I don't dispute that it was a bad challenge but once again the annoyance is the complete lack of consistency. 

The amount of bad challenges, worse than Alonso's that go unpunished means it's frustrating that one of our own players is being retrospectively punished. 

I think the issue is consistency which we all know doesn't benefit CFC. Remember how Costa was targeted

Awful challenge and a suspension. The worse bit is how Riley or the 4th official didn't see it.

Spurs get away with more things within the FA because they have a lot of England's "goldenboys" as it were.

Alli & Kane's challenges alone against City were ban worthy but as per usual it's glossed over.

Alonso deserves to be banned, it's just as Scott said a complete lack of consistency.

 

be great if conte or someone from the club came to the next presser and brought up a video of similar challenges where fa didn't charge those club's players. 

Edited April 17, 20188 yr by enigma

7 minutes ago, JMaher94 said:

Spurs get away with more things within the FA because they have a lot of England's "goldenboys" as it were.

Alli & Kane's challenges alone against City were ban worthy but as per usual it's glossed over.

Alonso deserves to be banned, it's just as Scott said a complete lack of consistency.

 

Did the ref see those challenges though? If he did then that's the rules.

Not surprised to see you coming down on the side against our club and player, though.

17 minutes ago, yorkleyblue said:

Not surprised to see you coming down on the side against our club and player, though.

No red card then I guess  It is the rules though, if the ref sees it then nothing happens. It's not right but the way it is.

I agree it should have been a red but the rules about retrospective action are really f**ked up. I don't understand why Young's reckless tackle on Aguero last week doesn't qualify for review but Alonso's does. It's probably some technicality regarding the wording in the refs report, "didn't see it" vs "saw it, did nothing". It's stupid but that's football for you.

2 hours ago, Ernie_blue said:

Awful challenge and a suspension. The worse bit is how Riley or the 4th official didn't see it.

I wouldn't call it an awful challenge, the player probably barely felt it. Me and my brother were doing worse to each other in the back garden as kids and that never hurt. I'm not saying it's not a red card, i just don't think the actually challenge was really all that bad. A foot into the back of the leg doesn't hurt that much, at most it's going to bend the leg........which is something the leg is supposed to do. If it was the front of the leg, then i would say it was an awful challenge.

9 minutes ago, Scott Harris said:

I wouldn't call it an awful challenge, the player probably barely felt it. Me and my brother were doing worse to each other in the back garden as kids and that never hurt. I'm not saying it's not a red card, i just don't think the actually challenge was really all that bad. 

Butch lives 

 

Too soon?

Edited April 17, 20188 yr by Valerie

Time to compile evidence of worse challenges on Chelsea players where the player wasn't sent off and the FA took no retrospective action. I'll start:

 

Wasn't even given as a foul. So if it's not a foul, then the ref didn't see it right? Why was Vertonghen not banned? oh right, because unlike the Alonso challenge, it wasn't mentioned heavily by the media 

Edited April 17, 20188 yr by Scott Harris

EDIT: Scott beat me to it....

Edited April 17, 20188 yr by Backbiter

14 minutes ago, Scott Harris said:

 

Wasn't even given as a foul. So if it's not a foul, then the ref didn't see it right? Why was Vertonghen not banned? oh right, because unlike the Alonso challenge, it wasn't mentioned heavily by the media 

It doesn't work like that, if the ref said he saw it in his report then nothing the fa can do. I don't know if the ref saw it or not.

38 minutes ago, bluedave said:

I agree it should have been a red but the rules about retrospective action are really f**ked up. I don't understand why Young's reckless tackle on Aguero last week doesn't qualify for review but Alonso's does. It's probably some technicality regarding the wording in the refs report, "didn't see it" vs "saw it, did nothing". It's stupid but that's football for you.

That's exactly it, people can moan and the usual crowd shout about the world being against Chelsea but as much as the rules are f**ked, thats the rules.

40 minutes ago, Scott Harris said:

I wouldn't call it an awful challenge, the player probably barely felt it. Me and my brother were doing worse to each other in the back garden as kids and that never hurt. I'm not saying it's not a red card, i just don't think the actually challenge was really all that bad. A foot into the back of the leg doesn't hurt that much, at most it's going to bend the leg........which is something the leg is supposed to do. If it was the front of the leg, then i would say it was an awful challenge.

Come on, barely felt it . 

A couple of weeks after Cahill's red:

 

Edited April 17, 20188 yr by Backbiter

9 minutes ago, Ernie_blue said:

It doesn't work like that, if the ref said he saw it in his report then nothing the fa can do. I don't know if the ref saw it or not.

If the ref claims he saw it but took no action......Dean was looking straight at Alonso from a few yards away. How can he claim he didn't see it?

Dean was the ref in this match:

5 minutes ago, Ernie_blue said:

Come on, barely felt it . 

Grown man, boot to the back of the leg, it really isn't THAT bad. It's not like Alonso went full speed and put as much force as he could into it either. It's a red card by law, but in reality, it wasn't all that bad.

10 minutes ago, Ernie_blue said:

It doesn't work like that, if the ref said he saw it in his report then nothing the fa can do. I don't know if the ref saw it or not.

If the ref said he seen it but thought it wasn't even a foul, then he shouldn't be a ref.

3 minutes ago, Scott Harris said:

Grown man, boot to the back of the leg, it really isn't THAT bad. It's not like Alonso went full speed and put as much force as he could into it either. It's a red card by law, but in reality, it wasn't all that bad.

If the ref said he seen it but thought it wasn't even a foul, then he shouldn't be a ref.

I fully agree with you.

10 minutes ago, Backbiter said:

If the ref claims he saw it but took no action......Dean was looking straight at Alonso from a few yards away. How can he claim he didn't see it?

God knows, because he is sh*t? I think it shouldn't matter if the ref saw it not, Davies against Kompany was a straight red but he got away with it. 

This one broke Drogba's ribs
 

I'm fine with the ban, but I hate the inconsistency.