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I used to work with a guy who always used to say "This is a fact, not an opinion" It never was of course
Well Fran, that's the end of your match thread. I do enjoy a good match day thread. 8 pages of pre match build up, 8 pages of the match itself and 12 pages of bickering.
Bleeding lowlife, chop their ****ing hands off I say, or we could give em a suspended sentence that's if they're ever caught of course.we're too soft nowadays.except for our dopey refs of course,book em send em off,me,me,me. Lff, hope you can recover quickly and you get your gear back,pissed me off reading your misfortune.
Because of the stupid penalties for committing the offense. If you're a CB and someone blasts a ball right into your hand from 1 yard away, it's incredibly harsh to get a red card as well as give up a penalty kick. Pretty much if I were an attacker, any time I didn't have an obvious pass I would just start blasting the ball at defenders rather than attempt a hopeful cross. You could totally change the game if you are lucky. Really, I feel like most of the things that supporters hate about the game are a result of the twin red card AND PK punishment for any foul in the box. It's why players dive. It's why officials let players get away with a bit of push-and-shove or shirt-pulling. And it's why everyone complains when a call is given in the last 10 minutes of the game. For non-deliberate fouls like balls that hit the hand, or bog-standard incidental trips that no one would think twice about if they weren't in the box, just give the team a corner kick or something. You only get the PK/red card for fouls that are deemed deliberate/excessive/reckless.
The thing that's confusing is that I have come away from games feeling a LOT more hard done by from ref's decisions than today, and Ron didn't seem aggrieved. Yet today, two pretty debatable calls and he is angry!
Amazingly, we were in. They must have got over a 7ft wall, through the back door, picked up the keys, driven the cars away, all whilst we were watching the footie. Never heard a thing. Sounds impossible but there you are. If we'd have been out the alarm would have gone off. But what the heck, no one got hurt, we can buy another car and phone BUT that's 3 points we'll never get back!
My opinion on this is that he is doing exactly the right thing. Ferguson never, ever admitted that a decision went his way and complained about every single decision that went against him. Result? Refs were scared of him. In the back of every ref's mind when Man U were playing was a little seed of doubt about what kind of storm he'd kick up if a dubious decision went against Man U. They gave him Fergie time, ffs! So, Ron doing this rather than being nicey-nicey will result in decisions starting to be given our way. After all, according to an expert, refs read the paper and watch MOTD, so if Ron can influence them by complaining, all fine with me. I also think that we should be training our players to hound the ref like other teams do. When everyone's doing it, it's irrational not to. Stuff being nice losers. Gain an edge. Vin
That depends....... I bet a few Newcastle fans would have swapped the inconvenience of a burglary for a win against Norwich!
