Villain: Thug players

[frankiegth]

This happened yesterday in the EMCL Prem Div (Step 6), the Saturday League i do the line on.....better watch out or watch Hucknall week in week out.

See below for 2 comments from the EMCL Forum

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St Andrews v Gedling Miners Welfare [ Abandoned ]
Canal Street
Abandoned after 85 minutes, score 3-1, assault on referee

How very SAD ====Any one care to Comment
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The worst thing I've ever seen at a football match (and I've been to 1000's)

Fracas near end of game. Ref confers with linesman and calls one player over from each team and books them. Then calls over St Andrews No 12 and sends him off. No 12 puts his face up close to ref and says something, then turns away before swinging round and punching the ref with GREAT FORCE in the face. No 12 then jumps over fence and runs to dressing room. On arrival at door to dressing room decides he wants some more and turns round to head back onto pitch. One of St Andrews people stops him and pushes him into dressing room. Ref has been knocked out cold and is just lying on pitch. He is covered in blankets and given attention but it is a LONG time before he moves.

Divided opinion amongst spectators and players, management etc. I heard one SICKENING comment that the ref had been asking for it! Several St Andrews players were saying how disgraceful it was and one said that he would not play with No 12 again.

FOR NOTE:

The referee Mr. Andy Parker has received a broken cheek bone and two breaks to his jaw and was kept overnight at the Leicester Royal Infirmary.

My take on this is:

The No12 should never be aloud to kick a ball ever again.

Hope the ref sues him and that the c.p.s. press charges.

No matter what the standard of officiating there is no excuse for such behaviour. If the ref was poor it was a EMCL game which is a poor standard of football, crikey BSN is poor so you only get the officiating you deserve.

The club should dismiss the player and until they do so the opposition in any forthcoming games should be awarded the points until the player is dismissed.

[amberaleman]

No.12 sounds a nasty piece of work, and not terribly bright. This also sounds like a clear case of ABH, and possibly GBH, so the Old Bill should be interested. There were obviously a number of witnesses.

I don't agree with life bans - whatever the offence, the perpetrator should always be given the opportunity of redemption. But a lengthy suspension is clearly in order here.

[frankiegth]

I understand he has already had a ban from Leicestershire fa for an indefinate time handed down. Which is a good starting point.

While I take on board your opinion about life bans amberaleman, I believe a message has to be sent to everyone that such behaviour is not acceptible. It's not as if it was a heat of the moment job the idiot actually returned to the pitch having left it. The individual obviously has some kind of anger management problem.

[ambersalamander]

Absolutely unbelievable.

[bh]

Hornchurchs' No. 7 today!!

[ambersalamander]

I've just read a thread on the Conf South forum about AFC Wimbledon v Hampton & Richmond that seems to deserve a mention on this thread. Meadow, Ewelldon, any thoughts? What actually happened?

[Meadow]

Hmmm....... Totally biased of course, and as I was stewarding I had to watch the crowd rather than what was happening on the pitch.

Alan Inns, now playing for us but formerly a Hampton player was certainly robust. I think he deserved a yellow, which he got but not a red which the Hampton fans were clamouring for (when Inns and one of theirs went up for a header at the same time - pretty even IMO). I must admit, I thought he would walk, but the ref was on the ball at times.

Our goalie made a late challenge outside the box and IMO was lucky to get away with a yellow.

They were, on the whole, a bunch of dirty players, and one of them came away with reportedly a broken leg after a horrendous tackle by him went wrong.

Our No 3 (Daza's Heartthrob) left the pitch after yet another nasty tackle, limping really badly, blood all over his right leg, his sock torn to shreds and his shinpad completely askew.

One of the players attacked Haydon (our mascot) at the start of the match and removed his 'head' . Given the design of the costume, he could have caused serious injury.

On the whole, H&R are not a team I'd like to see us play in a hurry. Unfortunately, we have to play them again in April.

Saying that, they were the better team, and I was relieved that we got a point (the first in five matches between the two teams).

[frankiegth]

What about this then, it's unbelieveable.

Murder charge over football death

A 20-year-old man has been charged with murder after an amateur footballer died following a fight with opposing players at the end of a game in west London.

Stephen Ritchie, 43, died of head injuries after he became involved in a brawl at the final whistle of the match on Sunday afternoon, police said.

Mr Ritchie, of Brentford, west London, was pronounced dead at the scene at Little Harlington Playing Fields.

A second man, also 20, has been charged with causing actual bodily harm (ABH).

Darren Forwood, of Frays Avenue, West Drayton, has been charged with murder and Brandon Thompson, of Widmore Road, Hillingdon, is charged with ABH.

Our thoughts are with the family of the deceased player, his friends and his colleagues at the Old Greenfordians Football Club at this terrible time
Ron Dunning, Sunday league chairman

Both will appear at Uxbridge Magistrates Court on Tuesday.

A police spokesman said emergency services were called to the pitch in Sipson Lane at about 1220 BST.

Mr Ritchie, who played for Old Greenfordians, was pronounced dead at the scene about 45 minutes later. A post mortem examination on Monday morning gave the cause of death as a head injury.

Mr Ritchie died after his team won an away match 4-3 against Kingshill Town in the Hayes and District Sunday Football League Division One.

Ron Dunning, chairman of the league, said: "Our thoughts are with the family of the deceased player, his friends and his colleagues at the Old Greenfordians Football Club at this terrible time.

"The league will provide whatever practical support and assistance the family needs although we recognise that, at the present time, they will wish to mourn their loss in private

[ambersalamander]

That is horrific. And a lot of other things. It's disgusting.

[robotsmfc]

Absolutely disgusting. Some people seem to think that as soon as they get onto the football pitch they can do as they please. Fortunately the majority of them lack both the talent and the cranial capacity to play at our levels.