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Grapo2001

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The timing is odd, but let's be honest it's expected. You can't just jump into the crowd and kick off if you are a professional footballer.
 
Saoirse

Saoirse

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Full report available here. Interesting points:

  • It was Dier's brother who started the physical confrontation, not the fan
  • The case was delayed at Dier's request as he attempted to gain access to materials from a police interview for evidence
  • Gareth Southgate gave an unsolicited and extremely positive character reference
  • Crucially, there was a point where the abusive spectator and Dier's brother had left in totally different directions. The spectator was also apologising to Eric both verbally and with his body language. Eric admits choosing to pursue him rather than leaving the stands or searching for his brother, insisting that he just wanted to talk - but the panel fairly concluded that this was unlikely to be amicable and that the fan was trying to avoid any further confrontation and had fled to the exit. This seems to be why they've found him guilty of threatening rather than merely improper behaviour.
  • A comparison was made that had Dier pursued a player in the same way off the ball, he would have been sent off and banned. Entering the stands makes this more serious, and therefore a 6-game ban was the starting point before mitigating circumstances (e.g. the abuse received and the fact he did initially enter the stands out of concern for his brother) was considered.
 
samspurs92

samspurs92

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Cheers to the disrespectful idiot, one of our fans allegedly, for handing out abuse and provoking him.

Footballers are only human and I wouldn’t just stand there if my brother was involved in something like this.
 
wrd

wrd

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Saoirse said:
Full report available here. Interesting points:

  • It was Dier's brother who started the physical confrontation, not the fan
  • The case was delayed at Dier's request as he attempted to gain access to materials from a police interview for evidence
  • Gareth Southgate gave an unsolicited and extremely positive character reference
  • Crucially, there was a point where the abusive spectator and Dier's brother had left in totally different directions. The spectator was also apologising to Eric both verbally and with his body language. Eric admits choosing to pursue him rather than leaving the stands or searching for his brother, insisting that he just wanted to talk - but the panel fairly concluded that this was unlikely to be amicable and that the fan was trying to avoid any further confrontation and had fled to the exit. This seems to be why they've found him guilty of threatening rather than merely improper behaviour.
  • A comparison was made that had Dier pursued a player in the same way off the ball, he would have been sent off and banned. Entering the stands makes this more serious, and therefore a 6-game ban was the starting point before mitigating circumstances (e.g. the abuse received and the fact he did initially enter the stands out of concern for his brother) was considered.
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omg you F.A Apologist
 
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midoshairband

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Saoirse said:
Full report available here. Interesting points:

  • It was Dier's brother who started the physical confrontation, not the fan
  • The case was delayed at Dier's request as he attempted to gain access to materials from a police interview for evidence
  • Gareth Southgate gave an unsolicited and extremely positive character reference
  • Crucially, there was a point where the abusive spectator and Dier's brother had left in totally different directions. The spectator was also apologising to Eric both verbally and with his body language. Eric admits choosing to pursue him rather than leaving the stands or searching for his brother, insisting that he just wanted to talk - but the panel fairly concluded that this was unlikely to be amicable and that the fan was trying to avoid any further confrontation and had fled to the exit. This seems to be why they've found him guilty of threatening rather than merely improper behaviour.
  • A comparison was made that had Dier pursued a player in the same way off the ball, he would have been sent off and banned. Entering the stands makes this more serious, and therefore a 6-game ban was the starting point before mitigating circumstances (e.g. the abuse received and the fact he did initially enter the stands out of concern for his brother) was considered.
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unbelievably, it seems the FA actually made a considered decision!
 
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yankspurs

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Aug 22, 2013
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That took 4 months? Really, FA? And no ban for a player going to choke another player? And no retrospectice action taken for a blatant purposeful elbow that somehow the ref and the dumbass behind the screen missed? Okay then. Looking forward to Mourinho later. He’ll have something to say these clowns wont necessarily like.
 
spursfan77

spursfan77

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Makes you wonder how much abuse players get in their daily lives actually. Dier says he gets it in the stadium, online and from people passing in cars. All a bit strange really.
 
wrd

wrd

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Vinny_Sammways_left_peg said:
Yeah, well we can all shout at him in his thread when he moans about it, I'm sure. Silly Jose (if he does)
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I’m sure he will be annoyed he doesn’t have a player in good form available as I’m sure we all are. It’s also possible to though be annoyed he is banned understand why he was banned and not have a victim mentality about it.
 
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richard_gleeson

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Absolute disgrace. Why does it take so long to decide, then ban him for these 4 chosen games! Disgrace! Football is becoming a complete joke.
 
wrd

wrd

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richard_gleeson said:
Absolute disgrace. Why does it take so long to decide, then ban him for these 4 chosen games! Disgrace! Football is becoming a complete joke.
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fuck me they explained it, they were waiting for the police to handover evidence. You lot would all get less frustrated if you actually read things before reacting.
 
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