no club fine for Nathan Tyson

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sorry if already mentioned
taken from the guardian online

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2009/aug/31/nathan-tyson-nottingham-forest-derby-county


The Nottingham Forest manager, Billy Davies, has insisted that Nathan Tyson did "nothing wrong" in waving a corner flag in front of Derby County supporters on Saturday and said he would not fine the striker over the incident, which sparked a brawl.

Davies claims it was Derby's players who provoked the post-match melee involving both teams and has pleaded with the Football Association not to charge Tyson for his behaviour.

The FA is expected to charge both clubs tomorrow with failing to control their players and issue Tyson with a separate misconduct charge after he ran past the 4,000 visiting Derby fans holding a corner flag above his head after Forest's 3–2 victory at the City Ground.

But Davies, a former Derby manager, has reviewed the flashpoint on video and is adamant that Tyson was guilty of no more than over-exuberance.

"Nathan will absolutely not be fined, in my opinion he has done nothing wrong," he said. "The flashpoint came from the Derby players and their coaching staff. If he had been left alone to celebrate nothing would have happened.

"I would never condone Tyson if he was trying to inflame the situation but I simply feel he was celebrating a win over our bitter rivals. There were Forest fans in the upper tier of the stand where Derby's fans were sat and Tyson was looking at them.

"All we ask is that the FA watch the last two games with Derby and look at all the actions of the players that took part."

 

[Randy Bumgardener]

Great news. The club could of bottled it and made him the scapegoat for something which the club was fined for. But he has shown the solidarity of the squad by sticking with him. As has the chairman !

 

[yam]

Makes it seem more unlikely that we apologised to Derby as they claim.

 

[Erik]

Good. A united front by the club.

Stick to your guns Forest, ideally drag Derby and Savage into it too.

 

[yam]

Good. A united front by the club.

Stick to your guns Forest, ideally drag Derby and Savage into it too.

After all they dragged us into it in the first place!

 

[king_congo_red]

The Nottingham Forest manager, Billy Davies, has insisted that Nathan Tyson did "nothing wrong" in waving a corner flag in front of Derby County supporters on Saturday and said he would not fine the striker over the incident, which sparked a brawl.

Just as a point of clarity, which most of the media seem to have gotten confused, from my viewpoint on Saturday and all of the footage I have seen since...Nathan waved the flag in front of A Block, then walked with the flag not waving, in front of the Bridgeford end.

 

[T.B.T.]

Sounds like a second victory for Forest! ;D

What will be all the more interesting is how Derby respond to all this end January. We need to be squeaky clean and allow the sheep to hang themselves.

 

[yam]

Just as a point of clarity, which most of the media seem to have gotten confused, from my viewpoint on Saturday and all of the footage I have seen since...Nathan waved the flag in front of A Block, then walked with the flag not waving, in front of the Bridgeford end.

Yes I wrote to the Times pointing out the error in their statement that Tyson "uprooted a corner flag" and "ran at the Derby fans waving it".
I was unsurprised to see that they did not print my comments. Unfortuantely 90% of the population that are bothered will have formed an opinion based on the 5 seconds of footage shown by the BBC, the inaccurate ramblings of their so called "expert panelists" and the unprofessional rantings of Clough and Savage.

 

[yam]

Billy sounds like the right sort of manager - will come down on you hard if you're out of line but will back you to the hilt if you've done nothing wrong.

Good on yer Billy!

 

[winnits]

I don't really care what 90% of the population think, so long as Forest present the plethora of footage that exonerates Tyson completely in a sensible manner to the FA, then that's all that matters.

 

[Jonathan]

Well the highlights on our Official Site show Savage kissing his badge towards our fans after the McCleary incident!

 

[winnits]

Well the highlights on our Official Site show Savage kissing his badge towards our fans after the McCleary incident!

Which, in my opinion, also shouldn't be punished.

It's just banter.

 

[Jonathan]

Oh, neither do I. I was just saying that was there to see because of Savage's ridiculous claims post-match.

If Tyson gets punished, so should he. Although neither should be reprimanded!

 

[yam]

I don't really care what 90% of the population think, so long as Forest present the plethora of footage that exonerates Tyson completely in a sensible manner to the FA, then that's all that matters.

My concern is that the FA might be tempted to assuage public opinion by scapegoating Tyson.

They're not above bowing to public and media opinion.

 

[Eastwood Red]

Good to see the club is standing behind Nathan Tyson 100%

 

[Jonathan]

My concern is that the FA might be tempted to assuage public opinion by scapegoating Tyson.

They're not above bowing to public and media opinion.

That's the point I made yesterday when I said I emailed The Sun.

 

[adam09]

Which, in my opinion, also shouldn't be punished.

It's just banter.

Definately. But it's worrying Tyson will be made a scapegoat and Savage will go unpunished yet again, which would obviously be incredibly unfair and biased.

Remember Gary Neville got fined £5k for celebrating at Liverpool fans. It would be a bit of a joke if Tyson got any more than that.

 

[birkin youth]

At the end of the day though, a £5k fine isn't all that, is it?

Surely Tyson earns that amount every week, if not more? (I'm not really clued up on that kind of thing)

It's a ban I'd be more worried about

 

[Daniel]

Must be a good opportunity to try and get hold of 4000 immitation corner flags for the Derby game and throw them towards Lilly when he is on the pitch. Of course the soft cotton material might injure him but where needs must and all that. lol

 

[yam]

Must be a good opportunity to try and get hold of 4000 immitation corner flags for the Derby game and throw them towards Lilly when he is on the pitch. Of course the soft cotton material might injure him but where needs must and all that. lol

I read some sheep saying that we didn't allow flags in their end, I 'd expect them to reciprocate

 

[dellaroc]

Great news. The club could of bottled it and made him the scapegoat for something which the club was fined for. But he has shown the solidarity of the squad by sticking with him. As has the chairman !

Is that true? What did he say?

 

[Erik]

I read some sheep saying that we didn't allow flags in their end, I 'd expect them to reciprocate

Not true.

We allowed 1!

:tysonflag:

 

[FBS]

This, to me, shows the club are moving in the right direction. A couple of seasons ago we would have bottled it and fined him. Well done to everyone at the club.