Bad Boy auf dem Bosporus: Jermaine Jones at Beşiktaş [R]

Jermaine with his first ever straight red. Was just listening so not exactly sure what happened.

 

Didn't see it, but apparently JJ attempted to tackle one of our players from behind, and the ref thought it was not a good idea on his part, thus the red. On a more positive note, I think Jones got the assist on the S04 goal.

 

Video and discussion in the gameday thread

 

First Ever Strait Red of his career, and a bunch of idiots call him a foul machine. D-Mids will and should get fouls. J Jones is brilliant and knows when to go in hard. See the tackle on Neymar when he showed the Brazilians to quit screwing around. Anyone who grew up playing d-mid or defense understands that. Anyone who doesn't want our team to get pushed around should figure it out

 

It was a pretty soft red, I thought.

 

Out of curiosity has there ever been a notable d-mid who took that long in career to get a strait red. Kind of crazy as it seems like the occasional red would be part of the territory of being an enforcer like Jermaine

 

Schalke fan?

 

Highlights vs. Stuttgart yesterday, w/the sequence in which he earned an assist starting at the 0:20 mark:



On the downside, his club lost 3-1, surrendering a hat trick to former St. Louis Billiken Vedad Ibisevic. Not to mention his 1st ever straight red.

 

cap him now!

 

Good update from the game day thread!

 

If only it were possible .
Although it is interesting to note that 3 individuals that figure prominantly on the stat sheet, both for good and ill, have sugnificant American connections: Vedad Ibesevic who scored the hat trick, and Sakai and Jones who were both ejected after seeing straight red.

 

JJ not happy, and rightly so:

Jermaine Jones ‏@Jermainejunior
4 games suspended? Thats crazy in my opinion.

 

kicker reporting the harsh penalty is because he is a repeat offender.
http://www.kicker.de/news/fussball/...lungstaeter_jones-muss-viermal-zuschauen.html

and the appeal has been made
http://www.schalke04.de/aktuell/new...sperre-fuer-jones-s04-legt-einspruch-ein.html

And he is still eligible for next week's cup match.

 

Hey, don't shoot the messenger.
In the kicker article it was mentioned that he has received 5 red cards for Schalke, but that is since 2007/08. Seems like this is more about reputation. I suspect it will be reduced to 3 games, which would keep him out through Jan 26. Four games would be through Feb. 2.

 

Yes first straight red after only 6 yellow/reds in his career (league only). Nonetheless, he has the reputation...

 

First straight red, but a huge number of yellows and general a lot of hard tackles per game (how much did he have to sit out last season simply to yellow card accumulation and the Reus incident), if you see him play like that every week in the league, it sticks in the mind and cumulates, and hey presto, he has earned himself a reputation. So Jones was judged a repeat offender or rather as having repeatedly engaged in unsporting behaviour, if you prefer, and if you look at his transfermarkt thread most people correctly predicted that he would get around 3 or 4 matches as a ban.

I do think that it is still a bit harsh if you make the direct comparision with Sakai, who's foul was much worse, so mabey they'll reduce it to three.

 

This latest suspension makes me foot-stompin' mad!

 

Jermaine has to be doing this on purpose. His goals in an interview was to captain the US national team and play more for the national team. January camp accomplishes this. Plus Schalke dont really play anyone good in the league until Bayern when he would be eligible to play.

 

What reputation?

 

Wow nice sound track.

 

this is one of the best vids on the internet. seen this about 40 times and it never gets old.

 

I'm laughing out loud.