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Offline Dave Cooper please

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Re: The Match of the Day Thread
« Reply #15 on: August 18, 2013, 01:24:46 AM »
The rules haven't changed. Gabby was taken out before the ball was even touched, even then you have to at least take the ball away from the run of the player for it to be a proper tackle before you hack the player down. Definite penalty and very good refereeing.

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Re: The Match of the Day Thread
« Reply #16 on: August 18, 2013, 08:02:03 AM »
May I just say that the game of Association Football does not operate using rules. They are LAWS.

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Re: The Match of the Day Thread
« Reply #17 on: August 18, 2013, 08:17:15 AM »
Thought it was a very good analysis on the second penalty. Also agreed Vlaar should have gone.

Indeed, thought shearer was spot on with his analysis and very good angle showing gabbys left leg was clipped before contact with the ball - a penalty .
Regarding Vlaar , at the time i expected him to get a 2nd yellow and he could well have gone , he was lucky to stay on but god knows we deserve a few decisions to go our way after some of the crap we've had against us over the years.

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Re: The Match of the Day Thread
« Reply #18 on: August 18, 2013, 09:24:32 AM »
The rules haven't changed. Gabby was taken out before the ball was even touched, even then you have to at least take the ball away from the run of the player for it to be a proper tackle before you hack the player down. Definite penalty and very good refereeing.

That's what I thought as well. It's not like he won the ball and then Agbonlahor just fell over his leg. He didn't come out with the ball and it was a definite pen.

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Re: The Match of the Day Thread
« Reply #19 on: August 18, 2013, 09:30:51 AM »
It's exactly the same as the Roger Johnson penalty a few years back. There's no use agonising over whether he got a toe on the ball - this isn't cricket, we're not appealing for an lbw and seeing if he nicked it. He touches the ball, sure, but if he doesn't bring down Gabby then Gabby is clean through. Lambert's right: an absolute stonewaller (whatever that word actually means).

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Re: The Match of the Day Thread
« Reply #20 on: August 18, 2013, 09:35:49 AM »
Anyway, back to MOTD......... Thought Danny Murphy & Shearer were pretty decent with their analysis last night.  Sooo much better than Lawrenson cracking unfunny one-liners and Hansen slurring on about pass & move. Hopefully we've seen the last of those two but I doubt it

Edit: Looks like I spoke to soon - Lawrenson dropped but stuck with Hansen for another year. You'd think he could have taken his holiday before the season started, but hey-ho
« Last Edit: August 18, 2013, 09:41:44 AM by CJ »

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Re: The Match of the Day Thread
« Reply #21 on: August 18, 2013, 10:10:23 AM »
.....and just sticking with the BBC, John Hartson was full of praise for us on Five Live's commentary of the game. As an ex Arsenal man you would have thought he'd have been just a little biased, but no - it was good to hear.

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Re: The Match of the Day Thread
« Reply #22 on: August 18, 2013, 10:13:26 AM »
Thought they were pretty good to us tonight. What bliss not having to hear the inane whitterings of that pair of twats Lawro and Hanso.

Yep, it made a change. I thought they were both really good to listen to.

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Re: The Match of the Day Thread
« Reply #23 on: August 18, 2013, 10:14:42 AM »
Just seen MOTD and fair enough Shearer, not exactly enamoured of him but he was right about the decisions in the game when the rest of the media has been hysterically wrong.

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Re: The Match of the Day Thread
« Reply #24 on: August 18, 2013, 10:46:24 AM »
MOTD's analysis was almost the complete opposite of Keys and Gray's take on it all on Al Jazeera. Gray in particular was scathing of the referee's performance.

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Re: The Match of the Day Thread
« Reply #25 on: August 18, 2013, 10:54:30 AM »
Thought Shearer and Murphy did alright, especially compared with Crooks & Keown on Final score, 2 of the worse pundits ever.

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Re: The Match of the Day Thread
« Reply #26 on: August 18, 2013, 10:59:04 AM »
Thought Shearer and Murphy did alright, especially compared with Crooks & Keown on Final score, 2 of the worse pundits ever.

Saw a bit of them (Crooks and Keown) yesterday.  The presenter tried to turn it to the Villa perspective and it fairness Crook was quite complimentary about us, but Keown just kept on about Arsenal.  Such clear bias to the point of not being able to do your job properly should result in the sack.

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Re: The Match of the Day Thread
« Reply #27 on: August 18, 2013, 11:05:25 AM »
Thought Shearer and Murphy did alright, especially compared with Crooks & Keown on Final score, 2 of the worse pundits ever.

Saw a bit of them (Crooks and Keown) yesterday.  The presenter tried to turn it to the Villa perspective and it fairness Crook was quite complimentary about us, but Keown just kept on about Arsenal.  Such clear bias to the point of not being able to do your job properly should result in the sack.

In fairness having seen him during our relegation year keown should know all about not being able to your job properly.

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Re: The Match of the Day Thread
« Reply #28 on: August 18, 2013, 11:16:24 AM »
Thought Shearer and Murphy did alright, especially compared with Crooks & Keown on Final score, 2 of the worse pundits ever.

Saw a bit of them (Crooks and Keown) yesterday.  The presenter tried to turn it to the Villa perspective and it fairness Crook was quite complimentary about us, but Keown just kept on about Arsenal.  Such clear bias to the point of not being able to do your job properly should result in the sack.

Agreed.Keown might have as well worn an Arsenal shirt.Garth Crooks seems always to be fair and makes some astute comments,completely different to his infamous interviews of players.

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Re: The Match of the Day Thread
« Reply #29 on: August 18, 2013, 11:21:12 AM »
Thought Shearer and Murphy did alright, especially compared with Crooks & Keown on Final score, 2 of the worse pundits ever.

Saw a bit of them (Crooks and Keown) yesterday.  The presenter tried to turn it to the Villa perspective and it fairness Crook was quite complimentary about us, but Keown just kept on about Arsenal.  Such clear bias to the point of not being able to do your job properly should result in the sack.

Agreed.Keown might have as well worn an Arsenal shirt.Garth Crooks seems always to be fair and makes some astute comments,completely different to his infamous interviews of players.

Garth Crooks and astute. Now there's two words that one rarely sees in the same sentence.

 


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