Why is it

[zigga-zagga]

That garner having been booked for the 5th time this season, on Tuesday, misses next weeks FA Cup match. I always thought that 5 bookings brought a one match ban served by missing the game immediately after the 5th booking.

Surely he should miss Cardiff not next week!

 

[dellaroc]

The ban comes into effect 7 days after the fact.

 

[zigga-zagga]

Ridiculous though isn't it? Francis Jeffers got sent off in the same match as Garner's last booking but his ban starts immediately.

 

[Chuck]

If his suspension was for the Cardiff game then there would have been a good chance of us playing the game with no recognised strikers on the pitch

 

[rossybeary]

I've given up trying to understand why the FA works the way it does, the worst thing is the way you can't appeal againist a yellow card and also how when a ref has given a yellow card the FA can't take any further action. Chris Morgan's elbow againist that Barnsley player is a prime example, Morgan should have been banned for months for that but got nothing when it was nothing short of an assault!

and don't even start on FIFAS change to the offside rule :wacko: