AdmiralHanson wrote:
The crux of the issue is what is an appropriate punishment ?
But don't be surprised if a warning and a £250 'slap on the wrist' isn't deemed by some people as sufficent ....
Sounds reasonable to me actually.
Its probably not his fault that he is a daft, arrogant kid and he could do much worse than look to Iestyn Harris for inspiration, a player of similar prestigious skills who managed to alienate most clubs supporters, even the clubs he had played for
but who to the best of my recollection never once let a crowd play mind games with him during a match.
Indeed if I were his coach I'd be rather alarmed that a player in my team was so badly affected by one incident in one game that several months later he is still refering to it in every press interview he does and is apparently still so wound up about it that he's risking a disrepute charge to respond to a crowd who probably had nothing to do with the original incident.
Its just a good job that there's no danger that the England team will play in Australia any time soon because we all know how that would end in tears before bedtime.
