Chelsea V Barcelona

[manker]

What you have to be aware of is that if Messi had just jumped up and walked off, Del Horno wouldn't have been send off.

Giggs always does this, for a player that has probably got kicked more than any other in the Premier League over the years, this is no mean feat and proves it can be done to no detriment to your team. If Giggs stays down, you can be 100% sure that he really is injured.

Keane is another and it strikes me that Lampard does a similar thing. There are many more too, from our shores.


I can't think of a single foreign player I can put into that catagory - maybe I don't watch enough continental football, eh.

[Delorean]

there is another person that seeks fouls even worse than Messi but i heard no one to complain about. That player would be Deco! Damn i don't like that player!
And yes i'm a Barca fun and i don't like Deco's game and the habit to keep asking
for fouls out of nothing.

[Peerzy]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjlGX...ootball%20dive

^^^ Barca training video. I agree Deco is a really bad diver as well, i remember last years tie he had the ball and Terry put his foot on the ball and Deco just did a swimming dive into the ground, he didn't get the penalty but he didn't get booked either.

[Delorean]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjlGX...ootball%20dive

^^^ Barca training video. I agree Deco is a really bad diver as well, i remember last years tie he had the ball and Terry put his foot on the ball and Deco just did a swimming dive into the ground, he didn't get the penalty but he didn't get booked either.

funny video. Its not barca but is a funny one!
Usually Deco doesn't dive but just stops raise his hand and walking with the thinking that the foul is obvious and the ref should give it! Instead he should just make a try to keep the ball in its feet and maybe do and a dribble for a change!

[DanB]

Chelsea already had the points in the bag and Robben still contrived to get Reina sent off. I cannot see any justification whatsover in that.

Don't the rules state thjat if you raise your hand to another player you are sent off anyway?

in the Del Horno incident both players seemed to bottle out of the challenge and just jump at each other instead, they should have both had a yellow and that is that.

[Peerzy]

Yeah, even if Robben didn't go down Reina would still have been off.

It would either have been:

1 X Yellow Card for the diving scissor kick from behind.
&
1 X Yellow Card for raising hand to Robben.

or

1 X Red Card for raising hand to Robben.

Either way he's off.

Look at the replays again, Del Horno doesn't aim a kick, the way he misses the ball and kicks air susgests he did just miss it. When someone kicks another player they would try and kick them with the top of the boot or the bottem as you can cause the most damage that way. He misses the sidefoot clearence and just runs into Messi. He ends up sidefooting air and basically just can't stop fast enough and runs into Messi, who seems to think to himself that he's on fire and Stops, Drops and Rolls.

[manker]

Chelsea already had the points in the bag and Robben still contrived to get Reina sent off. I cannot see any justification whatsover in that.

Don't the rules state thjat if you raise your hand to another player you are sent off anyway?

Yeah, even if Robben didn't go down Reina would still have been off.

It's in the rules, but referees often don't follow the letter of the law, more the spirit. It's a very rare occasion that the refs get told by a FIFA directive to follow the letter of the rules, rather than to use their discretion. You see 'keepers holding on to the ball for longer than six seconds all the time, throw-ins taken from the wrong place, players tell the ref to fuck off several times in every games - yet that is a sending off offence.

For example, Reyes didn't get sent off for this:

Savage

The point is not Reina raising his hands, the point is the play acting that followed, It is very unlikely Reina would have got sent off but for the subsequent histrionics. After Robben did that, the ref simply couldn't let it go.

[Formula1]

I recently downloaded this match off TB, and just finished seeing it right now. John Terry did a great save one during the match which blew me away. But Samuel Eto's head goal was Sic, this was one hell of soccer or football ( ) match that i have seen since the world cup. I'll try and keep up with the upcoming uefa matches, by downloading them. Does anyone know a good torrent site where i can download them?

And can anyone point me to a direct link where it says upcoming matches? i checked uefa.com and i can't find it...

[Peerzy]

The BBC's website is the best.

European Football News ---> http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot...pe/default.stm
European Football Fixture --->http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot...es/default.stm

All times are British though. Basically it's the knockout stages right now, each is made up of 2 legs. Leg one has been played and leg 2 is set to be played on 7th/8th March (14th March for Inter V Ajax - because both Inter Milan & AC Milan cannot both play at home at the same time). Then there will be a 4 week break (I think?) and then the 1st leg of the next round will start.

[Cheese]

Peerzy, how come the NUFC/Chelsea FA Cup match is being played on a Wednesday? Usually cup matches are played over the weekends, and replays are played during the week. Seems a bit strange is all.