Wolves to appeal Milijas’s red card
Wednesday 28th December 2011, 11:00AM GMT.
Wolves boss Mick McCarthy today vowed to appeal Nenad Milijas’s red card against Arsenal.
The Serbia international faces a three-match ban after being shown a straight red by controversial referee Stuart Attwell in yesterday’s 1-1 draw at the Emirates Stadium for a tackle on Mikel Arteta.
Replays showed Milijas won the ball cleanly in the 75th-minute challenge and McCarthy hopes the decision gets rescinded.
“There’s no doubt we’ll appeal it,” said the boss.
“I’d hope when the referee looks at it again he’ll be magnanimous enough to see he made a mistake and will rescind it. In the past we’ve been targeted as a dirty team but Nenad hasn’t got a bad bone in his body.
“He just doesn’t tackle that way and it was a perfectly good tackle. I don’t think it was ever a red card offence while I’ve got a head of grey hair. His foot was on the ground and he won the ball and I’m just not sure how that can be seen as a sending off.
“The referee gave the decision based on what he saw, but I think if he sees it again, he won’t be so sure.”
Milijas also won sympathy from team-mate Stephen Hunt, who believes Arsenal’s players influenced Attwell in his decision.
“Sometimes players’ reactions are clever – they help the referee get a player sent off and this was one of those things,” he said. “Everyone does it nowadays and we should be better at it.
“We’ve been ‘done’ in the past, for instance when Jonathan Woodgate stayed on – we should have been surrounding the ref to get him sent off. We don’t do it and we get punished so maybe we should start doing it.
Hunt added: “I thought it was a harsh decision – he tackled with his one leg and then the ball kind of popped up.
“I’d imagine the manager would appeal – I’m not even sure we should have to because he should just rescind it. I think the red card will be rescinded anyway, and if that’s the case and it’s done in time for Saturday, we won’t be punished.”
Hunt believes Arsenal’s Alex Song could have been sent off for kicking him minutes before the Milijas incident, instead of being booked.
“Maybe Alex Song’s tackle on me just before that could have been a straight red,” he said.
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Great stuff Wolves. At last this season, a performance to make me proud of my team. Great all round effort and organisation, fantastic resilience, the best goalie in the league and a striker who needs just one chance. I loved sticking it to those undeserving, ungracious, unexpressive, ungrateful Arsenal “fans”. Come on Wolves, let’s kick on from here.A fine Xmas gift from lovely lickle babbies
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Quite right too. It’s about time refs started reffing on what actually happens, rather than who is at home, who rolls around, who complains the most. Arteta cheated to get Milijas sent off. God knows how Song didn’t get a straight red. What he did to Fletcher was bad enough for a straight red, let alone the follow through on Hunt
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ok ok lets not get carried away,yes a great hard earned point but by god we were lucky, very very lucky, if it wasnt for hennesey we could have been beaten 6-1 some of the defending was atrocious,schoolboy stuff,and karl henry was atrocious, the happy clappers will again see this in a differant light but i am a realist,we caught arsenal on a bad day at the office with hennesey playing a blinder however any other time we would have been spanked, this has merely papered over the large cracks again and got the happy clappers delusional again
we need to buy desperately ,quality and pay the wages but with morgan and moxey at the helm together with micks awfull track record at paying for dire players i fear the worse
dont blow a good point by losing to bolton … happy clappers you have been warned
morgan wheres the money gone ??
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Definitely worth the appeal. No way was that a sending off.
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Got to agree with Hunty.Song’s tackles were far worse then Nenad’s yet went unpunished.
Thought Henry was a joke again.
Oh for a fully fit O’Hara…
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3) You are either a Tesco or never seen the worst of Wolves? If you think this is bad, you definitely was not at Burnden Park when we lost to Crawley? I think that you will find that we defended brilliantly and rather like the Albion’s result against Man City appreciate that we played Arsenal on the right day.
We need to sign players and get a result on Saturday but the simple facts are that we are doing better than last season based on the simple facts that we are yet to be in the bottom 3.
