• 8 hours ago
Junior Firpo's three-game ban for violent conduct
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00:00We spotted it at Millwall towards the end.
00:07I mean, right at the end, Danny McNamara had some sort of issue at full time.
00:12He was going to the referee, he was demonstrating, the rest of the Millwall players were celebrating,
00:16but McNamara was really making the point that something had happened.
00:21I saw him on the turf, didn't see what had happened.
00:24Obviously video had come out since then on, you know, people who were watching the game
00:28had gone back and certainly the FA had gone back and seen that there was a motioning of
00:34junior Firpo's forehead into McNamara.
00:37Yes, there was a provocation.
00:39Yes, there was a coming together.
00:40Yes, Firpo should be a lot smarter and more experienced than to do that.
00:45And yes, he's out for another two games after serving the first of a three match ban against
00:49QPR.
00:50I've seen far better headbutts than that.
00:52I mean, yeah, we saw that something had happened.
00:54We couldn't, I couldn't, to be honest, I didn't even tweet about it because I couldn't pin
00:58it on an individual.
00:59I could just see that he was very, very angry and he was remonstrating with the officials
01:03and that carried on past the full-time whistle.
01:05And he seemed to be indicating that he had some sort of an eye issue.
01:08You don't do it.
01:10There's no sense to it.
01:11There's no point to it.
01:12You can argue about the contact until the cars come home.
01:16It's largely irrelevant now.
01:17He gave the FA something to look at.
01:20McNamara gave enough of a performance that the referee put it in his notebook and that
01:25was that.
01:26As soon as that happened, that was it.
01:28It was going to be a three game ban.
01:29I partly agree with some of what Daniel Farker said, and I partly don't.
01:34Where I do have a bit more sympathy is the comparison between what happened against Rotherham
01:38last season with Pelletier and Nyonto and what's happened in this situation.
01:43So Nyonto was pole-axed in the area with a straight leg, should have been a red, should
01:47have been a penalty.
01:48Leeds got neither.
01:49What they did get was a lovely letter.
01:51They got a letter from the FA saying, sorry, you should have had the decision there.
01:55And Leeds had a few letters like that last season, but in this case, Millwall didn't
01:58get a letter saying, sorry, you didn't get this one.
02:01The situation was re-refereed.
02:02Where's the distinction between the two incidents?
02:04Pelletier's incident isn't violent conduct within the letter of the law.
02:09Oppo's is.
02:11I think that's where the distinction comes in.

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