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posted 11-02-2010 10:57
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The Mighty Kubelgog!!! wrote:
I caught a bit of louis saha's performance against Chelsea and it filled me with nothing but regret. well, regret and giggles. He could have been one of the best centre forwards ever to grace old trafford, if he wasn't either usually injured, or recovering from an injury. A bullet header from a corner, a chest kill and a vicious strike and a missed penalty. it was vintage saha.
He's brilliant isn't he. Thank god he's made of balsa wood, because otherwise he'd be playing for a far better side than Everton.
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posted 11-02-2010 11:10
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I mean, at least we only had one Stephane Henchoz...
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posted 11-02-2010 11:14
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It's those bastard Yank owners of yours. If they only opened their wallets, you could have had a second one. Will Rafa's pain never end?
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posted 11-02-2010 11:14
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Spearmint Rhino wrote:
cantagalo wrote:
The answer to Wenger's goalkeeping problem is playing at Griffin Park for the rest of the season. His name is Wojciech Szczesny.
The answer to Wenger's goalkeeping problem, it seems, is to employ the likes of Vermaelen and Fabregas as surrogate goalkeepers, shamelessly handling the ball whenever Almunia's goal is threatened.
Cheating cunts, as I'm sure the board's anti-Gerrard fraternity will leap to agree, once they have awoken from their slumbers.
On behalf of the anti-Gerrard fraternity, I agree. Also, as Fabregas' foot was touching the 18-yard line, a penalty should definitely have been awarded. That made it even funnier. Almost as funny as the Gerrard dive that preceded it.
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posted 11-02-2010 11:28
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I love the new format the EPL is using this season. Having lost last night's third place play-off with Arsenal, Liverpool go straight in to the fourth place deciding tie with Man City on the next round of league games. Innovative.
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posted 11-02-2010 11:39
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It's worth repeating that the free kick was given for the foul on Kuyt, not $tevie's lack of balance.
Also, as Fabregas' foot was touching the 18-yard line, a penalty should definitely have been awarded.
Is it where the player is or where the ball is? Because it didn't look to me like the ball was over the line when he tried to catch it.
Fabregas' quote was priceless. "It may have touched my hand a little bit, but it would have hit my head anyway."
Only if you were Peter Crouch and standing on a stepladder you objectionable little wank-hammer.
To be honest though, judging by last night's performance we'd have only hit the corner flag with the penalty anyway. Arsenal won the game by dint of being marginally less fucking useless on the night than Liverpool. It was a shocking game and for the first half I genuinely thought that they were showing it at half-speed, such was the leaden-footedness of all 22 players.
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Last Edit: 11-02-2010 11:42 By hobbes.
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posted 11-02-2010 11:42
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meregreen wrote:
Spearmint Rhino wrote:
cantagalo wrote:
The answer to Wenger's goalkeeping problem is playing at Griffin Park for the rest of the season. His name is Wojciech Szczesny.
The answer to Wenger's goalkeeping problem, it seems, is to employ the likes of Vermaelen and Fabregas as surrogate goalkeepers, shamelessly handling the ball whenever Almunia's goal is threatened.
Cheating cunts, as I'm sure the board's anti-Gerrard fraternity will leap to agree, once they have awoken from their slumbers.
On behalf of the anti-Gerrard fraternity, I agree. Also, as Fabregas' foot was touching the 18-yard line, a penalty should definitely have been awarded. That made it even funnier. Almost as funny as the Gerrard dive that preceded it.
Hang on, we're making up rules now. With handball, what matters is where contact has taken place. Fabregas arm, along with the rest of his body, was outside the box at the time of contact. It doesn't matter that his heel just happened to be straddling the line at the time. It's not rugby. By that logic, if a player is lying on the ground with his feet inside the box and the rest of his body outside it, and a handball occurs, then a penalty should be awarded despite the contact taking place a probable full metre outside.
