Re: Football Chat Thread - Euro 2012 edition : Sun Oct 07, 2012 4:14 am  

In today's game, when we were leading 3-1, we had three blatant penalty appeals denied.

The first the defender thought the keeper would get the ball, Hazard was running past him and would probably have got the ball but the Norwich defender stuck out his leg and tripped Hazard.

The second Oscar the Norwich defender dives in, nowhere near the ball and clips Oscar and he goes down.

The third Terry was going in to head the ball at the far post and the defender gives him a shove in the back to put him off.

That was my view of events. The commentators of the match were in full agreement. I've read of other commentators saying the same thing. I've even read of their being a possible fourth penalty appeal but can't remember that.

I know that some people will say that the ref was just being lenient on Norwich because the game was already 3-1 so it didn't matter, but it's not the referee's job to manage the scorelines. If Norwich end up staying on goal difference then today's ref could have made the difference. The same could apply to us. Citeh only won the title last season on GD, so refs shouldn't be cheating the game by not giving blatant decisions that are right before their eyes.

Re: Football Chat Thread - Euro 2012 edition : Sun Oct 07, 2012 1:28 pm  

Can anyone explain why City put up with Balotelli? I really can't see the talent that overrides the petulance/trouble he causes. Mancini had no hesitancy on letting Adam Johnson go (a player I rate as the best English winger in the PL), for his lifestyle, so why the latitude to Balotelli?

Re: Football Chat Thread - Euro 2012 edition : Sun Oct 07, 2012 2:33 pm  

One of my most hated fixtures of the season today. Robert Huth should have already been sent off and we're only 30 mins in. Kightly done 'a Shelvey' on one of ours yet only gets a yellow. Lovely.

Re: Football Chat Thread - Euro 2012 edition : Sun Oct 07, 2012 2:47 pm  

getdownmonkeyman wrote:

Can anyone explain why City put up with Balotelli? I really can't see the talent that overrides the petulance/trouble he causes. Mancini had no hesitancy on letting Adam Johnson go (a player I rate as the best English winger in the PL), for his lifestyle, so why the latitude to Balotelli?

Most sources put his fee for joining Citeh as undisclosed. I did find an old Sky Sports page that had the fee as 6 million pounds. His transfer fee when he joined Sunderland was 10m.

Balotelli was signed for 22m Euro. His indiscretions are a lot more public and there'll be few in football who don't know what a headcase he is. I think Citeh would get rid, just as they would have got rid of Tevez, but they simply won't put themselves in a position of having to justify a huge loss on a player when the player has obvious value on the pitch.

With Adrian Mutu, Chelsea took a hit of 22m Euro when they sacked him for a failed drug test. I think that was Mourinho's decision, and Mourinho was powerful at the club at the time. I'm not sure that Mancini and/or Citeh's board want to have to report to the Sheikh why he's taking a huge hit on a player.

Until Citeh get someone to take Balotelli off their hands at a reasonable fee, he'll stay at Citeh.

Re: Football Chat Thread - Euro 2012 edition : Sun Oct 07, 2012 3:19 pm  

Roddy B wrote:

One of my most hated fixtures of the season today. Robert Huth should have already been sent off and we're only 30 mins in. Kightly done 'a Shelvey' on one of ours yet only gets a yellow. Lovely.

Oh no, the big bad Stoke players tackle a bit hard do they

Re: Football Chat Thread - Euro 2012 edition : Sun Oct 07, 2012 3:35 pm  

Cas Till I Die wrote:

Oh no, the big bad Stoke players tackle a bit hard do they

Tackle? If you call leaving your studs in on somebody's chest a tackle, I suppose you're right. When the same player who left his studs in then slides through the back of your player, late, with his studs showing, he really shouldn't be on the pitch.

Stoke are complete and utter scum, their manager is vermin and they epitomise what's wrong with football.

Re: Football Chat Thread - Euro 2012 edition : Sun Oct 07, 2012 3:37 pm  

Cas Till I Die wrote:

Oh no, the big bad Stoke players tackle a bit hard do they

Everyone knows the type of football you'll be facing against Stoke.

Since they've come up again they've taken 1 point off Man United, 2 points off Chelsea, 11 against Liverpool, 9 against Arsenal (and knocked them out of the FA Cup).

Now, who do you think bitches about Stoke the most?

Re: Football Chat Thread - Euro 2012 edition : Sun Oct 07, 2012 3:43 pm  

Roddy B wrote:

Tackle? If you call leaving your studs in on somebody's chest a tackle, I suppose you're right. When the same player who left his studs in then slides through the back of your player, late, with his studs showing, he really shouldn't be on the pitch.

Stoke are complete and utter scum, their manager is vermin and they epitomise what's wrong with football.

Roddy, if I searched 100 years up and down the land and talked to every football fan in the areas I searched I'd be hard pressed to find 1 as clueless biased and plain thick as you. Well done !!!

Re: Football Chat Thread - Euro 2012 edition : Sun Oct 07, 2012 3:48 pm  

Yes, Stoke have found an effective way of gaining enough points to maintain their Premier League status, but has any side in the last 20 years ever found a more ugly way of doing it?

People on here may wish to defend them, that's fair enough, but would you seriously pay to watch it??

The fact that 4 years in, they still do that tedious long throw nonsense, tells you all you need to know about the coaching and tactical brain of Tony Pulis.

Re: Football Chat Thread - Euro 2012 edition : Sun Oct 07, 2012 3:56 pm  

Dita's Slot Meter wrote:

The fact that 4 years in, they still do that tedious long throw nonsense, tells you all you need to know about the coaching and tactical brain of Tony Pulis.

And yet he's taken another point from Liverpool today.