"Hi, I'm Matt McClure. You may remember me from the benches of Burnham, Wealdstone, Hayes & Yeading and the Northern Irish U21s."
Don't think I'll be buying an Almeria season ticket anytime soon. I seem to remember they're high up the league too so I dread to think what the rest of that league's like. Same old Spanish football with fouls getting given for everything and the football as I say was poor, not that Falque looked out of place there. The only bit of excitement came right at the end when Almeria, 2-1 down, had a freekick which the keeper dropped at the feet of his own number 9(who looked awful but still had a goal to his name) who shinned it to an Almeria player on the edge of the area but the lob was saved by the keeper scrambling back to his line. Seriously that was the only highlight, even the goal I saw was crap.
I think that it's fair to say that Archer wasn't too impressed: [video=youtube;rOJekQ9lHdI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOJekQ9lHdI[/video]
I like the way the steward that gets there first attempts to reenact the incident with the young lad as the 'keeper Did Archer get booked for booting the ball away after or was that a seperate incident?
No he wasn't booked for that, probably should have been but I think the ref sympathised with his frustration and he was already on a yellow for the timewasting.
Love the pen misses, here's a couple of my favourites! [video=youtube;NCTdUXNeamI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=NCTdUXNeamI[/video] [video=youtube;dM0zjPZgT1U]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=dM0zjPZgT1U[/video] my alltime favourite... [video=youtube;wlR_0vkWXfA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlR_0vkWXfA[/video]
I can't believe a Coventry player was booked last night for trying to trip up a pitch invader.He should of been praised not punished,another stupid official
I can't believe they got a gate of over 31000 for a Johnsons Paint Trophy game, but they did and fair play to them.
We've announced our three changes for the Europa League squad. Out go Cudicini, Falque and Jenas and in come Bentaleb, Ceballos and Holtby. Didn't realise that the latter was actually eligible.
He couldn't have played in the Champions League again I believe but can be registered for the knockouts of the Europa League. Interesting to see two youngsters added, I'm not sure whether they even would have needed to be registered in the 25 due to their age. Perhaps this is in part a nudge to Bentley to find himself a loan move somewhere if we'd rather register players that didn't need to be.
He was in the side when the goons played schalke, they were in the same group. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/20134482 XI Player Eligibility Article 18 General provisions 18.01 In order to be eligible to participate in the UEFA club competitions, players must be registered with UEFA within the requested deadlines to play for a club and fulfil all the conditions set out in the following provisions. Only eligible players can serve pending suspensions. 18.02 Players must be duly registered with the association concerned in accordance with the associationâs own rules and those of FIFA, notably the FIFA Regulations on the Status and Transfer of Players. 18.03 Players must have undergone a medical examination in accordance with the mandatory criteria as set out in Annex IX. 18.04 Each club is responsible for submitting an A list of players (List A) and a B list of players (List B), duly signed, to its association for verification, validation, signature and forwarding to UEFA. These lists must include the name, date of birth, shirt number and name, nationality and national registration date of all players to be fielded in the UEFA club competition in question, as well as the surname and first name of the head coach. In addition, the lists must include the confirmation by the clubâs doctor that all players have undergone the requested medical examination; the clubâs doctor is solely responsible for ensuring that the requested playersâ medical examination has been duly performed. 18.05 The club bears the legal consequences for fielding a player who is not named on list A or B, or who is otherwise not eligible to play. 18.06 The UEFA administration decides on questions of player eligibility. Challenged decisions are dealt with by the Control and Disciplinary Body. 18.07 As a rule, a player may not play in a UEFA club competition (i.e. UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League, but not UEFA Super Cup) for more than one club in the course of the same season. Exceptionally, however, a player who has been fielded in the first, second, third qualifying round or the play-offs of the UEFA Champions League or UEFA Europa League is entitled to play in the UEFA Champions League or UEFA Europa League for another ??
Subsequent registration 18.18 For all matches from the start of the round of 16, a club may register a maximum of three new eligible players for the remaining matches in the current competition. Such registration must be completed by 1 February 2013 (24.00 CET) at the latest. This deadline cannot be extended. 18.19 One player from the above quota of three who has been fielded in a UEFA club competition group stage match for another club in the current season may exceptionally be registered, provided that the player has not been fielded: a) in the same competition for another club; or b) for another club that is currently in the same competition.
Why did the ref give the penalty taker a booking for slipping on that craphole of a pitch?The ultimate insult!
