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| GARY NEVILLE'S wild celebration of Michael Owen's late winner in the Manchester derby is set to land him in hot water with the FA. United's club captain, an unused sub, ran on to the pitch and then charged down the touchline towards the City fans. But realising he had gone over the top, Neville then tried to pretend he was simply warming up - despite boss Alex Ferguson having already made three substitutions. City boss Mark Hughes said: "Neville was running around like a lunatic." It is not the first time Neville has been accused of goading opposition supporters. He was fined £5,000 after celebrating a late winner against Liverpool at Old Trafford in 2006 in front of the away fans. City striker Bellamy could have to answer a charge of violent conduct after shoving a fan who invaded the pitch in the face. Hughes' side are already fighting one FA charge following Emmanuel Adebayor's goal celebration against his former side Arsenal and are likely to be told today that Bellamy must also face a disciplinary panel. He may also be questioned by police who are already trying to identify a fan who threw a coin that hit City sub Javier Garrido just above his eye. The incidents came only two days after sports minister Gerry Sutcliffe warned players they needed to act as role models or risk stronger disciplinary action being taken against their clubs in cases of serious misbehaviour. The FA are awaiting referee Martin Atkinson's match report and will be ready to act, particularly after the Adebayor incident. But City's assistant boss Mark Bowen insisted last night: "I don't think we will be taking any action against Craig." |
| QUOTE (Michael Westen @ Sep 22 2009, 10:21 AM) |
| Who gives a fuck. |
| QUOTE (Der_Kaiser @ Sep 22 2009, 10:22 AM) | ||
Actual lunatics who don't want to be associated with Gary Neville? |
| QUOTE (bergstar @ Sep 22 2009, 10:25 AM) |
| I dunno it's a strange one. We live in an era when fans complain that players only care about the money and don't give a stuff about the team and the fans. When a player does precisely what every fan is doing, celebrating wildly we want to ban them. It's a funny game |
| QUOTE (Marc Overmars @ Sep 22 2009, 10:25 AM) |
| Gary Neville is one of them people you'd just like to kill without any strings attatched. |
| QUOTE (Rors @ Sep 22 2009, 06:37 PM) |
| And we can please stop our obsession in this country with talking about someone 'showing passion' whenever someone grits their teeth? :rolleyes: |
| QUOTE (Rors @ Sep 22 2009, 07:27 PM) |
| File alongside badge-kissing and air-punching.. |
| QUOTE (Rors @ Sep 22 2009, 06:37 PM) |
| And we can please stop our obsession in this country with talking about someone 'showing passion' whenever someone grits their teeth? :rolleyes: |