Bradford City win Nathan Doyle appeal

3:00pm Tuesday 27th November 2012 in Bantams Photograph of the Author By Simon Parker, Bradford City Reporter

Nathan Doyle is held back by team-mates at Bristol Rovers Nathan Doyle is held back by team-mates at Bristol Rovers

City have this afternoon won their appeal against Nathan Doyle’s red card.

An independent Football Association panel overturned referee David Phillips’ decision to send him off at Bristol Rovers.

It means the midfielder is clear to play for City against Brentford in the FA Cup on Friday.

Boss Phil Parkinson said: “I’m really pleased for Nathan but I was always confident that he’d done nothing wrong.”

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bigang02 says...
3:05pm Tue 27 Nov 12

that is fantastic news but it shouldnt have evan happened.ref totally wrong.

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OutOfBradford says...
3:53pm Tue 27 Nov 12

Will the ref be penalised? Not likely!

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bcfc1903 says...
4:01pm Tue 27 Nov 12

Good news for Doyle and the club. In David Phillips defence...he'd had a good game and was taking advice from the fourth official regarding the Doyle incident..it was the fourth official who said Doyle had kicked out. We've had some poor refs especially last season and seasons before that but this season and on Saturday i think there has been a vast improvement.

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booeythebantam says...
4:18pm Tue 27 Nov 12

what about the boy who made the tackle does he get a yellow card and a subsequent red for his second offence

am sick of the poor standard of refs in our league

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nowt fresh says...
4:42pm Tue 27 Nov 12

bcfc1903 wrote:
Good news for Doyle and the club. In David Phillips defence...he'd had a good game and was taking advice from the fourth official regarding the Doyle incident..it was the fourth official who said Doyle had kicked out. We've had some poor refs especially last season and seasons before that but this season and on Saturday i think there has been a vast improvement.
Your right bcfc1903 Phil Parkinson said the ref had said he didn't see the incident it was the 4th official who brought it to his attention so he put it in his report to the FA, to be honest I thought they would close ranks and support the officials, but as many have said on other threads there was no kick involved,makes you wonder about the eye sight of some of the officials and some Bristol fans if you read the other thread on this subject :-)).

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bcfc_1986 says...
5:25pm Tue 27 Nov 12

booeythebantam wrote:
what about the boy who made the tackle does he get a yellow card and a subsequent red for his second offence

am sick of the poor standard of refs in our league
We're Bradford City, we win what we want. CTID!!!

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JamesRobertshaw says...
5:28pm Tue 27 Nov 12

What about the original player who made the tackle? he should get a 3 match ban

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booeythebantam says...
5:33pm Tue 27 Nov 12

bcfc_1986 wrote:
booeythebantam wrote:
what about the boy who made the tackle does he get a yellow card and a subsequent red for his second offence

am sick of the poor standard of refs in our league
We're Bradford City, we win what we want. CTID!!!
what does that mean

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COLATS says...
5:33pm Tue 27 Nov 12

JamesRobertshaw wrote:
What about the original player who made the tackle? he should get a 3 match ban
Who cares if their player gets a ban or not, the only thing that matters is Doyle is available for the next 3 games??

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tyker2 says...
6:16pm Tue 27 Nov 12

quickly proven that the officials had no idea what happened and they were simply guessing. the fact they sent off the wrong Bristol player is a matter also for deep concern.

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COLATS says...
8:21pm Tue 27 Nov 12

tyker2 wrote:
quickly proven that the officials had no idea what happened and they were simply guessing. the fact they sent off the wrong Bristol player is a matter also for deep concern.
He totally lost control of the situation, and tried to gain it back by brandishing a red to Doyle. Has he got what it takes to ref. at professional level????

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Bantambhoy says...
10:33pm Tue 27 Nov 12

UNBELIEVABLE!!
Have Bristol appealed their players second yellow and subsequent red which was given to the wrong player? As it happens there wasn't any affect on the result of the match but there could have been. Obviously the ref has been honest in his report, all credit to him for that!

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Harrogate Bantam says...
7:31am Wed 28 Nov 12

It never should have come to this if the 4th Official, would have kept his gob shut. Right let's on and some proper Fottball played. We live in hope that match officials do their job as they should do. C'mon City !

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Whoisevans? says...
4:55pm Wed 28 Nov 12

Bantambhoy wrote:
UNBELIEVABLE!!
Have Bristol appealed their players second yellow and subsequent red which was given to the wrong player? As it happens there wasn't any affect on the result of the match but there could have been. Obviously the ref has been honest in his report, all credit to him for that!
Amazing that the Ref sent the wrong man off for them and sent our player off for doing absolutely nothing wrong. If they sent the wrong man off for them there is a case that neither the Ref nor the forth Official saw anything. Puzzling.

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Colin Allcars says...
8:52pm Fri 30 Nov 12

Anyone think the behavior of City's bench contributed to the incident.
There seems to be too many episodes of mis-behavior since Parkinson came

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