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Brilliant, simply brilliant.
There's a fierce amount of foam coming out of Klopp's mouth.
Joaquin puts a new meaning on the long goodbye.
Good god, what a finish. And there's still time! Fittingly, Santana's winner was almost as offside as the Malaga goal.
Scottish referees:rolleyes: Just 4 Dortmund players offside for that goal.
I'm gutted Trevor.
I'm over the moon, Clive.
Allowing that last goal to stand was one of the worst example of inept officiating at a high level game since ..... that Portuguese f'ecker in Belgium.
4 no less were offside when that ball was lumped into the box.
A travesty Tommy, a true travesty.
The way he let the ball beat him was sublime!Quote:
Originally Posted by geysir
I jumped around like a loon after Santana's goal.
I'm going to speculate, based on no evidence at all, that he was "evening things up" after allowing Malaga's second to stand. This is something we know all referees do, Gary.Quote:
Originally Posted by geysir
Marginal for Malaga's second and it was going in anyway, but 4 ducks in row, yards offside!!!
That can only be a blatant conspiracy to keep a third Spanish team out of the semis.
Are you sure about the offsides? On close look the Malaga guy was level with the ball and man when it was played.
The 4 Dortmund players were played on by the right back who was level with the most advanced of the 3. A 4th was offside but not active as tha ball was played way over him.
The goalscorer was offside but the ball was going in anyway so Dortmund got no advantage one could argue.
Happy to review again but that's what I think.
You know where you can shove your wet dream, long ball, lump it and hope merchants.Quote:
Originally Posted by BonnieShels
If it was a conspiracy, it was a brilliant red herring plot-twist allowing the Malaga goal which about as marginal as the Grand Canyon and was probably going to hit the post and come out to the aforementioned straddler of said Yankee gorge.
Absolutely clear about the offside for Dortmund's last goal. One of them is blatantly offside and 3 of them are clearly offside, judging by the cut on the grass.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stuttgart88
Martin Keown "there is a line of them offside, they get away with murder"
I wouldn't argue with Keown, he doesn't take prisoners.
Allowing the Malaga goal was just poor officiating, can happen any time, allowing the Dortmund goal was in Mr Magoo territory.Quote:
Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin
I'm still not convinced. Are you sure the Malaga guy in the right back position wasn't on the same line?Quote:
Originally Posted by geysir
Jesus Stutts, this is as stonewall an offside as offside can be.
Heh heh. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by geysir
Guardain match report as it happened
Unbelievable! Incredible! Incomprehensible! Lewandowski crosses from the left – four Borussia players offside – and it ping-pongs around a bit before breaking to Santana – offside again – who taps in from a yard. What were those Scottish officials thinking there?
Obviously the ref just went into shock afterwards, froze solid and incredibly blew on the dot of 4mins to end his nightmare asap.
I've just been rewinding and pausing a few times having just caught it on sky news and yes it was offside but it's inches. I have the screen frozen in front of me right now with the dortmund guy just striking the ball. The furthest Dortmund guy forward is irrelevant as the ball sails over his head. The Malaga guy at the corner of the penalty box was very very close to playing the other 3 on at the moment the ball was struck.
Seriously!
It's not about how offside they look a moment after the ball is struck. Same applies to Malaga goal.
Worm, help me out here. Do your YouTube thing for me.
You can't be serious!
This takes ages to load but it's conclusive. They are all offside, although Reus may be so far offside he's left the field of play so may in fact be onside.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stuttgart88
http://i.minus.com/i82PM3LAVqlp4.gif
How is he irrelevant? The ball comes to him less than 2 seconds later!Quote:
Originally Posted by Stuttgart88
Ok, I was so hung up on seeing if the other 3 were off, which wasn't as clear cut as is being said. I wasnt checking who the ball fell to!
Who cares. Dortmund are through! Hon!
We want a replay!Quote:
Originally Posted by BonnieShels
It's on itv now.
Malaga goal a fraction offside alright. But isnt the offside rule mainly in place to prevent goal hanging? It was a super move and there was no advantage gained. He'd still have scored if he was a foot further back I reckon. His feet were actually level with the ball. I'm just trying to say that it was hardly a calamitous error, like my judgment on the winner was.
I could watch the Lewondowski goal all night.
Malaga to be the 5th team in the Semi-finals.Quote:
Originally Posted by geysir
Yes, they asked for this!
Ah HD, so it should be even more obvious considering the pixel upgrade.
Malaga's 2nd was definitely going in, off the post without that offside intervention.
Officials got it right by mistake.
What did they get right? It was offside.
Of course.Quote:
Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin
The ITV laser confirms at least 3 were offside when that ball was lumped in.
Overall, the camera angles at Dortmund's stadium are just ace, capture all the viewpoints brilliantly for the goalmouth incidents.
It's the best stadium in world football I reckon.
It's the one stadium I really really really wanna get to before I die.]Quote:
Originally Posted by Stuttgart88
Imagine being there for a game against Bayern?
Have you ever been?
The celebration at the end when the players hopped the fence was something else. Incredible scenes.
It has to host a CL final soon enough.
My brother is going to take in a game there soon and I'm mad jealous. The atmosphere looks and sounds incredible on TV. It's a real testament to how great German fans are, especially when you compare to it to yesterday's Manchester derby where it was a small pocket of Manchester United die-hards making the only noise.
Ken "Borodino" Early has an article in the Irish Times today all about how there's no atmosphere at football games anymore, although he makes the tragic error of implying that football actually existed before 1992 and is occasionally played outside of England: http://www.irishtimes.com/sport/socc...eats-1.1352713
No, but I was flying from Prague to London one time and even at 30,000 feet I could see a yellow rectangle out my window and thought it had to be that ground. I checked the flight map we flew straight over Dortmund. Anyone else pick out footy grounds when flying?
The Times' sports editor (Tony Reid?) wrote an article a while back saying that if UEFA had any sense the CL final would be there every year.
Flew into Dusseldorf a few years ago and did the same.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stuttgart88
And yes I try to pick out stadia from the air if I can.
German stadiums appear to be designed to keep the noise in.
It's weird when you're at a stadium and you can't hear the noise from the fans from the other side of the pitch.