Marco Silva has been charged with breaching Football Association rules after claiming that referee Sam Barrott wasn’t experienced enough to officiate Fulham’s game at Newcastle United last month.
The Fulham boss was furious that Raul Jimenez was sent off for a wild tackle but that Jamal Lascelles, who had elbowed the Mexican striker in the face, escaped any punishment. His trenchant criticism in the post-match interviews after Fulham’s 3-0 defeat has now seen him charged.
A statement from the FA this afternoon read:
“Fulham Football Club’s manager Marco Silva has been charged with a breach of FA Rule E3 following their Premier League game against Newcastle United on Saturday 16 December 2023. It’s alleged that his comments in the post-match media interviews following the fixture, constitute improper conduct in that they imply bias and/or question the integrity of, and/or are insulting towards the match official and/or the Video Assistant Referee, an/or bring the game into disrepute.
Marco Silva has until Monday 8 January to provide a response.”
Being right, is probably no defence I suppose..
As a point of enquiry is there any official passage for complaining about refs.In my amateur playing days each captain had card to fill in to rate the ref?
To me this is the same as the Mitro incident but obviously a lot less serious. It’s the same pattern. A ref is poor at running the game. He starts to favour the bigger team. It gets to the point where it winds up the players. Then someone does something stupid. Then the FA focuses on the stupid incident rather than the lead up.
Everyone focussed on Mitro pushing Kavanagh. Which of course he shouldn’t. They forget the appalling bias and double standards the ref showed during the match which wound him up.
Same with Jiminez. It was a red and he deserved to go. But why no action when he was elbowed in the face, why did the ref play on with a head injury, why was Jiminez made to stand off the pitch for so long? That’s what wound him up and lead to his stupid challenge. This is the root cause of Silva’s comments but as usual the FA don’t want to focus on that.
Silva’s right, the refs are ….
Whilst his comments were perhaps emotional/in the heat of the moment I disagree that they were suggesting the official was bias nor did they question his integrity. The comments questioned his level of experience to handle a match at that level.
Marco is guilty. Guilty of caring, guilty of expressing his opinion on the incidents.
He must be aware by now this is a no no. You arn’t allowed to critise these people no matter how useless their displays are. Another match ruined by poor and gutless officials.
Why have they left this for 3 weeks, has nobody given them the attention they crave.
What a wonderful game at Everton with no V A R to ruin it!!