Sent off yesterday by Mike Dean. TV cameras didn't pick anything up but apparently sent off for spitting at an opponent. He's landed himself a six match ban.

Serves him right the filthy git. If there is one thing I can't abide it's flobbing on a sports pitch, particularly when it is aimed at another person. Bloody obnoxious habit...

Nothing worse and he deserves all he gets. Watch Leeds appeal it.

Spot on Hendrickxz - spitting at an opponent is as low as it gets. It's one of the things the old Revie team used to do and get away with it.

Outrageous. How can a player for the biggest team in the world get such a lengthy ban?

ClaretTony wrote:Spot on Hendrickxz - spitting at an opponent is as low as it gets. It's one of the things the old Revie team used to do and get away with it.

they were 'spitting feathers' when we beat 'em 1 - 4 in '74!

claretblue wrote:they were 'spitting feathers' when we beat 'em 1 - 4 in '74!

They were also spitting at our players, pulling their hair and grabbing their b0ll0cks. One of our players spilled the beans on it all in the following week. Wouldn't be right to say which player but he played up front, scored twice, one an overhead kick and then years later became our chief exec.

I can never understand why footballers feel the need to spit so much during a game. Can't think of any other sport where this happens.

Besides crippling one of that team, the said player told me the same, including them stamping their boot down on his foot numerous times. One of the many doing it, was an obnoxious blonde haired striker who also played for England. Probably doing it to keep our player from taking his England shirt.
That Dirty Leeds side wanted to win at all costs, which in my mind is worse than today's players feigning a foul, to gain an advantage.

Leisure wrote:I can never understand why footballers feel the need to spit so much during a game. Can't think of any other sport where this happens.

Some of us must salivate more than others then, Leisure.Watch the biathlon on Eurosport and they all finish with dribble from their nose and mouth down to their chest.
There is a difference though between getting rid of excess saliva, the fastest way possible, and grolching up a nasty one to deposit on an opponent.
6 matches and a hefty kick to the scrotum would have been my justice.

claretblue wrote:they were 'spitting feathers' when we beat 'em 1 - 4 in '74!

As Max Boyce used to say "I know, I was there!" I also remember keeping a very low profile and my gob firmly shut as we returned to my mate's Austin A35 outside Elland Rd....

Dirty Leeds

ClaretTony wrote:They were also spitting at our players, pulling their hair and grabbing their b0ll0cks. One of our players spilled the beans on it all in the following week. Wouldn't be right to say which player but he played up front, scored twice, one an overhead kick and then years later became our chief exec.

Ha ha, don't worry CT, I think you've still kept his identity a secret ....... just

Has he got previous for it? 6 games seems a bit rough, especially when violent conduct like punching or elbowing a player would only garner 3 games. Disgusting as spitting is, I don’t see how it’s any worse than punching another player.

Leisure wrote:I can never understand why footballers feel the need to spit so much during a game. Can't think of any other sport where this happens.

pretty much every sport.

Why hasn’t Slimani been cited? He lashed out with a back stamp on Saturday. I think minute 74?

If I go running in cold weather I spit because the amount of crap that comes up from my lungs or down from my nose.

Oh Inchy, get yersel' to the doc mate

Crap coming out of your lungs and down your nose sounds disgusting

quoonbeatz wrote:pretty much every sport.

Especially swimming but not so much in darts.

quoonbeatz wrote:pretty much every sport.

Never seen it at the darts, curling, table tennis, tennis, swimming, golf, in the gym, to name just a few!

bob-the-scutter wrote:Especially swimming but not so much in darts.

Beat me to it!

ClaretTony wrote:They were also spitting at our players, pulling their hair and grabbing their b0ll0cks. One of our players spilled the beans on it all in the following week. Wouldn't be right to say which player but he played up front, scored twice, one an overhead kick and then years later became our chief exec.

I was at Ellend road that day and saw Dougie Collins get spat at. I'm struggling to remember who did it now but think it might have been Bremner.

Appeal defence: "I was clearing my throat - as we all do - and unfortunately, the player stood right in the way of my spit. He was so quick - breathtaking. I could not avoid him".

He's got himself a part time job for six weeks ..

Leisure wrote:Never seen it at the darts, curling, table tennis, tennis, swimming, golf, in the gym, to name just a few!

darts isn't a sport.

Leisure wrote:Never seen it at the darts, curling, table tennis, tennis, swimming, golf, in the gym, to name just a few!

I've never seen a list of sports contain so many lame non-sports.

Lord Beamish wrote:Has he got previous for it? 6 games seems a bit rough, especially when violent conduct like punching or elbowing a player would only garner 3 games. Disgusting as spitting is, I don’t see how it’s any worse than punching another player.

He was accused of spitting earlier this year by an opposing manager, think a tie in the 1st or 2nd round of the League Cup but the case got dismissed.

Same old weeds always spitting

claretburns wrote:He was accused of spitting earlier this year by an opposing manager, think a tie in the 1st or 2nd round of the League Cup but the case got dismissed.

Maybe that’s the reason the ban was so severe. Still seems a bit harsh if the previous case was dismissed.

Horrible if true, and fully deserving of 6 matches.

Cirrus_Minor wrote:I was at Ellend road that day and saw Dougie Collins get spat at. I'm struggling to remember who did it now but think it might have been Bremner.

I was there too and every chance it was Billy Brenner. Although there would be many others ' in the frame'.

Bfc wrote:Besides crippling one of that team, the said player told me the same, including them stamping their boot down on his foot numerous times. One of the many doing it, was an obnoxious blonde haired striker who also played for England. Probably doing it to keep our player from taking his England shirt.

I shared a lift with " the running track " victim this morning, and I'm delighted to report that at 73 years young, he's looking well !!

Right at the top of his game when that happened. Pulling all the strings in the game and who knows what his latter days as a footballer might have provided for him and us.

Sad thing was, that lot could play a bit.

Horrible club, horrible players, horrible fans. Not the first `spitter` they have had. Dirty diouf was there for a while, the most perfect player/club match ever.

Everything about them is just classless.


Spitting at someone is worse than smacking them one imho. I'm no hard case, or super hard tough guy, but If someone cracked me one, if I was still conscious, they'd get one (or more) back. If someone spat in my face, i'd beat them until I fell unconscious from exhaustion.

ClaretTony wrote:They were also spitting at our players, pulling their hair and grabbing their b0ll0cks. One of our players spilled the beans on it all in the following week. Wouldn't be right to say which player but he played up front, scored twice, one an overhead kick and then years later became our chief exec.

Casper!

quoonbeatz wrote:darts isn't a sport.

Darts is the sport in which small missiles are thrown at a circular dartboard fixed to a wall - Wikipedia

claretblue wrote:Casper!