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posted 11-02-2010 11:49
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hobbes wrote:
It's worth repeating that the free kick was given for the foul on Kuyt, not $tevie's lack of balance.
Yeah, I thought that was a dive too, but I don't mind Kuyt, so didn't fancy starting up a separate anti-Kuyt fraternity.
hobbes wrote:Is it where the player is or where the ball is? Because it didn't look to me like the ball was over the line when he tried to catch it.
I assumed that his foot being on the line meant it was a penalty, but now you mention it I'm not sure.
A quick google doesn't really help.
"Law 12 says a free-kick or penalty will be awarded if a player "handles the ball deliberately (except for the goalkeeper within his own penalty area)".
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posted 11-02-2010 11:52
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It's a measure of M. Wenger's title ambitions that he's now playing Mark Owen out of Take That up front.
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posted 11-02-2010 12:22
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I realise the foul was awarded for Kuyt tripping over an invisible object not Gerrard - but Gerrard's initial dive was so objectionable he should have been booked for simulating. Kuyt's was more subtle but no less valid, to my mind. As for all those handballs, Vermaelen was looking the other way at the time the ball was blasted at him, so to penalise him would effectively have been to penalise him for having arms, while Fabregas - well, I don't know what the little fellow was thinking but he was certainly thinking outside the box at the time. I think the ref chose to overlook it out of belated remorse for having awarded such a dodgy free kick in the first place.
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posted 11-02-2010 12:27
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So. Bendtner? I mean, if we're going to conduct a post-mortem on all the objectionable happenings in the game we should at least acknowledge that he's a cheat as well. Shouldn't we?
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posted 11-02-2010 12:30
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Yeah, I forgot about him. Gave it the full Greg Louganis there.
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posted 11-02-2010 12:33
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A nice touch that he did it against Agger, presumably someone he knows well from intl duty.
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posted 11-02-2010 12:35
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The pair of them were laughing about it after it happened. Which was a bit weird.
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posted 11-02-2010 12:40
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meregreen wrote:
hobbes wrote:Is it where the player is or where the ball is? Because it didn't look to me like the ball was over the line when he tried to catch it.
I assumed that his foot being on the line meant it was a penalty
It did sound like a very "rugby" interpretation of a rule to me.
Edit: which I now see Roches P.A. has already pointed out.
Did Roches used to be somebody else, btw?
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posted 11-02-2010 13:03
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hobbes wrote:
The pair of them were laughing about it after it happened. Which was a bit weird.
I think the best example of this recently was the Villa-Blackburn game where Diouf viciously lunged in on Beye (they're both Senegal players). Beye immediately tried to plead with the ref that it was no big deal but Diouf was rightly sent off anyway. Either Beye is too nice for his own good or he was scared of what Diouf might do to him if he didn't stick up for him. But it was v strange.
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posted 11-02-2010 13:11
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Roches was Liberal Al/Impact Substitute, wasn't he?
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posted 11-02-2010 13:15
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He's brilliant isn't he. Thank god he's made of balsa wood, because otherwise he'd be playing for a far better side than Everton.
Yes you bastard. Us, sniff. I saw him make his debut against southampton, and he looked like an entirely different kind of footballer to the others. he seemed to be mostly made up of muscles and fast. Even in his last season, when everyone had given up on him, he produced one of my favourite moments of skill About 1.40 in
he was like a less malign, footballing version of didier drogba, without the bad bits. You know, the madness, the diving, the histrionics the ability to stay fit for more than a month.
here is a video of all the goals he scored for man utd, there are some great goals in there, but the whole thing is slightly undermined by clips where you spot that some of the goals are nearly a year apart
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Last Edit: 11-02-2010 13:24 By The Awesome Berbaslug!!!.
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posted 11-02-2010 14:16
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What are you complaining about? You've got 'ickle Mickey now.
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posted 11-02-2010 14:19
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hahahahaha. Oh hobbes you are a card.
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