FA Charges Ferguson for Ref Comments (Again)

Ancelotti threatened FA with the mafia.

Fonseca wrote:Because he said Webb was a good referee and didn't use wording that could be interpreted as something else.

What did Ancelotti say, I'm assuming on two sentences he wrote

“I don’t want to put pressure on the referee. I think Howard Webb is a fantastic referee because he has experience.

“If the referee he has no experience we can perhaps be a bit worried about this but with Howard Webb there is no problem.

“I have trust in the referees in England. Maybe they make a mistake but that is the same as anywhere in the world – this is normal.

"Either you accept the decision of the referee or you have to say that there is a conspiracy.”


If the rules say that talking about the referee is improper conduct, then the FA cannot be punishing only because the rules have been broken, if they were then Ancelotti would have been punished also - there must be some other reason outside of the rulebook that they allow Ancelotti to speak about referees, but no Ferguson. This doesn't surprise me, it's not the first time the FA have done that this season.

ResurrectionRooney wrote:

Fonseca wrote:Because he said Webb was a good referee and didn't use wording that could be interpreted as something else.

What did Ancelotti say, I'm assuming on two sentences he wrote

“I don’t want to put pressure on the referee. I think Howard Webb is a fantastic referee because he has experience.

“If the referee he has no experience we can perhaps be a bit worried about this but with Howard Webb there is no problem.

“I have trust in the referees in England. Maybe they make a mistake but that is the same as anywhere in the world – this is normal.

"Either you accept the decision of the referee or you have to say that there is a conspiracy.”


If the rules say that talking about the referee is improper conduct, then the FA cannot be punishing only because the rules have been broken, if they were then Ancelotti would have been punished also - there must be some other reason outside of the rulebook that they allow Ancelotti to speak about referees, but no Ferguson. This doesn't surprise me, it's not the first time the FA have done that this season.

Fergie: "We must trust the referee will make the right decision"

That could be interpreted as many things

Whereas the closest to that in what Ancelotti said

"I have trust in the referees in England"

In which he redeemed himself with

"Maybe they make a mistake but that is the same as anywhere in the world – this is normal."

Unfair? Yes but that could have been because Ancelotti was genuinely unaware of the new rule, In Italy they talk much more freely than here.. Fergie probably was also unaware but it's easier to blame Fergie because of how controversial he's been before

Fuck that, rules are rules, you either apply them or you don't, you don't just apply them to people you don't like, that's called victimisation.

"But [getting a bad decision] is definitely our big fear"

That's milking it, he knows his opposition will make a meal and speculate over it

Those tiny digs are different to what Ancelotti said

Fergie is an idiot and deserves everything he gets from the FA. At least they've got the balls to stand up to him now.

Fonseca wrote:"But [getting a bad decision] is definitely our big fear"

That's milking it, he knows his opposition will make a meal and speculate over it

Those tiny digs are different to what Ancelotti said

There's nothing in the rules about 'tiny digs'.

Dan wrote:Fergie is an idiot and deserves everything he gets from the FA. At least they've got the balls to stand up to him now.

But we own the FA?