Barclays Premier League - Page 29

quote DjedwardSmith

Rooney slices a shot, and it brings back echoes of Bobby Charlton? Hmmm.

God, I *bleep*ing hate United. If only for that petulant little cock and the way people suck their balls dry.

How did I know that the second I saw who'd won the GOTM competition, he'd go to a United game. Is it ever anywhere else, unless they're actually from Manchester?

Seconded.

Why cant we have a referral system. *bleep* a referees report, have a group watch the game over and punish *bleep* like Ronaldo.

Again a point I like to raise has come up, booking for simulation, *bleep*ing joke, why didnt Pedersen get booked?? Stupid *bleep*ing ref, it was a penalty, but he said no, therefore it must be a dive, but he didnt book him. Pathetic. He booked Ronaldo fairly, but didnt book him for kicking out. load of shit.

I used to think Webb was the best in the league but he's making mistakes week after week these days.

Even the commentator struggled to feign interest.

Arshavin looked very good, but didn't seem to know what to do off the ball at times. It was obvious he's lacking in match sharpness. Gutting we won't have him for Roma. Need a good result on Tuesday as I don't want us having too much to do. Can see us being played off the field on Tuesday tbh.

Cattermole just loves injuring people, it seems, having also done in Beye and Barton; maybe others as well, but I'm not so clued up on them.

I don't want to see the end of the good, solid challenge, but it's the same player constantly injuring people. Especially seeing as in this case, with Digard, that Cattermole had absolutely no need to go in as hard as he did, or even go to ground for that matter.

Because no-one give a flying monkeys about Bolton and West Ham's mid table game except their fans and there are more Mancs, Chelsea & Villa fans then Bolton & West Ham in the country.

Pardon me for playing devil's advocate here (oh so predictably one might add but it was gonna happen anyway) but I'd like to add my two cents to the United game 'controversy'. First point, Howard Webb was finely balanced in the shite he shovelled for 90 minutes. Second point, to silence the accusing voices of the ABU's; Ronaldo's dive was awful to watch and deserving of a booking, but before we have a full scale 'the league is crooked and favours United' bullsh*tting session on our hands one must ask, had Jonny Evans' goal at the end of the first half not been wrongfully disallowed and we'd kicked off the second half with a 2-1 lead, would Ronaldo have felt the need to dive in order to make something happen? Of course I'm not condoning his diving, as I said it was awful to watch and he was rightfully booked for it, but it's something I've seen a million times in the Premiership from many different players, but it's something worth thinkling about, at least in my oppinion.

Third point, one thing I wanna make clear from the outset, as a matter of addressing hypocracy and preventing mindless drivel from sanctimonious tw*ts, is perspective. If you have no complaints about the Jonny Evans goal being ruled out for a non-existant foul, then by simple logic and for the sake of your moral views on football and referee favouritism, you should feel no more aggrieved about Morten Gamst Pedersen being denied a penalty. If a team were to be wrongfully disallowed a goal against us, I would not feel aggrieved if we were wrongfully denied a goal in return. This of course, brings me to my next point. No penalty. A brush of a hand on a shoulder and a player dropping like a sack of sh*t does not constitute a penalty. Had that been Cristiano Ronaldo on the recieving end of what barely constitutes a challenge, let alone one with any force, then this forum would be throwing up one word and one word only. Dive, and they'd be correct, because that's exactly what Pedersen did. Dive.

quote stato

Were you watching the same game as me? He had his hands on his shoulders and pulled him back. Whilst it wasn't much of a pull it's still a foul. If it was a dive why was Pedersen not booked?

His hand brushed Pedersib's shoulder for half a second and Pedersen dropped to the floor, that's not a penalty. Howard Webb not booking him doesn't mean it was, if that was the case then why didn't he just give it? We've seen it countless times in the Premiership, players diving and avoiding punishment for it. Besides that, hasn't blatant refereeing inconsistency and double standard been the main talking point for the past three years or so?