Ballotelli on Parker and Lescott on Kaboul

[stevenqoz]

What I found really odd with the Ballotelli incident what that after the stamp Modric doesn't actually move his head / eyes to look at him but seems to keep looking at Parker on the floor. Odd because you would expect a player to go off at someone / the referee in such an incident. What you think?

 

[Hoddle_Ledge]

If anyone on the team is going to react and get in Balotelli's face it's not going to be Modric :lol:

He was probably just relying on the ref to do his job correctly.

 

[GoldstarYid]

It's times like this i wish we had a Bellamy, Barton, Tiote, Ferdinand who will just sack all else and square up to every last prick in site(Balotelli, Webb whoever).


Also i noticed someone mention Lescott celebrating 'his' goal, the one he fell into. I wondered what he was all about the way he reacted to it, over reaction much.

 

[rich75]

This thread is embarrassing. A long list of whinging, irrational bollocks.

Some of you need to get out a bit more.

 

[GoldstarYid]

This thread is embarrassing. A long list of whinging, irrational bollocks.

Some of you need to get out a bit more.

I'm of the opinion the guy moaning about others moaning is actually worse. Also 'get out more' insults are poor and childish. Football is our hobbie we will do what we want.

More importantly, you have to be on the windup if you genuinely believe Balotelli shouldn't have been sent of and thus not won the penalty and scored it.

 

[AngerManagement]

Personally I think the Lescott elbow was worse than the Balotelli incident, although of course the latter was more likely to do serious damage, it is more obvious to prove intent with Lescott from the very unnatural movement and extention of his forearem and elbow.

Frankly they were two clear red cards that would have changed the game distinctly

We would have torn City a new one if they were left with just that useless centre back in front of Hart and Mario B would never have been on the bitch to win much less score the final penalty.

Frankly we were robbed, and against all that adversity we still could and probably should have won the game with the Bale Defoe incident (similar to the Ade/Defoe incident against Newcastle that could have made it 3-2, we need to be more clinical if we want to win a title)

It does leave a very bitter taste in the mouth to reflect on the amount of poor decisions that have been so key in matches we have dropped points this season, as do the late near misses.

Against Stoke we battled back from 2-0 having their first goal subject of an error by the official who failed to spot Crouch's handball, even after that we score two goals and are worth a draw but one is ruled out inexplicably (so if you want to get technical we scored two legitimate goals to their one)

Against Chelsea Ade has another goal controversially ruled out.....and even after that he should have scored to win the game but some how proceeded to allow Terry to scramble it wide of the post.

Wolves too, their goal came from a corner that never should have been.....so again we scored 2 legitimate goals to their NONE but somehow draw the game and drop two points at home.

It is as sickening as the time Ronald Koeman should have been sent off for fouling David Platt and went on to score a free kick that put England out of the World Cup.

People bang on about these things evening themselves out over the course of a season but that is total bollocks, does anyone really expect us to benefit from anything like the amount of errors that have cost us points this season from now until the final game?

Something has to be done in my opinion, football is too big a game and there is far too much at stake for it to be subject to such potential for error that borders cheating in my opinion (how often do you see the likes of Man U and Man City or even Chelsea and Liverpool on the wrong end of these types of decisions?) Its hard enough to compete with these guys and their billions let alone with poor work from the officials denies us a level playing field.

The clinical nature of our strikers is something we can spend and improve on ourselves but goals scored against us that shouldn't be, or ruled out for us that should have stood and allowing our players to be assaulted on the pitch and not punishing the other team who go on to beat us (via a goal made and scored by one of the guys who should have been off the pitch) is just a disgrace, Frankly if Man Utd were the team on the receiving end of those two incidents yesterday we would never hear the end of it and the refs would probably be in some serious shit.......but the fact is the ref would never dare not send of the two players against Man U and yesterday Howard Webb bottled it twice, I hope he is ashamed of his performance today, although I doubt he even blinks an eye.

 

[GoldstarYid]

Does anybody know when/if we would find out about a potential hearing for Balotelli(i am refusing to use his first name from now on, not ruining my childhood over that tool).

 

[AngerManagement]

I'm of the opinion the guy moaning about others moaning is actually worse. Also 'get out more' insults are poor and childish. Football is our hobbie we will do what we want.

More importantly, you have to be on the windup if you genuinely believe Balotelli shouldn't have been sent of and thus not won the penalty and scored it.

Excellent post

How ironic to make a whining little post to complain about others whining

 

[rich75]

I'm of the opinion the guy moaning about others moaning is actually worse. Also 'get out more' insults are poor and childish. Football is our hobbie we will do what we want.

More importantly, you have to be on the windup if you genuinely believe Balotelli shouldn't have been sent of and thus not won the penalty and scored it.

:grin: "poor and childish" ? And the below are terribly grown up and rational.

was just about to post.... fuck it

LEE DIXON YOU ARE NOTHING BUT A PEADO FUCKING ****.

TOTAL FUCKING DRIED WANK STAIN!! :bang::bang::bang::bang:

lee dixon piece of shit goon scum

Thats assault at the very least. Watch him look at him when he lands, he knew exactly what he was doing.


