Mar

2

Lesson 1 to Goalkeepers up against a Lampard penalty…

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…Always, always, always dive right. It’s amazing how ‘keepers still dive the wrong way against such a high-profile spot kick taker.

Feb

21

Richard Keys is an idiot - part 357

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After watching Emmanuel Eboue take a theatrical flop in the penalty box against Milan last night, Richard Keys tried to stoke up his usual post-match controversy by insisting it could have been a penalty. His reasoning for this - which he gave repeatedly - was that “there was contact”.
So what? There’s quite often contact between [...]

Oct

22

Clattenburg: At best, incompetent

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You could have said ‘okay, he got a couple of things wrong’, and I can, but the one in the final second is so blatant that to get that wrong on top of everything else was just incredible.
I have to question whether you can referee if you don’t see that foul on Joleon Lescott by [...]

May

1

Penalty Shoot-Outs

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With about 5 minutes of the Liverpool Chelsea match to go, the bloody commentator keeps banging on about how awful it would be for the match to go to penalties. He’s talking bollocks. It’s great to watch penalties. There’s always some idiot who ruins it for his team by blasting wide or trying to chip [...]