QuoteSee my post 1265 above. I think that is what happened.Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin
It's a dive. He's on the way down before any possible contact with the defender is made.
See my post 1265 above. I think that is what happened.
His calf is clipped and he tripped up. That's how I saw it, maybe through slightly green tinted glasses. I think Shearer called it right, neither a dive nor a foul but a tangle of legs.
He stumbled for whatever reason and got straight back up, an incident not worth all this focus.
To suggest that he intended to dive, wasn't convinced by his own theatrics and decided to let on he didn't dive, would be subterfuge of the highest order, and Shane (God love him) is not in the Derren Brown league.
In preparing my regular defence against my rugby mate who emails me every time an unsavoury incident occurs in football I was thinking earlier just how much focus every incident in football gets. This week (he hasn't emailed me yet!) I have noticed a fight between Rovers and Bohs fans (Charlie D was right, they got together in town rather than at the ground), a banner at Bayern calling Arsenal "gay", a game pulled up in Salzburg due to missiles, Ronaldo whinging about the ref, an alleged dive by Long, direct personal abuse by WBA fans and other incidents. But whilst not denying that there is a lot of unsavoury stuff in football, it's no wonder so much of it is in the public gaze. Every professional game in every major country is televised in one form or another. 24 hour news channels report on every burp and fart by a footballer, a mike is put in front of every manager's gob after every game as well as their mandatory (daily? weekly?) press conferences. Furthermore, in so far as football is now a TV product first and foremost, as long as none of this stuff impacts rating and viewing numbers there'll never be any real drive to have it any other way.
As G says "an incident not worth the focus" but at the same time every incident attracts focus. It's part of the Faustian bargain big-time football made when it sold itself in its entirety to TV.
I see a lot of TOWK in you, Stutts.
I can interpret that several ways. Maybe I'd be better off not knowing which one fits.
I don't know about that. I've never been tempted to put Stutts on my ignore list, whereas I resisted that temptation with TWOK twice already today.
As soon as a player turns 24, they go from being a sorely neglected superstar in waiting to a has-been wasting space in the national team squad.
The debate on here would suggest that it is certainly not clear. Foster's defence of Long is refreshing and will hopefully influence the fans.
Apparently Shane will be on the next series of Splash
I'd say it all fits well, as Stu suggested.
I'm a bloke,I'm an ocker
And I really love your knockers,I'm a labourer by day,
I **** up all me pay,Watching footy on TV,
Just feed me more VB,Just pour my beer,And get my smokes, And go away
WBA fans torn about the incident:
http://www.new-606.co.uk/showthread....d=26427&page=2
No Somos muchos pero estamos locos.
Shane's team lost tonight to a poor West Ham team. A truly bizarre decision by the ref to send off the Hull goalie and award a penalty which put Hull on the back foot but it still took yet another bizarre own goal incident for West Ham to get the winner.
Why did WBA sell Shane asks one reporter.
http://www.footballfancast.com/premi...et-selling-him
No Somos muchos pero estamos locos.
Denied a stonewall penalty for the 7th or 8th time this season. He's building himself quite a reputation; rightly or wrongly.
GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!
Not to be upstaged by Coleman, Long buried a header too, but this time in the right net.
Last edited by TheOneWhoKnocks; 26/04/2014 at 4:31 PM.
Wrong on both counts!
Good header, but great run. Arrived at the back post by stealth.
http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/Hull-...ail/story.html
Long is well worth the price tag.
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