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His comments were clearly outlandish and Barca is apparently going to make a formal complaint to UEFA. Just imagine Phil Jackson saying the NBA had a conspiracy to have refs influence playoff games and that Doc Rivers' title was a scandal. Stern would likely fine him six figures.

Mourinho I think will be suspended for 3 europe games + a huge fine. Epic proportions.

What do you guys think?

Well let's see, Alex Ferguson got fined 30,000 pounds and got a touchline ban for 5 games for some pretty benign comments in regards to Martin Atkinson. This is worse, tenfold, even if I do happen to sympathize a little with Mourinho. I don't know how they deal with this kind of thing in Spain, but the punishment will surely be a lot more severe than that.

I'm guessing a huge fine, and a suspension for anywhere between 4-8 games.

A thousand lashes and made to listen to Rebecca Black.

manchild wrote:A thousand lashes and made to listen to Rebecca Black.

noooooo even as a barca fan, i wouldn't wish such a thing on jose

This is a start
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011 ... CMP=twt_gu

Real is placing charges against Barca for all their BS, hopefully that gets punished as well.

5DOM wrote:This is a start
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011 ... CMP=twt_gu

lol wow

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story ... sm?cc=5901

Madrid had earlier requested that UEFA take action against Barca for 'premeditated anti-sporting behaviour' after they were deemed to have acted theatrically in the first leg, but the governing body has dismissed the case. The club had sought two-game bans for Busquets, Dani Alves and Pedro and one-game bans for Seydou Keita, Victor Valdes and Javier Mascherano, while Pep Guardiola was also accused of unsportsmanlike behaviour.

--what did Keita and Valdes do? Madrid has apparently released footage of Busquets calling Marcelo a monkey. They also made a video "analysis" of the upcoming ref.

This is really strange, can anyone EVER remember a soccer team making videos to show on their own channel like this? It's like some kind of propoganda machine.

Unfortunately these "Clasicos" have taken these two teams off the rails. Both of them have gone bonkers.

Real more than Barca so it seems, all Barca have asked for is for Jose's comments to be looked at (which is quite reasonable given his comments) whereas Real are just being silly now.

Disagree. Both teams deserve some punishment. Barcas play is extremely unsporting; Alves, Pedro, and Busquets at a minimum deserve punishment. If nothing is done, Barca will continue to play like this, especially if it gets results.

Mourinho deserves punishment, but what he and his team worked for all year was taken away by a refs poor decision, UEFA should acknowledge that as well.

I wasn't commenting so much on the charges as much as the teams' reactions following the game. I have honestly been surprised at Real's reactions to both the game and UEFA's decisions in terms of the charges.

Living in Manchester ten months of the year.