Tonight's Games (Tues 27 March)..

[SuperNickyWroe]

bradford v crawley............uhmmm.........

just been on BBC Look Leeds - sorry North.........

real fisticuffs and the like!

a few bans being handed out there i think!!!

[Gullscorer]

These red cards have increased the chances of Plymouth and Burton winning on Saturday..?
Plymouth v Bradford, Burton v Crawley (spit..)

[DonnyGull]

Perhaps we can hope for a Points reduction for Crawley, for their brawl at Bradford - not sure if the stats on Sky Sports News website are correct - against players names, shows Bradford as
1 x Yellow and Crawley 6 x Yellow in Game.
Match Stats show Bradford 53 Yellow Crawley 54 Yellow Bradford 6 Red Crawley 2 Red

Must have kicked off big time there!!!!!

Oh S**t - that's for the season!!

[ferrarilover]

Are there specific disciplinary regulations pertaining to brawls or incidents after the whistle?

Matt.

[luketufc]

bradfords website says that Claude Davis and Pablo Mills, along with 3 bradford players were sent off after the whistle

[SuperNickyWroe]

bradfords website says that Claude Davis and Pablo Mills, along with 3 bradford players were sent off after the whistle

certainly beats the friendly handshake and "well played sir" at the end! =D

[ferrarilover]

They won't, of course, but both teams should be docked points, and here's why...

Last season, we were docked a point we didn't even win for what amounts to little more than an admin error. Some back room bint forgot to put paper in the fax machine or something and as such, we committed a very technical offence of fielding an unregistered player. No malice, no intent, no real harm (since we lost the bloody match anyway), no back page headlines, no bringing the game into disrepute, nothing.

These pair of clowns have had a mass punch up, committed offences against both criminal and civil law, brought the game very much into disrepute, there is malice and intent and what'll happen to them, maybe a small fine. A blip on the multi million pound copybook of Moneybags Crawley and probably not a major inconvenience for Bradford, what with their 10000 season ticket holders.

Makes a mockery of the whole thing really.

As for fat boy, the time has come now for someone at the top to realise that he's not a loveable rogue, he's not even got the charm or charisma or dress sense of Di Canio to fall back on, he's just a fat wanker with too much mouth and not enough brain power. If he is going to cause this sort of problem, then he needs to be dealt with because what he is doing now amounts to cheating. Gaining an unfair advantage over the opposition by operating outside of the rules. If they drug test players, then they must start attitude testing managers and I'm very much afraid (or delighted) that chunky and his boyfriend fall well below the standards expected, so must be punished. A Premier League manager needs oly to fart and offend the fourth official and theyre up on a charge before the FA, so why not down to this level for persistently and genuinely being a complete p***k?

Not proof read this and doing it in the iPad which, being an Apple product and therefore programmed by stupid Americans, thinks it knows better than me and autocorrects things at random, so E&OE.

Matt.

[Wisconsin_gull]

Reading the comments from fatso on the match report, he is so disingenuous as to make you despair. What goes around, comes around... we hope

To be honest when you are down to the final 7/8 games, I'm not sure that any of the run ins are easy, Crawley have plenty of tricky games ahead of them, I would dearly like for Shrewsbury to pip them at the post.

Was it an Asian betting ring that order the floodlight failure in the Shrews game this evening?

[Tq2Yellow]

Got all excited when I read Sky's report of FIVE Crawley players receiving red cards after a mass punch up at the Final Whistle to then read the players names and find only TWO Crawley players there, but for one it is his second red of season so minimum 5 match ban!
Would love to see us and Shrewsbury pip Crawley for automatic promotion and Crawley miss out in Play Offs - lets all dream together!

[Jerry]

Arsenal and Man U were both deducted points after a mass brawl in 1990 so there is a precedent.

[Southampton Gull]

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Surprising how that video clip doesn't tie in with Evans version..............

Crawley manager Steve Evans said he saw a Bradford player throw a punch. He added: "I think it was handbags, with a lot of pushing and shoving, but it was disappointing to see.

"If people have acted out of turn they need to be dealt with.

"The fourth official confirmed to me that the Bradford boy ran and punched somebody. Then there was a mass of bodies who had initially come together to shake hands.

"It is a shame because it takes away from what was an outstanding performance."


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[Modgull]

Disgusting and shocking scenes for the end of any match but when it involves a team managed by fatty and cheater it doesn't somehow surprise.

There would appear to be some clues to what happened here:

In normal play - Bradford nil cards, Crawley 6! Yellows.

At the final whistle two Crawley players, one of them being Mills, appear to push a Bradford player around until he retaliates and it all kicks off.

In the dressing room only the referee can exert control and red cards 5 including 2 Crawley.

Maybe Bradford are at fault because they are sore losers and they were intent on avenging defeat by reverting to violence in front of the rest of the footballing world.......

OR

The typical intimidating, cynical, time wasting tactics of the Crawley approach during play and the unsporting behaviour afterwards provoked a reaction.

Either way BOTH clubs should be penalised where it hurts most - by points deduction.

[Gulliball]

Pablo Mills shouldn't play again this season - he throws about 6 punches during the scenes, which should be dealt with by the Police and not the usual 3 game ban for violent conduct.

[divingbboy]

While I realize that Steve *spit* Evans wasn't directly involved here, it's no mistake that the team he manages are the dirtiest, most loathed team in the League. How do they get away with it? I mean, this is not a recent development. And while we're at it, how is it that Di Canio got a sideline ban a few weeks ago, when Evans's behaviour at literally every game is far worse? It's bizarre, and that's leaving aside the fact that he's a convicted fraudster who shouldn't even be allowed in football management.

[royalgull]

Them having a few missing is good, Also Burton winning is very good because they will actually have some confidence now for sat.

Also 82 away fans LOL.