Tonight's Football

[Bruce Rioja]

Well he did nowt wrong

Obviously in 'the spirit of the game', eh?

[bobo the clown]

^^ Tamworth. ...... Shithole.

[Prufrock]

His foot's there coz it's just bounced up off the ball, that he won. Not at any reckless speed either. Linesman two yards away gave a throw-in.

Valencia is a tart.

[Bruce Rioja]

His foot's there coz it's just bounced up off the ball, that he won. Not at any reckless speed either. Linesman two yards away gave a throw-in.

Valencia is a tart.

I don't doubt that he is, but I think it takes a suspiciously one-eyed Englishman to claim that that's the result of a good tackle.

[Prufrock]

I don't think there should be anything wrong with it. He got the ball, and we wasn't traveling at a daft speed.

I do accept that the way things are now it probably wasn't a 'good tackle'. His foot was off the floor (though not 'over' the ball until it bounced off it) and he did catch Valencia afterwards. As I say, I think it's sad, but I think the ref was right to give the free-kick. Never a red card though, even now, IMO. No way was that 'excessive force'.

[BWFC_Insane]

Got the ball first, foot bounced up off the ball, hardly reckless, hardly dangerous, not even a foul in my book.

A good tackle for me. But I accept some might interpret the accidental raising of the foot to be a bit reckless. So a foul. A freekick at the absolute most.

A yellow would have been ridiculous.

A red.....

[Bruce Rioja]

Got the ball first, foot bounced up off the ball, hardly reckless, hardly dangerous, not even a foul in my book.

A good tackle for me. But I accept some might interpret the accidental raising of the foot to be a bit reckless. So a foul. A freekick at the absolute most.

A yellow would have been ridiculous.

A red.....

Yes well, that's what you think.

[bwfcdan94]

^^ Tamworth. ...... Shithole.

I thought it was alright actually Bobo.

[Bijou Bob]

Personally, i would have sent him off for that. Without the benefit of a slo mo replay, it looked terrible. A stupid tackle that could have ended either his own, or Valencia's world cup.

[bobo the clown]

You're all wusses. It was a nothing tackle. That wasn't deserving of a foul, let alone a card .... & the only red should have gone to the Stretford wimp. He reacted like a 3 year old.

[Harry Genshaw]

Foul or not (& personally I think it was) it should, at the very least, remind players that diving in at this level can often result in your world cup being over a bit sooner than you'd like

[ChrisC]

[bwfcdan94]

You're all wusses. It was a nothing tackle. That wasn't deserving of a foul, let alone a card .... & the only red should have gone to the Stretford wimp. He reacted like a 3 year old.

+1, some people I knew thought that Sterling should be banned .

[thebish]

Got the ball first, foot bounced up off the ball, hardly reckless, hardly dangerous, not even a foul in my book.

A good tackle for me. But I accept some might interpret the accidental raising of the foot to be a bit reckless. So a foul. A freekick at the absolute most.

A yellow would have been ridiculous.

A red.....

Yes well, that's what you think.

and me too - didn't seem like an instant red card to me at all... I think the ref got a bit carried away.

[BWFC_Insane]

You're all wusses. It was a nothing tackle. That wasn't deserving of a foul, let alone a card .... & the only red should have gone to the Stretford wimp. He reacted like a 3 year old.

Well I agree. So hopefully I'm not a wuss.

[bobo the clown]

.... and me too - didn't seem like an instant red card to me at all... I think the ref got a bit carried away.

From the way he flourished the red card, all bizarrely Hitleresque, I'd agree. Like he suddenly thought "hey ... this is all about me now".


.... & Insane one, yes, to are absolved from membership of the "wuss" brigade.

[Prufrock]

What about me? What about me?

I think it was bollocks too, but I don't blame the ref for giving the foul (though defo do blame him for giving the red card) as I think sadly that's where we are now.

Can I be in your gang ?

[Armchair Wanderer]

If England make stupid "fair" tackles like that next week we'll get red cards then too... and we'll all think it was very unfair.

I see a pattern emerging

[Toni_DelijeSever]

Sad performance by Brazil against Serbia. The dissallowed goal should have stood, but anyway they were very poor and Serbia deserved more. I guess they were saving themselves for the opening game against Croatia.

[thebish]

.... and me too - didn't seem like an instant red card to me at all... I think the ref got a bit carried away.

From the way he flourished the red card, all bizarrely Hitleresque, I'd agree. Like he suddenly thought "hey ... this is all about me now".


.... & Insane one, yes, to are absolved from membership of the "wuss" brigade.

it's only Bruce who's a wuss - the rest of us are in Bobo's hard-nut gang!