First there's the moral point: inciting football violence is a bad thing to do. Raking studs down the side of someone's face is even worse, particularly given the proximity to one of Robin van Persie's eyes. It's a cliché but if it happened on the street it would be called assault. It was malicious, nasty and an embarrassment to Manchester City FC - the worst act of violence at Eastlands since Ben Thatcher almost decapitated Pedro Mendes.
But there's also the selfish point. Emmanuel Adebayor is a fantastically talented forward, currently at the top of his game. He's played for EPL games for City and scored in all four. He is crucial to the team and the way we play. With Carlos Tévez and Roque Santa Cruz currently injured he is our only fit centre forward remaining.
Next Sunday is the Manchester derby - for the first time in years we have a team who could give United a decent game. Adebayor - in his current form - would give Ferdinand and Vidic a tougher time than almost any other striker in England, with the exceptions of Torres and Drogba. But in two acts of stupidity - one malicious, one childish - he will leave us without his services in this massive match. And we'll be left with no fit centre forwards - having to move Craig Bellamy central.
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there cannot be rules for Adebeyor and different rules for others. RVP two footed lunge was a more deliberate act than Adebeyors stamp as he had much more time to deliberate what he was doing than in the 0.5s that Adebeyor had. Adebeyors reaction was more of an instinct act given the time he had to react but not premeditated. Also RVP ran to city supporters and yelled an expletive when he scored. Even tho Adebeyor celebration was more deliberate ( and silly given the circumstances of the anger from Arsenal fans before the game)than RVPs both of them ended up in front of the rival supporters and baiting the fans. Ronney has been doing this at Goodison park for some time and nothing is ever done.
You might love him now, but he'll do you to you what he did to Arsenal. First sign of things not going his way he'll play in a sulk and start lifting his skirts at Barcelona and Milan.
It seems to me that the FA have convened the disciplinary committee with almost indecent haste. Wouldn't have anything to do with David Dein being on the FA board, would it? I wonder whether they would have been so quick off the mark had our next game been against Wigan or Burnley.
I'm not condoning what Adebayor did to RVP at all, but the Arsenal fans had it coming. Newspaper reports have already passed judgement and are just peculating on the length of ban. Anymore than 3 matches would show nothing more than unfair bias given previous incidents where players have got away with kicks to the head (Yes, you, Alan Shearer).
City need to play the system if they want Adebayor available for Sunday and appeal the ban.
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