of fouling, cheating, depraved rats and that includes the guy with the whistle too. The rules of football took a serious defeat today. Both Dempsey and Caulker scored perfectly good goals only for then to be discarded by a fanny with a whistle, for no visible reason. 21 official fouls commited by Lazio, which IMO should have been more like 42 and somehow they finished the game with all their 11 players on the field. If they (Lazio) need to win this competition that badly., the authorities should make a charitable donation to then. Let then have it I say, and then they should change the name of the competition to 'The Foulers Cup' or someting. Bunch of disgraceful reptiles. Feel free to tell me I've made an error in my judgment.
I totally agree Bajan. The officials ruined that game and to blow for Caulker's goal was absolutely shocking. I don't blame Lazio as much because they were encouraged by the officiating. The ref was there to do a neautral job and he failed thus allowing Lazio to pull their stunts. Cannot fault our game tonight, we won that 2-0.
Not only did we win that game by a min of 2 goals, but at least two of their stunt-men should of been sent off., thus making them not eligible for the next game.
And that is the refs fault. It's that anti English twat,Platini, who was in the crowd that encourages this kind of behaviour!
Yes Spurlock., I was one of the fans that thought we should go all out to win this competition this year. Having witnessed that dispay from Lazio, I,m beginning to change my mind. Maybe we should keep our best eleven for the serious business of Premiership football and not subject them to that level of deprivation.
absolute disgrace tonight - lazio and the officials in that sense i agree stuff the europa - but i just hope this is a one off but it was absolutely sickening if it happens again - i'll agree that we should forget the europa - i'd rather win the league cup if this is allowed to happen again
It really was a disgrace. The offsides were both very close, no doubt. But when officials manage to deny three goals when most would have allowed 2/3 AND refuse to stop a team from making dangerous fouling their central tactic you have to wonder both about their bank accounts and whether it's worth risking starters on travesties like this. As it happens, while I'm glad AVB is going all out for everything, I'd rather we're out of the Europa because it's just too grueling. I'd also rather this sort of sick joke happen just where and when it did, early in the Europa. So mostly I'm encouraged by a first rate effort which reduced a successful team to playing anti-football. If we can keep up efforts like that we'll be fine.
I did't watch the game - only saw highlights. No way was that a foul by Caulker. Dempsey - very marginal. Anyway, I was under the impression that, in these circumstances, the benefit of any doubt is supposed to go to the attacking team. As to the officiating - very poor. I just hope Platini was paying attention! It should hardly come as a surprise, to any experienced match official, that Italian teams employ these tactics - they're renowned for it. It should be an officials job to moderate their behaviour, not seemingly endorse it!
disgraceful. don't know who was worse, the Lazio players or the officials.As RWAEB says, 2 of the goals we close. for that reason, I am not surprised it didn't go our way. this happens a lot. But there was nothing wrong with Caulkers at all. and as for the challenges that were flying in; totally shocking. There should have been more yellows,if not a sending off or perhaps even 2. how that right back wasn't at least booked, I will never know. dirty prick.
When I saw the title I didn't know whether to expect flowers, banana's or coconuts! A surprising European ref considering they blow up for everything normally, I hope he enjoys his 5 star all expenses paid holiday in Rome...or is that a bit far fetched for such a 'clean' league!
I'm with you Bajan, I was appalled at Lazio's "kick the f*ck out of us" approach. The officials didn't help either, not only did it take them about 20 fouls to book a player but there rulings for the goals, Caulker's especially were poor. Cost us the game, I was encouraged with what I saw last night and it would have been great for Caulker to score on his European debut but the refs completely done us over.
The ref was shocking, but Spurs handled it well IMO. Unless i missed it (i was in and out a bit) there was no surrounding of the referee. We didn't resort to kicking the **** out of them back and getting silly bookings/dismissals. We kept our composure and carried on right to the end trying to get that goal. Alas, it was never meant to be in that game. Still, not unhappy with the Spurs side of things from last night
Oh please, if you want us to sack off any competition where we run the risk of having our players being subjected to spoiler tactics, you'll be saying we shouldn't bother with the Premier League after our next match against Stoke.
We're going to come against bully boy tactics in all comps, its up to our players to deal with it. Last night I feel we did, the officials let us down, but one good thing is we won't see them again.
I just hope that there will be a far more competent set of officials for the game in Rome. If that's what they're like away from home...!
do we even play them in Rome? Isn't it a 1 off match against each team? Or have they changed it, AGAIN?
Yes - it is now a four team group with eveyone playing home and away (as last year I think). Previously it was a five team group with only two home and two away matches.
I wish they'd just pick a format and ****ing leave it. Also, the losers from the CL should just **** off. Pardon my french.
If the CL losers drop down, why not have the EL group winners move up? At least then there's balance - after all, a few teams who won their leagues might actually get in the CL that way!
then you'd get people purposefully trying to come 5th/6th instead of higher because they think they have a better chance of getting into the latter stages of the CL by winning their EL group. I think just keep them separate
