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McManaman escapes FA action

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Wigan forward Callum McManaman has escaped retrospective action from the Football Association over his challenge on Newcastle defender Massadio Haidara.

Haidara was taken off on a stretcher in the Latics' win but the FA cannot take action as an official saw the incident.

Newcastle managing director Derek Llambias claims the FA's disciplinary process is " not fit for purpose".
Meanwhile, Magpies assistant boss John Carver has been charged for his half-time reaction to the tackle.
The 48-year-old has until 16:00 GMT on Friday 22 March to respond to being charged by the FA.

Newcastle chief executive Lambias said the decision to take the matter no further showed that the "current disciplinary procedures are not fit for purpose".
He added: "Newcastle United, along with other clubs, have had players suspended for incidents reviewed after the game.

"Whilst not trivialising these incidents, they were not, in our opinion, of the seriousness of Callum McManaman's tackle on Haidara.

"Whilst we understand that the current procedures give the FA limited options, it cannot be correct that the most serious offences - those which have the potential to cause another player serious harm - can go unpunished, even if the original incident was seen by match officials.

"We will now be making a strong representation to the FA and the Premier League to see how a more appropriate, fair and even-handed disciplinary process can be introduced at the earliest opportunity to prevent incidents of this nature going unpunished in the future."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/21849733
 


So Fellaini was banned for a headbutt, which Shawcross shuck off. McManaman escapes punishment for a tackle that may well keep Haidara out for quite some time.
FA rescind red cards now and then, why can't they distribute them?

It's a joke really.
 
Its just a flaw in the FA Rules, maybe this may force them to change them.

As for the challenge, it wasn't intentional, its clear he was after the ball and didn't mean to harm the player, it was a horrible tackle bu its a massive over reaction by alot of people, especially that Newcastle coach. Thanks to all this bother the kid is probably going to get a bad reputation and every tackle will now be scrutinised.

The Newcastle coach deserves to be punished more than the player, you don't kick off like that short of McManaman going up and purposefully kicking him.
 

I'm pretty sure the FA have given out punishments to players despite the officials taking action on an incident during the game.

They can do it but only in "exceptional circumstances".

The only exceptional circumstances here are how, if the officials did see the incident they didn't warrant it being a foul or worse.
 
Azzurri said:
You've just said somebody confronting another person about their potentially career ending challenge was worse than the incident itself then called somebody else a WUM. :unsure:
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Depends if there was intent to end his career. Which I highly highly doubt and the reaction was ridiculous. Not just the confrontation of Mcmanaman but the aftermath with people trying to constrain him.

Del was trying to reel me in. That is how il respond to it now.
 
Major over reaction here .. it was a full hearted, commited challenge......just so happen one player got to the ball a fraction earlier than the other.........it's football lads not tennis.
 

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