'It's a joke. I knew that I didn't touch him and I said to the referee to book me or send me off. It would have made me feel better.' Carsley continued.
Yes, a red card would have been more appropriate for you, Mr Carsley.A week ago, Degen made an almost similar tackle and was sent off when referee Lee Mason ruled that his tackle on Clint Dempsey was a dangerous one.Replays ,however, show that Degen had not make any contact on Dempsey but an appeal for the red card to be rescinded was rejected.
"At a Regulatory Commission hearing today (Wednesday), a claim for wrongful dismissal by Liverpool defender Philipp Degen was rejected," an FA statement read.
It doesn't matter if Mr Carsley doesn't touch him as a fast sliding tackle like that can easily inflict a heavy injury on the player.
Do we need another Eduardo broken leg incident?It's a bad sliding tackle and a dangerous one.Around the net,question was asked whether the tackle was intended to take the man down or to take the ball away?However, no one seems to be bothered with it and focus every single damn thing on N'Gog.
Newspaper columnist and former referee, Graham Poll made a catchy headline for his column in Daily Mail - Diving David NGog should hang his head in shame.Throughout his article,Poll slams David N'Gog alongside with referee Peter Walton.While he has the leisure time to put on unnecessary captions for the photos of the very same article, he chose to ignore the bad tackle made by Lee Carsley.Not even a word was mentioned about the tackle.Brilliant.
That's a dive from N'Gog and I would not deny about it.The fact of the matter is,Carsley dived in quick and had N'Gog stayed on his feet, Carsley would have caught with N'Gog's leg and the latter may well ended up like Eduardo and joins Torres, Riera and Benayoun in the treatment room.So, the question is, do the strikers have to take the fouls and whatever injuries that follows with it and make no attempt to protect themselves?
Few months ago, Graham Poll came up with his own verdicts on divers in several matches. In that article, he defended Rooney who was suspicious of diving.
A lot of people had came eye to eye that Rooney played for the penalty and "dived" before Almunia made any contact on him.However, Graham Poll came out with his own point of view.
He was quoted saying
"Rooney – NO DIVE– This is not simulation despite Rooney’s legs crumbling before being hit. Emmanuel Almunia missed the ball completely and would have wiped Rooney out potentially causing a nasty injury."
While he admit that Rooney's crumbles before being hit, he gave Rooney the benefit of doubts (which he failed to give N'Gog) and defended Rooney.To further convince others, words like "Missed the ball completely" , "potentially causing a nasty injury" were used.
Putting the penalty calls aside,in N'Gog's situation,however,Graham Poll failed to give the benefits of doubt he gave to Rooney. It's clear that Carsley "missed the ball completely" and "potentially causing a nasty injury" should N'Gog stays on his feet.
Poll described Rooney's act as "evasive action" in the caption of the photo as shown above.While N'Gog doing exactly the same in self protection, word like "disgrace" was thrown at him.
"What an absolute disgrace David Ngog was in committing one of the most blatant dives I have ever seen" He said in his article.
The most interesting part is of course where N'Gog who went to the ground without asking the referee for penalty was labelled as diver while Rooney who went down to the ground and instantly turned his body towards the referee asking for a penalty was described as "players with evasive action"
Such double standard?
To add salt to injury,Journalists around the world made N'Gog headline with insulting words as if they want to gun down N'Gog with their pens.The media bias-ness is as disgraceful as the dive N'Gog made.
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