Match Day Thread Leicester v Southampton 1.30 pm 3/4/16

I get what the journalist is talking about....I wouldn't start shouting racist abuse however drunk I was. However, if he has been punished and doesn't repeat the offence, he has learnt his lesson. It means that we have seen the ugly inside of him, but you can't control what people think, only what they do.

 

At least we might be first on match of the day

 

All that proves is that he's an arsehole when he's drunk. Remove the subtitles and then tell me what he's saying.

 

Fixed the first sentence for you.

The implication in your second sentence is that as long as you're not sure what he's saying, it's in some way different. I really can't find another way to read that sentence.

Vin

 

Read it any way you like. The way I intended it to be read was as a reluctance to rush to judgement.

 

And none of us is perfect.

 

Exactly. Let he who is without sin, etc.

 

Live & let live, or die, who cares, but let those who judge be judged. Like Fran says, if he does it again........

 

Given that Vardy apologised for the incident I don't really consider myself "rushing to judgment". He did it. Regardless of the quality of the recording, he admitted it and apologised, so he did it.

"The incident is reported to have taken place in the early hours of 26 July and the 28-year-old has since apologised for a “regrettable error in judgment”

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/aug/13/leicester-claudio-ranieri-jamie-vardy-not-sacked

Read this one any way you like, but Vardy is a self-confessed racist.

Vin

 

Like your grammar. That should be "are", not "is".

 

Interesting point on the handballs on motd. If every time it hit your hand was a handball everyone would know the rules etc. I don't think that would ever come in though

 

Was at the game today so haven't seen the penalty shouts properly until now. Both penalties for me. Simpson moves his arm to block the ball: and prevents a goal. Huth's arm miles away from his body and blocks the cross. We are not getting the big decisions.

 

You've clearly decided for yourself that he's a racist. What he actually confessed to is using offensive language, admittedly of a racial nature, for which he later apologised.

 

Just watched it. Leicester were on first, not sure who they were playing though.

 

The problem with saying every time it hits your hand it's a penalty is that you'll get attackers deliberately blasting the ball at the hands and arms of any defenders in the box.

 

Both decisions were debatable in my opinion. Certainly grounds to grumble, although not necessarily clear cut, I can't really see how some are having a pop at Ron with definite statements of fact. Anyone convinced that there was no intent is a mind reader.

Goes back to what I said earlier, the word 'deliberate' needs change as it's too subjective.

 

What word do you use instead?

 

I only get annoyed about pens because of Benteke's recent one, but can see why we got neither today. Huths was more obvious, the position was pretty natural but he tenses because he knows he has a chance of stopping it, now that's a pen for me, but again, can see why it wasn't given.

 

'If in doubt, award a penalty to Southampton.'

 

If the rule was that the defender had to be between the ball and the goal it would cut out what you're suggesting would happen. As I said before, it at least needs to be discussed.