I think this is totally and utterly ridiculous.It is far from convincing that it was intentional whereas the later incident concerning the elbow certainly appeared to be convincing.Far more clear-cut yet the latter incident results in a 3 match ban and the former 5 matches ! Preposterous.

"Mark" the day in your calendars. Willo has just criticised a panel of former "elite" referees.

I happen to think, having professional insight into the impact of brain injuries, Mings' actions were reckless, dangerous and could easily have resulted in serious life changing injuries to a fellow player. His movements could and should have been reasonably foreseen by him to have resulted in heavy contact with Zlatan's head and understood by him that such contact could cause serious injury. Much more serious than breaking a leg. 5 matches is about right. Players need to understand that what Mings did was seriously dangerous and he should have taken evasive action, whatever the state of play or the game.

But you DO know which teams the respective players play for, don't you?

Feel sorry for Bournemouth (but if we stay up at their expense, tough)

It was clear that Mings meant to step on his head! In the lead up to the jump Zlatan is in his line of vision. In the real world if you accidentally stepped on someone's head you'd go back and check if the person was ok!

Step back from the United hatred, studding someone's head is a 5 match ban at a minimum.

I have no problem with Zlatan getting retribution, one cowardly act deserves another one in my opinion.

Bournemouth seem to have a reputation as this lovely little coastal club, they are a dirty team, hate playing against them and hope they go down.

California sunlight - sweet Calcutta rain - Honolulu starbright - the song remains the same

From what we saw on TV Mings eyes were following the ball it was not intentional.

Can only think the FA know different but in any case 5 weeks is far too harsh.

Having watched the video a number of times I'm not convinced that Ming's actions were deliberate. Yes he looked but I think that was because he knew Zlatan was in his way. When he jumps he is looking at the ball and not at Zlatan's head. Either one believes that his spatial awareness is so good that he can jump on someone's head without looking or more likely that he miscalculated his jump and in addition was pushed off balance by Rooney getting up to winge about the tackle. Ipso facto Rooney should get banned for creating the situation.