Today's Football 2018-19 Season
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TheBigIguana
Player Valuation: £100m
We should sign this Sigurdsson that CSKA have and let him replace Gylfi when he is done. I've never actually seen him before tonight but he looks decent and is only 19.
Side note I can't stand when commentators say CSKA like it is a word and not an abbreviation of 4 letters
Side note I can't stand when commentators say CSKA like it is a word and not an abbreviation of 4 letters
Chris O'Connor
Player Valuation: £35m
Has the FA got a bit of a vendetta against José Mourinho, are they absolutely obsessed?
They lose a case when their own version seemed to be littered with contrary evidence and ludicrous omissions and now rather ridiculously are appealing.
The Football Association have announced they will appeal after losing a landmark disciplinary case against Jose Mourinho, despite their expert evidence against the Manchester United manager being branded “contradictory” and “lacking context” by an independent regulatory commission.
It has emerged the commission picked holes in the submission of the lip reading expert, Pedro Xavier, that the FA instructed to assist their case after Mourinho was caught swearing in Portuguese into a television camera as he walked along the touchline at the end of the Newcastle game.
Xavier was said to have contradicted himself and failed to provide adequate context in which Mourinho’s remarks were made, which was considered essential to establishing if the manager was guilty of the charge.
The commission ruled that Mourinho was not “aiming the words at anyone in particular”. They added that the words were “inaudible” and had not been shouted and that it would have taken someone familiar with “Portuguese colloquial profanity” who could also lip read to accurately decipher the comments.
The commission wrote: “Even if the objective person was able to decipher the language [Mourinho] used, which is highly debatable, we accept Mr Valente’s evidence that a typical person fluent in Portuguese colloquialisms would not feel insulted or offended from what they saw or interpreted from the footage, rather would understand Jose Mourinho to be very happy about something good that had just happened to him against all odds.”
The commission said Xavier did not provide a contextual translation and “did not address context meaningfully, if at all, his report”, particularly in relation to the context of professional football where profanity is “commonplace”. It also said a section of Xavier’s report “appeared contradictory” because he had stated that language is very complex, can be assessed and interpreted differently and that Mourinho’s remarks, while highly offensive in a professional setting, can “among friends (normally men) occur as a joke or a teaser”.
The commission had also confirmed that Mourinho listed a series of examples of high-profile figures who have been caught swearing on camera during and after matches but not been charged.
One of those was understood to be Liverpool captain Jordan Henderson, who was caught swearing during England’s game against Croatia last month, but faced no action although neither this nor other cases were specifically cited by the commission in their written findings.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/footbal...on-not-charge-jose-mourinho-despite-evidence/
They lose a case when their own version seemed to be littered with contrary evidence and ludicrous omissions and now rather ridiculously are appealing.
The Football Association have announced they will appeal after losing a landmark disciplinary case against Jose Mourinho, despite their expert evidence against the Manchester United manager being branded “contradictory” and “lacking context” by an independent regulatory commission.
It has emerged the commission picked holes in the submission of the lip reading expert, Pedro Xavier, that the FA instructed to assist their case after Mourinho was caught swearing in Portuguese into a television camera as he walked along the touchline at the end of the Newcastle game.
Xavier was said to have contradicted himself and failed to provide adequate context in which Mourinho’s remarks were made, which was considered essential to establishing if the manager was guilty of the charge.
The commission ruled that Mourinho was not “aiming the words at anyone in particular”. They added that the words were “inaudible” and had not been shouted and that it would have taken someone familiar with “Portuguese colloquial profanity” who could also lip read to accurately decipher the comments.
The commission wrote: “Even if the objective person was able to decipher the language [Mourinho] used, which is highly debatable, we accept Mr Valente’s evidence that a typical person fluent in Portuguese colloquialisms would not feel insulted or offended from what they saw or interpreted from the footage, rather would understand Jose Mourinho to be very happy about something good that had just happened to him against all odds.”
The commission said Xavier did not provide a contextual translation and “did not address context meaningfully, if at all, his report”, particularly in relation to the context of professional football where profanity is “commonplace”. It also said a section of Xavier’s report “appeared contradictory” because he had stated that language is very complex, can be assessed and interpreted differently and that Mourinho’s remarks, while highly offensive in a professional setting, can “among friends (normally men) occur as a joke or a teaser”.
The commission had also confirmed that Mourinho listed a series of examples of high-profile figures who have been caught swearing on camera during and after matches but not been charged.
One of those was understood to be Liverpool captain Jordan Henderson, who was caught swearing during England’s game against Croatia last month, but faced no action although neither this nor other cases were specifically cited by the commission in their written findings.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/footbal...on-not-charge-jose-mourinho-despite-evidence/
TheBigIguana
Player Valuation: £100m
Yes exactly like that. Just like you say ESPN as Ee ess Pee En and not like it is a word.
JUSTICE FOR NIASSE!!!!!
sterling is a disgrace
sterling is a disgrace
Osamabindiesel
Player Valuation: £70m
GUILTY
Encoder
Player Valuation: £35m
https://streamja.com/4zWV
Sorry mert dunno how to embed it in GOT but here's a link.
Laughable at any rate!
Toast
Player Valuation: £80m
That's the worst refereeing decision I've ever seen lol
ijjysmith
Calm
I’d swap every single one for him.
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