Is Cesc Fabregas rightly hailed as a leader by Arsene Wenger? (Part 1)
According to media reports from within the Emirates stadium, Arsene Wenger has said that Cesc Fabregas is a victim of a witch hunt. However, we are forced to wonder whether Wenger is just protecting his Spanish darling or is there
any truth in David Moyes’s ravishing attack on the World Cup winning playmaker?
The moment of controversy sparked into life during the half-time break at the Emirates stadium in Arsenal’s mid-week encounter against Everton. As the teams descended into the tunnel at Arsenal’s home stadium, Cesc Fabregas confronted
the referee and a few unsavoury remarks were exchanged on the spot.
Meanwhile, David Moyes said that Fabregas’s remarks were so obscene that they could not be repeated on television. The British media, in all its audacity, revealed that Fabregas asked referee http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Lee-c21860 Mason “how much had he been paid”
regarding the decision which allowed Luis Saha’s offside goal to stand valid.
In the aftermath of the criticism that has been showered upon the continental midfielder, British media has been particularly unforgiving. At first, they blamed the foreign players for bringing in simulation into the English Premier
League (read http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Cristiano-Ronaldo-c9629). Now it is the tendency to talk back to referees and question their decisions which is being attributed to the foreign players.
In reality, it is not only the foreign players that indulge in this sort of an activity; http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Wayne-Rooney-c36736 quite famously pursued a similar course of action in the early days of his career. The English striker has matured over the years,
but in Manchester United’s match against Tottenham Hotspur earlier in the season, Rooney was at it again when Rafael Da Silva got sent off at White Hart Lane.
Evidently, this is not the first time that Cesc Fabregas has landed in hot water with regard to the whole “respect for referees jargon”. In the 2007 Carling Cup final which saw Arsenal taking on Jose Mourinho’s http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Chelsea-c38786, Fabregas
was at the centre of a brawl which saw him man-handling http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Frank-Lampard-c14097. Surprisingly, the referee did not send the Spanish midfielder off for his extensive part in the brawl at the Millennium stadium.
In March of 2009, Fabregas was again in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons after he allegedly spat at Hull City’s assistant manager Brian Horton after a feisty F.A. Cup quarterfinal between Hull City and Arsenal.
Back then, Fabregas was not charged for misconduct by F.A. This time around, Cesc has been cleared of all charges once again as the referee Lee Mason has not made any references to Fabregas’s potentially offensive remarks during
the half-time break at the Emirates stadium during the Arsenal versus Everton matchup.
Nonetheless, the question that needs to be asked is what prompted Fabregas to confront the referee in the half-time break? What frustrates the players the most is the lack of consistency with which most of the referees officiate
in the English Premier League matches. Yes, referees are human beings and are bound to make mistakes but so are the players. Wenger has indeed rightly hailed Cesc Fabregas as a fantastic leader for the Gunners.
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