This Respect campaign is a sham

[Earl Hafler]

Ashley Cole's actions in that Chelsea game last season were reprehensible. Many of us would have applauded a more strict approach from the officials, so when we played Man Utd in the next fixture, everyone should have been aware. Especially with Bennett as the referee.

" In the current climate " Masch was irresponsible and should have been wise to it - he deserved to be sent off. But only if the officials were going to be consistent.

I watched Wayne Rooney this afternoon and there were numerous incidents of dissent and, infront of millions of young football fans watching on tv, he repeatedly told Howard Webb to " f*** off ".

 

There's an undergoing Respect campaign and people throughout the game are worried about the actions of young players in park games throughout the country, and complaining about a lack of referees.

 

Why is it that Rooney repeatedly gets away with it ? His challenges in the Champions League game against Aalborg were terrible, and his foulmouth is there for everyone to see.

 

Respect ? The FA are a joke.

[jfogarty]

Its spot on but the thing is that when we play them at Old Trafford their players will be having little words with Mike Riley about our players conduct but when Rooney tells him to 'f*ck off' after chopping down one of our lads not one of them will say a thing. Rooney gets away with it because hes allowed to. Until his fellow professionals tell the referees that its unacceptable nothing will ever change. It was the same with Keane.

[Falconhoof]

I've become convinced that there's been a special case made for Rooney. What other conclusion can you draw? Someone from Utd, maybe David Gill, maybe Charlton has gone to the referees meetings and told them that Rooney isn't playing with a full deck but that he's one of Englands brightest talents and we wouldn't want to ruin England's chances.

[MFletcher]

It's passion Earl. No-one wants to see that go out of his game. He'll be half the player. He can't go through a game without yelling f*** off - he has to play his natural game. He cares. He's passionate. He has a will to win. etc.

 

Please feel free to add to the list above - a list that members of the media regularly draw on to excuse Rooney's foul mouthed tirades against officials too scared to do anything about it. If that was a foreign player going over and mouthing off, gesticulating and generally acting the c*** they'd be sent off and the media would applaud the referee.

 

The Respect campaign barely lasted a week.

[Tommok]

It's passion Earl. No-one wants to see that go out of his game. He'll be half the player. He can't go through a game without yelling f*** off - he has to play his natural game. He cares. He's passionate. He has a will to win. etc.

 

Please feel free to add to the list above - a list that members of the media regularly draw on to excuse Rooney's foul mouthed tirades against officials too scared to do anything about it. If that was a foreign player going over and mouthing off, gesticulating and generally acting the c*** they'd be sent off and the media would applaud the referee.

 

The Respect campaign barely lasted a week.

 

yes not sure how this didn't feature in Rafa's speech.

[MFletcher]

I've become convinced that there's been a special case made for Rooney. What other conclusion can you draw? Someone from Utd, maybe David Gill, maybe Charlton has gone to the referees meetings and told them that Rooney isn't playing with a full deck but that he's one of Englands brightest talents and we wouldn't want to ruin England's chances.

 

I am likewise convinced that they've made a special case for him. There is absolutely no other way to explain how he gets away his displays of thuggery and foul mouthed abuse.

 

He elbowed a Stoke player last week. The linesman - looking right at it - did nothing. And how the f*** UEFA didn't charge him after he stamped on that Aalborg player I don't know. Just as bad was Shearer sitting on the MOTD sofa saying "I hope he gets away with it". f***ing why, exactly? To show kids that you if you keep acting the c*** people will just get fed up with it and let you do it?

Edited January 11, 2009 by MFletcher

[quibs]

Maybe it will be in Rafa press conference next week.

[Earl Hafler]

I am likewise convinced that they've made a special case for him. There is absolutely no other way to explain how he gets away his displays of thuggery and foul mouthed abuse.

 

He elbowed a Stoke player last week. The linesman - looking right at it - did nothing. And how the f*** UEFA didn't charge him after he stamped on that Aalborg player I don't know. Just as bad was Shearer sitting on the MOTD sofa saying "I hope he gets away with it". f***ing why, exactly? To show kids that you if you keep acting the c*** people will just get fed up with it and let you do it?

