Something I noticed over the weekend, and when we played Cardiff at the CCS, is that when Cardiff concede a legitimate goal David Marshall charges out of his goal waving his arms like Kermit the frog, appealing for a decision, any decision, to go in their favour. Against us, I think he was appealing for offside (when the ball was on the goal line) and against Wednesday he was adamant that a free kick for a high foot (never was, 50:50 ball on the edge of the box about 15 seconds before they scored) should have been given. Now, this isn't anything personal against David Marshall. It's just that he's the one I've seen doing it. For me, it's cheating. Plain and simple. Trying to influence a referee / linesman's decision is the same as diving. He should be booked every time he does it. The only reason I can think of for GKs doing this is that they have seen what happened when Tiote's wonder strike for Newcastle was ruled out for some spurious offside decision when Hart appealed. Players rightly get stick for diving, I think GKs should get stick for trying to get perfectly good goals disallowed. Just my two cents anyway.
I know what you mean, I've seen him do that quite a lot. I wouldn't let it bother you though, he's just clutching at straws. You get some keepers pretending to be injured to try and get a goal ruled out. I can't say I have ever seen these attempts at conning the ref actually work though.
Honestly Munky, the way he was lay spread eagle in the penalty box you'd have thought they should already be filling in the disability allowance forms. It's just become such an accepted part of the game now.
Only 25s? You've been had Can't remember his last goal? Unless it's the one when we beat QPR 1-0. Loved that.
maybe people have short memories but we ourselves had the master of this kind of gamesmanship in our own goal for more than a decade. a certain bryan gunn! he used to wave his hands around and complain when penalties went in
Gunn was at the very beginning of my time as a Canary Supers. The only real memory I have of him is charging out of his box, handling outside the area and being red carded. One of my first games...Can't remember for the life of me who it was against...Liverpool? Maybe?
He was one of our best players and a major reason we beat Bayern Munchen sadly it was his injury that forced us to play s a young Andy Marshall and the main factor in our relegation.
