Handball?? Yes or No :-)

[mightyWBA]

Hmmmmmmm...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=SaDci33GGzE

[redman41]

Have you got a Link WBA ?

[mightyWBA]

http://www.youtube.co...mbedded&v=SaDci33GGzE

Try that!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=SaDci33GGzE

[Sqad]

Yepp......looks like it.

[redman41]

Has that defender swapped shirts with the Goalie ? Could not be more blatant without the Ref seeing it, dear oh dear !!!! I would have awarded a Goal and no Penalty !!!!

[mightyWBA]

How did the ref and linesman not see that!
What a cracking save though. Lol!

[wilkesneil]

that is a brilliant save, maybe he's the 2nd choice keeper and thought he was playing in the sticks lol.
dunno what the officials were doing though.

[joggerjayne]

Did you look at this link in the side menu ...

http://www.youtube.co...A9uDA&feature=related

The guy who committed the handball ... who should have been sent off ...

... went on to score the winning goal !!!

LOL, LOL

[redman41]

Sign him up for Brighton as your Goalie JJ !! lol

[joggerjayne]

... but I think that somebody or other was probably offside, so the goal wouldn't have counted.

Isn't that the offside rule?

If you wear a green shirt, you have to stand closer to your opponent's goalkeeper than the referee?

[joggerjayne]

We're still doing okay, redman, actually ...

... although we're not as far clear as we were before Christmas.

[redman41]

Ref only does it Part Time, his full time job is as Optician with Specsavers ! :-))

[wilkesneil]

jogger - thats just ironic with him scoring the winning goal, it happens a lot where a player should be sent off and they turn out to be the difference at the end of the game

[joggerjayne]

Do you always get sent off for a handball ?

[wilkesneil]

no but if its like that where you've stopped a certain goal then yes it is.

[joggerjayne]

Oh, I see.

Thank you.

x

[redman41]

Handle mine all the time JJ.......never been sent off yet !! lol

[joggerjayne]

Oh, purleeez !!

LOL

[wilkesneil]

if i was him i'd have just let it go in as i couldn't get my head to it but i prefer to play it fairly and within the rules.

[joggerjayne]

It was probably just an instinctive reaction.

However ... he could have held his hands up to it.

[wilkesneil]

he could have done but that is called "sportsmanship2 which is in low doses within football.
only sportsmanship i can remember is di canio catching ball instead of shooting at goal cus a player was down hurt (opponents) and he got booked!!!.
robbie fowler admitting a penalty awarded wasn't a penalty and stuck it wide as the ref wouldn't change his mind (in his liverpool days).
and a cup game where a game was abandoned at 1-0 so the manager of the other team had agreed before hand to let them take a 1-0 lead at kick off as that was the score.