Fulham head coach Marco Silva will be banned from the bench at Sunderland in Wednesday night’s FA Cup fourth round replay after receiving his fourth booking of the season at Stamford Bridge on Friday night.
The Portuguese coach was cautioned by Stuart Attwell with six minutes remaining of Fulham’s 0-0 draw with Chelsea, having become frustrated by the fact that a number of cynical challenges from the hosts had not been punished by the match officials. The Fulham boss has been no stranger to confrontations with the officials this season. He was booked at Arsenal – having been incensed by the decision to allow the Gunners’ late winner in August – and at West Ham, where Fulham were furious that two blatant handballs were missed before two of the Hammers goals.
Silva was also cautioned after the final whistle at St. James’ Park last month, having gone onto the pitch to remonstrate with the officials over their failure to award a penalty and send off Dan Burn during a game that the Whites went on to lose 1-0. Premier League rules were amended in 2019 to formalise the introduction of yellow and red cards for the occupants of the technical area and four bookings triggers an automatic one-match suspension.
Eight yellow cards earns a two-match suspension, whilst repeat offenders are banned for three matches should they reach twelve cautions. A misconduct charge follows sixteen bookings. Silva will watch from the stands at the Stadium of Light, with technical area duties likely to be split between first team coach Stuart Gray and assistant manager Luis Boa Morte.
If the refs were better these things would never have occurred .When analysed afterwards Marco was 100% correct.With VAR and 4th official the level of refs and linos decision making is dreadful and ruins the games.
How do we get fined £27k for letting another awful ref when Tete could have had his leg broken- the ref did eventually give the Chelsea player a red card but his indecision was the cause of the problem.He should take the fine out of his match fees.We will see how much ManU get fined as they all gathered round the ref except the keeper this weekend and Fred still confronted the ref for showing a red card after Will Hughes had been throttled.Mental!
Agree with Paul exactly right what are they going to give ManUtd but wait a minute we are Fulham we don’t matter again this Media love Affair with the big clubs Fergie used to say that Referee will never Ref here again because he dare give a penalty at Old Trafford against Man Utd grea call I support Marco 100%
Empathise with Marco, but manager antics on the touchline are out of hand, and they spill onto the pitch with players harassing officials. It’s counter productive and needs to be reined in across all clubs.
Agree with Mike. Yes it’s unfair but you just have to suck it up I’m afraid as you can’t change it. Mitro in particular is all over the ref constantly and it needs to stop. The leadership Marco shows is top class. Just sort this out and it’ll help the team.