Phil Brown has been sacked
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are my thoughts on that.
Hopefully we never seen the smug, fake-tanned moron in Premiership football again, I think the whole league and the Hull board have got fed up of his egotistical nonsense, his beard, his lies, his tan and his style of play.
Phil Brown’s comments after the game on George Boateng’s sending off were typical, a player sent off for A) poking a player in the eye B) studding a player in the knee in a tackle intended to hurt.
The idiot said something along the lines of ‘he didn’t let me down, he went out there and did the job I asked’. Is there any more concrete proof that managers send their players out to rough Arsenal up and get on their nerves? I doubt it. Take a look at this:
If that would have happened in Sunday League or 5-a-side, there would have been a riot. Its cowardly, out of order and dangerous – who knows where his fingers has been? Who would even want to know?! I think credit deserves to go to Nicklas Bendtner for not reacting to it, quite easily he could have turned around and throttled Boateng but its a sign of growing maturity that he simply had a few words before the referee came over and ridiculously book Boateng and Bendtner. It should be a red for George Boateng and a pat on the back for Nicklas.
That was before this tackle: (pic taken from Arseblog)
He’s not even out of control, the ball is not even in sight. This is what needs punishing, tackles like that are designed to injure and there is simply no excuse, there are initiatives on diving, chatting back to the referee and taking your shirt off to celebrate but its the real important things like this that should be addressed. Where are the FA again? Nowhere to be seen. How easy would it be for them to review tackles like these, why not review the events leading up to every red card to decide retrospective punishment. The ref deemed this worthy of a yellow card. A YELLOW CARD. That’s how stupid this is and how hopeless Andre Marriner is.
I can’t find a picture of the Sol Campbell tackle on Zayette but you can see he does into the tackle with his feet pointing downwards, somewhat different from the picture of George Boateng’s above, and a hell of a lot different from the Ryan Shawcross tackle which some have moronically referred to. It was a good strong tackle that Sol put in on Zayette and he won the ball fairly, its a shame he has been injured but I think we will find out its not too serious at all. There is even a sneaking suspiction he injured himself trying to stud Campbell in the thigh, in which case I hope his head has fallen off.
The first half of the Hull game provided everyone with an example of the “Arsenal don’t like it up ‘em” approach, and we can see clearly above what those tactics entail. Anti-football I think so. That’s why I find it funny that at 11am this morning, Hull told Phil Brown he was sacked. Oh happy days.
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Next weekend we get the chance to crank up the pressure and go to the top of the table, we play on Saturday at home against West Ham, I think United and Chelsea are playing on the Sunday giving us a chance to lay down the gauntlet and show them they have one hell of a fight on their hands for the title. They both face tricky away games and with both their poor away records it would be no surprise if points are dropped, so we have to capitalise in-case they do.
There’s no real news hanging about this morning, most of the media attention is focused on David Beckham’s snapped achilles and to be honest I do sympathise with him, he deserved to go to South Africa. Maybe its a result of his 12 month long season with the Galaxy and AC Milan – a result of him proving his fitness to Fabio Capello.
Graham Poll is spouting his usual crap…
And that’s about it. What do you think of Boateng and your passing thoughts on Phil Brown’s sacking? I’m happy as larry.
Til tomorrow.
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What makes me all the more happy is that we beat them in Brown’s last game for Hull. A vindication after all the abuse the team has suffered with the ‘spitgate’ saga. By accusing IN PUBLIC that Fabregas spat at Hull staff was vile. He wanted to rock the Arsenal boat. That’s all he wanted to do. Crudely put, he’s a shit stirrer. I’m not a fan and I will not spend any more words on him.
Looking back at the Boateng jab I cannot believe how the referee gave a yellow to Bendtner – what was he looking at? Furthermore will the incident even be looked at? That’s serious foul play which should incur the penalty of suspension for several games. It would be a travesty for Boateng to recieve a one game suspension for two yellows. Both incidents justify greater punishment.
But knowing the inability of the powers that be they will make good use of a brush and a carpet and continue their normal activity of walking away while whistling.
I’m surprised Graham Troll can write.
I actually thought boateng tried to pull out of the sagna challenge in the end. If he’d gone in with anything like full force then he would have done some real damage. Still a painful one and rightly a yellow imo.
Agree about the incident with bendtner h/e. I think if the ref saw it properly it should have been a straight red.
I don’t think it’s a sign of growing maturity in bendtner that he didnt react, I don’t think hes ever been the sort of player to lose his cool in those situations. He know’s what’s going on and not to react to it.
Also on campbell – the commentary I watched and then brown after the game tried to make up controversy about his performance. They said he could have been red carded for the tackle on zayate, when as you say, he took the ball perfectly cleanly, and I wouldnt go as far as to say the hull player was trying to stud sol, but he definitely injured himself on campbell rather than from the impact of the challenge.
Another funny thing brown said around the penalty, a wonderful piece of logic, something like: “our forward was offside when the ball came to him, but the linesman didnt give it, so it’s not offside; but then when campbell brought him down it should have been a red card” …. but the ref didnt give it, so it’s not a red card….
How can u complain about one bad decision that goes against u, when u know it was immediately preceded by a bad decision in ur favour??? Man, some people are stupid.