2007-02-25 22:35:34 · 4 answers · asked by Angel 4 in Sports ➔ Football ➔ English Football
Arsenal and Chelsea are braced for Football Association action after the Carling Cup final ended in a brawl.
The Gunners had Kolo Toure and Emmanuel Adebayor sent off, while Chelsea's Mikel Jon Obi also saw red.
Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger and Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho both ran on to the pitch to try to calm the players.
Wenger said: "I am sure the players will be punished. Will it be once or twice? With the FA you always have a good chance to worry."
Referees' chief Keith Hackett has called on the FA to take action and praised the way referee Howard Webb dealt with the incident.
"Howard and his assistants had a good game on that incident which was out of character from the rest of the match," said Hackett, general manager of the Professional Game Match Officials Board.
"They dealt calmly and firmly with it and after consultation Howard took appropriate action.
"His report will go into the FA today and they will look at those unseemly situations that arose. It was a pity because it was a fantastic game."
Hackett also criticised the two managers for getting involved.
Sometimes mature people lose control of their emotions
Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho
"This will be looked at by the FA. It was done with all good intentions but what we need is for those other than players to stay off the field, apart from security."
The brawl began when Toure was dragged back by Mikel, prompting an angry reaction from the Arsenal defender.
In the ensuing melee, Emmanuel Eboue clashed with Wayne Bridge, leaving the Chelsea left-back on the ground.
After consulting with his assistant, Webb showed red cards to Mikel, Toure and Adebayor and cautioned Frank Lampard and Cesc Fabregas.
The game was further delayed when a protesting Adebayor had to be dragged from the pitch by Arsenal physio Gary Lewin.
Ivory Coast international Toure said: "I apologise for this moment, and I regret my actions.
"Chelsea were winning and were starting to waste time, and I was not happy with that, which is why I went to Mikel and had some words with him.
"Then Lampard came in and maybe made the thing bigger than it was, but that is part of football."
Gunners striker Adebayor said: "My reaction after the card did not mean I wanted to hit the referee - I just wanted to know why he gave me the red card.
"I do not think I did anything wrong."
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Mourinho said the incidents were disappointing but understandable.
"Sometimes mature people lose control of their emotions," he said.
"You cannot kill a player because something happened. If Mikel did something wrong, it is not my job to kill him, it is my job to educate him."
Thank you
2007-02-25 23:15:17 · answer #1 · answered by pranoykedarnath(subri) 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mikel grabbed Toure's shirt and dragged him. Toure went ballistic and started fighting with the Nigerian. Somehow in the 10-man brawl, Wayne Bridge's head made incidental contact with Eboue's waving hand, and Bridge did his best C. Ronaldo impression (falling down, cluthing parts of his body that had no contact with anything).
Shame on Toure and Bridge for their conduct.
2007-02-26 09:36:05 · answer #2 · answered by mcfarlcc 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Both Emmanuel Adebayor of Arsenal and Chelsea's Jon Obi Mikel feel aggrieved that they were sent off during Sunday's dramatic Carling Cup final.
Togolese striker Adebayor could not understand why he was shown a red card when the fracas that marred the closing stages of the game had been defused.
He had not been on the pitch very long, having replaced Jeremie Aliadiere, when
players and coaches from both sides got involved in a mass brawl that erupted following Mikel's foul on Kolo Toure.
Those two, plus Adebayor, were dismissed by referee Howard Webb once order was restored.
Chelsea midfielder Frank Lampard and Arsenal's Cesc Fabregas were also booked for their part in the melee.
Webb consulted his assistant before showing Adebayor a red card, apparently for clashing with Blues full-back Wayne Bridge, although there is speculation that it should have been shown to another Emmanuel - Eboue.
21-year-old Adebayor has protested his innocence.
He said: "I had just come on, we were 2-1 down and I remember that Kolo had
the ball, and someone was pushing him - he fell down.
"He was getting really angry and wanted to exchange words with the player.
"I just ran over there to breakdown everything, trying to stop Kolo and also Eboue.
"I think Bridge came on to me. I cannot remember if I pushed him or not. At that moment, you have a lot of things in your head.
"If you see one Chelsea player behind you, you think he is going to maybe hit you. The
referee said I hit somebody, but I cannot remember that.
"I was just trying to stop everything and I got the red card. It is not fair, but that is
football."
Adebayor had to be escorted from the pitch by Arsenal physio Gary Lewin after
appearing to refuse to leave, and now looks likely to be handed a three-match ban.
"As a footballer, in a big final like this, I do not want to leave my team-mates," he
said.
"I want to fight to the end of the game and, when I saw the red card, of course I was
nervous.
"My reaction after the card did not mean I wanted to hit the referee - I just wanted to
know why he gave me the red card.
"I was just trying to tell him that, when I came there, it was not for fighting, it was for
breaking down people getting angry with each other.
"People told me I had to go, and I said I just want to ask the referee why he gave me a
red card.
"I do not think I did anything wrong."
Until the fracas, it been an excellent final, and Adebayor added: "We played some amazing football.
"In the first half, we had a lot of chances, which we did not take.
"Chelsea did very well and Drogba showed he is one of the biggest players in the Premiership.
"But you can also see we have some great players and they showed character."
Meanwhile, Nigerian Mikel apologised for his part in the scrap, but also insisted that he did not was not deserving of a red card.
His foul on Ivorian Kolo Toure sparked the trouble when the two players a mass brawl at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium as the two players indulged in a spot of shoving.
"It was an emotional thing and I was caught up in it. I am really sorry about what happened but I didn't deserve the card," said Mikel.
"I can only apologise for what happened, I am very sorry about it. I really can't explain what happened but I pulled him [Toure] and the referee gave a free-kick to them.
"I think Toure attacked me but the referee showed me the red card. I am really sorry for what happened.
"The referee had already given them a free-kick so why did he attack me? I don't know - I don't have a clue about it.
"I didn't touch him, I kept my hands down. But he didn't punch me. All I knew was that he attacked me. We didn't fight - it wasn't a serious fight but I had to defend myself.
"I have had two red cards this season - one of them I deserved but not this one."
Frank Lampard said the brawl reflected both clubs' desire to win.
"I don't know the first incident, but then they got up straight away and wanted to have a row with our players," Lampard told Sky Sports.
"I went over and tried to sort it out but I got involved.
"You might say it is disappointing but when you play a cup final at this level and people moan about not wanting to win this cup, it shows how much people wanted to win this cup."
Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho accepted that such incidents are understandable, although not defendable.
He said: "Sometimes mature people lose control of their emotions. You cannot kill a player because something happened.
"If Mikel did something wrong, it is not my job to kill him, it is my job to educate him."
2007-02-26 10:13:09 · answer #3 · answered by Herbicide 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
high ego.
2007-02-26 12:18:26 · answer #4 · answered by celi 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