Liverpool boss Dalglish blasts FA over Wayne Rooney ban appeal

Liverpool boss, Kenny Dalglish has blastes and criticised the Football Association's (FA) decision to appeal against Wayne Rooney 3-match Euro 2012 ban.

Intially, Manchester United played Wayne Rooney wa suspened for 3 matches, after Rooney was sent off against Montenegro, has been reduced to 2 games. This means that Roonet can play against Ukraine on 19 June. Meanwhile, Kenny Dalglish it was a strange appeal given by the FA and was supposed to be setting an example.

However, the FA has issued a statement defending its right to appeal the ban. In the statement, FA said, to promote speed and consistency, stakeholders in England agreed a standard formula encompassing a fixed penalty sanction should be applied across the game by the FA.

Kenny Dalglish believes that the FA's entire disciplinary system is grounded after they successfully appealed against Wayne Rooney's 3- match Euro 2012 ban. While the FA have pulled out the stops to get one game knocked off Rooney's international suspension, Dalglish is furious at handling of his own star player Luis Suarez. Suarez has two FA charges hanging over him but is still awaiting a date for a disciplinary hearing into his alleged racist remarks to Manchester United defender Patrice Evra back in October.

On Wednesday Dalglish said that he don't think it sets a very good standard that they appeal against Wayne's three-match ban. It doesn't seems to think it calls into question their own disciplinary system. If they can justify diluting Wayne's then everyone else who appeals for a similar sending off in a Premier League game will expect to have their ban reduced. I don't think it sets a very good precedent.

Meanwhile, Aston Villa manager Alex McLeish thinks UEFA have shown ‘a bit of leniency' in reducing Rooney's ban, but expects the England striker to take full advantage next summer. The former Scotland boss said, he know world football and European football doesn't want to see the best players missing at these big tournaments.

Wayne Rooney's UEFA EURO 2012 ban has been reduced for 2 matches following a successful appeal to UEFA, and now Rooney  will be available for England's third group match against Ukraine.  UEFA's 3-man appeals panel reduced his original 3-match ban, which was imposed for his red card against Montenegro. Rooney and England manager Fabio Capello attended the hearing at UEFA's headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland. Meanwhile, FA has sent a team of four lawyers.

However, Rooney himself had admitted it was stupid to have kicked Miodrag Dzudovic, and the Montenegrin sent a statement on the Manchester United striker's behalf. Thereby, Rooney's 2-match ban means he misses the Group D opener against France on 11 June in Donetsk and also the second game against Sweden in Kiev on 15 June, but he can play against Ukraine on 19 June in Donetsk.

The third highest paid soccer player, Wayne always made it clear that he accepted it was a red card offence and they are very pleased with the outcome. They arrived with the possibility of Wayne Rooney missing the entire group phase so to have him available for the final group game against Ukraine is a positive result for Manchester and Wayne Rooney as well.