Fulham could be without striker Aleksandar Mitrovic for the remainder of the season.
That’s according to a recent report from The Times, who claims the Serbian forward, following his push on referee Chris Kavanagh last weekend, could be suspended for the rest of the season.
Mitrovic’s decision to shove into Kavanagh during Sunday’s FA Cup quarter-final against Manchester United stunned fans and pundits with the fiery number nine losing his cool after teammate Willian had already been shown a red card for a clear handball on the line.
Fulham’s implosion induced by Willian and Mitrovic’s actions, which also saw manager Marco Silva sent packing, allowed Erik Ten Hag’s Red Devils to come back into the game before eventually running out clear 3-1 winners.
Although the Serbian forward’s punishment has yet to be confirmed, outlets such as The Times are expecting the Premier League and FA to come down hard on the Fulham hitman, and should that be the case, Silva’s dreams of qualifying for Europe will be dealt a huge blow.
The refereeing during this match was simply shocking and biased. Sadly, it is just another affirmation that the the balance of benefit always goes to the bigger teams who have more money and wield more influence. Fulham should have been awarded one if not two penalties in the first half. The first incident, a blatant push by Shaw against Mitrovic, wasn’t even reviewed by VAR. I do not condone Mitrovic’s behaviour but I do understand the overall context of anger and grievance. If Mitrovic’s behaviour is showcased with an extensive ban then why hasn’t Fernandes’ behaviour at Liverpool been subject to similar review? (Some hope)! No surprise that the two Manchester clubs avoid each other inbred semi-final. It is ciear that the FA want the box office value of an all Manchester final.
What a deluded pile of tosh
Spot on mate ! 👍
Salty mate
Really shocking, biased & penalty 🤣🤣🙄🤦🏻♂️ you should of gone to specsavers 👓
You should HAVE gone to school.
What a load of rubbish
Pushing the referee when you team is 1 nil up and in control of the game has nothing g to do with bigger teams or money. The same refereeing we saw few days ago give Casemiro soft red I shave to say and denying Man UTD a very clear penalty hand ball in the pen area which game ended nil nil. Or this time the big teams didn’t get the favors you talking about. Fulham players and manager shld never have behaved in that manner. It’s sad they lost it and lost the match.
Fernandes never pushed a ref. He tapped a linesman on the shoulder for the ball – it wasn’t aggressive nor containing any ill tent.
Stop lying,that wasn’t a “tap on the shoulder”he pushed him intentionally with his arm,he was lucky the linesman let it slide.That would’nt have gone down well with the main referee.
Clown🤡
I seem to agree !!
It’s definitely not a level playing field.
Completely biased and not fair even on MOTD after they have dissected the incidents
Review the video of what happened with Fernandes and then compare the vast difference with Mitrovic and then tell me they are the same. One in a nudge and the other if on the street would have been jailed for assault.
Your comment is tottally slanted because you hate United. What does the United Liverpool game have to do with Mitrovic’s obvious foul manhandling a referee?—Absolutely nothing! He did it all by himself, and has only himself to blame. Therefore he should get the deserved punishment. End of story.
Mitrovic was guilty and deserves whats coming to him, end of.
And Anthony kicking out at Robinson wasn’t any bad intent either I suppose
Mitrovic does deserve a hefty punishment indeed. Having watched the 90 minute replay, it clearly also shows Maguire fouling Tete in the box before Fulham scored. He already had a yellow – so, to my reckoning , he should have received a red and been sent off. Coupled with the two disallowed penalties in the first half (Shaw should have received a red card as well) – shocking and biased refereeing. One thing is clear:
all three penalties would have been awarded to United.
Mitrovic deserves that ban for showing sign of indiscipline as well as their manager
I am not disputing the ban of the behaviour, which is inexcusable, but I am sorry the reality was FFC were denied two penalties and several potential United red cards because of Kavanagh’s shocking and biased refereeing. This is why there was such a strong sense of grievance. I do not believe Fulham’s over-reaction would have happened had the referee been even-handed. Of course, from a commercial perspective, it is much better for the two Manchester clubs to compete the final.
Of course everyone forgets what sort of treatment that referees used to get from United players under Alex Ferguson and nothing was ever done about it. But now that it is Fulham involved all of a sudden the whole world wants 10 game or more Bans. Disgraceful.!!!!!!!
Let me be clear: I am not against United in any way but I am against poor and biased refereeing. United should have been down to ten men and Shaw sent off within 3 minutes of the start of the game. And this would have happened had the incident occurred in Fulham’s penalty box. This is one of several United incidents that were overlooked and went unpunished during the match.
My point is that this happens too much in favour of the big clubs. It is no longer coincidence or a level playing field and this is largely because of money and it’s associated influence. This will get worse as more states own clubs and will eventually and inevitably lead to the establishment of a European super league.
I do not condone Mitrovic’s or Silva’s reactions but I do find it extraordinary that the FA have additionally charged Silva with bringing ‘the game into disrepute’ because he questioned the referee’s performance in his post-match comments. So democracy and freedom of speech don’t exist in football.
I have written to the FA to suggest that, at the same time they impose their custodial sentences on Silva and Mitrovic, they should also ensure that Kavanagh is not allowed to referee any further Fulham games