FA wait on Webb cup final report
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The Football Association are waiting on referee Howard Webb's report on the Carling Cup final before deciding whether Chelsea and Arsenal should be punished.
The teams clashed in injury-time of the showpiece event at The Millennium Stadium with no less than three players seeing red late on.
The unsavoury scenes, which included both managers entering the field to quell the spat, marred what had been an exciting Cup final.
Referees' chief Keith Hackett is keen to speak to Webb, but is refusing to add his weight to the debate until The FA decides whether the teams will be sanctioned.
"I have not contacted Howard yet. I will speak to him some time today," Hackett told Radio Five Live.
"He has to put his report in and it is important I do not get involved in a debate.
"I do not want to influence the outcome of the report. It is important The FA deal with this independently." -
So cool that we have youtube these days... At least now we can watch all over again and get a better idea what happened...
Full Fighting incident of Chelsea vs Arsenal
Arsenal vs Chelsea Incident - Adabayor -
Arsenal sure kana jialat jialat and heavy fine.
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both teams should be heavily punished
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FINAL PAIR APPEAL
Arsenal striker Emmanuel Adebayor and Chelsea's Mikel Jon Obi have both lodged appeals for wrongful dismissal in the hope to have their red cards in the Carling Cup final rescinded.
However, Gunners skipper Kolo Toure - who was also sent off for his part in the mass brawl at the end of the match at the Millennium Stadium - has not and so must serve a three-match ban.
Under the Football Association's fast-track disciplinary process, the appeals will be held tomorrow, meaning a decision will come ahead of Arsenal's FA Cup fourth-round replay at Blackburn.
Ivory Coast defender Toure, however, will definitely miss that game, along with the Barclays Premiership visit of Reading on Saturday and then Aston Villa.
He will, though, be available for the Champions League second leg against PSV Eindhoven next Wednesday, which is a UEFA competition.
The melee at the Millennium Stadium was sparked following a confrontation between Mikel and Toure, with players and coaches from both sides becoming involved.
Adebayor protested his innocence, and while he may have a case for mistake identity given the actions of full-back Emmanuel Eboue in his clash with Chelsea's Wayne Bridge, the Togo striker could yet face further sanctions for the way in which he both confronted referee Howard Webb and his refusal to immediately leave the pitch. -
The kids also must learn to play delay and acting skill.
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Blues wasters sparked trouble
KOLO TOURE has blamed ChelseaÂ’s cynical stalling tactics for sparking the Snarling Cup final. The Arsenal defender hit out as the Gunners appealed against Emmanuel AdebayorÂ’s red card for his part in SundayÂ’s mass brawl.
Toure, also sent off, insisted he does not deserve to be banned for his own clash with Chelsea’s Mikel Jon Obi. The Ivory Coast ace rapped: “Chelsea were winning and started to waste time and I was not happy with that. “That is why I had some words with Mikel but then Lampard came in and got involved and made the thing bigger than it was.”
Toure’s tussle with Mikel led to the shameful 18-man bust-up and ended with ref Howard Webb dismissing the Blues ace along with the Arsenal pair. Toure insisted: “I shouldn’t be banned. When they look at the tape, they will see I did nothing wrong.
“The people who run football know who is bad and who is not. A player like me has played a lot of games but I do not choose to do that type of thing. “I apologise for my actions but I do not feel I have let the club down. “I am always trying to do my best for the club and the supporters. But anyone can make a mistake or do something bad and that is why I need to apologise.
“I do not want to make my mistake any bigger.” Toure, 25, will be suspended for Arsenal’s next three domestic games, starting with tomorrow’s FA Cup replay at Blackburn.
Boss Arsene Wenger is hoping he will not be joined by striker Adebayor. The Togo striker insists he was simply trying to help Toure. Adebayor said: “I knew I could calm Kolo down. He’s like my big brother and I knew I could hold him down. “I remember Kolo had the ball and Lampard was pushing him. He fell down and when he got back on his feet he was very angry and upset.
“I’ve never seen Kolo like that before. Kolo is a nice guy, a brilliant guy, a fair-play guy. He never gets upset. “That’s why I tried to calm him and tell him to stop it. I was trying to stop a lot of guys. “I just ran there straight away to pull people away. I am a strong man and I know I can stop things. “I was just trying to break things up but then the ref showed me a red card.
“I don’t know why I should say I regret something I didn’t do. I never hit anybody so I cannot regret it.” Adebayor is also facing a misconduct charge for failing to leave the pitch after being sent off.
He admitted: “I was upset when I saw the red card. When you’re in a big final, you don’t want to leave your team with nine men against Chelsea. “But I didn’t want to hit the referee or beat him up. I just wanted to ask him why he gave me the red card.
“My team-mates came up to me and said, ‘Manu, you have to stop this. You have to go off’. I wasn’t going to be aggressive towards the referee. “But sometimes other people do things and you are the one to pay the price.” -
Eboué faces FA charge over cup final brawl
The Football Association is set to sanction Emmanuel Eboué for the part he played in the fracas which marred Sunday's Carling Cup final at the Millennium Stadium, with both Arsenal and Chelsea also to be charged with failing to control their players.
The referee, Howard Webb, dismissed Kolo Touré, Mikel John Obi and Emmanuel Adebayor in the wake of the 14-man brawl, which erupted after the Arsenal captain and Chelsea midfielder had squared up to each other with the game drifting into stoppage time. The FA were scrutinising the official's report on the incident yesterday before announcing what misconduct charges would be brought against those involved, with a lengthy list of punishments to be announced later today. -
ARSENAL will carry the can for SundayÂ’s Snarling Cup Final shame. Kolo Toure, Emmanuel Adebayor and Emmanuel Eboue will all be banned for their part in the 18-man Millennium Stadium brawl.
But ChelseaÂ’s Mikel John Obi is set to have his red card overturned and reduced to a booking.
The Gunners and Chelsea will be charged today with failing to control their players. But Arsene WengerÂ’s sinners are to be hit hardest.
Arsenal last night appealed against AdebayorÂ’s dismissal, believing referee Howard Webb had wrongly identified him as the player who struck Chelsea defender Wayne Bridge.
But video footage of the stoppage-time bust-up shows Adebayor raising his hands to Ricardo Carvalho.
And the Togo striker is facing a further charge of misconduct for failing to leave the pitch after being sent off as he furiously tried to confront Webb.
That could leave him facing a four-match suspension.
FA disciplinary chiefs studied video footage of the incident yesterday before deciding both teams have a case to answer.
Eboue is shown striking Bridge from behind and will be hit with a three-match ban for violent conduct.
But Mikel, whose clash with Toure sparked the fracas, is expected to have his red card reduced to a yellow when the case is fast-tracked by the FAÂ’s disciplinary panel today.
The good news for both clubs is that neither manager is expected to be charged.
Wenger and Chelsea chief Jose Mourinho both technically broke the rules by entering the field of play without permission.
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Next time when u play soccer and u r the defender, make sure u pull yr opponent shirt as hard as possible when he dribble past you, ok? you will get book ofcourse but the opponent get more booking, so wu hwa right?
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i think refs should give report on every match they official irregardless of any major incidents!