7 Match ban for Barnes!

Ashley Barnes has had his ban extended from four to seven games after having his charge proven for attempting to trip referee Nigel Miller.

The 23-year-old was handed an automatic four-match ban for the offence during the 1-0 defeat to Bolton - his second dismissal of the campaign - but the Football Association felt that Barnes' behaviour towards match official Miller "constituted an offence whereby the standard punishment that would otherwise apply was clearly insufficient".

Barnes denied the charge but a Regulatory Commission "found the charge proven" and his ban was extended.

He has already served one game of the suspension and will miss the Seagulls' next six fixtures.

http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11688/8567976/Brighton-s-Ashley-Barnes-facing-further-FA-punishment-over-Bolton-red-card


Seems a bit steep to me, from 4 matches to 7 for nearly tripping the ref up....seems harsh IMO.

Its not too steep. Its bloody fantastic.

The clubs highest scorer is out for the rest of the season and now this.

It improves our play-off chances greatly!

It's a nonsense. What do they think his motive was?

wanderlust wrote:It's a nonsense. What do they think his motive was?

do you care?

Id love it if the 2 best players from every club above us got 7 game bans!

7 games for that is a joke.

Who remembers Tony Kelly pushing the ref over? Think he got 4 games for that.

He must of gone to the Refs changing room after the match, to try and punch his lights out or something.

Fully justified ban, you can't go around tripping up the referee. What sort of message is that sending to kids?

The red card he just returned from contributed to his ban. Fully deserved.

sends a message tbh, whatever you think of it.

The ref should be out of bounds for abuse, verbal/physical.

can't stand seeing tossers crowding round the ref giving it the big one and the ref doing nothing.

It's supposed to be yellows/reds for foul language and they never do jack about it.

cunt

Cunt.

Bernard is a

Boggersbelief wrote:Bernard is a

girl?

It seems steep, however, he was sent off (3 match ban) and then abused the linesman on his way off the field, another red card offence IMHO. (So that's a justified 6 match ban right there had the ref called him back to re-red card him!)

Boggersbelief wrote:Bernard is

bumming your mum when your dad is at work.

I said "Bernard is a" so your comment doesn't work

I'd like to see football apply the policy that they use in Rugby Union where only the Captains are allowed to approach the referee. It would stop all this bloody nonsense with six or seven players trying to intimidate the ref.

Reebok Trotter wrote:I'd like to see football apply the policy that they use in Rugby Union where only the Captains are allowed to approach the referee. It would stop all this bloody nonsense with six or seven players trying to intimidate the ref.

I think most other sports have that policy as well as RU. Absolutely should be the case in Football. The refs do need to improve and earn more respect though. Again today, Sunderland v Norwich & Wigan v Newcastle full of refs getting stuff wrong.

I see no reason why we can't introduce a video panel which can then review crucial decisions. The purists say it would ruin the frantic pace of the game but that's bullshit. We get refs blowing every five minutes to stop play when a player gets poleaxed and starts rolling around like he has a bad case of ringworm.

If the decisions were independently reviewed and shown on the big screen then chants of ' We was robbed ' would be a thing of the past. Like wise off the ball infringements would also be quickly eradicated.