while i agree with some of your points, most manager want their players to continue playing. i highly doubt mourinho or ferguson would have told them to kick the ball out. but a proper captain would have done.
Christ, the self-contradictions in this! He was off the pitch when the breakaway started, and then 'hobbled' back on as Liverpool progressed up the pitch. But the clincher is your own statement that no player would leave the pitch to get treatment, as this is drilled into them. Even if they're off the pitch in the first instance and just come back on as the opposition are moving into their half? Er, that sounds like cheating buster, no matter how you dress it up. So, you move from your quasi-legal (but provably wrong) assertion that a player has to come back onto the pitch to get treatment or he'll get booked emoticon-0102-bigsm) to some sort of convention that if any player says they're injured at any stage the game must stop. So if Cissokho had feighned a pulled a pulled hamstring as sagna's cross for the first goal went over, cardoza would have been obliged to catch the ball and stop the game? Don't think you've thought this through feller. Btw, my annoyance WASN'T with Gibbs for trying it on, it was with Sagna for having a blouse-attack at Coutinho for not-stopping (if even Coutinho had seen it anyway). About time this guff all went back to basics anyway, which is the game should only be stopped for head injuries, and then at the behest of the ref.
I don't have to think anything through, he was not allowed to stay off the field and be treated. Instant booking if he doesn't come back on. He was obviously not injured to the point that he couldn't re-enter the field. Its good to know you feel that way, because now teams know not to put the ball out for your players. But you are only reinforcing my point that your whole club is rotten to the core. You don't care about racism, sportsmanship or anything else. You and your scumbag manager deserve each other.
You, Sir, are a ****ing idiot. You lost the argument on facts pages ago in this thread - as I said, why wasn't Townsend booked for receiving treatment in the photographers' pit? Racism? yours is the club that put pressure on Ian Wright to drop his complaint about Schmeical when a lip-reader had testified he'd called him a black bastard, because they didn't want a fuss with United. What any of that has to do with this I dunno, except for it being the classic tactics of a divi who's been found out trying to use bogus 'facts' in a discussion. As for not putting the ball out and going back over history to embellish an argument, I have this: you are the club that was shamed into giving Sheffield United a replay in a cup tie. In summary, he was injured off the pitch and came back on when he saw Liverpool's attack progressing. Nice try feller, but if he'd have needed essential treatment that necessitated needed the game to be stopped (i.e. a head injury) the ****er wouldn't have been able to get back on the pitch anyway. Your nonsensical tripe about a player being injured having to come back onto pitch to receive treatment or he'll be booked has been shown up to be the drivel of your imagination that it is. So now you're down to insults.... Well listen, I'll accept that no team should put the ball out for us if one of our players gets injured behind the opponent's goalline and limps back on to get the game stopped. I expect we too have many players who'll try it, but if the ref says to play on I don't expect the opposing team to put the ball out, though I don't think their reasoning will have anything to do with 'racism', nor would I suspect that our player's motivation in coming back on the pitch was anything to do with the fear of being booked for receiving treatment off it. Most importantly, and what my post was about, if in the above scenario one of our players had a fanny fit and risked getting booked or sent off by fatuously attacking the smallest member of the opposition for (rightly) not putting the ball out, I wouldn't be creaming myself over how 'hard' they were.
Fair play if you want to have a rant about the other stuff, but the part in bold is bollocks. The rules say that the ref needs to atone for any 'unsporting behaviour' during the game. Arsenal could have just left it at that, but they volunteered for a replay to make up for the manner in which that game was won, the FA had to consider it and eventually granted it. We weren't 'shamed' into it at all.
Btw PISKIE, good luck with the rest of the season. As we have no chance of the title, or ever did have, I'd LOVE Arsenal to break the grip of what has now become the big three. If we got fourth place (not likely I know) and pushed Man U into 5th... well it'd make my season. I love your football, and though I wouldn't put my own money on you beating Chelsea and City to the title, I sure hope you do. This argument - actually a follow-on from an earlier handbags on the Liverpool board with Gruber about the rights and wrongs of putting the ball out in any 'injury' scenario - was not about Arsenalfootball club, your fans, and certainly not sour grapes about your fine victory. Good luck for the rest of the season, and I sincerely hope you pull off the unlikely. Still think this jerk is wrong factually AND morally re his claim that you have to come back on the pitch to get treatment for an injury or you'll get booked though. Deliberate misinterpretation of the rules regarding offside that is.
I haven't really followed that back and forth mate, but thanks for the good wishes and all the best to Liverpool too. I hope you finish above Utd ..... as long as it's not above us too.
