Should the FA ban Senderos for unsportmanlike conduct against Balotelli?

That was one of the 3 or 4 incidents where skinhead Senderos kicked out at Balotelli away from the ball and the referees didn't see the incident or call a foul. Not only unprofessional but also disgusting to see such lowly tactics used by a professional football club, I think we can all agree on that.

But should the FA take action against this or let Senderos keep doing this against whomever he likes in any match?

I bet you Lambert and Roy Keane will tell him to target Costa next because he can be provoked.

Yes.

Couple match ban (maybe 3 since it should be a straight red) and a fine.

Yea intentional off the ball incident. Red card worthy during the game as well.

Meh. If we start handing out bans for non-dangerous stuff like this then Costa will only play 4 games per season.

Terry got sent off for a similar incident when he kneed someone against Barca. This isn't any different imo. Surprised Balotelli didn't make more of it.

BarrileteCosmico wrote:Meh. If we start handing out bans for non-dangerous stuff like this then Costa will only play 4 games per season.

While Costa is no angel, his, thus far this season, have not been unprovoked like this one, and there has been no obvious innocent party like this.

Yes, not only is that a cowardly act, it's also lazy defending. Not only was he trying to wind Balotelli up, his crappy ass didn't want to track the run so he kicked him in the hope he'd go down so he could continue ball watching

It would be interesting for him to try that on Costa because he will get it back

Crappy defender

Racist pos

i know nothing about this guy but how can we assume he is a racist because he kicked Balotelli..?

It's a red card, and if the ref didn't register it during the game he can absolutely be banned posthumously.

LeSwagg James wrote:Racist pos

Donuts wrote:i know nothing about this guy but how can we assume he is a racist because he kicked Balotelli..?

Do not start this without any evidence to back it up.

It is against the forum rules.

Kick wrote:

LeSwagg James wrote:Racist pos

Donuts wrote:i know nothing about this guy but how can we assume he is a racist because he kicked Balotelli..?

Do not start this without any evidence to back it up.

It is against the forum rules.

My bad

He should get banned. No complaints about him roughing Balo up other than this, Balo needs to be reminded what the PL is about.

It's racist to call Senderos a skinhead just because he's white and bald.

Would you call Pepe a skinhead?

I said I didn't want this started, Peccadillo.

If I see anymore comments in this thread regarding racism, the offender will be docked.

It is off topic and against the forum rules to be calling people racists.

Yeah, that is suspension-worthy since the ref missed it. It's not dangerous, but you can't allow stuff like that to go unpunished. But I haven't read anything that there would be an investigation, so I guess they're letting this one go.

Not awfully bothered about it myself, we deserved to lose with or without that incident.

I adisagree, Art.

depending on when that happened, it could have changed the game dramatically. ( I don't actually know when it occurred)

If it was early, you could well have at the very least grabbed a goal back. If it was late, you could have thrown more at them in a bid to score.

Definitely, you can't permit off the ball offences such as this, such behaviour has no place in the game and should be dealt with more harshly than incidents that take place during the natural development of play. There's a marked difference between jostling for position and lashing out.

He's been doing the same thing to Suarez for years. Nothing will happen.

Peccadillo wrote:It's racist to call Senderos a skinhead just because he's white and bald.

Would you call Pepe a skinhead?

Skinheads aren't necessarily white

Cant help but feel since it was on Balotelli ppl may feel that he deserves a treatment finally? I wish someone would do this to Pepe

Although i'm completely for banning people for this stuff I would only consider it if equal punishment and equal measures were put in place to punish *bleep* who often dive and simulate contact.

Otherwise this will only further tip the balance in favour of people who look for contact.

Tomwin Lannister wrote:Although i'm completely for banning people for this stuff I would only consider it if equal punishment and equal measures were put in place to punish *bleep* who often dive and simulate contact.

Otherwise this will only further tip the balance in favour of people who look for contact.

While I completely agree that diving needs to be punished harshly, and actually think the yellow card think is appropriate if used consistently, in this case I don't see the relation as there's no ambiguity -
Balotelli certainly isn't looking for contact, he's making a run away from the defender lol.

Now it can't be expected that the ref sees everything, therefore in such a case a player can get a ban posthumously for an offense if it's red card worthy, which in this case I think it is.
No rules need to be changed, they just need to be applied.

Nah this case is 100% not Balotelli's fault. But i'm saying if more rules are put on place to punish people for making contact, the already poor balance with diving and fouling is further tipped in a divers favour.

It's already bad I.E if go looking for a penalty and get caught you get a slap on the wrist or a yellow, if you pull it off you can get the opposition a goal and a man down. So the last thing we need is more punishment on the contact side, without clamping down on simulation and conning the reff too.

Sure.
But suspending Senderos would not be "more punishment", but he simply would be getting the punishment he should be getting according to existing rules.
Other than that, finding ways to better punish simulating and playacting would be good, no question.

For example, if per video and slow motion replays it can be shown Senderos kicks a guy and therefore he can be suspended posthumously, video replay should be maybe also used to punish people who for example hold their face for a minute when footage shows they weren't hit in the face at all.