike Dean
and although no card was shown, it highlights that he’s on the ball.
And so over to this week's expert panellists...
Steve Goldby
My nomination for this week is Pablo Zabaleta of Manchester City in the
Sunday afternoon game against Liverpool.
Salt was rubbed into City's wound with the sacrificing of a two goal lead but you have to wonder whether the wound inflicted on Alonso was
deliberate or not.
Maybe Zabaleta temporarily forgot that a two-footed lunge will inevitably earn you a red card. In fact, it's as inevitable as the arrival of Juande Ramos's pending P45.
Here's a song for Zabaleta - my Villain of the Week.
Jeff Winter
It was a fairly quiet week all round but there were still a couple of naughties.
The two-footed tackle has to be eradicated so my winner is Zabaleta.
His sending off changed the course of the game and perhaps that might be brought home to him by his manager. A couple of week's wages in fines might highlight the fact, as well as a three match ban.
Peter’s analysis
Before I come to the main stamp of this week’s feature, I just want to open the door on a few points which need their hot handles turning.
Last week I came down heavily on referee Rob Styles because he stood by and allowed a Portuguese submarine to extract the urine and pour the lot over his head.
The root of respect is the person who sees everyone as an equal, who behaves in a befitting manner and admits his mistakes with hands held high.
However, there are people in football who make mistakes and would do anything to come away with a Cover-up Medal rather than be attached to the word mistake!
It takes years of toil to become a Premiership ref and I respect them all for reaching that height of achievement, regardless of any opinion I may shelter.
Rob Styles has certainly dropped a few costly howlers. However, I’ve seen the guy referee some excellent games which flash the right indicators.
I hope he finds the common sense button which switches on consistency, otherwise I think he may press the mind’s ejector seat and bail out.
However, to all those who have signed the ”Remove Rob Styles" petition, let me offer you these words to take on board your Jolly-Rodger.
Why don’t you launch a campaign to get Ronaldo to wear a pair of flippers instead of boots and see how many want in on that?
Or perhaps a campaign to replace the TV cameras with periscopes so Orca can be safely monitored from 20000 leagues under the sea.
Candid camera has punished Rob Styles but that same camera isn’t interested in a footballer who could have been Orca’s stuntman!
In every game of football there have been three teams on the pitch not two and the FA are everything but a Blue Peter.
The ref's biggest devil these days is television and the odd gormless pundit.
Too many in football are allowing their minds to be hoodwinked by these hideous snail replays. Yet they account for not a thing and only influence bullshit.
The game is now so fast that there are times when it is impossible for the human eye to compete with the offside law alone. Never mind the cameras coming into play, how about doing a few U-turns and getting real?
Refs are not after match speakers either because we all know the sort of questions which will be put to them and it won’t be ”You had a great game ref”.
How about asking every striker why they missed another sitting duck or how about asking every keeper why they dropped another clanger?
I think the above paints a picture called common sense and on the back of our expert panellists every word, we shall blow the whistle on the weekend gone.
Stiliyan Petrov of Aston Villa came in very recklessly on Joe Cole and it was just as well for him that his challenge came in from the side rather than face to face or ref Chris Foy may have taken a sterner view. Ref rating - 7/10.
Martin Skrtel of Liverpool is still finding his feet in the Premiership. However, one does not expect to find one of his boots practising a kung-fu kick into the back of Jo.
Skrtel knew full well the course of his pre-meditated intention and it happened right under the nose of referee Peter Walton. I fully expected to see a red card because the last thing on Skrtel’s mind was the ball. Ref rating - 6/10
Pablo Zabaleta of Man City's wild two-footed lunge tackle on Alonso decided its own colour of card and as Jeff Winter states, it changed the course of the game.
This is what Mark Hughes said about the incident: ”When these incidents happen you look for the reaction of the opposition”. Perhaps he should have taken a leaf out of Gareth Southgate’s book and carpeted the player instead of talking so blindly about something the referee is always there to oversee.
Steve Goldby, our other expert panellist, wonders whether the wound inflicted on Alonso was deliberate. There are no excuses or any get out of jail cards attached to those who lunge and Zabaleta of Man City is our expert panellists' outright ‘Villain of the Week”
I just hope all the Manchester City fans enjoy the Zabaleta march- music which Steve has so kindly found and I hope Mark Hughes can see through it.
The margins between winning and losing and the colours of the cards are a mixture of both good and bad luck. However, if everything in football was agreeable, it would not be the spectacle of excitement that it is each week!
Those Spurs fans who abused Sol Campbell are another tiny section of society who have the mentality level of a limbo dancer’s arse at the height of its performance.
Thanks to both Jeff and Steve for their scoring comments once again. There are two sides to every story and everyone’s opinion is welcome as always and applauded.
Peter
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