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Thats how you spell it! :doh:
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good luck with that!
Cheers :)
I think we tried to bend the rules. It was blatant and knew he'd be in trouble. He could have at least done everything by text and not have people running around him making it so obvious. Remember the night Jose was banned and he was wearing that hat and covering his mouth all game. Did they take action on that? It's all about what UEFA can prove.
i remember mourinho getting a touchline ban and speaking on telephone in the stands. was he calling assistant coach?!
does anyone else remember this?
What a farce on the part of Uefa.
Wenger could have watched on TV and phoned Rice direct and no one would know. Or he could have had Primovic sat in another part of the stadium and relayed calls that way.
Uefa need to concentrate on the more important things. Things like cracking down on the incompetent cunt refereeing the game that gave rise to all this happening in the first place.
But nooooo....they promote him.
RT @Skysportswebed: #Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger given 2 match ban by UEFA for breaching terms of previous ban
Massive cunts.
How hard can it be to employ a fella who just sits behind Wenger with a phone and picks up on comments like 'will nobody rid me of this troublesome Russian?'. They simply can't enforce it if it's not noticeable.
It's pretty ridiculous that we ask them what's okay and then do it and still get punished, completely fair.
More
http://t.co/GRFunnT
Ludicrous decision.
UEFA are utter cunts.
Oh well, a couple of games where Wenger doesn't scratch his head, moan to Pat and throw water bottles in frustration.
His pitch side tactical expertise will be missed.
What a disgrace UEFA are they should ban him from all football.
Mourhino can poke an eye yet Wenger is banned for following rules set out by the uefa official
Mourinho did it to a Barcunt though so its fine
Corruption :bow:
I am going to do something that I haven't done for a while and take Arsene Wenger's side, I don't believe he has deliberately flouted the rules and I don't believe he would persist in saying that he sought clarification with UEFA if he was lying....I think UEFA could have put it down to a misunderstanding and instead of stepping in and punishing genuine offenders and rule flouters like Jose Mourinho, they are making an example of Wenger because he dared criticize one of their referees.
I think they are being petty and vindictive, the same way any corrupt organisation would behave.
And anyone going on about it being smokescreen for lack of signings, the two are completely different issues......we are not going to sign anyone before this game against Udinese anyway because it could be any targets we do have won't sign for a club not playing champions league football, also it could be we won't sign anyone full stop......and that would be a disgrace and I would have nothing but contempt for Wenger for this, but on this UEFA issue I sympathise with him.
To be fair on Pep Guardiola, there's nothing I have seen about him as a coach that would lead me to believe he would behave like that. Mourinho has thrived on negative publicity because it came hand in hand with winning and he could put it down to schadenfreude on the part of his detractors, but now the shit don't smell so sweet he is becoming frustrated, aggressive and his rants seem more genuinely delusional rather than tactical mind games.
To be honest this doesn't matter, AW doesn't make an ounce of difference from the sidelines...it might do us good you never know.
Moreover you should be able to plan for a match beforehand, specifying substitutions, what to do if players in positions get sent off etc. You can't cover everything but you can do a fair amount, shouldn't really be a problem.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2...arsene-wenger?Quote:
Arsenal have reacted furiously after Uefa found Arsène Wenger guilty of failing to abide by the rules of his touchline ban and imposed a new two-match suspension on the Frenchman which could leave him watching Wednesday's Champions League play-off second leg at Udinese from the stands.
The club have appealed against the decision, which was announced on Monday morning, on the basis that Uefa's venue director had apparently indicated in the build-up to last week's first leg that the manager could communicate with his bench via a third party. Arsenal hope to hear on Tuesday whether Wenger will be permitted to sit on the bench at the Stadio Friuli pending the hearing of that appeal, though the governing body could delay that decision until much closer to kick-off.
Arsenal's dismay is born of assurances supposedly delivered by the Uefa official on site at the Emirates Stadium to the club's company secretary when clarification was sought last Monday over what Wenger would be permitted to do on match day. The club insist they were told that Wenger would be allowed to relay messages to his assistant, Pat Rice, on the bench through the first-team coach Boro Primorac, who was in telephone contact with the technical area while sitting next to the manager in the stand. That evidence was submitted to Uefa with witness statements from those who attended the standard "match day minus one" meeting.
Yet Uefa, which believes the club should have directed their pre-match query directly to its control and disciplinary body rather than to the venue delegate, informed them at half-time on the match night that communication via a third party was against the rules. As a result, the governing body also fined Arsenal €10,000 (£8,700) for the "improper conduct of their officials" during the game.
"The Uefa disciplinary regulations stipulate that a manager may not communicate with his team during a fixture for which he is suspended and may follow the game from the stands only," it said. "Wenger is therefore suspended for Arsenal's second-leg match against Udinese in Italy and then the next Uefa competition fixture for which he would be eligible."
Arsenal won the first leg 1-0 courtesy of Theo Walcott's early goal. Wenger, who declined to perform his post-match media duties that night, is baffled by Uefa's decision to open new disciplinary proceedings against him. "Frankly, you don't ever know what a manager's ban is," the Frenchman said last Friday. "I did not communicate with the bench. I did watch the game from the directors' box. That was quite enjoyable. That's it. We had spoken to Uefa prior to the game. That's what we did. They gave us rules and we observed strictly what they told us. After the game, or during the game, the rules changed."
Good stuff.
Bit of a joke this is.
Uefa cunts.
We've asked for a delay, I assume so that Wenger can manage the team tomorrow.
http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/st...fa-ban?cc=4716
Fuck these UEFA cunts tbh.
After this appeal, we should appeal again to the abbritration of sport or whoever and keep delaying the ban while we do so.
Its UEFA who have fucked up here, and we are paying the price for it.
We're really going to need Wenger's touchline tactical skills tomorrow night.
I don't think we'll make it without him on the bench.
:(
believe it or not, i think his presence on the touchline is a positive thing for the team, they are still very much his players.
I thought the done thing, if you want UEFA to listen, is to bribe them. Have we not tried that yet? Going through the official appeals process is putting the cart before the horse.
SSN: Appeal successfull.
False information. :doh:
Only the appeal process has been delayed until after our match tomorrow. It does mean that he will be on the touchline for tomorrow but he can still face a ban therefter.