cp40 Posted October 3, 2010 Share Posted October 3, 2010 Quote from Blefescu via Face-ache. Martin Atkinson told Hatem Ben Arfa to get up today after De Jong's horror tackle which broke his leg. For that and the two blatant Newcastle pens that he missed he should never ref again. anybody heard owt about this. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alberto2005 Posted October 3, 2010 Share Posted October 3, 2010 Watching the Hughton interview on the BBC. Thinks it was a challenge that didn't need to be made. I love his honesty, he speaks very well. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alpal78 Posted October 3, 2010 Share Posted October 3, 2010 Everytime Wenger complains about tackling, so many people have a go at him about it. Whinging Frenchman etc etc etc. Today we have experienced it for ourselves and it really sucks. Imagine how often Wenger and Arsenal have had to deal with this sort of thing. It's terrible. It's why I have always been a huge supporter of Wengers stance. As much as they all deny it, a lot of managers send out players to do this sort of thing. Zamora, Dembele and Ben Arfa already this season. I couldn't agree more...I absolutely hate it when cunts like McMahon defends tackles like against Aaron Ramsey as just bad timing or there was no malice. Fuck me if you go in with a scisor tackle like that, I don't care whether it's reckless or bad timing, you're out to break a leg. It's like throwing a molotov cocktail into a room full of petrol and say oh I didnt mean for the place to explode! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaKa Posted October 3, 2010 Share Posted October 3, 2010 Watching the Hughton interview on the BBC. Thinks it was a challenge that didn't need to be made. Just a lack of respect for fellow professionals. They're just some people that get a kick out of injuring other players. Just cruel. At the end of the day this is the means by which they all provide for their families, but yet you go out and jeopardize someone's career? Why? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crumpy Gunt Posted October 3, 2010 Share Posted October 3, 2010 Watching the Hughton interview on the BBC. Thinks it was a challenge that didn't need to be made. I'm surprised that gutless bastard didn't agree he was glad De Jong didn't injure himself as well. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Posted October 3, 2010 Share Posted October 3, 2010 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liam Liam Liam O Posted October 3, 2010 Share Posted October 3, 2010 Watching the Hughton interview on the BBC. Thinks it was a challenge that didn't need to be made. I'm surprised that gutless bastard didn't agree he was glad De Jong didn't injure himself as well. Or at least apologise for the hold up in play. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
madras Posted October 3, 2010 Share Posted October 3, 2010 Watching the Hughton interview on the BBC. Thinks it was a challenge that didn't need to be made. I'm surprised that gutless b****** didn't agree he was glad De Jong didn't injure himself as well. angry shite that mind grumpy Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaKa Posted October 3, 2010 Share Posted October 3, 2010 Quote from Blefescu via Face-ache. Martin Atkinson told Hatem Ben Arfa to get up today after De Jong's horror tackle which broke his leg. For that and the two blatant Newcastle pens that he missed he should never ref again. anybody heard owt about this. Wouldn't suprise me at all tbh. I'm sure even the refs carry that same biased attitude towards foreigners, believing they always dive and are always feigning injury. Ridiculously unproffesional. Even if he felt that way, why openly say that to a player who might well be hurt badly. Crazy. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LiquidAK Posted October 3, 2010 Share Posted October 3, 2010 Sad to think we'll probably never see what Carroll Jonas - Hatem - Wayne Tiote - Barton would have been like. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest BlacknWhiteArmy Posted October 3, 2010 Share Posted October 3, 2010 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr.Spaceman Posted October 3, 2010 Share Posted October 3, 2010 Do refs still wear them microphones? If so then they want to do something about it if he did tell him to get up. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Posted October 3, 2010 Share Posted October 3, 2010 Sad to think we'll probably never see what Carroll Jonas - Hatem - Wayne Tiote - Barton would have been like. We were never going to anyway, for obvious reasons. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest BooBoo Posted October 3, 2010 Share Posted October 3, 2010 Why couldn't it have been Nolan. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LiquidAK Posted October 3, 2010 Share Posted October 3, 2010 Sad to think we'll probably never see what Carroll Jonas - Hatem - Wayne Tiote - Barton would have been like. We were never going to anyway, for obvious reasons. Don't be ridiculous, it would have happened at some point, Nolan simply doesn't have the fitness to play every single match and Hughton isn't the idiot some people seem to think. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Posted October 3, 2010 Share Posted October 3, 2010 Yeah, because he was often rested last season, when we were playing an extra game every other week. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdckelly Posted October 3, 2010 Share Posted October 3, 2010 if there is no retrospective action against de jong it will show up the cowardly mentality of the authorities. Atkinson should never ref any game again but no doubt he'll get the big game of the next round now Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JH Posted October 3, 2010 Share Posted October 3, 2010 Gutted. If this is a bad break, we'll probably not see him play for us again. After all the hype around him as well Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GM Posted October 3, 2010 Share Posted October 3, 2010 Just got in and found out about this. Agree with those who've said De Jong should be banned from the game. It's not like he's unknown for that sort of on the field conduct. Absolutely gutted for Hatem - poor lad. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Toon1981 Posted October 3, 2010 Share Posted October 3, 2010 Totally gutted about this, obviously. However, is it all possible that a) De Jong, even if he is a hacking get, didn't mean to break Ben Arfa's leg, and b) Atkinson, at full speed, and from the angle he had at the time can be forgiven for thinking the tackle wasn't that bad? Is it even more possible that the difference between this tackle and many others that eg Smith and Barton have dished out over the last few years was just bad luck, in particular relating to the position of Ben Arfa's standing leg? No? Fair enough. Sack Atkinson and lynch De Jong etc... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElDiablo Posted October 3, 2010 Share Posted October 3, 2010 I just give up. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kimbo Posted October 3, 2010 Share Posted October 3, 2010 However, is it all possible that a) De Jong, even if he is a hacking get, didn't mean to break Ben Arfa's leg, and He probably didn't mean to break his leg, but there isn't a doubt in my mind that he went in to hit him early on to keep him quiet. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest BooBoo Posted October 3, 2010 Share Posted October 3, 2010 It was an overly aggressive challenge. The likelihood of causing injury was entirely foreseeable. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Memphis Posted October 3, 2010 Share Posted October 3, 2010 Totally gutted about this, obviously. However, is it all possible that a) De Jong, even if he is a hacking get, didn't mean to break Ben Arfa's leg, and b) Atkinson, at full speed, and from the angle he had at the time can be forgiven for thinking the tackle wasn't that bad? Is it even more possible that the difference between this tackle and many others that eg Smith and Barton have dished out over the last few years was just bad luck, in particular relating to the position of Ben Arfa's standing leg? No? Fair enough. Sack Atkinson and lynch De Jong etc... WUM-tastic. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mick Posted October 3, 2010 Share Posted October 3, 2010 I've just seen it again in more detail and the follow through was way over the top. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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