Post by Macmoish on Oct 11, 2011 6:41:14 GMT
And Rooney "Appealing"
INDEPENDENT
Repentant Rooney pens apology to Uefa for his mad moment
By Sam Wallace, Football Correspondent
Tuesday, 11 October 2011
Wayne Rooney has written his own letter of apology for his red card against Montenegro as part of the Football Association's appeal for leniency when Uefa rules on the striker's Euro 2012 ban on Thursday.
The FA has been impressed by Rooney's desire to show contrition for his red card on Friday, which has earned him at minimum a one-match ban for next summer's European Championship and could see him suspended for as many as three games. His apology will form the centrepiece of the FA's defence, which will be sent to Uefa's headquarters in Nyon in Switzerland tomorrow.
While three games is very much a worst-case scenario, the FA is prepared for that eventuality. If the governing body gives Rooney anything more than a one-game ban on Thursday, the FA will immediately appeal.
So far, the FA has compiled documentary and video evidence that it hopes will support the case. As well as Rooney's letter, there is a letter from the FA and the accompanying DVD will highlight the fact that Rooney left the field immediately after his red card – a point picked up on subsequently by referee Wolfgang Stark.
The case is being handled by the FA's football governance and regulation department, who are experts in sports law and administer the FA's disciplinary process across the professional and amateur game in England. Uefa rules do not allow for a delegate from the FA to appear in person but the governing body has gone into overdrive since Friday night to put together a robust case in Rooney's defence.
The Uefa Control and Disciplinary Body comprises the chairman Thomas Partl, of Austria, and nine committee members. They sit for a day and will look at a number of cases including that of Rooney, sent off for a kick at Miodrag Dzudovic. For the body to sit it needs a quorum consisting of three members plus Partl present. Uefa has not specified who will attend on Thursday.
The Independent contacted Jim Stjerne Hansen, the general secretary of the Danish football federation, yesterday. He said that he would attend the hearing in Nyon if Denmark beat Portugal tonight and qualify automatically for Euro 2012. Should they have to go through the play-offs then he will be in Krakow this week for the draw. He would not divulge what he thought of the Rooney case.
The president of the Northern Ireland FA, Jim Shaw, is also on the Uefa disciplinary body. The other members who could be part of the committee that decides Rooney's fate are: Jacques Antenen (Switzerland); Sándor Berzi (Hungary); Emilio García Silvero (Spain); Hans Lorenz (Germany); Gheorghe Popescu (Romania); Rudolf Repka (Czech Republic) and Joël Wolff (Luxembourg).
www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news-and-comment/repentant-rooney-pens-apology-to-uefa-for-his-mad-moment-2368674.html
GUARDIAN
Wayne Rooney writes to Uefa in bid to keep Euro 2012 ban at one game
• Uefa can increase suspension to three matches
• Rooney will point to improved disciplinary record
* Dominic Fifield
Wayne Rooney is to plead his case to Uefa in writing as part of the Football Association's argument that the England striker should not have his automatic one‑match ban for violent conduct extended by the governing body's control and disciplinary panel.
Uefa's disciplinary department will meet on Thursday and discuss Rooney's petulant kick at the Montenegro defender Miodrag Dzudovic during the 2-2 draw in Podgorica on Friday. The striker was dismissed by the German official Wolfgang Stark with 17 minutes of the qualifier remaining and will miss at least his country's opening fixture at the finals in Ukraine and Poland next summer.
The control and disciplinary body has the power to increase that suspension to up to three games, or impose a warning or fine, and will study Stark's report before making a decision. The precedent appears to be the ban given to Arsenal's midfielder Andrey Arshavin after he was dismissed for violent conduct six minutes from the end of Russia's final qualifier against Andorra before Euro 2008. The Russian Football Federation included video footage of the physical treatment its captain had received from opposing players during that game as part of its evidence but Arshavin was still banned for the first two games of the finals.
The FA accepts that Rooney's offence merited a red card but believes his behaviour does not warrant a more severe punishment and, to that end, has indicated its defence of the player will be "proactive and robust". The body's governance and regulatory department has been examining Uefa's rules and statutes and the FA will send a dossier to Uefa in the hope that the sanction will not be increased. The submission will include footage of Rooney's reaction to the red card in the hope that the fact the striker departed the pitch without contesting the decision in Podgorica, as Stark confirmed over the weekend, will work in his favour.
Rooney will point to his relatively improved disciplinary record in recent seasons. The player has not been sent off for England in more than five years – he was dismissed for appearing to stamp on Portugal's Ricardo Carvalho during the World Cup quarter-final against Portugal in Gelsenkirchen in 2006 – and was last dismissed for Manchester United in March 2009.
The England manager, Fabio Capello, too, is expected to write a letter arguing that the ban should remain at one match. However, there are concerns that Uefa will take into account that Rooney served a one-game ban during the qualifying campaign for Euro 2012, having missed last summer's 2-2 draw with Switzerland after picking up two bookings in Group G. That may count against him.
The FA has indicated that, if the ban were extended beyond the automatic one-game suspension, it would appeal against the decision.
