posted Mar 12, 2008

i'm a man u fan, and nothing went my way saturday (england not playing rugby didn't help) but i think it's fun that things like this still happen in the fa cup. sure the top four are expected to win, but that would make it far to predictable if it was the case every year, the top four are all doing well in the champions league so i say hurrah for some versatility in the fa.

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posted Mar 12, 2008

gently shepherding a player away from your goalkeeper

eh?

distin nearly knocked him into the stands, and never even looked for the ball-stonewall penalty. baros left his leg there to fall over the keeper-card for baros



All Distin did was place himself between the attacker and his goalkeeper - probably preventing a diabolical, studs up challenge on David James.

studs up challenge? how can you know this? are you a mind reader?
how do you know he wasn't going to make sweet, tender love to the calamitous keeper????

you don't know!

barnsley for the cup!

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posted Mar 12, 2008

how do you know he wasn't going to make sweet, tender love to the calamitous keeper????
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Now that has to be a free kick and at least a booking.

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posted Mar 12, 2008

Robbo Robson (U5722413)
no robbo it was not a penalty, baros takes a dive since you lot still have not got over england getting beating by ronaldo, if that was ronaldo going down like baros you would scream bloody murder and you can take that to the bank.

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posted Mar 13, 2008

"comment by apjmg2008 (U10812414)
posted 17 Hours Ago

at the end of the day it was a penalty and thats it keeper v forward and keeper bring down forward its an auto penalty and a red card for the keeper, if you watch the chance you will notice that rooney is the only one that gets to the line anderson runs towards the ball, its still a goal chance and so the keeper needs to see red there is no 2 ways about it. it does seem like he dived and if that the case then its unlucky but i think the keeper was at fault as he reached for the ball with his leg and could not reach so he reached over with his hands which there was no way he was getting the ball which causes baros to clip the keeper and go down. i think it all goes down to an error by the keeper."

Your clearly not reading the situation correctly hence your argument bears literally no weight.

Rooney was on the line, Anderson was closing the attacker down, who was on his weaker foot at an angle to strike the ball. It would have required quite a good finish to beat both players given Andersons defensive qualities along with another presence on the line.

Just for the record, the Keeper bringing down the Striker doesnt automatically mean a red card, I can think of countless times whereby the keeper has been booked or has even gotten away with it - take Kuz against Arsenal last season when he brought down Adebayor in the box, I believe he was only booked on that occassion.

Whatever the score, the game is over now and in the books. I guess you win some and you lose some in terms of bad decisions. We lost that bad decision along with the blatantly penalty not given, lets hope that evens out when we play the scousers next week.

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posted Mar 13, 2008

When all is said and done, a truly great team like united should not have to depend on refereeing decisions to secure passage into the semis. When your players convert chances into goals, even suspect officiating does not affect the outcome.
Fighting referees is a lost cause. rather than incur the wrath of the FA with stinging rebukes (whether deserved or not), a much more effective course of action would be to score on all those chances we create.

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posted Mar 13, 2008

comment by telemonster (U2037234)
posted 18 Hours Ago

gently shepherding a player away from your goalkeeper

eh?

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Gently shepherded away?! Haha biased much?! It was a tough call that one, but it would have been a harsh penalty. Anywhere else on the pitch and it would have been a foul.

As for Baros, that was a bad dive, he certainly made the most of it.

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posted Mar 14, 2008

I haven't enjoyed the F.A. Cup so much since the good old days, of scything tackles, muddy pitches and Third Round games going to fifth replays....

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posted Mar 25, 2008

cbailey85 said

I think he is one of the greatest managers of all time, but why can't he ever be gracious in defeat?

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but he is, and nearly always as well.

this will explain why he has such an obviously good repor with most of his fellow managers.

the referee not to apply one of the rules in the United Portsmouth match. barging into people off the ball is not legal and is actually dangerous. it is also NOT open to interpretation. Ferguson and Quieroz decided to highlight this fact and one or two other points in their post-match media work.

you may or may not be aware that the United players congratulated the Portsmouth players after the game, that Joe Jordan used to play for United, and that Ferguson and Redknapp are pals.


instead of trotting out banalities you've soaked up via your ABU world, why not just concentrate on your own team, eh.

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posted Mar 25, 2008

and such an obviously good rapport as well

the edit facility on this message board really does need looking at!

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