The Official Man Utd & Liverpool plus Chelsea, Everton and City Banter Thread!

I was meaning right now and seeing as thats his job then that'll do sky, that'll do.

 

Good job ya back aswell because when I ask if anyone has any decent films to recomend I might get an answer or something actually good lol.

 

True, the LC is something the fans will always remember, and the name does go on the trophy. But like you say it doesn't really substitute for the chance to play Barca or Real, even if you get hammered by them! I think third place gets automatic qualification to the group stage, only 4th place needs to qualify.

He played great. Shame it didn't matter...

Bet he plays **** for the next two games

 

No, usually he doesn't play for the next 2 games.

 

A lot of people (who don't watch our games) assume Carroll must've been **** if he didn't score. He hasn't had a bad game for a long time. He can only work off what's given to him, but he rarely loses an aerial duel. People don't get round him to pick up the scraps.

 

What happened to the movie thread, is it still being used?

Anyway chaps I'm off to finish my rum and have a spliff with some tunes, be back at 10ish.

Take care

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Haha you beat me to it!!!

 

Dunno tbh man, eric and bluff have a love in over ****e though

 

Isn't there a thread for this?

 

I take it they're still banging on about that supernatural bollocks? Silly ****ers need to get back to reality.

 

What an absolutely rediculous statement - "The ball was about a centimetre short of crossing the line," None of the tv footage was conclusive. Check said he clawed it out ie he pushed it forward. If that were so then he had to be behind the line to push it onto the underside of the bar. I don't know and you don't know. The only certainty is that the ref did not award a goal - and we have to accept that.

 

It was just a figure of speech, Dave. I didn't actually get a ruler out and measure it. The replay showed it was very very close, but ultimately it wasn't given. So I have to accept that.
It's hardly an 'absolutely rediculous (ridiculous)' statement, is it?

 

Think he's been on ths sherry again!

 

He is good at what he does, now he's gotten over his initial problems. But like I said to RHC in the semi final, you seem to have a lot of players that are good at what they do, but not good at working together to score a goal. No one gets on the end of Downing's crosses, no one gets on the end of Carroll's through balls, no one seems to expect Adam's Hollywood passes. To quote that annoying **** of the Apprentice "You need to think about strategy"

The ball has to fully cross the line. So if the ball has a diameter of about 25 cm, it could still be 24 cm over the line and then be pushed forward to strike the bar where it did. That's actually my basis for believing it didn't cross the line - had it fully crossed the line, then the angle that Cech pushed it upwards at would have meant it hit the bar and bounced back into the goal. He looked like he pushed it almost vertically upwards from the replay, so it must still have been partly above the line.

But like you say, it's impossible to be certain.

 

A good example is QPR versus Bolton (another that wasn't given, although is was obviously in) Bogdan clearly palms the ball up and forwards, and yet it still strikes the bar and bounces back into play.
Even if the linesman hadn't seen the shot clearly, the trajectory of the ball should be enough to prove that it was returning into play from a position beyond the goal line.
One that still infuriates me is Stoke's 'goal' against Tottenham last season. The ref, Martin Atkinson I believe (yeah, him...) actually had to look round the post to see the ball. It hit Peter Crouch in the abdomen, clearly behind the line. Now, if you're stood at an angle to the goal (i.e not directly in line with the goal line, like a linesman might be), and the ball is struck into the bottom corner, but the post obscures your vision of it, surely that means (to anyone with any sense) that it has gone behind the line?

 

He was a handful aye. To be hypercritical though, he shouldn't have given Cech a sniff of that header from where he was. Ultimately it was a fairly ordinary miss.

 

Classic ya daft sod haha.

 

That's the American spelling. His actual name is Peter Cheque

 

Its actually Pea Tear Cheque

 

He got a good connection and great power on it, rather than an ordinary miss, id put it down to a top draw save




To some of the other posts - the ref got it spot on, you simply can't give a goal unless you've seen it go over the line. The speed it happened you'd have to have unbelievable vision to see if it went over as it was so tight. If the ref and the linesman are in doubt they simply can't give it. Some refs would have given it, but they're generally the **** inexperienced refs.

Looking at it a few times I still can't tell for sure, but I'm definitely leaning towards it not fully crossing the line.