BILLCOWIE1958
Well-known member
So are you saying that we must stop challenging for loose balls or attempt to make any tackles, otherwise we give the referee a decision to make because the opponent could cheat?
The goalie eventually had the ball under his control for a fraction of a second so again we should hold back and not try to score in case they cheat and we give the referee a decision to make?
Eduoard did fall over but then again so did most of their players (repeatedly and often more blatantly but they never got penalised for it) so we need to practice cheating more so we become "cuter" at it?
I appreciate your opinion but think you are maybe being a tad harsh on most of our players as they mostly coped very well against a skillful opponent who were allowed to continually break the laws of the game by a ponce of a referee!
No I'm saying that we need to be responsible in our approach especially when the player concerned has just been yellow carded minutes prior!!
It's not rocket science fella
We're away from home in Europe We're doing okay Don't give the officials ANY excuse to punish us
Rennes had gone down to 10 men through injury and having used all of their subs
Of course they were going to try and influence a weak official to try and get an advantage by being CUTE (there' s that word again) and Bayo fell for it
If he hadn't gone for a ball that under the circumstances he wasn't going to get (because the keeper had secured it eventually) then the keeper couldn't have feigned injury conned the ref and got our player dismissed
I don't recall being a tad harsh on all of our players which you attest to I criticised Edouard and Bayo as well as Ajer for going to ground Ajer's decision cost us a goal Bayo's cost us a sending off and Edouard's cost us a yellow card which will more than likely become influential later in the tournament especially if our other main striker misses out through being sent off whether correctly or otherwise
You're right their players did fall over but only Edouard got booked Why is that? Because they were more convincing perhaps?
I don't like to see it happening but it's part of the game these days so as such let's get as good at it as everybody else is
The master was Klinsmann He had it down to a fine art and rarely got punished
If it's become a part of football then let's treat it as part of football not just condemn Johnny Foreigner for doing it and suffer the consequences In other words become as CUTE as everybody else seems to be
HH