Uefa's control and disciplinary body will examine on 17 November the FA's complaint about racist chanting by Bulgaria fans during England's 3-0 win in Sofia last month, after the Bulgarian FA requested more time to submit its statement.
www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/oct/10/wayne-rooney-uefa-euro-2012-ban
INDEPENDENT
Repentant Rooney pens apology to Uefa for his mad moment
By Sam Wallace, Football Correspondent
Tuesday, 11 October 2011
Wayne Rooney has written his own letter of apology for his red card against Montenegro as part of the Football Association's appeal for leniency when Uefa rules on the striker's Euro 2012 ban on Thursday.
The FA has been impressed by Rooney's desire to show contrition for his red card on Friday, which has earned him at minimum a one-match ban for next summer's European Championship and could see him suspended for as many as three games. His apology will form the centrepiece of the FA's defence, which will be sent to Uefa's headquarters in Nyon in Switzerland tomorrow.
While three games is very much a worst-case scenario, the FA is prepared for that eventuality. If the governing body gives Rooney anything more than a one-game ban on Thursday, the FA will immediately appeal.
So far, the FA has compiled documentary and video evidence that it hopes will support the case. As well as Rooney's letter, there is a letter from the FA and the accompanying DVD will highlight the fact that Rooney left the field immediately after his red card – a point picked up on subsequently by referee Wolfgang Stark.
The case is being handled by the FA's football governance and regulation department, who are experts in sports law and administer the FA's disciplinary process across the professional and amateur game in England. Uefa rules do not allow for a delegate from the FA to appear in person but the governing body has gone into overdrive since Friday night to put together a robust case in Rooney's defence.
The Uefa Control and Disciplinary Body comprises the chairman Thomas Partl, of Austria, and nine committee members. They sit for a day and will look at a number of cases including that of Rooney, sent off for a kick at Miodrag Dzudovic. For the body to sit it needs a quorum consisting of three members plus Partl present. Uefa has not specified who will attend on Thursday.
The Independent contacted Jim Stjerne Hansen, the general secretary of the Danish football federation, yesterday. He said that he would attend the hearing in Nyon if Denmark beat Portugal tonight and qualify automatically for Euro 2012. Should they have to go through the play-offs then he will be in Krakow this week for the draw. He would not divulge what he thought of the Rooney case.
The president of the Northern Ireland FA, Jim Shaw, is also on the Uefa disciplinary body. The other members who could be part of the committee that decides Rooney's fate are: Jacques Antenen (Switzerland); Sándor Berzi (Hungary); Emilio García Silvero (Spain); Hans Lorenz (Germany); Gheorghe Popescu (Romania); Rudolf Repka (Czech Republic) and Joël Wolff (Luxembourg).
www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news-and-comment/repentant-rooney-pens-apology-to-uefa-for-his-mad-moment-2368674.html
GUARDIAN
Wayne Rooney writes to Uefa in bid to keep Euro 2012 ban at one game
• Uefa can increase suspension to three matches
• Rooney will point to improved disciplinary record
* Dominic Fifield
Wayne Rooney is to plead his case to Uefa in writing as part of the Football Association's argument that the England striker should not have his automatic one‑match ban for violent conduct extended by the governing body's control and disciplinary panel.
Uefa's disciplinary department will meet on Thursday and discuss Rooney's petulant kick at the Montenegro defender Miodrag Dzudovic during the 2-2 draw in Podgorica on Friday. The striker was dismissed by the German official Wolfgang Stark with 17 minutes of the qualifier remaining and will miss at least his country's opening fixture at the finals in Ukraine and Poland next summer.
The control and disciplinary body has the power to increase that suspension to up to three games, or impose a warning or fine, and will study Stark's report before making a decision. The precedent appears to be the ban given to Arsenal's midfielder Andrey Arshavin after he was dismissed for violent conduct six minutes from the end of Russia's final qualifier against Andorra before Euro 2008. The Russian Football Federation included video footage of the physical treatment its captain had received from opposing players during that game as part of its evidence but Arshavin was still banned for the first two games of the finals.
The FA accepts that Rooney's offence merited a red card but believes his behaviour does not warrant a more severe punishment and, to that end, has indicated its defence of the player will be "proactive and robust". The body's governance and regulatory department has been examining Uefa's rules and statutes and the FA will send a dossier to Uefa in the hope that the sanction will not be increased. The submission will include footage of Rooney's reaction to the red card in the hope that the fact the striker departed the pitch without contesting the decision in Podgorica, as Stark confirmed over the weekend, will work in his favour.
Rooney will point to his relatively improved disciplinary record in recent seasons. The player has not been sent off for England in more than five years – he was dismissed for appearing to stamp on Portugal's Ricardo Carvalho during the World Cup quarter-final against Portugal in Gelsenkirchen in 2006 – and was last dismissed for Manchester United in March 2009.
The England manager, Fabio Capello, too, is expected to write a letter arguing that the ban should remain at one match. However, there are concerns that Uefa will take into account that Rooney served a one-game ban during the qualifying campaign for Euro 2012, having missed last summer's 2-2 draw with Switzerland after picking up two bookings in Group G. That may count against him.
The FA has indicated that, if the ban were extended beyond the automatic one-game suspension, it would appeal against the decision.
Uefa's control and disciplinary body will examine on 17 November the FA's complaint about racist chanting by Bulgaria fans during England's 3-0 win in Sofia last month, after the Bulgarian FA requested more time to submit its statement.
www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/oct/10/wayne-rooney-uefa-euro-2012-ban