rooney banned & fined

[oxford_fan]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/world_cup_2006/teams/england/5138240.stm

how!? i would have thought from the video replays they'd have concluded there was no intent whatsoever.

[Simon Pieman]

2 games isn't that harsh really, even if he didn't mean it.

[oxford_fan]

you can't ban him if he didn't mean it, if you stand on someones hand by accident is that a ban for stamping too?

and their 2 players were all over him just before the bollock-crushing.

recalling the replays the ref doesn't seem to be giving a card until rooney touched ronaldo, bizarre.

[Amir]

The whole incident was so ambiguous, he was never going to get let off.

[Simon Pieman]

Even if you don't mean to do something sometimes it still warrants some punishment. I think the worst of the punishment was being sent off for that particular game. Compared to some bans, this one wasn't as harsh as I thought it would be.

Personally, I think a yellow would have surficed, but considering he got the red he could have been banned for more games than 2.

[larwood]

It takes the piss,the Argies involved in the bust up against Germany have been punished with paltry fines and banned for a few games,surely what they did was worse?Maybe its just me,has to be said it was entertaining

[Simon Pieman]

When you consider Di Canio was banned for something like 11 games, for a pussy push on the ref, I don't think Rooney's ban is as bad as it could have been.