 

 

And his manager stands there and tells us that Rooney is being victimised.

 

 

Infront of the camera whilst everyone was watching, Webb called Rooney towards him and was twice greeted with " f*** off ".

 

Lord knows what he said to the linesman when their goal was disallowed but the poor fella looked like he'd had his kidneys ripped out.

[CarraLegend]

How he gets away with it is astonishing, he regularly calls refs a "f***ing cheat" surely theres not many more insulting things you can call a person in that position? No punishment though, "f*** off" is said to refs at least 3 times per game - no punishment. In recent weeks he's attacked a Stoke player, a Sunderland player both were nailed on red cards - no punishment, oh actually I tell a lie, he got a yellow. Woopee!!!!

 

Then theres the assault on various Aalborg players, though this is a uefa matter, theres probably people out there who have gone down for less in an assault but he gets f*** all again. He is everything thats currently wrong with football, he's also shat on his own city, not just the move but his horrendous and embarassing conduct since. The guy is pure and utter filth.

 

On the point about the difference in treatment, yep, its just the way it is. It'll be the same when we go there in the League, all their players will do as they please, ours will get the punishment.

 

"Respect the ref"? You've got to laugh!

[Tommok]

Maybe it will be in Rafa press conference next week.

 

Well if I was a journo, I would most certainly ask him about it!

[MFletcher]

And his manager stands there and tells us that Rooney is being victimised.

Infront of the camera whilst everyone was watching, Webb called Rooney towards him and was twice greeted with " f*** off ".

 

Lord knows what he said to the linesman when their goal was disallowed but the poor fella looked like he'd had his kidneys ripped out.

 

He was screaming in his face as well. Then he gesticulated as he walked away, screaming f*** off and throwing his arms in the air.

 

It pisses me right off, because if that was a foreign player he'd be called straight to the referee and booked. And then we'd have the complaints from Andy Gray about such indiscipline being rooted in the 'foreign influence' on the league. Same with diving, actually.

[Earl Hafler]

He was screaming in his face as well. Then he gesticulated as he walked away, screaming f*** off and throwing his arms in the air.

 

It pisses me right off, because if that was a foreign player he'd be called straight to the referee and booked. And then we'd have the complaints from Andy Gray about such indiscipline being rooted in the 'foreign influence' on the league. Same with diving, actually.

 

A less well known or continental player would have been cautioned for those offences and ultimately sent off.

[Tommok]

I seem to remember he did used to get called up for it a bit when he was a bit youger but bizarrely this seems to have stopped as he's got older (and so should know better), and particularly oddly, since the Respect the Ref Campaign has started.

[D.Boon]

He does get away with blue murder.

 

The c***

[Swipe]

It's a disgrace.

 

How he yet again got away with a booking after his tirade today is a f***ing mystery.

 

A Manc mate reckons its just cos he's English that he gets away with so much dissent.

 

Whatever reason, it's a farce and makes this entire Respect campaing a nonsense.

 

He eventually got a booking today and Tyler said "people at home will be saying he should have got a yellow card for dissent in first half, so by rights that should have been his second yellow and a sending off. But if he had already been on a yellow he probably wouldn't have made that tackle".

 

They almost trip over themselves to make excuses for him.

 

It's not the referees job to protect Rooneys right to be "passionate". If its dissent he has to be punished. If Rooney stopped his foul mouthed tirades and refs and found out he was only half the player (very doubtful) then that's a problem for him to deal with. No-one else.

 

The difference between how Rooney is treated by refs and the media, and the way Mascherano was lambasted is a f***ing outrage.

[New York Red]

Yeah sure. We got victimized (Tommy getting sent off) and then it was business as usual.

 

They need to go after all of those ManYoo c*nts. Rooney, Ronaldo, Neville, Rio, all of them complaining all the time. Teach them a lesson.

 

How on earth that Rooney can do that is incredible. The reaction on the corner was terrible. The player restarted play to himself outside the corner area. Absolutely absurd.

