Essien Red Card Appealed

[Aesthetic Relic 301]

Chelsea.fc

Mon, 26th Nov 2007A claim for wrongful dismissal from Michael Essien has been received by the FA.Essien was shown a red card during Chelsea's game against Derby County on Saturday (24th November) for violent conduct.

[Elliott 7]

Won't get anywhere. No way the FA will rescind it.

[BlueLion. 21,491]

We're Chelsea FC, there is no way the FA will take this appeal into consideration.

[Aesthetic Relic 301]

The only thing going in Essiens favour is the fact that Kenny Miller didnt go down like a bag of spuds after the contact had been made.Arms raised.....no arguement

[warnie_666 1,081]

Give FA some money change, and you never know they mite overrule the Ref's Decision

[SuperSheva7 0]

pointless....

[Steve 10,227]

hm i highly doubt this will get anywhere when it come to us they probebly look at the appeals and through them in the bin.. it was a silly send off but they wont even look at it that way.

[BlueLion. 21,491]

I think that they should appeal for some consistency from referees at least. Tackles like Stephen Hunt's on Fernandes get away with a yellow card, whilst contact with an elbow gets a red. If you ask me, its the former which is the more dangerous.

[EskWeston 696]

It is never going to get taken back but i can understand why the club do it. BlueLion is right, a bit of consistancy wouldn't go amiss, the fact that far worse challenges do not receive the same punishment, our red cards this season have all been very flimsy especially compared to other challenges that received less (i.e. Kuyt, Hunt ect....)

[BlueLion. 21,491]

I think bar Essiens' our red cards this season have been unjust. Drogba had every right to challenge for the ball and contact was obviously accidental as his eyes were on the ball, and don't get me going on Mikel's "foul". I just think referees seriously have it in against us.

[Aesthetic Relic 301]

Setanta

Essien appeal shown the red card The FA have rejected Chelsea’s appeal against the red card shown to Michael Essien during Saturday teatime’s 2-0 win over Derby.Referee Andre Marriner dismissed Essien in injury time when the Ghana international seemingly lashed out at Derby striker Kenny Miller. Marriner’s decision prompted exuberant protests from Chelsea players, particularly from returning skipper John Terry. However, Chelsea’s request for the red card to be overturned has been dismissed and, as a result, Essien will be forced to serve a three-game ban. The tireless midfielder will now miss the Premier League games against West Ham, Sunderland and Arsenal.

There you go now

[warnie_666 1,081]

This is getting increasingly frustrating. Y THE FUCKING HELL DO THEY EVEN have this rule for clubs to "APPEAL" when they fucking never consider them. The FA is full of FUCKING SONS OF WHORES!!!.......sorry about that..but couldnt help it.

[misschief 24]

Was an absolute waste of time appealing anyway. If anything, the only thing that'll come from it is that now yet another decision against us has been upheld, the refs have even more scope because they know they'll always get the FA's backing. Besides, if we're going to appeal against justified decisions, it gives a lot less weight against the unjust ones - starts to look like you're playing the victim imo.

[chrismada9 1,948]

it just shows you why the FA does "Fuck All" (considering their Acronym)