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Whitey Grandad

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  1. You'd take that every week. He took his goal beautifully and I'm still not sure which was the better strike, his or Davis's. Davis hadn't scored for ages and I'm sure it must have been preying on his mind but Graziano had enough time to over-think what he was going to do yet with one quick glance struck the ball with perfect confidence.
  2. Great fun thanks. Most of us can remember when Chelsea were just another also-ran. These youngsters have been spoilt. That's what too much money and overhyping can do to you.
  3. Fair enough.
  4. I miss the marching band at half time, Basing Band or something wasn't it! That and the buxom girls giving demonstrations of judo.
  5. Yep, that's him. Seriously, looking at it objectively, what have you got against his performance? If we played them there again next week would your u want somebody else?
  6. Agreed. Something is obviously wrong throughout the team and it would do take somebody really special to turn this round. I don't think it's him.
  7. I think you're making a meal out of nothing. What does it matter what he did with his whistle just as long as he didn't blow it? It's an automatic reaction to start to raise your whistle in anticipation of a foul which may not actually materialise. Surely it's better then to hesitate before making your final decision. And what was wrong with checking the position of the ball at the corner? It only took a couple of moments and it was his responsibility as it was the opposite corner to his two assistants. He won't be the first to miss a shirt being pulled at a corner and in these circumstances you would look to more help from your assistants although normally they would be reluctant to make such a significant decision from the touchline. He was ok.
  8. Why would you want to do that?
  9. It means he's worth more when we sell him.
  10. The important wording in the Laws of the Game is 'considered by the referee to be'... The FA spends a lot of time trying to get a consistent approach across all levels of refereeing and most of the time they get it right. Getting full consistency across all referees is unlikely to happen but consistency throughout one game is not too much to ask.
  11. I agree. We can only wonder what might have happened had he played against Man Utd.
  12. They are laws, not rules. Many referees will expect the attacker to make at least some attempt to avoid a challenge or else he cannot be considered to have been tripped. Many attackers have to deviate their course to avoid a defender, it happens all the time in football. You certainly could not describe that as a 'trip or attempt to trip'. I don't know which pundits you are referring to but on MOTD they all agreed that the official referee, who is far more experienced than either of us, got the decision spot on. Did I remember that you were a referee yourself? If you were to give penalties for that sort of thing there would be half a dozen every game. (Your real name's not Mourinho by any chance?)
  13. After his howler today I think that name's appropriate. Where's Irene when you need him?
  14. I did and I wasn't even sitting on a toilet I enjoyed both wins but this was more comprehensive, even if it was against a poorer team.
  15. It certainly looked that way on television, but it's not the first time I've seen this happen.
  16. Exactly. He had to leave his feet planted where Stekelenburg would arrive but of course his momentum kept him going forward so he ends up doing a classic dive. If anybody is still in any doubt then watch it again and see what Falcao does with his left foot, the blue one. He makes no attempt to put it forward for his next natural step.
  17. Which linesman would that have been? They were both half a pitch away.
  18. Yes, the attacker can't just 'engineer' a contact.
  19. No. The attacker wasn't cleaned out by the keeper. Was it 'a trip or attempt to trip'? Of course not. The attacker must make some attempt to avoid the challenge but he just dived into it. It was a classic dive, and the referee agreed with me.
  20. ??? Nowhere near a penalty and rightly booked for it. Tucks both feet together and makes not attempt to keep running. 8.0 for artistic merit.
  21. Their claim was never a penalty so he has nothing to complain about. Falcao was rightly booked for his dive. Mourinho is just making himself look foolish.
  22. The return of Bertrand and the arrival of VVD have made a big difference.
  23. We are a top top club
  24. Shame about the clean sheet but anybody can fluke one
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