The Championship Chronicles - The Jetstream's review of the 2007/08 season. www.newcastlefootball.net/chronicles
I'm not..
I kind of feel everything has been said about it, in regards to both sides of the argument..
Its done now, we showed amazing spirit to achieve what we did after that incident..
I just hope that prick Buijs gets looked in to for his theatrical rolling about.. However we all know he won't. It will be the usual "ref and var made their decisions on the day, so its been dealt with"..
As long as there's any level of contact, no matter how minimal, they can't really do anything to Buijs as ridiculous as he looked. He could easily argue the strike genuinely hurt him that much, or he thought his cheekbone was broken... whatever crap he wants to dish out. There'd be enough rolling eyes but no-one could 100% claim he was simulating/play acting, if they all agree there was contact.
according to gatty roy handed a 2 week suspension
He was playing for the scum at the time... that's enough for anyone to do anything to not have to put that jersey on.
Seriously though, it wasn't an aggressive situation where he lost his head. I can't believe he would knowingly punch Buijs in the head, especially not with VAR breathing down everyone's necks. I know footballers do dumb things but that seems beyond even that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kp9fPOGBJJc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhyUoXtnsK0
he's clearly a bit unhinged. especially if he feels hard done by, which is probably how he felt when buijs blocked him off like that.
Hearing today @ 5:30 apparently.
The Championship Chronicles - The Jetstream's review of the 2007/08 season. www.newcastlefootball.net/chronicles
4 Weeks
No matter what, it's going to be a very interesting result..
They will be looking at his past misdemeanors (unfortunately), but hopefully also looking at the fact it was the last few minutes of a GF, he was looking at the ball, wasn't thinking straight due to face being mashed by an unbooked elbow.. etc..
He will be suspended until the week after we play Sydney FC.