Arsenal and Newcastle played out a 0-0 draw which ended up in another fiesty encounter when Joey Barton's manhandling of Gervinho saw a flare up and his eventual sending off for slapping Barton. iSporter Asif Khan shares his thoughts and requests readers to share theirs.
I have a serious issue with the way referees and British media seem to be lenient to British players whenever there is an altercation between them and foreign players. An example in this case is today's encounter where Gervinho was sent off but Joey Barton got away with a yellow card!
If Joey Barton wasn't English would have got away with attacking and manhandling Gervinho with just a yellow card?
I was looking at some of the match coverage on British websites and I didn't have to go too far to see the bias in reporting the altercation,
For example The Daily Mirror read "The Ivory Coast international was dismissed with 14 minutes remaining of the Barclays Premier League encounter after lashing out at the midfielder when he confronted him over what he believed was a dive inside the home penalty area."
Note the clever use of the word confronted and dive. If it was Wayne Rooney instead of Gervinho the words would have been a lot more against Barton.
While BBC says, "The Ivorian striker was shown a red card with 14 minutes to go when he slapped Joey Barton after the pair had tangled in the penalty area."
Notice the words tangled where it should have read manhandled and attacked. Running at someone, grabbing them by both hands and shaking them, is that the definition of tangled?
Followers of other leagues, is it the same case in other leagues too where referees and media tend to be lenient and favour local players over foreigners?
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Chuks
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... The sending off of Gervinho in 75th minutes of the match btwn Arsenal v Newcastle is highly controversial. I tink FIFA shld do somtin now.i felt 4 Wenger cuz Arsenal cud hav won d game! |
Karan Mundul
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... Its nothing new Asif.... Its the same thing all over.... In Spain, Italy, Russia, Netherlands...... even here in the I-League..... the important thing to note is that Arsenal's defense looked good but the attack was far from impressive..... Arshavin & Rosicky should not play at the same time cause at the moment they are our weakest links...... Walcott should have started or we could have been more positive & played Chamakh.... even Frimpong starting would have been a better idea!!! |
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