Once again we get a bad referee and the top sides always benefit!
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brummiewolf post 6 nice to see you are not a happy clapper ???? really ?? were you watching yesterdays game ? we would have been spanked if :
arsenal were on form had a bad day at the office
hennesy great saves but the defending was abysmal
karl henry gave the ball away time and time again, he is a liability, if you didnt watch it and followed on the radio may i suggest you look at it on tv… we were very very lucky not to get spanked, it sounds to me like you are 1 of those delusional happy clappers who only see wolves through rose tinted spex… get back in reality and become a realist and by the way i was at chorley,aldershot etc… in the bad old days were you ? i rest my case
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BrummieRob
Don’t think anyone saw us play Crawley at Burnden Park.
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6. I was at both Burnden Park games…and it was Chorley not Crawley.
It was a great result but the truth is that we played like a Championship side in an F.A Cup tie. If anything illustrated that there are now 3 Leagues within the Premier League, this match was it and the result can’t hide the shortcomings.
Savage thinks that McCarthy has performed miracles to keep us in the Premier League. Fans would point to what we spent in the summer and that all 3 promoted teams are still above us in the table. Both arguments have merit but the fact remains we haven’t moved on since last season…in contrast to Stoke, the Baggies and other teams we might have expected to be down with us.
We hardly ever force the opposition keeper into a save and we always look likely to concede at the back. I hope not but that’s a relegation combination!
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no way was it a straight red card….i do think the ref was influenced by the arsenal team..
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brummierobwolves……obviously seen different dark days to me – never seen Crawley play Wolves at Burnden Park!!!
You must be a better supporter than us to have seen that game!
Great point yesterday BUT like a couple of people have already said – Arsenal over 70% possession and 26 shots to Wolves 6
It was like a cup tie, where a league 1 side perform above themselves to get a point.
Wordy at left back on 5 occasions turned into an arsenal player and gave the ball away, Henry did likewise on edge of box.
We have far to many “putting in a good shift” players and not enough quality, we can pick up a few points with good shift players but with quality in the side wolves will win games.
1. Left back
2. Centre half
3. Creative midfielder
4. Striker – partner for Fletch
Not much to ask for…..we are the EPL sixth highest nett spenders in last 3 years – where has all of that money been wasted!
Improvement needed, no more excuses, better players required
Wolves til I die
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Never a red card, no malice in the tackle he slid in one footed along the ground and won the ball. Song should have been sent off firstly swiping Fletchers legs from behind then going over the ball on Hunt.
the Ref was useless!
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“He just doesn’t tackle that way and it was a perfectly good tackle. I don’t think it was ever a red card offence while I’ve got a head of grey hair. His foot was on the ground and he won the ball and I’m just not sure how that can be seen as a sending off”
I read elsewhere that Mick referred to having a hole in a certain part of his anatomy rather than a head of grey hair but don’t let the truth get in the way of a story.
As previously stated on another thread,well done you lot but I have to say that the standard of refereeing this season is abysmal. Sort it out FA !!
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Well if Milijas’s tackle was a red card offence then Song should have got two reds for his challenges. Unsurprisingly, Wenger when interviewed after the match commented that he was disappointed that some decisions went against them!!!! Probably the best game Hennessay has played for us, and at last he was taking command of the penalty area and shouting instructions to the defenders. Okay we were probably rather lucky to get away without conceding a second goal, and that was more down to the Arsenal Strikers then our defence. But as MM would say they really put a shift in today so deserved some reward. Anyway Blackburn did exactly the same thing to Liverpool 24 hours earlier, so it was vital that we got something from the game.
Well done the lads.
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Red card was so predictable – whole away end singing ‘if that was us you’d send him off’ 2 mins earlier for the Song ‘tackles’. If the appeal does not get upheld it will show what a joke the review system is – the trouble is I expect the ref to say it was reckless and the FA to back his judgement ‘in play’. We’ll see though.
Hopefully we can play 442 at Bolton though so maybe we can manage without Nenad if the worst happens – Forde did well and Edwards should be ready.
