That Gestede Throw In

[Dave Cooper please]

Watching that it wasn't even particularly hard, just woeful control from a supposed professional footballer (albeit a goalkeeper).

[Dave]

It was Hart's fault he should have let it go out for a goal kick.

yes

Which is pretty much what Jenas said on MOTD last night.

I thought everybody was wrong and it was a foul throw, so City should have had a throw in.

Officials rarely give foul throw ins anymore.  I did see one given yesterday though, unbelievably, against Man City.

Watching it from the Trinity (just after polishing off my foie gras cob) I don't think that was a foul throw Bren'd.
The linesman flagged a throw in to Villa, the Man City player got there first and picked it and threw it...the linesman then insisted on the Villa having the throw in. The ref didn't seem to know wtf was going on.

I think that's right - on the replay, it didn't look like Sagna (?) had done anything wrong.

I reckon the linesman had a brain fart, signalled Sterling as offside then remembered that he couldn't be offside from the throw-in so had to come up with another reason why he had flagged.

He certainly didn't seem to be preventing their player from taking the throw, which had it been ours all along you'd think he would try and stop them.

[frankmosswasmyuncle]

It was Hart's fault he should have let it go out for a goal kick.

yes

Which is pretty much what Jenas said on MOTD last night.

I thought everybody was wrong and it was a foul throw, so City should have had a throw in.

Officials rarely give foul throw ins anymore.  I did see one given yesterday though, unbelievably, against Man City.

Watching it from the Trinity (just after polishing off my foie gras cob) I don't think that was a foul throw Bren'd.
The linesman flagged a throw in to Villa, the Man City player got there first and picked it and threw it...the linesman then insisted on the Villa having the throw in. The ref didn't seem to know wtf was going on.

I think that's right - on the replay, it didn't look like Sagna (?) had done anything wrong.

I reckon the linesman had a brain fart, signalled Sterling as offside then remembered that he couldn't be offside from the throw-in so had to come up with another reason why he had flagged.

He certainly didn't seem to be preventing their player from taking the throw, which had it been ours all along you'd think he would try and stop them.

Haven't seen it on tv Dave but I do remember getting a bit arsey at the time when the linesman flagged for a Villa throw then the Man City player was suddenly taking it.

I was getting a bit excited by that stage of the game!!!

[Duncan Shaw]

Watching the Gestede throw again on that link, Hart didn't react other than looking annoyed with himself and just started trotting back to the goal.

[MoetVillan]

If Gestede had have scored from the corner....id have taken the three points.  No worries.  He didn't cheat.  You could say it wasn't in the spirit of the game.....in the same way that Man City's team cost a gazillion pounds as opposed to our 37.8 sheckles

[Brend'Watkins]

It was Hart's fault he should have let it go out for a goal kick.

yes

Which is pretty much what Jenas said on MOTD last night.

I thought everybody was wrong and it was a foul throw, so City should have had a throw in.

Officials rarely give foul throw ins anymore.  I did see one given yesterday though, unbelievably, against Man City.

Watching it from the Trinity (just after polishing off my foie gras cob) I don't think that was a foul throw Bren'd.
The linesman flagged a throw in to Villa, the Man City player got there first and picked it and threw it...the linesman then insisted on the Villa having the throw in. The ref didn't seem to know wtf was going on.

I was in the Lower Holte  so didn't know what was going on really.  I assumed a foul throw as did every one around.

[LeeB]

I was convinced we would score from that corner. It is one of the unwritten rules of football that controversial corners always lead to goals, in the same way that if a defender inadvertently shins an easy clearance back over their own goal line instead of upfield the corner that follows always results in a goal.

Yes, it's the Curtis Davies law.

[conman]

Panto season has started early.

oh no it hasnt

[clash city rocker]

Will city also be saying that sterling throwing himself to the floor was in the spirit of the game. Double standards me thinks or is diving perfectly acceptable.

[Can Gana Be Bettered!?!?]

Imagine how pissed off everyone on here would be if someone did it to us.

Don't think people would have the same opinion.

[Monty]

Imagine how pissed off everyone on here would be if someone did it to us.

Don't think people would have the same opinion.

It seemed a little dicky to me at the time - the throw-in had some spin on it - but if it were the other way round, would I be whinging hysterically like some of the City fans? I don't think so.

[MoetVillan]

Id be more pissed off if our Goalie had tried to do a Hart to be honest.

[Richard E]

I was convinced we would score from that corner. It is one of the unwritten rules of football that controversial corners always lead to goals, in the same way that if a defender inadvertently shins an easy clearance back over their own goal line instead of upfield the corner that follows always results in a goal.

Yes, it's the Curtis Davies law.

Yes, that was the previous farce that came to mind.

[walsall villain]

As was said on MOTD last night, perhaps we should have just simply given them the ball back from the corner. We weren't far from scoring, desperate as we are I wouldn't want that, we would be in a rage if it happened the other way around.

[Chris Smith]

Imagine how pissed off everyone on here would be if someone did it to us.

Don't think people would have the same opinion.

If Guzan had tried to control that he would probably have scored an own goal.

The whole problem was caused by Hart trying to dictate how we returned the ball and then cocking up his attempt to control it. If had just left Gestede to it then we would not be wasting our time discussing such a trivial incident.