Redknapp questions FA over Rooney appeal

Tottenham Hotspur manager Harry Redknapp has joined Liverpool boss Kenny Dalglish in criticising the Football Association (FA) over their successful appeal to get Wayne Rooney’s Euro 2012 ban reduced. Redknapp believes the FA are guilty of fouble standards after Rooney’s ban was cut from three matches to two after he was sent off for kicking out at Montenegro’s Miodrag Dzudovic during England’s final qualifier in October.Redknapp said the FA had left itself open to charges of hypocrisy.“In all honesty it was a three-match ban for violent conduct,” Redknapp said.“You can look at it and say it wasn’t that violent, but it doesn’t matter. If you cuff someone, you get a three-match ban.”Redknapp said the FA now faced the prospect of numerous appeals against three-game suspensions. “For them to get it from three to two, it opens up a can of worms,” he said.“There will be clubs appealing against bans and they will want to know why they aren’t getting it for similar situations.”