Filed in Football, English League, Premiership, Villains.
Clearly Jermain Defoe forgot to eat his Monster Munch crisps before going to play football and decided instead to try and eat West Ham’s Mascherano. So I’m nominating Jermain Defoe and Martin Jol as my Villains of the week. Defoe for attempting to eat Mascherano and Jol for trying to defend Defoe’s action.
This case like other recent incidents presents the FA with a problem since the rules don’t allow for action to be taken on offences that have already received punishment, despite the fact that the punishment may not have been appropriate. Although the FA have in exceptional cases ignored this rule.
Personally I think that the panel that sits and looks at video evidence should be allowed to over rule any decision based on what they have seen. Players can already be exonerated, why not the other way? It may keep some honest if they know will get caught and punished, though I doubt it.
