FA to ban players....

[Billy Dane]

I think this sums up the FA perfectly:

 

 

 

FA to ban players who snub England

Published 23:01 10/02/11 By Oliver Holt - EXCLUSIVE

 

 

 

FA bosses will stun football next month by launching a long-awaited fightback against Premier League clubs that sabotage the England team.

 

An epidemic of player withdrawals from England sides this week convinced FA officials that enough was enough.

 

They are now so fed up with England teams being undermined, they are ready to declare war on clubs who try to cheat the system.

 

Starting from the next international date, they will ban players who fail to report for England duty from playing for their club the following weekend.

 

 

They were ready to make an example of Newcastle striker Nile Ranger this weekend after he pulled out of Wednesday's England Under-20 match against France without first being checked over by FA medical staff.

 

Ranger was to be banned from playing against Blackburn tomorrow, but they were forced to postpone the action when they realised Manchester United defender Chris Smalling had been allowed to cry off Under-21 duty without reporting to England.

 

FIFA rules give the FA the power to prevent a player whose injury has not been verified by England medical staff from playing for his club for five days after an international fixture.

 

Until now, the FA has not enforced the rule as a gesture of goodwill towards clubs but 22 withdrawals from the full England side and the Under-21s, Under-20s and Under-19s has forced them to act.

 

There is no corruption and bias in the game at all, no sirree

[crisps]

All clubs should just go on strike

[Tosh]

Then the FA should commit to paying the wages of any player injured while away with England for the period of their injury

[Nathan Explosion]

Ranger was to be banned from playing against Blackburn tomorrow, but they were forced to postpone the action when they realised Manchester United defender Chris Smalling had been allowed to cry off Under-21 duty without reporting to England.

 

That was the thing that stood out when I read this earlier - ban both then?

[Sir Tokyo Sexwale]

 

one of them plays for the Mancs

[CarraLegend]

Just shows how open the corruption is. Got to laugh at them being in mourning about the evil corruption that saw they didnt get the world cup. Hypocrites.

[Cobs]

 

that's feckin outrageous

 

we were going to ban one player but then we realised we'd have to ban a Man Utd player as well to be consistent so we dropped it ?

[surf]

The problem is not confined to England.In a bizarre case, Sparta Prague withdrew Czech duo Tomas Pekhart and Vaclav Kadlec and Croatian defender Manuel Pamic from international duty for fitness reasons this week - then fielded all three in a friendly against Zenit St Petersburg in Spain on Wednesday.In an apparent attempt to disguise the players’ identities, their names didn’t appear on the teamsheet and the three wore jerseys with teammates’ names on them - Pamic playing as Jakub Podany, Kadlec as Pavel Kaderabek and, most bizarrely of all, Pekhart, who is white, as black Cameroonian midfielder Martin Abena.Sparta’s plan seems to have been rumbled when a Czech journalist recognized the players in photos posted on Zenit's website.

[Kvarme Ate My Food]

The problem is not confined to England.In a bizarre case, Sparta Prague withdrew Czech duo Tomas Pekhart and Vaclav Kadlec and Croatian defender Manuel Pamic from international duty for fitness reasons this week - then fielded all three in a friendly against Zenit St Petersburg in Spain on Wednesday.In an apparent attempt to disguise the players’ identities, their names didn’t appear on the teamsheet and the three wore jerseys with teammates’ names on them - Pamic playing as Jakub Podany, Kadlec as Pavel Kaderabek and, most bizarrely of all, Pekhart, who is white, as black Cameroonian midfielder Martin Abena.Sparta’s plan seems to have been rumbled when a Czech journalist recognized the players in photos posted on Zenit's website.

 

haha!

[Bailo]

The problem is not confined to England.In a bizarre case, Sparta Prague withdrew Czech duo Tomas Pekhart and Vaclav Kadlec and Croatian defender Manuel Pamic from international duty for fitness reasons this week - then fielded all three in a friendly against Zenit St Petersburg in Spain on Wednesday.In an apparent attempt to disguise the players’ identities, their names didn’t appear on the teamsheet and the three wore jerseys with teammates’ names on them - Pamic playing as Jakub Podany, Kadlec as Pavel Kaderabek and, most bizarrely of all, Pekhart, who is white, as black Cameroonian midfielder Martin Abena.Sparta’s plan seems to have been rumbled when a Czech journalist recognized the players in photos posted on Zenit's website.

That is quite simply brilliant.

[Des]

The problem is not confined to England.In a bizarre case, Sparta Prague withdrew Czech duo Tomas Pekhart and Vaclav Kadlec and Croatian defender Manuel Pamic from international duty for fitness reasons this week - then fielded all three in a friendly against Zenit St Petersburg in Spain on Wednesday.In an apparent attempt to disguise the players’ identities, their names didn’t appear on the teamsheet and the three wore jerseys with teammates’ names on them - Pamic playing as Jakub Podany, Kadlec as Pavel Kaderabek and, most bizarrely of all, Pekhart, who is white, as black Cameroonian midfielder Martin Abena.Sparta’s plan seems to have been rumbled when a Czech journalist recognized the players in photos posted on Zenit's website.

 

That is fantastic.

[Nathan Explosion]

 

one of them plays for the Mancs

 

Duh.....ya don't say......

[Tones]

 

one of them plays for the Mancs

 

And with Ferdinand and Evans out they couldnt ban Smalling could they?

[Gilps]

The problem is not confined to England.In a bizarre case, Sparta Prague withdrew Czech duo Tomas Pekhart and Vaclav Kadlec and Croatian defender Manuel Pamic from international duty for fitness reasons this week - then fielded all three in a friendly against Zenit St Petersburg in Spain on Wednesday.In an apparent attempt to disguise the players’ identities, their names didn’t appear on the teamsheet and the three wore jerseys with teammates’ names on them - Pamic playing as Jakub Podany, Kadlec as Pavel Kaderabek and, most bizarrely of all, Pekhart, who is white, as black Cameroonian midfielder Martin Abena.Sparta’s plan seems to have been rumbled when a Czech journalist recognized the players in photos posted on Zenit's website.

 

That's f***ing brilliant

[Sir Tokyo Sexwale]

Duh.....ya don't say......

i was being sarcy

[Nathan Explosion]

i was being sarcy

 

duh.....ya don't say.

[Rimbeux]

So is that the new chairman talking tough. He'd be far better lobbying for a change to the calender so all internationals are played in two blocks, mid and end of season, something that would benefit all concerned. Instead there is idle talk of a futile war on the clubs