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It is a near miraculous run for a bottom of the table type club this late in the year. There is a schedule quirk though that has them playing two more games so far than Bolton who is below them. If Wigan keep even half their form in the last 4 games they should be safe.
Yosi was sold to Wigan?
midway thru this seemed a lock for Silva (though I would have gone Parker). Now I can't see how RVP doesn't walk away with it
Crazy that both Aguero and Christian Bale are eligible for this still. Aguero
:barf:Looks like something from Australian Rules Football.
RVP and Aguero
Deuce looks like he's ready to belt out some Jail House Rock.Terrible.
'B Maverick said:'The Gator said:'B Maverick said:
'Steve Tasker said:
EVen though our new gb whatisname obviously was the first to think of this, I agree that meting out punishment for diving is going to be a tricky, tricky thing- for exactly what Steve says. It's going to have to be a clear-cut no-contact dive that draws punishment- but quite frankly that should. The more Ashley Young slippery- oops, defender leg type of plays are probably too much of a subjective call (although it seems pretty objective and obvious when his foot moves out of running trajectory to hit the defender's planted foot/leg).There's enough of the blatant stuff that something should be done about it. As for the embellishers, that should be taken care of by the other players. If I clip your heel and you go to the ground, fine. But if I clip your heel and you try to go for the Oscar, I pick you up and tell you next time I'm trying my best to split your shin guard in half. And the next time I get a chance, I do it.'B Maverick said:'The Gator said:'B Maverick said:'Steve Tasker said:
I wonder with the embellishment- the EPL isn't as bad for this as the continental leagues- but IMO the phantom contact to face needs to end, and end now. That one should be really easy to look at after the fact. Other rolling around leg-contact plays... a little harder. As we've talked about ad nauseum, a kick to the leg can hurt <like-the-dickens> if only for a few seconds, so I don't begrudge... oh #### it and #### them- I got my ### kicked regularly on the field as an attacking central MF, and I never had to roll around like that- it's clearly learned behaviour aimed at influencing the ref. #### them.
So how about this... you get fouled or go down and don't pop right back up, you don't get to come right back in the game when you're ready; you have to sit in some kind of penalty/injury box for a prescribed amount of time- say, 2 minutes. I know it will punish guys who are actually hurt, but it would also make guys think twice about rolling around like #######s.
And #### Ashley Young.
You have to wonder if the people that think up ugly jersey designs like this have ever played any sports in their life. I still have my '94 WC jersey and this is even uglier.
I generally hate most Nike kits. But I'm pretty happy to see that Slovenia is sticking with the Charlie Brown schtick. That's class.
In other news, got my tickets for Euro 2012. Headed to the Ukraine this summer to see Germany dismantle Portugal.
That is awesome.
All kinds ofHeaded to the Ukraine this summer to see Germany dismantle Portugal.
going on in here today! 
All kinds ofHeaded to the Ukraine this summer to see Germany dismantle Portugal.
Bayern Munich v. Real MadridTwo of the top three most talented teams in world football.Should be one of the very best matches of the year.
- Guardian
Think Howard had a monster of a game. He didn't buy any of the histrionics (and there was a lot). The foul on Gomez in the box was close but I think it was a good, but extremely difficult, non-call. He carded Higuain for something we all probably wish was carded more often. He didn't impact the tie by making a rash sendoff in the end. Honestly, this was a tough match and I came away more impressed with Webb than normal. He makes mistakes - they all do - but you can see why he gets chosen for matches like this one. He's a very strong ref that knows his place in the match.
I think Marcelo deserved a straight red at the end. He was nowhere near the ball. If it's at the beginning of the game, I can see how a ref would be hesitant to possibly decide the tie with a straight red, but Marcelo deserved to go off and miss the return leg.Otherwise, I agree. The no-call late in the box was tough, but correct.
When I first saw it my reaction was straight red. But on replay it didn't look as bad as I initially thought. I've seen worse from Marcelo. He's an absolute thug. He and Ramos should start at WWE tag team after their soccer careers are over.
this was pretty much my exact thoughts on it. I think without the initial explosion and rolling around we'd all see that as a yellow. Think he got it right in the end as Marcelo didn't lead with his studs or anything. Was just being a little ####
I really don't think so. It looked worse because it was cynical and Muller started rolling around on the ground like he had been shot, but it really wasn't that bad of a tackle, just late.I agree with everybody saying Webb had a good game. He took control without influencing the actual result which isn't easy to do with two big sides like this.
Not so. The reason I reminded people that I had posted the review suggestion - NOT that I was the first to think of it - was because I was involved in an argument at the time where I was making the point that the Ashley Young penalty against Villa wasn't necessarily a dive since there had definitely been contact, according to both the commentaries I had running (I was at work so not able to watch the game live). So, I was trying to make the point that I'm as against diving as anyone. FWIW, the latest Young affair certainly looks like he made the contact rather than the defender.
Well, I grew up where it's called football and I call it soccer. I'm certainly not going to go around referring to football as American football.One of my pet peeves with soccer culture in the US is the random adoption of foreign soccerisms--for lack of a better term.