Henry certainly did not have his best game, but when you have to play against a team pressing so high up the pitch it is hard to keep the ball – thought he did OK second half.
6 streako – you clearly have not read any of Brummierob’s post this year – much sadder fellow. I think we’ve dealt with the completely bogus ’6th highest net spenders stat’ – irrelevant in the modern game when wages are most of the expenditure. If you really were one of the 20,000 we apparently took to Burnden Park then you should know better about how good times are.
11 4eva clever to point out an error and then write about getting a point in a cup tie!
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3 streako – How is it lucky when a keeper plays a blinder. He made some fantastic saves but thats what we pay him to do. If Van Persie scored a hat trick and we lost 3-0, would they have been lucky because he played well?
At the end of the day, the keeper is just as important as the defence, if not more improtant, and its not luck that we have produced one of the best keepers in the league, whereas teams like Utd have spent millions on calamity keepers.
I wonder if, when Henners has a poor game and concedes a few goals, you will be saying we were unlucky, or more likely, you will continue to spew your usual garbage.
Im firmly of the belief that luck doesnt come into it unless results are out of your hands, eg. refs decisions etc. For me, if anyone was unlucky, it was us, as the amount of wrong decisions that went against us yesterday was ridiculous and could have cost us the point.
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Cracking photo,look at AG.Have that,RVP!Smashing.
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streako, if thats your version of eating humble pie, i would love to see your version of congratulating wwfc for proving you a (realist)?? wrong again.
what was your prediction for this game? especially after the norwich game,
and how much did you lose at the bookies?
was it van persie to break alan shearer’s record and destroy wwfc 5-0/6-0???
oh well another numpty firmly put in his place, by championship mcarthy and his boys. lol
utw.
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7) I am not no happy clapper but neither am I one of a handful of supposed Wolves fans that never has a good word to say about the club. Why do you bother going, if you cannot stand the players, manager etc so much? Your support does not help the team and infuriates others.
To answer your question…. I have been everywhere with Wolves and I come from Brum. To re-iterate, do you see Albion fans slating the team when they got a fortunate point against Man City. This squad and team is far better than the one that went from division 1 to 4 and had the likes of Herbert, Zelem, Eli etc. ……. Fact!
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In regards to a couple of points made above. If the Express and Star figures are correct, we never spent big in the Summer – Johnson £4.5m and O’Hara £3.5m is pittance and you will find that any of the promoted teams spent that much! The 3rd biggest nett spenders is both nonsense and contorts the facts! For example, they said yesterday that Man City have spent £400m and Man Utd £26m. The reason is that Man City have retained their players but Man Utd sold the likes of Ronaldo alone for £90m. In terms of 3rd biggest, I van state Man City, Chelsea and Stoke immediately – without thinking about others!
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Good grief i see the happy clappers are joined at the hip again , blinkered,deluded, i think your xmas turkey has blinded u lot to the simple facts, under morgan wolves are going knowwhere he has 1 agenda in mind wake up and realise it b4 the turkey gives u brain freeze and brummie wolf i cudnt care less where u r from u and the other happy clappers r deluded its not about the past its whay is happening at wolves now stop living on history and get in the real world !
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oh dear, whats the matter? fed up of bieng joined at the hip with your doom and gloom mates?
many of who are suddenly absent after the game at the emirates, wanderer in exile/wanderer in eire/spanish ray/ et all.
under morgan wwfc are going nowhere?
without morgan/hayward wwfc would be now playing in the conference.
now it seems you and your kind are the ones who need to wake up and smell the coffee and live in the real world. utw
bolton 1 wwfc 2, jarvis,ebanks blake.
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21 Streako – You respond with a paragraph of insults, yet not one sentence actually makes a valid responce to any of the points the so called happy clappers have put to you. With Morgan in charge, we have already gone from a relegation fighting championship club, to a premier league club in a fantastic financial position, an improved stadium and academy. That is a fact, not speculation as to what Morgans motives are.
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