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FA take no action on Ashley Barnes


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In the vast majority of challenges for the ball, no retrospective action is taken as the incident has been seen by the match officials 2/5


 



Retrospective action introduced as deterrent for ‘off the ball incidents’ [e.g. kicks, stamps etc.] committed out of sight of officials 3/5


 



Whole game in agreement that, in vast majority of cases, match officials are best-placed to deal with incidents to avoid re-refereeing 4/5


 



In line with this rationale, FA confirm no further action in relation to Ashley Barnes as incident was seen by the officials 5/5


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"In the vast majority of challenges for the ball, no retrospective action is taken as the incident has been seen by the match officials.

Retrospective action introduced as deterrent for 'off the ball incidents' [e.g. kicks, stamps etc.] committed out of sight of officials.

Whole game in agreement that, in vast majority of cases, match officials are best-placed to deal with incidents to avoid re-refereeing."

 

 

It's a bit of a stretch to refer to it as a 'challenge for the ball' - the ball had comfortably been won and Barnes had only one intention. He even deliberately put all his weight into the challenge after the ball was gone - the intent was to harm, and it wasn't the only incident.

 

There is no way you could have seen that challenge and not deemed it a red card offence. Either the ref didn't see it or is laughably incompetent; either way the FA had to take action. I can't wait to hear José's reaction...

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Ok, one thing for the FA to say no action against Barnes, but when the f**k will they seriously sit down and discuss why the referee's are not picking up on sh*t like this?  So what they're saying is that the tackle was a good one, it was legal and that all players can go around doing this on the pitch.  Also, they're saying Atkinson is such a bloody good referee that he deemed this leg-breaking tackle to be fair.  sh*t me, we've had 3 match bans for less than this.

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Ok, one thing for the FA to say no action against Barnes, but when the f**k will they seriously sit down and discuss why the referee's are not picking up on sh*t like this?  So what they're saying is that the tackle was a good one, it was legal and that all players can go around doing this on the pitch.  Also, they're saying Atkinson is such a bloody good referee that he deemed this leg-breaking tackle to be fair.  sh*t me, we've had 3 match bans for less than this.

 

What they're saying is that Atkinson saw it and they're not in the business of re-refereeing individual incidents. Atkinson made the mistake and the FA's stance on this issue has somewhat compounded it.

 

That doesn't make them corrupt or anti-Chelsea just woefully inadequate in dealing with mistakes in games.

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Basically Martin Atkinson f**ked up and the FA can't overturn it. Atkinson should be taken off games this weekend at the very least because his performance was appalling.

 

The FA do have the power to overturn a referee's decision, they just choose to hide behind a FIFA directive and claim they can't do anything about it.

 

If Atkinson saw that tackle and thought it wasn't even worthy of a free kick then he shouldn't be let near a football match again.

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