Domestic football - spam version

[¡Roján!]

Did they fucking film that on a webcam?

The Wrexham vs Brighton game was appalling. The ball was just a yellow blur. And, I'm pretty sure the ball is white.

 

[Lee]

Yeah I was saying that to my housemate, it looked like they'd took a game from the 80s.

Here's the Newcastle highlights loveless. This was all we got and yes it was that shit quality.

 

[The Crock]

The first Newcastle goal was awesome.

 

[Loveless]

Chris Foy just had to steal the spotlight, didn't he. Absolutely ludicrous early red card.

 

[Барбоса]

The art of tackling in football is finished

 

[¡Roján!]

If the rules say that a two-footed challenge is a red card, then Chris Foy is just doing his job. Correctly, I might add.

Your problems lie with the FA, not Foy.

 

[Барбоса]

Yeah, but a referee is also encouraged to use his common sense and doling out that red card in the first ten minutes of a cup match between two local rivals is senseless

 

[¡Roján!]

Yeah, but a referee is also encouraged to use his common sense and doling out that red card in the first ten minutes of a cup match between two local rivals is senseless

Rules are rules and they should be followed no matter what. The circumstances shouldn't matter. Hell, that's why we are in the economic crisis, people failing to go by the book amongst other things. Sure, no one wants to see someone get sent off, but complain to Kompany for not following simple rules.

 

[Uncle Sam]

Rules are rules and they should be followed no matter what. The circumstances shouldn't matter. Hell, that's why we are in the economic crisis, people failing to go by the book amongst other things. Sure, no one wants to see someone get sent off, but complain to Kompany for not following simple rules.

"That's why we are in the economic crisis" is the new "This is how Nazi Germany started."

 

[¡Roján!]

Pretty much.

 

[Loveless]

If the rules say that a two-footed challenge is a red card, then Chris Foy is just doing his job. Correctly, I might add.

Your problems lie with the FA, not Foy.

That's for a two-footed tackle on the man. I'll have to watch it again but I don't think Kompany even touched the player, he got the ball completely and the guy ran into his legs.

 

[Барбоса]

Rules are rules and they should be followed no matter what. The circumstances shouldn't matter. Hell, that's why we are in the economic crisis, people failing to go by the book amongst other things. Sure, no one wants to see someone get sent off, but complain to Kompany for not following simple rules.

Sorry, Brohan but that is total bollocks. The rules might be black and white but in-game circumstances are 14 shades of grey and therefore to rely solely on the former to judge the latter ensures inconsistency. Common sense should always prevail over a strict implementing of the rules.

With your interpretation Howard Webb should have sent off everyone that deserved it in the World Cup Final and left it to be a disastrous advert for football when instead he used common sense and preserved it as a spectacle.

 

[Loveless]

I've just watched it again, it's an unbelievably bad decision.

 

[Leeds Guy]

Ohhh dear oh dear. Foy you absolute tool. Never a red, not even two footed. one foot tackles the others nowhere near. Giggs on Aguero was worse, but of course no card given. Laughable.

 

[¡Roján!]

That's for a two-footed tackle on the man. I'll have to watch it again but I don't think Kompany even touched the player, he got the ball completely and the guy ran into his legs.

Whether it's a two-footed challenge or not is debatable. But, if it is, it's a red card. Plain and simple.

Sorry, Brohan but that is total bollocks. The rules might be black and white but in-game circumstances are 14 shades of grey and therefore to rely solely on the former to judge the latter ensures inconsistency. Common sense should always prevail over a strict implementing of the rules.

With your interpretation Howard Webb should have sent off everyone that deserved it in the World Cup Final and left it to be a disastrous advert for football when instead he used common sense and preserved it as a spectacle.

No way! How is it fair that someone makes a two footed challenge in a Tranmere Rovers vs. Leyton Orient match and gets sent off but, just because it's Man Utd vs. Man City someone gets let off? Of course, like I've said before I don't want anyone to be sent off ever but, it's the fucking law. It's when rules get stretched and broken that society falls apart, and it's the same on a football pitch.

Don't even get me started on the World Cup final. That was a shambles in every way imaginable.

 

[Барбоса]

Blanket bans such as that on two-footed challenges need to be policed with common sense otherwise we get awful decisions like Foy's. Nani doesn't even claim a free kick, suggesting that he was barely touched and that the tackle was perfectly timed.

But with a strict interpretation of the laws, a perfectly timed two-footed tackle deserves a red card... total bollocks

 

[¡Roján!]

Blanket bans such as that on two-footed challenges need to be policed with common sense otherwise we get awful decisions like Foy's. Nani doesn't even claim a free kick, suggesting that he was barely touched and that the tackle was perfectly timed.

But with a strict interpretation of the laws, a perfectly timed two-footed tackle deserves a red card... total bollocks

Well, that is a problem with the laws themself. I, personally, don't think they should be punishable by red cards but, if that is what it says then, I'd rather it be enforced properly, not by common sense.

 

[Loveless]

Common sense is supposed to be a main factor in any decision, I think that's in the rules somewhere.

 

[Captain Morgan Freeman]

I though i was watching a fucking charity game when i turned on my tv to see scholes on the pitch!.

On the subject of tackling in football video evidence should be used plain and simple, referee's are going to make mistakes and it takes 30 seconds to check on a video weather the challenge was fair or not. If it's good enough for rugby it's damm sure good enough for football.

 

[Lee]

I'd love it if Hargreaves got a 93rd minute equaliser.

 

[Remix]

I though i was watching a fucking charity game when i turned on my tv to see scholes on the pitch!.

On the subject of tackling in football video evidence should be used plain and simple, referee's are going to make mistakes and it takes 30 seconds to check on a video weather the challenge was fair or not. If it's good enough for rugby it's damm sure good enough for football.

The present ambiguity of decisions in football leaves plenty of room for controversy, which generates interest and therefore money. Big Brother/Bischoff Ecconomics. But then, I'm not a football fan.

 

[Барбоса]

Did ITV choose their second game solely for the purpose of being able to make the link between the two Fergusons?

 

[Lee]

As Danny Baker said on twitter: Hendrix once supported the Monkees.

 

[Tastycles]

Odd pick for a televised game.

 

[Captain Morgan Freeman]

Is anyone else not hearing any commentary at all??