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Muscat gone for 8
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I think that's fair.
Season over for big kev well aleague anyway
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Hopefully we appeal.
Why, so he can get 10? Didn't you say that you were happy Kev is out? Now you want to appeal? Make up your mind.
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I dont think we should appeal. It would just make this shitstorm even bigger than it is already
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We need to take on the tag of the most hated team in the country imo. this will rubber stamp it imo.
8 is pretty steep IMO, I've seen plenty of worse tackles involving studs into legs etc. I mean it was a pretty bad tackle but in terms of what bits of Muscat made contact with the lad it was fairly low impact in terms of liklihood of a break etc. I'm not defending Muscat, just think 8 is pretty severe.
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You've seen plenty of worse tackles than that? I really doubt that.
It was a pathetic attempt and I'm a Victory supporter.
Surely we've all seen legs snapped in gruesome two foot studs up tackles that were nowhere near the ball. Look as I say I'm not defending him, or saying that it was anywhere near an acceptable tackle. I'm just saying I thought 8 was a tad harsh.
Hagar
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That would be the decent thing but I'm not so sure Ernie Merrick sees it like that.
I think it's a fair suspension I mean if Baird and Perez get banned for 2 matches for "diving" then I think 8 is fair for whatever it was Muscat was trying to do to Zahra..
I think it's a fair suspension I mean if Baird and Perez get banned for 2 matches for "diving" then I think 8 is fair for whatever it was Muscat was trying to do to Zahra..
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/soccer/muscats-moment-of-truth/story-e6frfg8x-1225995631293
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/soccer/muscats-moment-of-truth/story-e6frfg8x-1225995631293
Who employs these idiot journalists?
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[B]VICTORIA captain[/B] (sic) Kevin Muscat's A-League career is probably
over after receiving the toughest ban in competition history.http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/soccer/muscats-moment-of-truth/story-e6frfg8x-1225995631293
Who employs these idiot journalists?
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The thing that has annoyed me about Muscat is the fact that he's doing that sort of stuff almost deliberately, and almost always when the side is being defeated. I wasn't at the derby as I am overseas (waiting to come back right now actually) but am I correct in saying that muscat already had a yellow card? If so, pretty much regardless of how he took Zahra, he was almost guaranteed getting sent. Good leadership there.
Additionally, he got himself sent off 6 times in 287 English League matches and was not sent off for his 22 games in Scotland. So how has he got himself sent off 5 times in 122 A-League games since returning to Australia? He is going around twatting blokes. Jamie McMaster v2, Adam Hughes v6, Adrian Zahra v6.
That's not leadership. I told Sainter during our game bs Sydney that Brebner was a far better leader. He does all the hard work, without doing stupid shit. That sums muscat up, hard player, good skills, but does completely stupid ****ed things.
Ps our defense is probably better off without him for the rest of the year, and Franjic impressed me bs Sydney too.
Additionally, he got himself sent off 6 times in 287 English League matches and was not sent off for his 22 games in Scotland. So how has he got himself sent off 5 times in 122 A-League games since returning to Australia? He is going around twatting blokes. Jamie McMaster v2, Adam Hughes v6, Adrian Zahra v6.
That's not leadership. I told Sainter during our game bs Sydney that Brebner was a far better leader. He does all the hard work, without doing stupid shit. That sums muscat up, hard player, good skills, but does completely stupid ****ed things.
Ps our defense is probably better off without him for the rest of the year, and Franjic impressed me bs Sydney too.
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Kevin Muscat is and always has been a massive c-word.
He paid a £750,000 legal settlement in 2004 for a 1998 tackle on Charlton Athletic player Matty Holmes, whose career was ended by Muscat. Holmes needed skin grafts and had to have a metal bolt inserted in his ankle after the clash.
In 2001, he seriously injured both Craig Bellamy and Christophe Dugarry, and former French coach Roger Lemerre said of the latter: "Football is not a game of skittles, but I'm deeply unhappy about that tackle. It was a close match and it should not have been tarnished with such an act of brutality."
All of this led to him being branded "probably the most hated man in football" by former Birmingham City manager Martin Grainger.
The sport will be much, much better off without him - I sincerely hope that this pathetic dog act will cost him all hopes of the media career that he's been attempting to cultivate in recent years.
He paid a £750,000 legal settlement in 2004 for a 1998 tackle on Charlton Athletic player Matty Holmes, whose career was ended by Muscat. Holmes needed skin grafts and had to have a metal bolt inserted in his ankle after the clash.
In 2001, he seriously injured both Craig Bellamy and Christophe Dugarry, and former French coach Roger Lemerre said of the latter: "Football is not a game of skittles, but I'm deeply unhappy about that tackle. It was a close match and it should not have been tarnished with such an act of brutality."
All of this led to him being branded "probably the most hated man in football" by former Birmingham City manager Martin Grainger.
The sport will be much, much better off without him - I sincerely hope that this pathetic dog act will cost him all hopes of the media career that he's been attempting to cultivate in recent years.
Punchy Bassett
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Really hoping Victory don't play him in the Asian Champions league so he can embarrass Australian soccer.
I dunno about that...he laid a pretty bad tackle on Skoko. Studs up and around the ankles.
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Very well said. There's a reason no one in England liked him.
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Brebner is horrible they day him and Kevin don't play again will be awesome. IMO Brebner is the biggest scums in sport in this country. HE BET against his own team. should have chucked out the club then.
betting on/against your own team should get a life ban IMO. it's arguably a form of match fixing.
it's happened in the NFL before.
it's happened in the NFL before.
Zahra has done his ACL so that along with a broken leg is the worst leg injury you can get. It was a filthy tackle that doesn't belong in any sport and Muscat is a filthy individual who should be taken for all his wealth.
He's played in two ACLS already, but I know what you mean.
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Was hoping for the death penalty but 8 weeks is a little fairer.
