Championship - West Ham decline to appeal Nolan red
West Ham will not appeal against the red card shown to captain Kevin Nolan against Millwall.
Midfielder Nolan was sent off just nine minutes into Saturday's 2-1 derby win for a two-footed lunge on Jack Smith.
Manager Sam Allardyce felt the decision was harsh but has accepted he will now be without Nolan for the next three games.
"It would be frivolous because they won't change their mind, there are far too many instructions going out to referees today," he said.
"We have got the squad to hopefully compensate now, we'll get someone to fill in.
"We didn't do badly without him with 10 men so we should make sure we do all right without him with 11."
Nolan will miss games against the Southampton, Peterborough and Blackpool.
The Hammers are top of the Championship with 56 points in 29 matches, four points clear of the second-placed Saints.
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Nolan is a disgrace - Sham Allardyce isn't appealing against his sending off because he knows an appeal is a waste of time - the man is guilty as charged
Alan Pardew - remember him - he got us back into the Premier via the playoffs in 2005 and into the FA Cup Final in 2006 which we were winning 3-2 at 90 minutes then Gerrard struck and the rest as they say is history. The match went down as the greatest final ever after the Matthews final 1953 although why they call it the Matthews final beats me as it was Stan Mortensen who scored a hat-trick - seems to me they should have called it the Mortensen final ?
Anyway Pardew took one look at Nolan and decided his days as Captain and midfielder at Newcastle were over - how right he was. He also got shot of that other liability Barton to QPR, introduced some fresh blood in the shape of Demba Ba and look at Newcastle today they are 5th in the Premier and Ba is 2nd top goal scorer after V Persie.
I personally think that Nolan being suspended (for the 2nd time this season) is a Godsend I just wish it was longer like for the rest of the season - Allardyce will HAVE to rethink now and play 4-4-2 - Team this week Green, O'Brien. Tomkins, Reid, McCartney, Faubert, Collison, Noble, Taylor, Vas Te, Cole (subs Faye, O'Neill, Maynard & Baldrick). He has to attack now and play some proper football having spent millions on strikers and promised them more than just a front row view from a seat on the bench
COYI I'm having a Lady on 3-0 3-1 4-0 and 4-1 let's set this Championship on fire and show B'ham Cardiff etc etc our tail lights
yeah we don't need him for three weeks we've ONLY GOT SOUTHAMPTON AND BLACKPOOL coming up ....lol
When two players both go in two footed what must the ref do? Give one red? Give both a red? Book no-one and say get on with it? I the only time I've ever seen two reds is for fighting, but I've seen two players go in on each other two footed dozens of times. If one is injured the ref books the other, or the the one he don't like, Or if your Howard Webb the non Man U player.
Why do Yahoo repeat the same story three times ?
Ruins the thread and older wtill current stires with ongoing postings and discussion are archived
Stories should only appear ONCE Yahoo - TAKE NOTE
Sam said it all before how the players, play and react is all down to you, your comments are wrong and in bad taste, with all the recent events concerning two footed tackles you should have reinforced the need to make sure its not part of the way WH play.
was at the game, from where i sat, bobby moore upper, it looked a red card. Still think it should have been red. Now he has 3 weeks off, maybe they could send him to hospital and have a brain put into that void between his ears. After all the talk on the past few weeks regarding 2 footed tackles, the brain dead numpty does that. Could have cost us 3 points
moredrugspleasenurse. So you'd say that's a good, honest and fair tackle? That's mental. That's what's called a coward's tackle. The guy is prone on the ground and he jumps two footed(out of control) towards the ball. Look at that top picture and tell me that's a fair tackle. You have no idea what you're on about. The only slight excuse for him is that Nolan is more an attacking midfielder than a defensive midfielder so he may be a bit like Paul Scholes in that way(He just cannot tackle).
Best way to avoid being sent off for a two footed tackle (other than tranfering to Man Utd) is to NOT make two footed tackles....
Stupid tackle in the present climate. Don't think we'll miss him too badly!
what can i say a bad tackle simple as believe millwall could have also had a player sent off for the challange on taylor....most important was the 3 points!!!
moredrugs...don't be such a lamo.
Two-footed tackle, harsh or not, straight red.
Sam is Champions league materials! he always do well where ever he work. Although young fools alway think he is not pretty enough???
Dizzy, don't be such a drama queen.
It was nothing like a red card, and he DIDN'T break his leg.
Second half when the Millwall player went right through Matt Taylor I guess you think he "could have broken his neck", right??
How can he defend that tackle? It's just mad really. It was horrible. He could have broke his leg.
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