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John Terry has had his red card he received at the weekend rescinded after an appeal to the FA. The referee, Mark Halsey, gave Terry a red card for “serious foul play” and NOT a “professional foul”. Chelsea were complaining about the fact that Terry should not have got a red card because he was not the last defender. However, the position of other placement was irrelevent because the red card was for “serious foul play”.
Under FA regulations, a “serious foul play” can’t be downgraded from red to yellow on appeal and a red card can only be rescinded if the referee, upon reviewing the incident, admits that he made an error. However, the ref rightly stood by his decision.
This means Terry has got away with cynically bringing down a player without even a yellow card!! OK, it wasnt really a “rugby tackle” like some people are saying but he certainly used his arm to try and grab part of the City player.
It now also means Terry will be able to play Chelsea’s next game – against United!!!
Terry has said that he thinks hes England captain because he showed his character (or something like that) after crying like a baby in the Champions League final by playing the really important game against the USA and “leading” the team. WHATEVER!!
Anyway, back to the game ….
It seems like the same old England. Capello has now managed 5 England games so should have had the time to sort it out. England didnt really play like we expect a Capello team to play with a really solid defence. The defending tonight was terrible.
Looking at the team sheet before the game it was just like the same old England playing players out of position and where they are not used to. Gerrard still playing on the left and always cutting on to his right foot. Once again a team with both Gerrard and Lampard just not working!
England are also just not comfortable on the ball and keeping the ball for a significant amount of time. Its always given away. Dont know if its a England thing or what the manager wanted but whenever we lost the ball we always went running after the ball. As a result players were out of position and complete sides of the pitch had no covering players. Two players who did this were Lampard and Beckham.
To be honest the first half was “OK” with some decent possession and a few chances. However the 2nd half was terrible with shambolic defending including some good old David James madness which almost resulted in a Czech Republic goal. (Great second goal by Czech Republic – a free kick Beckham would have been proud of).
To show that the England performance was so poor was that the sponsors give the man of the match to a Czech player.
Lets just hope we play better in the important World Cup qualifiers coming up!!
John Terry has had his red card he received at the weekend rescinded after an appeal to the FA. The referee, Mark Halsey, gave Terry a red card for “serious foul play” and NOT a “professional foul”. Chelsea were complaining about the fact that Terry should not have got a red card because he was not the last defender. However, the position of other placement was irrelevent because the red card was for “serious foul play”.
