I know it might seem trivial but its been niggling at me for a couple of years now. I watched a rugby game earlier where the guys were giving their all and smashing into each other at full pelt. Getting smashed by 18 stone of muscle but getting back up time and again. Then I turn on the soccer and I see half our team running around in long sleeve shirts, leggings and worst of all: Woolly gloves. Seeing them prancing around like a bunch of women actually made me embarrassed to be a soccer fan. Its not just our players, its right across the board. And its always the prima donna's from the Continent/Sth America who think they're better than they actually are, that have the gloves on. Taarabt, Cisse, Traore etc. You'll never see Shaun Derry or Clint Hill wearing them. And then you remember what money these guys are on and its like: Are you for fu*king real? Am I on my own on this one?
the wearing of gloves is the least of our problems!. The wearing of the shirt should be higher up the list!
At least yours are wearing long sleeves with their gloves. It's even worse when they're wearing short sleeved shirts and gloves. Goalkeepers excepted that should just be a bookable offence the second a player tries it, and given they book you for taking your shirt off after scoring a goal it wouldn't be the most ridiculous yellow card offence available.
I was going to say that, short sleeved shirts and gloves should result in players having their clothes burned by the other players. I dont think I ever wore gloves or tights. An undershirt and that was it. What is this "goal" thing you speak of?
I like it, honestly, I do. This 'goal' thing, as you call it, is a perplexing myth, perpetrated by ne'er do wells, attempting to upset our supporters. Guard against these evils.
I assume Flyer had the same exemption to the rule since I'd said goalkeepers weren't included in the post he replied to. I have just remembered that rather than removing the shirt after scoring a goal the most ridiculous yellow card offence in the book is probably that a goalkeeper is supposed to be booked if they're in a long sleeved shirt and roll the sleeves up (or presumably down) without asking the ref first. They're fine to play in short sleeves, but the ref has to know whether they're in long or short, and be told about any changes in case the ball hits an arm in a crowded area. It's not, they're real I tell you. They're those things that happen about a minute before your striker finds himself on the ball in space in the middle of the pitch, or for a fuller example, what happens just before every time Paddy Kenny touches the ball on FLS tonight.
Dont you think a yellow for taking a FK too quickly is even more stupid or getting a sent off for it as a 2nd yellow?
It's more stupid on behalf of the player. You generally only get booked for the quick free kick thing when the referee has held his whistle up to let all the players know that it's to be played to. It doesn't really compare to a keeper deciding to play in long sleeves, then it getting really hot during the game so instinctively rolls his sleeves up suddenly getting a yellow.
Ive yet to see that happen however Ive seen our player sent off for taking a FK too quickly while every other ref on the planet lets it go.
It's not often a keeper rolls their sleeves up, but the potential is there. Oh and I've found the thread from that Watson red card game, I do like my description. http://bigade.createforumhosting.com/some-thoughts-on-today-t1113.html Oh, and from the other thread on here, that was the same game as Vine and Agyemang scoring. Down to 10 men and they came on as subs for late goals, the t-shirts were your idea. http://bigade.createforumhosting.com/i-was-there-when-vine-and-agyemang-scored-t1111.html
