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I was going to do a piece on economics today concerning
Chelsea’s new sponsorship deal but something that is infuriating and
frustrating me has come up, so I’ll leave that until next week.
Some of you may have been following the Spitting incident between Manchester United’s Jonny Evans and Newcastle’s Papiss Cisse. What happened basically is, after a poor challenge from Cisse after which he appeared to kick out at the Manchester United defender. Evans stood and confronted him with a temper. Footage shows what appeared to be Evans spitting at Cisse, I still believe that he was spitting at the ground as is quite common however. Whatever you believe, if it was intentional it was unacceptable but what happens next is worse.
Clearly outraged by Evans’ action, Cisse gets up and spits directly at Evans, getting his neck mainly. This is absolutely disgusting. The officials didn’t see the incident during the match so no action was taken other than to break the two up to stop a fight. Since then the FA, rightly, has charged both of them. Evans has received a six match ban having been found guilty, I still believe he isn’t. Cisse faces seven matches on the side as he was banned for violent misconduct earlier this season. Cisse has apologised, fair play to him, which is however an admission of guilt. Evans remains defiant, pleading innocence. It is still disgusting however but something about this whole situation disturbs me.
The minimum ban for spitting intentionally at an opponent is six games, the minimum ban for being found guilty of racism toward an opponent is five. This scares me, why isn’t that ban longer? It should be far longer, I believe if a player is found guilty of racism they should be banned for the duration of the season because I believe that that is inexcusable.
Some of you may have been following the Spitting incident between Manchester United’s Jonny Evans and Newcastle’s Papiss Cisse. What happened basically is, after a poor challenge from Cisse after which he appeared to kick out at the Manchester United defender. Evans stood and confronted him with a temper. Footage shows what appeared to be Evans spitting at Cisse, I still believe that he was spitting at the ground as is quite common however. Whatever you believe, if it was intentional it was unacceptable but what happens next is worse.
Clearly outraged by Evans’ action, Cisse gets up and spits directly at Evans, getting his neck mainly. This is absolutely disgusting. The officials didn’t see the incident during the match so no action was taken other than to break the two up to stop a fight. Since then the FA, rightly, has charged both of them. Evans has received a six match ban having been found guilty, I still believe he isn’t. Cisse faces seven matches on the side as he was banned for violent misconduct earlier this season. Cisse has apologised, fair play to him, which is however an admission of guilt. Evans remains defiant, pleading innocence. It is still disgusting however but something about this whole situation disturbs me.
The minimum ban for spitting intentionally at an opponent is six games, the minimum ban for being found guilty of racism toward an opponent is five. This scares me, why isn’t that ban longer? It should be far longer, I believe if a player is found guilty of racism they should be banned for the duration of the season because I believe that that is inexcusable.
Sources: BBC Football
Sky sports news
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