The Official Jeff Farmer Thread

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Intresting I was at the game and it had a particularily large effect on the Crowd. Farmer was booed whenever he got near the ball for the rest of the night (a big achievment for a Crows home crowd) and one spectator attempted to jump the fence and remonstrate with him. If you watch the video you'll probably find from the Crows players perspectives that they didn't see Farmer stick the knee in or they're just a bunch of ****************'s. You did surprise me that the commentators didn't make a big deal out of it as he than went off injured.

The commentators looked at the incident a couple of times, but gave me the view that they thought it was more accidental than deliberate.

It's opening another can of worms, but I still reckon if the exact same incident occured and Peter Bell was there instead of Farmer, peoples perceptions would have been different and Bell would have been innocent until proven guilty rather than Farmer guilty before being tried. I am not defending Farmer outright but perceptions of a player can cloud our judgements.