Joker-of-the-week :Referee Steven Bennett
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Crazy fella !
How can he sent-off Everton's Cahill for showing his chest after scoring ?
I give up liao la ! -
recently the epl refereeing standard has drop so disgusting... mayb our local referee can aso go n referee epl matches...
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The reversing of jersey during an act of celebration on the field is deemed as a yellow card in the FA's rule book lor.
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Cahill could escape ban
Tim Cahill could escape suspension for his controversial celebration of Everton's winner at Manchester City when he was sent off for pulling his shirt over his head.
The Australian midfielder headed the second-half winner and wheeled away, lifting his shirt briefly over his head - but not completely removing it - before pulling the shirt down again before any of his colleagues could reach him to congratulate the £2million signing from Millwall.
Now the Premier League's refereeing chief Keith Hackett admits he is awaiting the outcome of a meeting being held between the FA and FIFA into other matters of law interpretation, where he expects the current situation over Cahill to be discussed.
And it is possible that the eventual outcome, now FIFA boss Sepp Blatter has got involved in the row, is that the authorities could view that the sending off in sufficient punishment and that Cahill will be able to make his home debut for Everton on Sunday against Middlesbrough.
All Hackett would say was: 'There is a meeting going on at the moment between the FA and FIFA on other things, but I would expect the Cahill situation to be discussed - and I am awaiting the outcome of that.
'I do not want to say anything else at the moment, other than that the incident involving Tim Cahill and the caution, as well as Sepp Blatter's comments, have all been noted by me. We are awaiting the FA's reaction.'
Blatter has intervened already and said Cahill should not have been sent off, which contradicts a poster campaign involving all clubs, in which various methods of removing or partially removing a shirt in celebration were defined as yellow card offences.
Everton have now claimed that during a summer meeting of the Professional Game Match Officials Board involving the FA, Premier League, clubs and managers, the new ruling and the poster campaign were discussed - and that Hackett claimed then the posters were wrong and should only have shown full removal of a shirt as an offence.
Everton secretary David Harrison was present and claimed: 'Keith Hackett informed the meeting that the poster campaign was in fact wrong and he asked the members of PGMOB to manage the situation.
'There were only supposed to book a player if they fully removed their shirt during a goal celebration.
'If the player acted in the same manner as Tim Cahill did at Manchester City then the referees were asked to go over and advise the player but not issue a caution.'
Hackett, when told of Harrison's remarks, admitted to being 'surprised' at the interpretation of his words but declined to comment further.
But Hackett did confirm that a lot of work in the summer went into reviewing exactly what FIFA's new law directive on the subject was, and to fully explaining via a poster to each club changing room, the full range of offences. He insists that partial removal was deemed a bookable offence by FIFA under the new rules.
The words of Blatter, who would have been involved fully in those FIFA meetings, appear to contradict that, leaving Hackett waiting for clarification from the FA so he can explain anything further to his referees.
The Goodison side have now asked for referee Steve Bennett to review his decision in the light of Blatter's comments.
However, the view now is that the FA will get themselves out of a tricky situation by just viewing the sending off as sufficient punishment and not to add a one-match ban. That decision could be taken within 48 hours. -
wah seh... heng Everton won lor..
if Man City equalised or win the game.. i think Everton will be damn dulan
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so, anybody knws wat happened to him?
nothing?