[Wanderer]

Re: More Football Chat : Thu Jan 21, 2010 5:53 pm  

Leyther_Matt wrote:

Absolute joke. Gallas has got a ban on it's way, but how does that help BWFC, and more to the point poor Mark Davies who might be spending quite a while on the sidelines after having the game of his life up until Gallas' assault.

I was livid when I saw that tackle last night. How Wiley can excuse taking no action at the time is beyond me. I said when Wenger's interview started that he 'wouldn't have seen it'.

No ban as no action taken by Wiley on the night.

Re: More Football Chat : Thu Jan 21, 2010 6:34 pm  

When did football fans become women? After what I read earlier about Gallas' challenge last night I thought he'd dived in from miles away with no chance of the ball, I've just seen it and it was nothing of the sort.

If Gallas had been quicker than Davies and nicked the ball away then he'd have been the one injured, it was a 50/50 ball both players were entitled to go for it and Davies suffered because he won it, yes it should have been a free-kick, and maybe a yellow card, but that's all - the reaction is ridiculous.

Re: More Football Chat : Thu Jan 21, 2010 6:43 pm  

Nemanja wrote: Yeah, her and Fergie are directors of a company that United paid last year. IIRC there's a company called "Michael Carrick Ltd" that received a fair bit of cash too. I think it was the NOTW that revealed it, and then got refused entry to Carrington by Gill the week after. I'll try get a link. EDIT: Yep it's true. £94m in expenses. Its a bit of a non story - its a £257m turnover company - I see David Gill has had a hefty pay rise over the last couple of year though, which rankles a bit when non essential staff aren't getting their free toast anymore.

Nemanja wrote: Yeah, her and Fergie are directors of a company that United paid last year. IIRC there's a company called "Michael Carrick Ltd" that received a fair bit of cash too. I think it was the NOTW that revealed it, and then got refused entry to Carrington by Gill the week after. I'll try get a link. EDIT: Yep it's true. £94m in expenses. Its a bit of a non story - its a £257m turnover company - I see David Gill has had a hefty pay rise over the last couple of year though, which rankles a bit when non essential staff aren't getting their free toast anymore.

Re: More Football Chat : Thu Jan 21, 2010 7:27 pm  

Manc derby was abit tasty. Great idea to let both sets off fans out at same time. http://twitter.com/mikekeeganmen

Manc derby was abit tasty. Great idea to let both sets off fans out at same time. http://twitter.com/mikekeeganmen

Re: More Football Chat : Thu Jan 21, 2010 8:04 pm  

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer mark II (AKA the Diouf) has scored an absolute cracker for the Reserves tonight, and scored another in a 2-0 lead at half time against Sunderland. I want more of him in the first XI please.

EDIT: Make that a hat-trick.

Re: More Football Chat : Thu Jan 21, 2010 8:06 pm  

Asim wrote:

When did football fans become women? After what I read earlier about Gallas' challenge last night I thought he'd dived in from miles away with no chance of the ball, I've just seen it and it was nothing of the sort.

If Gallas had been quicker than Davies and nicked the ball away then he'd have been the one injured, it was a 50/50 ball both players were entitled to go for it and Davies suffered because he won it, yes it should have been a free-kick, and maybe a yellow card, but that's all - the reaction is ridiculous.

Kind of agree with you. By the letter of the law he probably should get have got a red card but some people would have you believe that Gallas went in with intent to kill rather than going for the ball and mistiming the challenge.

Re: More Football Chat : Thu Jan 21, 2010 8:42 pm  

Mis-timed or not, it's no excuse for raising his studs in the challenge, is it?

Re: More Football Chat : Thu Jan 21, 2010 9:04 pm  

Nemanja wrote:

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer mark II (AKA the Diouf) has scored an absolute cracker for the Reserves tonight, and scored another in a 2-0 lead at half time against Sunderland. I want more of him in the first XI please.

EDIT: Make that a hat-trick.

All three were well taken goals the first being the pick with the little chip over the keeper. He looks to have all the atributes with his size and pace looks like he could be a great find for Fergie just a shame he had to go off with what they said was a slight groin strain. The pitch was a shocker though.

Thought David Gray looked good as did Corey Evans

Re: More Football Chat : Thu Jan 21, 2010 9:47 pm  

Asim wrote:

When did football fans become women?

Re: More Football Chat : Thu Jan 21, 2010 9:59 pm  

Leyther_Matt wrote:

Mis-timed or not, it's no excuse for raising his studs in the challenge, is it?

I never said otherwise, the fact that his studs were up is the reason he should have been penalised. I don't think you can start banning everyone for having their studs up when going for the ball though, if you are diving in for a ball it is inevitable that your foot will get in such a position, like I said if Gallas was the faster of the two it could quite easily have been a role reversal.

I don't think there is any doubting it was a 50/50 and he had every right to go for it, the challenges that are a problem are wild lunges where players go in studs up for balls they have little chance of getting, these are the ones that often cause bad injuries as players desperately lunge after balls they have no chance of getting.

Everyone is different in terms of height, physicality, speed etc and it is therefore inevitable that some 50/50's are going to end in fouls and injuries, at worst the Gallas challenge was a mistimed attempt at a 50/50 that should have been penalised, not an "assault" or a wild lunge by any stretch, but there seems to be a general hysteria about the smallest of things these days.