Utter utter scumbag, 10 match ban and a jail sentance see who the big man is after that.

It was nothing like "assault" , ten match ban and a jail sentence ? Don't be so ridiculous. This, below, could be defined as an assault , Balotellis' was nowhere near as bad, and I'm still not remotely convinced it was deliberate.

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[RickyVilla]

Barcelona are the best footballing team in the world but they now how to mix it up with teams and players that play physical. Stop whinging, its pathetic. They played hard and they won. We should learn to do the same. Being fair does not pay.

That is the biggest load of horseshit I have read on here for a long time. So playing hard allows you to stamp on people? Idiot.

 

[Rocksuperstar]

Y'know, i've watched it over and over, saw it when it happened and just watched it again now, and i'm still not convinced it was a deliberate attempt to stamp on Scottie.

I've lost my balance before, tried to find it again and haven't, and that moment of panic where the things designed to keep you up don't do what you expect them to do makes you snap your foot around to try and stop yourself tumbling. Ever got to the top of the stairs half asleep and gone up one too many steps? You put your foot out and there's air where there should be support, your body is already tipping the weight onto that now unsupported leg, so in a panic reaction, your foot stomps down desperate to find solid ground.

Generally though, Balotelli bought chaos wherever he went.

 

[alamo]

That is the biggest load of horseshit I have read on here for a long time. So playing hard allows you to stamp on people? Idiot.

Well said RV, couldn't agree more.

 

[striebs]

Yep Luca needed to get stuck into Boloxtelli. Can't believe how friggin nice we are

Most other teams would have drawn the attention of the Ref to the incident giving him no other choice other than to send him off

Had 7 or 8 of the team gone nuts that dirty **** would have walked

Maybe they were scared of him ?


Lescott ran the risk of getting yellow/red but his challenge on Kaboule was not much more than competitiveness - it is a contact sport after all and I've got to admire him for that .

What saddens me is that you can't compete with Man City over the long term . Money is everything in modern football . With 3 points yesterday or even just even stevens we would still have been very much in the race this season . Next they will be out of site .

As they said on MOTD , our guys look like they had lost a cup final . Who were the players walking round picking the others up ?

 

[jurgen]

I'd hate to be in a Kentish pub with rich75 getting tipsy and trying to 'regain his balance' if thats how he believes normal people (let alone elite athletes) try to keep themselves from toppling over...

 

[rich75]

I'd hate to be in a Kentish pub with rich75 getting tipsy and trying to 'regain his balance' if thats how he believes normal people (let alone elite athletes) try to keep themselves from toppling over...

What is this obsession with "elite athletes" somehow being better than everyone else at not randomly sticking out arms and legs when off balance? If true it's amazing anyone falls over on a football pitch.

 

[GoldstarYid]

What is this obsession with "elite athletes" somehow being better than everyone else at not randomly sticking out arms and legs when off balance? If true it's amazing anyone falls over on a football pitch.

It was deliberate, it wasnt a natural movement, there is force in it, then he stumbles away clearly able to stay standing then deliberately falls over.

Nice to see you have joined the rest of us in not getting out enough. :rofl:

 

[rich75]

It was deliberate, it wasnt a natural movement, there is force in it, then he stumbles away clearly able to stay standing then deliberately falls over.

Nice to see you have joined the rest of us in not getting out enough. :rofl:

There is always force when you're off balance. As RSS said earlier, if you put your foot down where you expect the ground to be but find it isn't you generally jab it down harder. Given on the video you can see balotelli jab it harder at the last minute it would suggest that perhaps that's what happened.

Regaining balance is never a natural looking movement, the fact that he had regained his balance after stepping on Parker doesn't mean that he was in control of his movements before. The dive at the end is deliberate and not all that surprising given he probably realised in that moment that he'd trodden on Parker and it didn't look good.

 

[midspur]

Cowardly I wish Modric has steamed into MB after that, when he didnt react it meant Webb didnt have to make a decision... UTD would have been all over him.... If that had happend in one of my Sunday games a riot would of kicked off...

The problem is, had Modric "steamed in" he would have been sent off not MB.

 

[midspur]

There is always force when you're off balance. As RSS said earlier, if you put your foot down where you expect the ground to be but find it isn't you generally jab it down harder. Given on the video you can see balotelli jab it harder at the last minute it would suggest that perhaps that's what happened.

Regaining balance is never a natural looking movement, the fact that he had regained his balance after stepping on Parker doesn't mean that he was in control of his movements before. The dive at the end is deliberate and not all that surprising given he probably realised in that moment that he'd trodden on Parker and it didn't look good.

The problem here is that momentum would have taken his right leg forward not backwards.

 

[dav3j]

There is always force when you're off balance. As RSS said earlier, if you put your foot down where you expect the ground to be but find it isn't you generally jab it down harder. Given on the video you can see balotelli jab it harder at the last minute it would suggest that perhaps that's what happened.

Regaining balance is never a natural looking movement, the fact that he had regained his balance after stepping on Parker doesn't mean that he was in control of his movements before. The dive at the end is deliberate and not all that surprising given he probably realised in that moment that he'd trodden on Parker and it didn't look good.

Didn't know we had a pundit posting on SC!

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