Weekend Soccerball 30th Oct

[Tredder]

How did Cally do yesterday m8?

[LoyalRoyalFan]

How did Cally do yesterday m8?

They drew 1-1 with Rangers. Celtic would have beat them.

[prostak]

Yep, I've seen bolton play a tonne, but what makes you think I am singling them out? Liverpool play crap boring football also. As it proved, a dire 1-0 win to Liverpool. Point proven.

Fair enough - you weren't aiming that at Bolton alone. It does wind me up how the sports media treat the smaller Premier League teams - certainly it only seems to be a small section of the more upmarket papers which have noticed that Bolton in particular are actually playing quite well this year. The two worst games they've played this year were against Fulham and Liverpool - both of whom went to the Reebok to defend...

[FiNeRaIn]

How did Cally do yesterday m8?

How did Celtic get on in their last home game? One team is unbeaten this season

In other news Celtic have banned poppies being sold these year for remembrance sunday, pointing towards the fact that irish repuclicans find this offensive. There were over 200,000 Irish volunteers for for both world wars and poppies are sold in Ireland without any issue for most Irish. Why does this horrible little club in a certain part of glasgow feel the need to speak on behalf of irish people? Why do they feel the need to cater for a " minority" of their extremist support? i'll let you decide.

Bitter, vermin, reptile scum.

[Royal Rother]

IMHO the ref got it badly wrong, Nani's deliberate handball went unpunished to give Spurs the advantage, there was none so play should get pulled back.

There was a clear advantage to be taken with Man Utd scuttling back and Spurs streaming forward. Gomes didn't take it.

[Tredder]

How did Cally do yesterday m8?

How did Celtic get on in their last home game? One team is unbeaten this season

In other news Celtic have banned poppies being sold these year for remembrance sunday, pointing towards the fact that irish repuclicans find this offensive. There were over 200,000 Irish volunteers for for both world wars and poppies are sold in Ireland without any issue for most Irish. Why does this horrible little club in a certain part of glasgow feel the need to speak on behalf of irish people? Why do they feel the need to cater for a " minority" of their extremist support? i'll let you decide.

Bitter, vermin, reptile scum.

Are you an MP, i only asked one question?

[Svlad Cjelli]

How did Cally do yesterday m8?

How did Celtic get on in their last home game? One team is unbeaten this season

In other news Celtic have banned poppies being sold these year for remembrance sunday, pointing towards the fact that irish repuclicans find this offensive. There were over 200,000 Irish volunteers for for both world wars and poppies are sold in Ireland without any issue for most Irish. Why does this horrible little club in a certain part of glasgow feel the need to speak on behalf of irish people? Why do they feel the need to cater for a " minority" of their extremist support? i'll let you decide.

Bitter, vermin, reptile scum.

Erm, all SPL clubs will not be wearing poppies this year - see : http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/football/spl/2010/10/11/spl-clubs-to-stop-wearing-poppies-on-shirts-for-remembrance-sunday-86908-22625470/

And when some Celtic supporters walked out in protest at poppies on Celtic jerseys, those supporters were banned by the club.

In other news, the clocks didn't need to go back in some places, because it's still 1690 there.

[PlasticRoyale]

How shit is Elmander?

[SLAMMED]

Gomez should have just kicked it instead of flapping his arms at the ref.

[FiNeRaIn]

How did Cally do yesterday m8?

How did Celtic get on in their last home game? One team is unbeaten this season

In other news Celtic have banned poppies being sold these year for remembrance sunday, pointing towards the fact that irish repuclicans find this offensive. There were over 200,000 Irish volunteers for for both world wars and poppies are sold in Ireland without any issue for most Irish. Why does this horrible little club in a certain part of glasgow feel the need to speak on behalf of irish people? Why do they feel the need to cater for a " minority" of their extremist support? i'll let you decide.

Bitter, vermin, reptile scum.

Erm, all SPL clubs will not be wearing poppies this year - see : http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/football/spl/2010/10/11/spl-clubs-to-stop-wearing-poppies-on-shirts-for-remembrance-sunday-86908-22625470/

And when some Celtic supporters walked out in protest at poppies on Celtic jerseys, those supporters were banned by the club.

