Idiots exist everywhere unfortunately. You have to be more safe than expect everyone to act civil. People are crazy out there nowadays, and that’s just in our regular normal lives.
@shamrockgooner I do agree Mourinho deserves to be punished for it but there needs to be wider discussion over why this keeps happening recently. It feels like we had countless incidents the past year alone.
Be it Arteta, Pep, Klopp, Conte, Mourinho, Silva or others.
It feels like there is big disconnect between refs and coaches.
Ultimately, agree something needs to happen with this. I just don’t think this needs to be swept under the carpet again with tour typical ban because at some point something more serious will happen and we’ll have tragedies.
You mean coaches calling out officials? That’s happened forever. Because officiating in football is so opaque the coaches try to use prematch or postmatch comments to gain advantages.
I think it comes back to some of the lack of mutual respect between all three groups in a match, the coaches, the players and the officials. I still think more transparency would help.
That being said, I don’t know how you can drop the hammer on Mourinho based on just his comments in the press conference alone. They weren’t that scandalous.
You wanna punish him for what he did after the match in the parking lot? Go at it.
As for Roma itself, I think the only way to really get the message across is a blunt instrument so you gotta look at European bans or stadium closures.
I’m moreso talking about scrimmages. Perhaps I watch too much football(mainly PL and Serie A) but every other week this season there was a scrimmage of some sort. Players, staff, refs, all just going at it.
It often usually starts with a decision, someone complaining to the 4th, the ref getting involved, and then chaos ensues.
I guess. Maybe I’m just desensitized to it given the history of coaches mixing it up with umpires or officials in baseball, American football or basketball (I don’t watch hockey, so I’m not sure if it happens there).
Going back to the match for a moment. The deterioration and break down in football wasn’t on Roma alone.
The antics and stupidity was on Sevilla as much as Roma on the pitch and on the sidelines and they are far from blameless.
I know I said Roma should face a European ban for this but I forgot they have FFP issues anyway. They may rule themselves out of Europe via multiple avenues.
Enforcing that rule is fine–but I think there should be rule as to what the pen taker is allowed to do. Seeing guys stutter step, hop, jump, etc. is a little ridiculous when the goalie can’t move forward at all.
Yeah there is a rule and they should enforce that too tbh.
I think they allowed the stutter step as long as it’s not breaking the run up or some shite. Often it does exactly that and refs let it go when they shouldn’t.
Fair play to him, he’s obviously at a club where it feels like home compared to some of his recent jobs. Feels like a good fit and one that he’s enjoying.
Getting paid off after being sacked by Chelsea, Man U and spurs, means he probably won’t have to stack shelves in the local Rome Tesco Express to top up his income.
For those that like these sort of documentaries, Mourinho announced in his post match conference that this Thursday(or the next one) a Netflix documentary will drop about him.
It will cover his whole career apparently and Mourinho teased that it will reveal which club approached him after he agreed with Roma(rumoured to be Madrid).
I selfishly hope we see more of these. I think a Pep one would be great too.
It depends who is doing the documentary.
I’ve seen plenty of these sort of programmes where it’s more like an advert for whoever the subject is rather than an unbiased documentary.
Like you say, it would be interesting to see Guardiola and what he has to say but is he really going to give us all the dirt on how Man City really do their business?
It would probably be written and produced by the Man City PR team.