[Earl Hafler]

It's a disgrace.

 

How he yet again got away with a booking after his tirade today is a f***ing mystery.

 

A Manc mate reckons its just cos he's English that he gets away with so much dissent.

 

Whatever reason, it's a farce and makes this entire Respect campaing a nonsense.

 

He eventually got a booking today and Tyler said "people at home will be saying he should have got a yellow card for dissent in first half, so by rights that should have been his second yellow and a sending off. But if he had already been on a yellow he probably wouldn't have made that tackle".

 

They almost trip over themselves to make excuses for him.

 

It's not the referees job to protect Rooneys right to be "passionate". If its dissent he has to be punished. If Rooney stopped his foul mouthed tirades and refs and found out he was only half the player (very doubtful) then that's a problem for him to deal with. No-one else.

 

The difference between how Rooney is treated by refs and the media, and the way Mascherano was lambasted is a f***ing outrage.

 

 

And not one mention of it on England obsessed Sky.

[allawee]

It's passion Earl. No-one wants to see that go out of his game. He'll be half the player. He can't go through a game without yelling f*** off - he has to play his natural game. He cares. He's passionate. He has a will to win. etc.

 

Please feel free to add to the list above - a list that members of the media regularly draw on to excuse Rooney's foul mouthed tirades against officials too scared to do anything about it. If that was a foreign player going over and mouthing off, gesticulating and generally acting the c*** they'd be sent off and the media would applaud the referee.

 

The Respect campaign barely lasted a week.

 

Add to that the blatant dive today when Bosingwa tackled him, and no comments about that as well. This is not the first time that Rooney tried to con refs

[quibs]

Rooney is c*nt end of...

[aka Dus]

The Italianesque arm raising in itself warrants a yellow every time.

 

What is he communicating to the referee by doing it? Right in their faces most of the time.

 

Eff off, plain and simple.

 

Loathe as I am to use rugby as an example, gesticulating like that at the ref would warrant the line.

[alias75]

If he gets sent off for England in a world cup game it'll be because hes got away with so much in the PL.

 

Its got to the point now where its so blatant its funny and its hardly ever mentioned in the media, nothing was said about it after the game today but by right he could easily have seen red after 30 odd minutes with the game 0-0.

 

The hack on Bosingwa was worth a yellow card on its own, then you add the several f*** off towards the referee and then turning his back on him and refusing to go to him when called thats another yellow. But he doesn't even get booked.

 

Then after the corner that wasn't a goal he was in the face of the linesman abusing him too again nothing.

Edited January 11, 2009 by alias75

[Hieronymus Bosch]

A Manc mate reckons its just cos he's English that he gets away with so much dissent.

I think that's about right, and it's particularly the case with the big-name internationals. Out of all of them, Rooney gets the most preferential treatment by far.

Edited January 11, 2009 by mrshah

[New York Red]

It's not just his massive disrespect that is a problem.

 

He is dangerous. He will cause some horrible injury to someone one day. It's a shame there aren't players around today like Tommy Smith, Norman Hunter or Ron Harris who would break his f*cking leg and make him think twice about his behaviour in the future.

 

Plus, he's a diver.

[Farmer's Tan]

If he gets sent off for England in a world cup game it'll be because hes got away with so much in the PL.

 

Its got to the point now where its so blatant its funny and its hardly ever mentioned in the media, nothing was said about it after the game today but by right he could easily have seen red after 30 odd minutes with the game 0-0.

 

The hack on Bosingwa was worth a yellow card on its own, then you add the several f*** off towards the referee and then turning his back on him and refusing to go to him when called thats another yellow. But he doesn't even get booked.

 

Then after the corner that wasn't a goal he was in the face of the linesman abusing him too again nothing.

lets hope the media or some pundits or someone pick up on this,i suppose this was part of what rafa was talking about in that interview.

[urban]

Maybe we should start a campaign where we send a match report of such infringes to the FA each time Rooney, Terry or other players do this.

 

We should do a Rafa and alert them to the number of incidents.