25/26 - Non Saints Games

[The Wyvern]

VAR is a complete and utter farce isn’t it.

[ChrisPY]

4 minutes ago, Britannia said:

I posted that before the VAR check, not knowing what about to come.

Did I hear MCI were awarded free kick for 'denial of goal scoring opportunity' but Haaland had already scored?

Szoboszlai fouled Haaland. Haaland then fouled Szoboszlai. The ball then crossed the line.

Don’t agree with it but they’ve refereed it in that sequence with the red card for denial of a goal scoring opportunity but couldn’t play advantage to give the goal because Haaland then committed a foul before the ball crossed the line.

[Lighthouse]

It’s an absolute buzzkill but that was the correct decision.

[aintforever]

5 minutes ago, Lighthouse said:

It’s an absolute buzzkill but that was the correct decision.

I disagree, surely when two players are fouling each other it can just be ignored. Refs do it all the time.

[ChrisPY]

1 minute ago, aintforever said:

I disagree, surely when two players are fouling each other it can just be ignored. Refs do it all the time.

Agree with this. Szoboszlai committing the foul should effectively remove him from the phase of play in terms of being able to be fouled (aside from anything worthy of a yellow/red card). Doubt that’s written into the laws though so probably a technically correct decision.

[Lighthouse]

36 minutes ago, aintforever said:

I disagree, surely when two players are fouling each other it can just be ignored. Refs do it all the time.

I'd agree if that were the case but there was a clear gap between them, so it was in effect two separate fouls. You can't ignore a foul that directly leads to a goal just because it follows another foul by the other team. I don't like it but it's the rules and if Arsenal ended up losing the title on G.D. they'd rightly be fuming.

[Lord Duckhunter]

29 minutes ago, Lighthouse said:

I'd agree if that were the case but there was a clear gap between them, so it was in effect two separate fouls. You can't ignore a foul that directly leads to a goal just because it follows another foul by the other team. I don't like it but it's the rules and if Arsenal ended up losing the title on G.D. they'd rightly be fuming.

In the old days the ref would probably have pretended in his opinion neither were fouls and given the goal. This is a result of the drive towards “consistency “ and referees not able to use common sense. Had he not followed the rules 100% Howard Webb would have hung him out to dry….
 

Taking the emotion out of it, Liverpool would probably have been happier with losing 3-1, than losing 2-1 & the player missing the next match. It was quite funny their players arguing the goal should be disallowed, when the outcome of that meant a red card. 

[LiberalCommunist]

Sheff Utd v Boro tomorrow evening. 

Will that fixture be big enough to end all this shite going on here?

[bpsaint]

9 hours ago, Whitey Grandad said:

I don't know if anyone is interested but I am in Buenos Aires at the moment and went yesterday evening to see River Plate play their neighbours Tigre at the Estadio Monumental.  This stadium is also used for their national games and for visiting rock concerts. It's their version of Wembley. It's a horseshoe shape and I was up in the 'Centenario Media' in the centre of the horseshoe behind the goal. It holds 85,000.

Fabulous atmosphere with almost constant chanting. It's a shame that I didn't know the words. Both sides played 4-3-3 but Tigre were a lot sharper and quicker and scored first after 5 minutes. River Plate were defensively poor with lots of holes and followed the fashion of leaving acres of space for the opposition wingers to exploit.

Their ball control was poor and despites some slick interplay there were a lot of misplaced passes. Tigre were simply too quick for them and three more goals followed. Even at 4-0 down the home fans never stopped chanting despite being reduced to ten men by a high boot and were rewarded,  if that's the right word,  in the final minutes with a goal scored from outside the penalty area with a well-placed shot just inside the left hand post of an unsighted goalkeeper. 

An interesting experience and I would have liked to have stopped to sample the barbecues after the game. Quite a change from burger vans.

Some on here will admire the home shirts with their red sash.

 

     

 

 

Looks a cracking trip that. I swear that’s what those skate inbreds think the noise at their little shithole is like. Especially with their fake quote from Ronaldinho claiming it’s the best atmosphere in world football all.

Back to the relegation battle I’d love it if Spurs dropped, would be all kinds of funny. Suspect it’ll be Forest on current form though. Leeds will get enough points at home to see them safe. Can’t help but feel them losing the playoff final to us might have been the better outcome for them in the long term.