Aston Villa vs Sunderland Post-Match Thread

[peter w]

Yes to that Chris but to add insult to cheating they would steal twenty yards, the crowd would react, the referee would wave an arm limply, the player would take the ball back three feet then when the referee had his back turned the ball would go another five yards further upfield. It is cheating, pure and simple and the fact that virtually all referees turn a blind eye to it demeans and impoverishes the game. See also Throws, foul.

Foul throws are my feckin bugbear. If anyone doesn't pay attention to it you watch the thrower in just about every Premier League game you will see and at some point you'll see at least unbelievably foul throw. There are so many occasions where the thrower is like a bloody shot putter and its very rare the referee or the the assistant spot it or pull it up.

[Comrade Blitz]

Sunderland were more than weak ! Is there an English word for this.

American coffee?

[Louzie0]

Sunderland were more than weak ! Is there an English word for this.

American coffee?

Footling

It includes time wasting!

[JD]

Only just got round to watching the extended highlights. How the hell we didn't win I'll never know. We missed so many chances and on another day we could have won 5/6-2.
The two goals we conceded weren't very good and the Clarke non challenge and/or closing down for their second goal was piss poor in my opinion. I like Clarke but that was terrible defending.   

[dcdavecollett]

Clark.

I like some of the ideas on here for clamping down on timewasting.

My thoughts are that for excessive TW, warn the perpetrator; subsequent offences result in the award of an indirect free-kick for ungentlemanly conduct.

Imagine! A goal-kick suddenly becomes a free-kick to the attacking side on your six-yard box!

Any thoughts?