Reading manager calls for Arsenal player to be punished
by stresster on April 20th, 2008
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The heat is on at the bottom of the Premier League after a Bolton win meant it’s a three-horse race to the Championship that nobody wants to win. Although Reading put up a deent second-half performance away at Arsenal on Saturday, it wasn’t enough to stop them losing 2-0 and manager Steve Coppell appears to be feeling the pressure.
Sky Sports report that Coppell is unhappy that Alexander Hleb got away with slapping Graeme Murty during the match, when a red card should apparently have been brandished instead. His captain was knocked to the floor as a result, with the officials taking a leaf out of the Arsenal manager’s book and ‘not seeing anything’.
Coppell said: “Hleb slapped him across the neck and it is clearly visible on the video. It is there to see.
“I don’t know how the procedure is at the Football Association. It seems some mystery man phones in and says ‘have a look at the tape’.
“The whole process is unexplainable and arbitrary. Maybe someone in their front room somewhere will do something about it.”
It’s getting tight at the foot of the Premier League table, with just one point seperating Birmingham from Bolton and Reading. It appeared that the Royals had hauled themselves clear a few weeks ago, but last week’s defeat at home to Fulham means the prospect of returning to the Championship is a very real one.
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Tagged Under: Arsenal FC, Birmingham FC, Bolton FC, Championship, graeme murty, Reading FC, steve coppell
Alan - April 20th, 2008 at 3:28 pm
What a complete load of rubbish. Coppell has gone down in my estimation. Murty went down as if he had been punched by Joe Calzaghe and rolled around like Cristiano Ronaldo after someone had breathed heavily on him..
This was Alex Hleb for goodness sake. At worst he caught him with the heel of his hand and at best barely touched him at all.
A man’s game?. Good grief. Murty was staring at him afterwards as if he’d been mugged. I guess he thought that Reading might have had a chance if Arsenal were down to ten.
If that’s the best they can do they really are in deep doo-doo.
Derek - April 20th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
I have to agree, Murty should be booked for diving, what nonsense Coppell has lost it.