Premier League - Liverpool lose Degen appeal

PA Sport - Wed, 04 Nov 10:57:00 2009

Liverpool have lost their appeal over full-back Philipp Degen's red card in Saturday's defeat at Fulham.

2009-10 Premier League Liverpool Phillip Degen - 0

Injury-hit Liverpool had both Swiss defender Degen, and stand-in skipper Jamie Carragher sent off in the second-half of the match at Craven Cottage which they lost 3-1.

Liverpool appealed against both decisions and now await the FA's deliberations over Carragher's foul on Bobby Zamora that saw him red-carded.

On the Degen case, an FA statement said: "At a Regulatory Commission hearing, a claim for wrongful dismissal by Liverpool defender Philipp Degen was rejected.

"Degen was sent off for serious foul play during Liverpool's Premier League match with Fulham on Saturday 31 October. Degen's three-match suspension begins with immediate effect."

Degen will now be unavailable for the Premier League games at home to Birmingham and Manchester City, plus the Merseyside derby clash at Everton on November 29.

PA Sport

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  1. Least of our worries.

    From gglynes, on Wed 4 Nov 4:37PM

  2. Keep them on the bench maybe could be good for­ Liverpool... I guess..

    From ekykki, on Wed 4 Nov 3:49PM

  3. IMPRESSIVE ;-)))

    From Scouse-Baby, on Wed 4 Nov 3:45PM

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    From Martin, on Wed 4 Nov 2:47PM

  5. Good.At least this shows that the FA doesn't go­ with the wind and favour the big clubs.Bravo.

    From Phinl, on Wed 4 Nov 1:56PM

  6. Silly of Liverpool to try to overturn Carraghers­ red.
    There wasn't even any contact in the Degen­ incident. Should've played on.

    From Stevie O Jay, on Wed 4 Nov 1:48PM
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    Darren # 3
    Neat fingers, but in the meantime you can go­ down on this. You get first go, Loserpool get their­ chance later.
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    From Stevie O Jay, on Wed 4 Nov 1:44PM

  8. FA is just biased with decision making. I wont be­ surprised if they (FA) came out after the ban to admit­ it was a mistake judgment. Its no longer new in­ football

    From Dynamic, on Wed 4 Nov 1:20PM

  9. its about time someone finally sent of Carragher for­ wrestling players to the floor he has been doing it for­ ages and getting away with it, still its all he has got­ in his aresnal now that he is past it and should be­ sent to the footballers knackers yard. sorry my mistake­ he is already there stay where you are Carragher

    From liam, on Wed 4 Nov 1:19PM

  10. I think its the right decision. Admit that there was no­ contact, however if contact had been made, it could­ have led to a serious injury....

    From ItzJustMe, on Wed 4 Nov 12:35PM

  11. I was 20 metres from this challenge and it didnt look­ like a red to me, replays and slow motions PROVED it­ wasnt, yet the retarded FA back their awful­ referees.
    Carraghers wasnt a red either. Both players­ were holding each other, then Carra finally got the­ ball. We need better refs.

    From Ian, on Wed 4 Nov 12:33PM

  12. so Degen gets the same punishment as if he had stamped­ in Van Persie's face (except one of Adebayors­ missed games was the league cup).

    From bsellers.isis, on Wed 4 Nov 12:15PM
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    From hi.kalyjones, on Wed 4 Nov 12:10PM

  14. Clearly it wasn't worth a red card, as he­ didn't hit him with the tackle but rather with his­ folded leg. What should he have done, cut it off and­ play with one leg. With one-legged tackles, you­ don't get a red card unless you hit back foot,­ knee, and run into him like a brick wall. And Degen did­ neither of these, and he deserved a warning or a yellow­ card at max.

    From yassine, on Wed 4 Nov 12:05PM

  15. a red card is a red card.

    From Renan, on Wed 4 Nov 11:56AM

  16. Stick those two up your constipated arse and... you may­ get the same surprise... ManUre, ManUre and more­ ManUre!

    From Giordano, on Wed 4 Nov 11:38AM

  17. Stick those up your constipated arses and... what do­ you get? ManUre, ManUre and more ManUre

    From Giordano, on Wed 4 Nov 11:34AM

  18. OK

    From Michael, on Wed 4 Nov 11:32AM

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    From Darren, on Wed 4 Nov 11:31AM

  20. hey giggs ive been noticing your stupid artistic­ impressions on many articles.....i have just two words­ for u.....suck it and keep sucking it......ur a bloody­ disgrace to the legendary Ryan Giggs (Chelsea fan­ here)..grow some brains or get some transplanted into­ that bald head of urs......u look worse than a 3 year­ old with this mentality of urs.....p.iss off idiot and­ please save ur poor keyboard from the repeated torture

    From Rushad, on Wed 4 Nov 11:28AM
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