It was a bad decision but unless you’re a top 4 club it’s highly unlikely you’ll be succesful with an appeal.
Look at what Gerrard (and the likes of) get away with week in week out and Caldwell who is a naturally hard tackler wins the ball clearly without trying to hurt the player and he sees red.
It’s ridiculous and we should appeal but, for what it’s worth I doubt anything will come of it.
Atwell will have reported it as ‘dangerous/serious foul play’.
That normally brings a 3 game ban.
If we appeal it, I have no doubt we will lose, as they go off the referee’s report, and he is hardly going to contradict himself, and then they extend the ban, usually by another 2 games. That would make it a 5 game ban, and we only have 6 games left.
So no, I doubt very much we will be appealing. I think we are daft and naive if we do. Just have to grit our teeth and take it on the chin. I know it’s rubbish, and you know it’s rubbish, but on a slightly positive side, if he misses 3 games, it will probably be Fulham, Arsenal, and Pompey games. (I think it’s with immediate effect. If not, he’ll miss Arsenal, Pompey, and West Ham) I can’t see us getting anything from the first 2 games (Fulham and Arsenal), anyway. Better than him missing 5 games and then being eligible at Chelsea, in what is more than likely a ‘throw away’ fixture, in all reality.
Unfortunately I think, if his subistitutions when we went 2-0 down are anything to go by then I think he’ll put Gohouri at centre half & scharner in his midfield
Hope I’m wrong & that he drops Scharner back to centre half, drops Thomas to the bench & plays with Diame & McCarthy in the centre of midfield & Moses “in the hole” with N’Zogbia returning to the right wing
Might be a bit risky seeing as how we still aint safe from relegation but as we’ve only scored 3 goals in our last 8 games he needs to try somet to given us a bit more bite up front & I’ve given up hoping he’ll play 4-4-2
No we are not Martinez has just been on ssn saying we were appealing against the red card on the grounds the ref sent him off for a two footed tackle but when he read the report the ref didnt put it in as a two footed tackle sending off