The Elbow of Gerrard

Fergie with travel to the end of the Earth to make sure he misses sunday and gets the same punishment as Rio. And the FA will have no choice it was just as bad. Why oh why oh why Stevie you couldnt write a script.

Thought it was a bit silly from Gerrard, until I seen who it was lying on the ground.  Then I thought, what comes around goes around and all that. ESPN were right wankers about it though, I reckon Joe Royle shows worse bias than Andy Gray and thats F***ing saying something.

As mentioned the ref saw the incident and dealt with it how he felt so the FA can't punish Stevie.  Don't be surprised though if all this overhyped media coverage its getting and Fergie's influence at headquarters sway a decision to ban him for 3 games.

Interviewer even tried to get a comment off Rafa... Water from a stone young lady water from a stone

Haven't seen it, way I look at it though, Stevie looks as if he is starting to care again! And that can only be good. F**k off Brown, useless F***ing c**t anyway.

Haven't seen the replay yet but it looked to me as if Brown was blocking the run of Gerrard on purpose, Stevie then raised his arms as if to throw him out the way to pass him, but caught him with some of his elbow?

It just looked like one of them things to me and I'll be suprised if Gerrard gets a ban for that. Then again, it might look worse on the replay then what i first thought of it

Here ya go

Steven Gerrard elbows Michael Brown

I think its quite clear your honour that the accused merely acted in self defence as mr brown had already sought to attack him with his elbow. Quicker reaction times can only be thanked for mr gerrard not being injured in this instance

I think its quite clear your honour that the accused merely acted in self defence as mr brown had already sought to attack him with his elbow. Quicker reaction times can only be thanked for mr gerrard not being injured in this instance

Here here

You can clearly see Browns arm go back.

Lmao yeah, 3 match ban. Cya in a few weeks then stevie

In a nutshell brown made the first move on Stevie  the best they could do him for is retaliation the next is this already stated i know, it was dealt with by the ref end of story in the same vein as you cant appeal a yellow when it is blatantly obvious that some are totally wrong .If the ref had been on top of things it wouldn,t have happened he was on Stevie all night, do people seriously think a top class player is going to take sh*t the whole game and not have a dig back could have been costly but it wasn,t so lets move on to the next challenge.

Did you see Brown when he went off the field... mouthing "3 match ban"

Well in Stevie.

You reap what you sow Mr Brown.

I think he needs a rest anyway, he needs to sort his head out properly. That elbow was very foolish and it was blatant, I'm not one to turn a blind eye because he plays for us and he's our captain. It was stupid and uncalled for, really classless. If it were some rag like Neville that did it, we'd be spraying comments of cu*ts in his direction. Gerrard's behaviour of late has not been captain like and he needs to sort it out or lose it to Pepe.

Well it's quite simple really to me....


0:09  In that clip, Brown checks Gerrard to see where he is in order to cynically block him. Gerrard is anticipating the ball. Brown on the other hand is not looking at the ball at this stage only where Gerrard is.

0:10 they clash. Brown as guilty as Gerrard here I think as he also raises an arm. Gerrard is frustrated as if he's saying ' get the **** out of my way'. Gerrard does give him a tonk but that also might be his running arm enthusiastically following through 

O:11 Brown overreacts


The F.A won't take this further I think.....Just the media on our backs again

Brown was lifting his arm towards gerrard too, Stevie got in first if ye like. Hes a little gimp that Brown delighted Stevie decked him.

Fook off ESPN trying to get Stevie suspended

Exactly.. They both go to hit each other but Stevie being Stevie "Went in ard blud".. hahaha

The thing is, i cringe everytime i hear skysports milk the incident and cant help but think everytime they do this they put more pressure on the FA to do something..

Exactly.. They both go to hit each other but Stevie being Stevie "Went in ard blud".. hahaha

The thing is, I cringe everytime I hear skysports milk the incident and cant help but think everytime they do this they put more pressure on the FA to do something..

My feeling entirely - wish they'd leave the bloody issue alone!

Well it was a clear elbow, but the player was turning into gerrard raising his arm... Gerrard reacted and clattered him, good on him

Brown was clearly trying to block Stevie's run so both are equally at fault but Stevie gets more attention because we were attacking.

Pompey fan here in peace.

