Fair enough - for me neither were fouls. If a striker with the ball under control can hold off defenders and knock them over in an effort to get to goal, then I think the defender who plays the ball in a challenge has to be allowed to bring the striker down in an effort to prevent the goal. Keeps it balanced up front - defenders are handicapped enough by all the rules about tackling and the tendency of attackers to drop at the slightest touch. I also think that if you introduce that "deliberate second movement" rule you're only going to reduce consistency in refereeing, as the ref will have to try and judge intention as well as the facts of the challenge. I agree that they aren't robots, but I think highly paid professional footballers should know where to draw the line and the responsibilities they have to their club and fans. And to be honest, allowing a personal argument to cloud your judgement doesn't count as passion in my book. Carragher's tackle on Nani, Neville's celebration in front of Liverpool fans, badge kissing, chest thumping and OTT celebrations can all be put down to passion. Refusing to shake someone's hand or chasing someone around at the final whistle trying to wind them up doesn't show passion for the game, just a desire to put yourself above the club.
I know. I've started going on twitter on a few mates suggestion. Collymore is getting abused on it. He keeps posting his abuse which makes all of us look bad. However i'd love to shoot our fans who keep giving him this ****. They're destroying our reputation. Pissed off really.
Yeah mate but every club has it's tools plus any two bit WUM can pretend to be a fan don't let it bother u.
Don't agree. It's just the same as this site and the internet in general. There are good people/interesting stuf too. Unfortunately it gives a platform for people to express their feelings which are made public by Stan Collymore. - sweatband. Some seem to be racist, whilst other are making a name for themselves.
No doubt there is but the shear amount of moronic 'weze gonna get messi innit?' style comments drive me mad. It's no platform for debate.
Well to be fair it depends who you follow. I don't see any of that because I don't follow them. Only see it as Stan keeps retweeting them! Intereting how he's dealing with it. Now backtracking and stating we're not all racist. But the club has handed it badly - which is very true.
I'm not on twatter.. Have thought about going on there, but really can't be arsed, would quite like to follow rooney and take the piss out of his spelling and such like. Would also quite like to abuse joey Barton. .. Don't get why they are giving collymore grief.. Has he been critical over the saurez issue? I quite like collymore on the radio as he pulls no punches says it like it is.
No not followers - Talking about trending topics to see what general opinion is. Normally the comments are beyond moronic from the twitter general public
