A manager's new role

[PasadenaBlitz]

So more than half the season is played, and a new trend has developed in management: accuse the other team's player of cheating and being a hack. Essien has a couple of dirty tackles (purposely or recklessly, whatever). Suddenly Wenger and others are very vocal about how he should be punished. Gerrard has a bad tackle, and calls for suspension pop up. Now Martin Jol has joined the fray after City's Sommeil tackled Lee Young-Pyo. It seems more and more managers are having to carefully craft their statement to accuse the ref of taking sides without actually calling him dirty. However, they don't have to be quite so careful calling players cheats. I feel like it's out of hand. I understand the game is big business, and there is an advantage when a good player has to miss a game, but they just need to chill. I just don't remember so many cheat claims running around the last few seasons. Is there just more media attention on this aspect this year? I don't know the answer, but I'm tired of the managers I look up to sounding like babies.

[Teso Dos Bichos]

Managers have had enough of the shocking standards of the officials and bias at play. We need an overhaul.

[M]

If the reference to Gerrard is for his supposed "stamp" on Nolan, then it's a case of a manager being out to lunch. There was no way that was deliberate: Gerrard was merely trying to get out of the way of two players sliding towards him. Unfortunate, but that's all there was to it.

[sendorange]

Now Martin Jol has joined the fray after City's Sommeil tackled Lee Young-Pyo.
did you see that 'tackle'? It was horrendous and inexcusable that the officials missed it.

[PasadenaBlitz]

I've seen most of the tackles. Yes the Gerrard "stamp" was innocent, and yes Sommeil's tackle was horrendous. I'm talking more about the manager's outcry over it all. Whether the tackle is innocent or terrible, the managers are all starting to whine about it. Some of them have good reason, some of them don't. A manager has so much else on his plate (tactics, team spirit, etc) that it seems a waste for them to complain so much about something they have no control over. Maybe that's why they complain so much about it. It has to do with officiating though, and more and more comments are coming out about how the other team was favored. Then the FA has to step in and ask what they meant by the ref favoring the other team. The managers also want the FA to step in to punish players more. The managers SEEM to be acting more and more petty. It seems to be a "if we can't beat them on the field, we'll beat them elsewhere" approach. Even though the player wasn't booked today (rightly or wrongly), we'll try to get him tossed through other methods so that that team suffers down the line. It's got nothing to do with the play on the pitch. Each manager says they want to leave it on the pitch, and beat another team on the field. But their actions suggest they want to beat the other team through any means possible. It may be a product of the modern pressures of business, but it seems so blown out of proportion. Bad tackles have been missed for years... why the managerial outspokenness now?

[sendorange]

Because they are usually expected to do TV interviews with SKY after the game about what happened, or are asked about it by one of the vast number of football journalists out there, so they give their honest opinion. Hardly rocket science.

[OrlandoSPUR]

...it's nothing new having managers talk about disgraceful decisions or bad challenges by an opposing player....it has been like that for as long as I can remember.

[qazwsx]

Managers have had enough of the shocking standards of the officials and bias at play. We need an overhaul.

The thing is, they don't do as bad as people think. Two fans can look at the same incident and see something different.

Every team thinks the officials are against them and that they get the short straw of the draw.

[sydneymuganzi]

The thing is, they don't do as bad as people think. Two fans can look at the same incident and see something different.

Every team thinks the officials are against them and that they get the short straw of the draw.
Guess its a question of manager's being asked during post game analysis their views on a particular tackle.And I think they say what they saw.My problem is with calling out the FA to further punish the culprit.