[X-Offender]

I think three games are too much.

[Jack Bauer]

Me too, he deserved two games, not three. That tender slap (plus he was defending his teammate) is not equal to what Dias did to MVB.

[X-Offender]

He got a reduction last season, and his punch at Rossi of Bari was much worse.

[Jack Bauer]

Maybe they were afraid of more Juve bitching... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dry.gif)

[drucurl]

Many sides to this story.

On the one hand he was protecting his team mate which is commendable and the fact that Aronica gets away free is disgusting.

On the other hand how much are we to tolerate. The guy fights with his own team mates and opponents. He has gotten so many red cards in his career. He probably has more reds than Totti. Probably more than any other forward I've ever seen. I can't remember the last time Milan had such a bad tempered player....Guillit perhaps?

Then there is the third angle that the incident in itself when scrutinized is pretty innocuous so it wasn't an actual punch...more of a slap...but the thing is these incidents add up and saying that he was punished less for worse isn't even an argument. Anyone who doesn't see the world through our red and black glasses would actually use as grounds to EXTEND this ban.

Think about all the moronic crap he's done while here, from the hitting th reporter with his car (ridiculous accusation I agree but look at the speed he flies by in the crowded road), the Storari blow, the Aronica slap (would have been a punch if he was in proper range), the Onyewu fight, the Strasser kick.....and then ask yourself which Milan player in recent past ever behaved this way. Most of these incidents my themselves are easily explained. even understandable but the crap he does just adds up

This post has been edited by drucurl: Feb 23 2012, 08:20 PM

[Fillipo Simone]

Maybe they were afraid of more Juve bitching... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dry.gif)

This.

That's what I've been telling all along. It was Conte's strategy.

[Zed.D]

+1. I wanted to say the exact same thing. FIGC are a bunch of cowards.

[han2503]

We should act like a couple of b!tches too to the media like Juve did. It's obviously working out great for them so far (IMG:style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif)

It's disgusting to see

[nuh]

i just hope that this is a blessing in disguise like inter last year.... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/unsure.gif)

[X-Offender]

Funny enough, last year we were to face Inter in the "scudetto match" without Ibra, now we have to face Juve in the other "scudetto match" without him. 3-0, anyone? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/cool.gif)

[Fillipo Simone]

I'd be thrilled, yet, I don't have the same feel about this one.

[acid911]

3-0, anyone?

If Pato scores two, then why not. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) Frankly Juventus has quality (in defense more so) unlike Arsenal, and it will take something special to carve through them. Hard work may just not be enough this time, unless of course, they put in a bad performance themselves. If they remain solid, we may need a miraculous goal or two.

[kurtsimonw]

Under what grounds should it be reduced?

It was unnecessary, he was unprovoked and it was nothing to do with him. He's lucky that (I assume) the Italian FA don't work the same way as the English FA, because he'd be serving a 4 game ban now for a stupid appeal.

[X-Offender]

It wasn't a violent gesture. It was rude, but not violent. Three weeks is an exaggerated ban.

[d'Arc.LP]

Leandro Cantamessa (Milan's lawyer): "I'm furious. Those who judged Ibra didn't take into consideration how they've judged similar cases earlier. The linesman saw that the slap didn't hurt Aronica, so it wasn't a violent act, it was just unsporting and yet they still judge it to be violent."