Gerrard would be in my top 10 world midfielders, would be first on the England team sheet every time for me, and I would argue he is the finest captain in the Premier League. Michael Brown is one of my least favourite Pompey players ever and throughout his career has been a dirty player. He always seems to be on a mission to get sent off, and I just don't like his attitude.

So, as usual, Brown deserved a smack in the mouth last night!

However...

I watched the game in the pub and saw a number of replays. The forearm to the back of the head by Gerrard on Brown was a straight red card. Like I say, Brown deserved it, but you can't hit another player in a completely off the ball incident and expect to get away with it (either during the game or afterwards.) 'Two wrongs...' and all that.

What I don't get is:

1. Why Gerrard would do something like that when you were thrashing us - just laugh at Brown and tell him his team is getting beaten again and he's getting relegated!

2. Even stranger, Gerrard knows the game against Manure is at the weekend and that if he got caught he would miss a vital match.

3. He surely knows how important he is to the team, and a three match ban would weaken the push for fourth place.

I understand that in the heat of the battle the above points wouldn't be at the forefront of your mind, but I'm surprised that Gerrard would lose his cool like that when there is so much at stake. As an outsider looking in I think this is evidence that Gerrard has too much pressure on him.

Let me be clear - even as a Pompey fan I don't like Brown, I think Brown deserved a dig last night, I Love Gerrard as a player, and the last thing I want is your team to be weakened by Gerrard being banned (partly to deny Manure points at the weekend; partly to hopefully deny Spurs fourth place).

But... looking at the incident objectively I do think it was a red card and I don't think the FA can let incidents like that go unpunished.

if the ref does not mention it in his report
then the fa cant do anythink about it
the ref had a good game
but he let brown off alot last night
so  a good job  gerrard let him know he was still on the pitch
good thing rafa subbed him right after

Pompey fan here in peace.

Gerrard would be in my top 10 world midfielders, would be first on the England team sheet every time for me, and I would argue he is the finest captain in the Premier League. Michael Brown is one of my least favourite Pompey players ever and throughout his career has been a dirty player. He always seems to be on a mission to get sent off, and I just don't like his attitude.

So, as usual, Brown deserved a smack in the mouth last night!

However...

I watched the game in the pub and saw a number of replays. The forearm to the back of the head by Gerrard on Brown was a straight red card. Like I say, Brown deserved it, but you can't hit another player in a completely off the ball incident and expect to get away with it (either during the game or afterwards.) 'Two wrongs...' and all that.

What I don't get is:

1. Why Gerrard would do something like that when you were thrashing us - just laugh at Brown and tell him his team is getting beaten again and he's getting relegated!

2. Even stranger, Gerrard knows the game against Manure is at the weekend and that if he got caught he would miss a vital match.

3. He surely knows how important he is to the team, and a three match ban would weaken the push for fourth place.

I understand that in the heat of the battle the above points wouldn't be at the forefront of your mind, but I'm surprised that Gerrard would lose his cool like that when there is so much at stake. As an outsider looking in I think this is evidence that Gerrard has too much pressure on him.

Let me be clear - even as a Pompey fan I don't like Brown, I think Brown deserved a dig last night, I Love Gerrard as a player, and the last thing I want is your team to be weakened by Gerrard being banned (partly to deny Manure points at the weekend; partly to hopefully deny Spurs fourth place).

But... looking at the incident objectively I do think it was a red card and I don't think the FA can let incidents like that go unpunished.

" Looking at it objectively" you'll notice brown looking for gerrard, raising his elbow and getting what he deserved. END OF

" Looking at it objectively" you'll notice brown looking for gerrard, raising his elbow and getting what he deserved. END OF

Disagree. There is a difference between raising your arm to someone's chest (which Brown did) and aggresively smashing your forearm into the back of someone's head.

Steven Gerrard elbows Michael Brown

I agree Brown deserved it, but in the modern game you just can't do what Gerrard did and expect to get away with it.

Brown was being a complete w@nker all night, and just before Gerrard connected with him Brown was clearly raising his elbow to shield off Gerrard so he got what he deserved! Stevie should have more sense than that by now, and he was lucky not to get the line.

He's not been playing great but hopefully he comes out fired up against the scum.

He should have saved his elbowing for Rat boy on sunday!!!