Sunday’s English Premier League clash was a nail biting affair which was won by United by 3-2. But, the match is now remembered for wrong reasons, i.e., for City’s Gareth Barry, who used abusive language to match official. English FA took the instance immediately and acted upon it. FA found the abuses were in contrary to its Rule E3, hence banned the footballer for one match. FA issued a statement and said, “Manchester City's Gareth Barry will serve a one-match suspension with immediate effect after admitting a breach of FA Rule E3 in that he used abusive and/or insulting words towards a match official following his side's match against Manchester United on Sunday 9 December 2012. Also as part of the standard penalty for this offence, Barry has been fined £8,000.” Consequently, Berry will not be a part of City’s squad against Newcastle United on Saturday. Actually, City was not happy with the way FA handled the case, but they have to accept the judgment of supreme governing body. … [Read more...]
Former German Referee Manfred Amerell Found Dead
What could be the saddest ending of once a soccer topnotch referee? A lonely demise! Yes, this is what happened to former Bundesliga and Germen referee who found dead in his Munich apartment on Tuesday afternoon. The famous referee was on the peak of his career in 1980-1990, and later he became DFB spokesman. His professional career ended when he was congested with sexual allegations leveled by a lower league referee Michael Kempter who accused him of sexual offences back in 2010. However, that case created much of havoc in soccer fraternity, including the time when Kempter backed up from his own allegations leveled on the referee. Despite Kempter’s backing up, Amerell had to give up his job and became almost absent from soccer world. Since, that wrong allegation caused him loss of everything he had at that time, he had to sue Kempter for his false claims, and in a settlement; Regional High Court in Stuttgart suggested a compromise price $195,000 payable to Amerell, which Kempter … [Read more...]
English FA to Introduce Education to Eradicate Racism
If you are a close follower of English soccer, you would have a known to almost tens of different ways suggested by many legendry soccer officials, ex-players, and clubs to counter racism, but none of them seems to be perfect to English FA, hence they are now trying to introduce a compulsory educational program to be participated by every professional football player, club official, and all foreign players who play in various English leagues. The objective is simple, to make them aware of all the possible effects of using or saying anything not permitted on English soil. Last few months brought English soccer at a place where everyone is presuming that racism cannot be eradicated from the system. While, on the other side, according to many legendry soccer pros, educational system will also not work coz they are not teenagers who don’t know anything; perhaps they are very much professionals who understand the impact of ‘certain words’ in a crucial time. For the time being, compulsory … [Read more...]
Radamel Falcao: The Player to Look For
Soccer is a game of passion; perhaps it is like any other game where a player is known by his performances. Here too, if a player performs well for, let say, two weeks, he becomes in the limelight and every popular club tries to sign him up. Colombian hotshot, 26-year old Radamel Falcao, has always been known for his lighting striking skills and he keeps proving it every now and then. Last few days were belonged to Barca’s star Messi and his world record, but despite the glory of Messi, Falcao stunned the world by his excellent power play in the match between his club Atletico Madrid and Deportivo La Coruna. Atletico Madrid crushed La Coruna by 6-0 and more importantly, it was Falcao who made the headlines by scoring five goals in a game. This is one of the finest preferences in soccer we have ever seen in recent time; even Messi could only match this scoring number in one match against Bayer Leverkusen in March 2012. Actually, Falcao is the next generation of soccer players who … [Read more...]
Ashley Cole’s Family Denied of Posting Insulting Facebook Posts
Soccer is an emotional game of sport, perhaps, it is one of the only sports where fans retaliate using various tricks. Traditionally, on-field arguments were very common to see then came an era where crowd started becoming violent, but after the arrival of technology and fast zooming security cameras such incidents lessened. More interestingly, now, it is not about what happened on the field, it is all about its aftermaths. Take the latest incident that happened on Sunday in a Premier League match between Manchester United and Manchester City; the match was comprehensively won by United, but how a fan from the crowd retaliated is something to better be discussed first. A fan threw a 2p coin on Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand’s face, and unfortunately that coin hit him near his eyes, and he started bleeding immediately. Whole world saw this, but unfortunately, more embarrassing news came later via some Facebook posts between Chelsea’s Ashley Cole family members. Reportedly, … [Read more...]
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