The FA of Wales confirm what a load of wankers they are
This from welsh-premier site
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ROUGH JUSTICE
TUESDAY 16th January 2007 will go down in history as the day the Football Association of Wales finally lost the plot.
Within the space of a few days, disciplinary panels have made baffling decisions about two of the clubs within the governing body's jurisdiction.
• On Saturday 11 November, fourth official Alan Sheffield needed seven stitches in a head wound and underwent minor surgery to repair a split artery after he was hit by a missile thrown by a Newport fan during the FA Cup tie with Swansea. The culprit was never identified. The Exiles were fined £2,000, of which £1,000 was suspended. No other sanction was applied.
• On Saturday 9 December, a spectator made a racist remark to an assistant referee during a Welsh Premier game at The Traeth. He was apprehended by other spectators, apologised immediately and was banned by the club from attending future games. Porthmadog were fined £13,200 (£12,200 suspended) and deducted three league points.
The massive disparity in the respective punishments says that, for a spectator to racially taunt a linesman is more than six times worse than severing a fourth official's artery with a coin.
It's akin to a high court judge sentencing a burglar to 13 years and then giving a murderer two years in the same court.
It proves that the FAW is totally incapable of extending its powers to what are basically criminal matters.
Spectators who can be caught, identified and found guilty of misdemeanours should be banned from watching football for an appropriate period and handed over to the Police and the Crown Prosecution Service for justice to be applied.
The FAW should stop running kangaroo courts and get back to administering the game in Wales.
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I was at the match when this incident happened on the same wing as the linesman .The official were the usual crap standard at this league .The North Wales ref have a bias towards the northern clubs whilst the South Wales refs have a bias towards the southern clubs.The officials at this game were having an atrocious second half . Being a few years older than the culprit Carwyn I can laugh at the decsions made by the officials.
The facist slur was made by one stupid person in a crowd of about 200 , he was shouted down by his friends and made by them to apologise to the offical , he was then banned from the ground by the club.The linesman accepted the apology but matters were taken further as a referee assessor was present at the match.
I think the officals would have been subjected to more abuse if they had been English. I am totally against any racism and do not think the fans at Porthmadog are racist.
In a previous match when there was a female official , there were chants from the 30 odd fans behind the goal of " who's the slag with a flag".
I found this offensive but the official gave a strained smile and continued making terrible decisions. Should the club be charged with being sexist?
I realise that a directive has come from
UEFA about racist comments , but applying the same criteria to one stupid individual in a crowd of 200 as a large group of supporters in a crowd of 20,000.
I will try my best not to call the officials at Saturday's match wankers if they make a "mistake" even though I and many others have abused the referees and linesmen for years.