Might be way off the mark and only he will truly know but I initially thought it was a definate stamp and he's lucky he didnt serioulsly hurt parker and that a softer player would have made a right meal of it.
Sufficiently unclear for him to be punished, in my view.From at least one angle, you'd have to say he didn't necessarily know where his foot was coming down due to being off balance.
He knew where Parker was because he trod on his hand, unintentially mind. There is a definite stamping action that no matter how you try and dress up is no way a natural motion to being off balance. Maybe he thought Parker was taking a liberty by having his hand in the way of his foot so decided to punish his head as well?!
not so much a STAMP as a scrape.. Balotelli appears to be getting more and more aggressive in his behaviour, he was pulled off after only a few minutes recently as he was starting a feud with an opposition player. Redknapp probably told Parker to get at Bally and rattle him. Parker did so, Bally got the hump and had a little pop at Parker to say 'leave it out' .. I don't think Bally deliberately went out to seriously hurt Parker, but his over all demeanour is rather worrying. Unless he adjusts quicker to the English game and the wind ups he will receive as a known hothead, there will never be a place for him which would be a pity, as, he is a very gifted footballer.
Watch it closely. He is off balance and the foot goes down, imo, to stop himself stacking it. If he was looking to stamp on Parker surely he would have looked where he was. Agree with Rothko, Lescott was much worse.
Have to agree with Rodders. Said at the time, a lesser player than Parker would have made a meal of it.
Even though we were gutted to lose Scotty all those years ago and moaned ( rightly) about the manner in which he orchestrated his move, I am proud he's one of the few players in the Prem that conducts himself so well on the pitch. Habits learned, no doubt at Sparrows Lane.
Definite stamp and Parker could have been seriously injured. A no-brainer for the FA to charge Balotelli. Just a shame that the nutter will only get 4 games - should be more like 8. However, the FA in their wisdom have declined to act on the forearm smash by Lescott on Kaboul. Presumably that sort of challenge is ok then.
I'm undecided on this, seen it plenty of times but I can't be sure so how can the FA? Part of me thinks he did but then I think he wasn't even looking at him so how can anyone be certain he did it on purpose?
He had already fallen/spun away too far to his right to be trying to find 'terra firma' with his right foot..your brain tells you in a split second that there's no sense in doing it. He could only have any chance whatsoever of stopping himslf falling by putting down his left foot...........his right was not going to do anything simply from the angle to the ground he was already at.
Stampidystampstamp all day long. Can't help but like the bloke but he's defo got a screw lose. Good job it wasn't Albrichton (spelling?)...he'd still be rolling around now given his reaction to the Wolves lad doing something similar on Saturday.
Def a stamp, the way he forced his leg out is a very unnatural way of balancing yourself in that situation.
The original back heel I think was unintentional but the afters was bang out of order. Love him as a player but deserves a 4 match ban as an absolute minimum. Could have done some serious damage.
As for Lescott, just as bad. FA not taking action cause he's English maybe?
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Too good a player to be acting like Kevin Muscat.
as did Lescott when he "threw" his forearm into kaboul's face
Even though we were gutted to lose Scotty all those years ago and moaned ( rightly) about the manner in which he orchestrated his move, I am proud he's one of the few players in the Prem that conducts himself so well on the pitch. Habits learned, no doubt at Sparrows Lane.
However, the FA in their wisdom have declined to act on the forearm smash by Lescott on Kaboul. Presumably that sort of challenge is ok then.
Maybe..or maybe he just felt like smashing parker in the head.
The original back heel I think was unintentional but the afters was bang out of order. Love him as a player but deserves a 4 match ban as an absolute minimum. Could have done some serious damage.
As for Lescott, just as bad. FA not taking action cause he's English maybe?