What a cheating disgrace Ashley Young is! Derry all but touched his side and Young is dragging his feet as if he'd been pole-axed or shot by a sniper.
Firstly - let it be known that mine is a humble L2 team. Now - to be fair to Young ( and many others ) I would question the competence of the officials. The incident was OFFSIDE. Why couldn't the linesman see it ? - he was EXACTLY in line with the last defender ! Maybe it's time to get rid of the offside rule - it might allow the linesman to concentrate on the ball. They might be able to detect proper fouls or simulation.
We cannot be fair to Young because he dived. Three bad decisions by the officials all in one. Offside, never a penalty, never a red card.
When the ball is played to Young he is offside and then he went down far too easily. There is hardly any contact made by Derry that was not a red card offense. But don't really care about those poor dicisions since it is QPR.
Why do we put up with so much cheating in football? Seriously, I can't think of another sport where cheating is accepted so readily and ex-pro's queue up to say it's "part of the game", "clever", "professional" etc etc. Utter bull - it's cheating and it's despicable, and that includes when Drogs does it.
Ha - if it had been the reverse (Wigan scoring and you subsequently losing) there'd have been thread after thread on here claiming (as you lot already have been) that the FA hate you (e.g. not moving the FA cup tie).
Ivanovic won't be scoring any offside goals when he is suspended for 3 games for violent conduct. Apparently he has been reported for the kidney punch. You'll miss him - not too many goals elsewhere.
It may be a Utopian thought but I long for football to be a game where players behave honestly. The rule change that could achieve this would be to allow they referee to ask players questions and get honest answers. The penalty for deliberately misleading the ref (which would be decided on video evidence withe the standard of proof being 'beyond reasonable doubt') should be retrospective loss of the match, and a ten game ban without pay. That would sort them out.
Or they could just use offside technology, similar to the idea of goal line technology. Getting rid of the offside would cause all sorts of problems. 1) players would just literally goal hang 2) There would be so much controversy because the strikers would keep fouling the keeper and blocking his view etc.
I remember a time when if referees, being human , made a mistake, the side receiving the beneficial judgement would put him wise on his error! Frank Blunstone was dribbling his way down the wing once, on a very wet surface , and slipped as he was about to nip by a defender (Dave Hickson?). The ref came up to Hickson and started a lecture which in those days was the precursor to a sending off(no red/yellow cards in those days} Frank stepped up and made it clear to the ref he slipped and Hickson was reprieved! Would be nice if those sort of things happened today!