In other news, the clocks didn't need to go back in some places, because it's still 1690 there.

Bad post, i'm not talking about WEARING poppies, im talking about allowing the charity to sell and collect for them around the ground. Something Celtic ( being the only club) have refused.

Secondly though, what pish claiming those supporters were banned. How do you ban people for walking out in protest?

Get a grip.

[Big Foot]

Sunderland really are shit

And massive LOLz at that Villa fan who headed the ball back into play and got kicked out for his woes

[TBM]

Common sense should apply. Nani didn't just fall on the ball with his hand, he deliberately stopped it. Everyone knows it was a free-kick and the laws of the fame should be flexible enough that Clattenburg would not get carpeted for making a decision to disallow the goal. Embarassing.

But the ref (or lino) DIDN'T give the freekick, so they cant then suddenly disallow the goal cos Gomas fcuked up

[Royal Rother]

Common sense should apply. Nani didn't just fall on the ball with his hand, he deliberately stopped it. Everyone knows it was a free-kick and the laws of the fame should be flexible enough that Clattenburg would not get carpeted for making a decision to disallow the goal. Embarassing.

You might be right but the laws of the game are NOT that flexible.

Can you IMAGINE the stick Clattenburg would have got if he HAD disallowed the goal?

In summary the pundits and journos would have said "He didn't blow the whistle, so didn't give a free kick - just because he didn't like the fact that Nani used his intelligence and scored a soft goal doesn't mean he can retrospectively decide that he wanted to give a free-kick. Everyone is taught from a young age to play to the whistle, that's what Nani did - the laws of the game are there for a reason and Clattenburg has made a mockery of them. He's not fit to be a PL referee."

[BR2]

The same ref who didn't realise that Spurs had scored a legitimate goal when Carroll scooped it out from about a yard over.
Obviously a coincidence but.............................................................

[TBM]

The same ref who didn't realise that Spurs had scored a legitimate goal when Carroll scooped it out from about a yard over.
Obviously a coincidence but.............................................................

Surely thats the lino's fault?

[Tony Le Mesmer]

The same ref who didn't realise that Spurs had scored a legitimate goal when Carroll scooped it out from about a yard over.
Obviously a coincidence but.............................................................

Surely thats the lino's fault?

Even then, im not sure how a Lino should be expected to sprint 50 yards in 2 secs whilst also looking to see if the ball had gone over the line.

[6ft Kerplunk]

The same ref who didn't realise that Spurs had scored a legitimate goal when Carroll scooped it out from about a yard over.
Obviously a coincidence but.............................................................

Whatever happened to Carroll?

[3 veesinarow]

Playing for Odense in Denmark, Goalkeeper of the Season last year...

[Ian Royal]

Common sense should apply. Nani didn't just fall on the ball with his hand, he deliberately stopped it. Everyone knows it was a free-kick and the laws of the fame should be flexible enough that Clattenburg would not get carpeted for making a decision to disallow the goal. Embarassing.

You might be right but the laws of the game are NOT that flexible.

Can you IMAGINE the stick Clattenburg would have got if he HAD disallowed the goal?

In summary the pundits and journos would have said "He didn't blow the whistle, so didn't give a free kick - just because he didn't like the fact that Nani used his intelligence and scored a soft goal doesn't mean he can retrospectively decide that he wanted to give a free-kick. Everyone is taught from a young age to play to the whistle, that's what Nani did - the laws of the game are there for a reason and Clattenburg has made a mockery of them. He's not fit to be a PL referee."

Surely Clattenburg could have pulled it back for the original infringement having just allowed play to continue on the belief that Gomes would play to the whistle and kick from hands. Clearly there is no advantage if he has put the ball down to mistakenly take a freekick and then immediately conceeded a goal.

Assuming Clattenburg saw the hand ball and could give it, or if not, one of his linesmen did and could signal to the ref there had been an earlier infringement so the goal should not stand.

Thats the what the common sense response that stays within the laws of the game would be from my point of view.

[Stranded]

Advantage is not based on the team with the advantage then doing something really stupid. If Gomes had kept the ball and kicked it up field, but hit Nani on the back and flown in the net would you expect the ref to pull it back?