Re: The Football Chat Thread : Sun Oct 31, 2010 7:55 pm  

MacBlondie wrote:

Messi and Ronaldo are on another planet to everyone else at the moment.

Only four weeks till they go up against each other

Conroy wrote:

Latics in 17th and with a now MASSIVE game ahead against Blackburn next week.

Understand it gives you a bit of excitement and a reason to stay interested in the season, but deep down you must know that you won't go down.

Re: The Football Chat Thread : Sun Oct 31, 2010 8:06 pm  

Catalancs wrote:

Understand it gives you a bit of excitement and a reason to stay interested in the season, but deep down you must know that you won't go down.

Oh I don't know. We should be fine, but we 're not winning enough games we should be and that will eventually cost us.

Re: The Football Chat Thread : Sun Oct 31, 2010 8:17 pm  

Conroy wrote:

Oh I don't know. We should be fine, but we 're not winning enough games we should be and that will eventually cost us.

Wanted to stick a LARGE amount on Latics to stop up just before the Spurs game, but in my wisdom thought I'd wait for the inevitable spanking at White Hart Lane and get a better price. We both know what happened next...

Football Ticketing - HELP : Sun Oct 31, 2010 9:35 pm  

Hi,

Just seen this board and after some advice, does anybody know where I can buy tickets for Liverpool/Man Utd for away games, tried everything the website, ticket office, rang up but no joy.

Ta in advance

Re: The Football Chat Thread : Sun Oct 31, 2010 11:06 pm  

Crazy second goal for Utd but you must always play to the whistle and Gomez clearly doesn't. It's okay for Spurs to say they were cheated but we were already 1-0 up and it should have been a penalty before the handball.

Re: The Football Chat Thread : Mon Nov 01, 2010 12:27 am  

PAUL M wrote:

Crazy second goal for Utd but you must always play to the whistle and Gomez clearly doesn't. It's okay for Spurs to say they were cheated but we were already 1-0 up and it should have been a penalty before the handball.

It should have been a penalty because the Spurs player tugged at Nani. But Nani's 6 metre run and fall to the floor after the tug was enough to mean he would never get a pen for that.

Play to the whistle? You mean the way Nani did? By sticking your hand on the ball and clearly causing an end to the ball being in open play if the lino/ref team had a clue? The fact is Nani should have been shooting instead of diving, and after his dive had been dismissed he should have been scrambling to get to his feet rather than sticking has hand on the ball.

Re: The Football Chat Thread : Mon Nov 01, 2010 2:09 am  

At the end of the day common sense should have prevailed and no goal given. The worst bit was the linesman knew it wasn't a goal, stuck his flag up when Nani stuck it in, nodded to Gomes saying so, but for some reason was told by the ref and Rio to ignore it (Ferdinand being there was a joke btw).

It doesn't matter what Gomes did or didn't do in relation to playing to the whistle, at least one official knew it shouldn't have been a goal and that's that. It's hardly like advantage was played, unless advantage now means 'the other team scoring'.

Also it wasn't a penalty, Nani dove like a tart. Infact should have been booked for diving, then for the handball. Red card

Re: The Football Chat Thread : Mon Nov 01, 2010 6:15 am  

tommy wrote:

At the end of the day common sense should have prevailed and no goal given. The worst bit was the linesman knew it wasn't a goal, stuck his flag up when Nani stuck it in, nodded to Gomes saying so, but for some reason was told by the ref and Rio to ignore it (Ferdinand being there was a joke btw).

It doesn't matter what Gomes did or didn't do in relation to playing to the whistle, at least one official knew it shouldn't have been a goal and that's that. It's hardly like advantage was played, unless advantage now means 'the other team scoring'.

Also it wasn't a penalty, Nani dove like a tart. Infact should have been booked for diving, then for the handball. Red card

No he never. The linesman only put his flag up when pressured by Gomes. It should have been a penalty, Nani then touched it, one cancels out another. All on Gomes.

Re: The Football Chat Thread : Mon Nov 01, 2010 7:50 am  

tommy wrote:

At the end of the day common sense should have prevailed and no goal given. The worst bit was the linesman knew it wasn't a goal, stuck his flag up when Nani stuck it in, nodded to Gomes saying so, but for some reason was told by the ref and Rio to ignore it (Ferdinand being there was a joke btw).

It doesn't matter what Gomes did or didn't do in relation to playing to the whistle, at least one official knew it shouldn't have been a goal and that's that. It's hardly like advantage was played, unless advantage now means 'the other team scoring'.

Also it wasn't a penalty, Nani dove like a tart. Infact should have been booked for diving, then for the handball. Red card

Doesnt playing the ball 5 yards beyond where the incident took place constitute advantage?

Re: The Football Chat Thread : Mon Nov 01, 2010 11:25 am  

What the hell is Nani smoking.