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"Well done Fergie *claps*"

So United slip even further away from title contention and into 3rd place after a draw against Fulham. I'd just like to take this time to congratulate Fergie for once again screwing around with the squad and costing us another win. Giggs, Van Nistelrooy and Howard on the bench?? We're behind in the league you gum chewing idiot not 15 points ahead.
Someone needs to explain to Fergie when you are behind in the league you put your best possible line up out so they can actually win games and either gain on the leader or at least stay the same distance from them, you don't go putting a weakened line up against a good team whether or not they've played in Europe the other day. If Keane can play almost the whole game and show up on saturday so can everyone else.


So here you go Fergie some nice slow clapping for you *clap...........clap*

And they should make many clones of Houllier and make them all linesmen.

He can keep one eye on the striker and the other on the ball. No more dodgy offsides!

lalakersrule wrote:
> I still think someone should kidnap Collina and clone him.

No-one would know. He looks like a clone anyway!

Top reffing bloke, though. I think it's cos of those mad staring eyes - he doesn't blink, so he doesn't miss anything!

Peter Wiley (The Ref) has made some comments about the penalty decision, it was in the line of "I didn't see the incident so I couldn't give the Penalty"

Which is nonsense really because as they quite clearly showed on 'The Premiership' that from the position the ref was in he had a 'Perfect View' of the incident. In my opinion that is a bit of a cop out from the referee.

However there are situations where refs don't see important incidents and in my view that should the only incentive for the FA to bring in technology which will help the ref's & linesmen to see these decisions.

lalakersrule wrote:

I still think someone should kidnap Collina and clone him.
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I agree with this; and it's certainly the most feasible of all the suggestions we are currently disscusing.

I still think someone should kidnap Collina and clone him.

Clazon wrote:
> i would agree with you chet in a general sense, but *if* in any way
> you're dissapointed with man yoo decisions,

I am dissapointed with that decsion because it was a clear cut penalty and it was in a game that the decisions has cost us 2 points and if there was any hope of the title - there aint any now whatever Mr Ferguson says.

> i still remember the most blatant dive i have honestly ever seen van nistelrooy against ipswich

I think Pires' dive against Pompey was the worse ive ever seen, then to come on national television afterwards to deny it was a dive just topped it off!

I don't agree with 'decisions balance themselves out over time' because if a ref used certain technologies etc i.e. what Wookie mentioned earlier then we would'nt have nearly the amount of silly decisions we do these days and things would be a little more fairer in the duration of a season.

i would agree with you chet in a general sense, but *if* in any way you're dissapointed with man yoo decisions, then i sadly have to decline from giving my sympathy.

1)i still remember the most blatant dive i have honestly ever seen in my life. van nistelrooy against ipswich, 2-1 to the portman road lads, when bramble and some other guy perform an amazing piece of joint defending, when ruud just flicks up his heels, throws himself down and appeals. i honestly felt sick as if he would do this every time. this pen decided that ipswich would be relegated.

2) mr. durkin thinking that a trip by gio, was a terrible dive deserved of a second yellow. he quite clearly stumbled and fell and lay on the floor in disappointment. no appeal, not even a look towards the ref. paulie walks over and sends him off.

3) last year, defoe goes flying through when phil nev hacks him down as if defoe was a ball waiting to be volleyed. the ref ignores jermaine's pleas and walks away from a crucial second minute pen. needless to say it was at old trafford.

4) steve bennett has to be on a wage from ferguson. he has come up with the most ludicrous penalty decisions for man yoo i have seen.


in my view, i think that when teams play as many games as they do, penalty decisions over time are relatively equal. our fortune has changed from the above 4 this season. the saha pen and the pires dive against pompey. refs, for whatever reason get things wrong. if they didn't then there wouldn't be any talk in the pubs-"so that match... bit good weren't it?", "yeah". " so hows the missus..."

thank god there aren't decisions like our Iberian friends have to deal with. an englishman would go crazy if the prem turned out like that. *poor becks.

YEs but we don't need the ref to annouce it like they do with the NFL :S

My recommendations would be:

1. Instant video replays
With so much hanging on the result of games - especially in the Premiership - this is surely a must-have now? 6 screens, one either side of the halfway line, one at each corner - for the ref to run to in the event of any major decision. There are cameras at every game anyway. It won't hold the game up for more any longer than the average substitution. They do it in the NFL, and it would work well. Of course, we'd need refs who are willing to admit they got it wrong first...

2. 2 referees, 4 linesmen
A ref in each half (because several refs seem to have trouble keeping up with play), and a linesman in each half on both sides. At the very least, one ref and 4 linesmen

I really think they have to look into this whole ref thing.

There's been countless times in football games this season where a vital ref decisions have led to severe consequences for a team.

Then if a manager comments negativly then he will get a fine but nothing happens about the decision and not a lot happends to the ref either.