Athlone vs. Shelbourne - Incidents herein

Réiteoir, I read it as Anto claims to have meant it - relax a bit. There's no problem, but I know it's easy to get a bit too strict in a contentious thread.

Back on topic: Dmanetc. is the quote you are referring to "Alan Murphy soon followed him off for dissent as he argued too much with Sutton over Lacey's dismissal."? That's from Athlone's website, and if it's anything like a lot of eL websites, that's based on a quick worth with a random club official or a guess. Regardless, "argued too much"? He was booked before he had time to say more than a few words. If it was dissent, it was something pretty abusive. It doesn't look right to me.

Just saw the clip on youtube, the same mistakes will never leave this league, the FAI told all clubs to get their house in order but still fail to look closer to home

id say when the ref back into the player, the shels lad must have said something, it was a second yellow, if it was for pushing the ref it would have been a straight red.

shocking

well for what its worth, murphy claimed after the game he didnt say anything to the ref

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Originally Posted by neville neville

well for what its worth, murphy claimed after the game he didnt say anything to the ref

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Just looked at the video again. If he said anything, he wasn't obvious about it - obviously it's hard to tell given the resolution of the footage, but his body language doesn't suggest someone swearing heatedly or anything like that until the ref books him.

my guess he looked into the players eyes and saw something like "you blind twaw you have not seen a thing all night" or words to that effect

it was a shame that, that was the game Dermot Keely couldnt make it to. i would have loved to see his reaction

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Originally Posted by neville neville

it was a shame that, that was the game Dermot Keely couldnt make it to. i would have loved to see his reaction

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Definitely would have been worth seeing:D


Erics footage might show something as his camera was directly in line with the incident from what I remember.

Hopefully someone will get info on the refs report from the club.

Murphy has been given a two-game ban for his sending off.

There is absolutely no excuse for this buffoon. I hope he's never allowed inside a football stadium again let alone refferree a game

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Originally Posted by Réiteoir

pretty good point there atfc

2nd yellow as a result of dissent - normally 1 game

making contact with a referee - violent conduct - 3 games or more

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Dissent - normally 1 game.

Violent conduct/contact with Ref - 3 or more games.

but -

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Originally Posted by atfconline

Murphy has been given a two-game ban for his sending off.

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How does he end up with 2 games?

When the bans are handed out for Red cards they also look at if a player has been sent of before. So looking at that it seems that he got two matches for dissent.

Definitely not for pushing though as he would have been on report and up in front of the disciplinary board and I believe assault on a referee carries a minimum of a 1 year suspension.

It was hardly assault! The ref is just plain acting the ******** at this stage. Our goalkeeping coach was given a restraining order too.

Not legally minded but I believe pushing to be a form of assault. Someone more legally minded might clarify that.

Why doesnt the club use video evidence to challenge the decisions if the punishment doesnt fit the crime

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Originally Posted by Young L37 fan

well i was speaking to the ref in the dressing room before the game with limerick 37 and kilkenny city tonight and he said murphy WAS sent off for dissent.

he said he saw all the comments on foot.ie.:eek:he also said if he had a penny for every comment he'd be a rich man:D

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Reitoir, now we know who you are!! :D

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Originally Posted by osarusan

Reitoir, now we know who you are!! :D

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I'm saying nothing - much like that Shels player should have...

I think the referee f*cked up by sending Murphy off and just said it was dissent. I was at the game and a lot closer than the camera and as far as i'm concerned he said nothing.