'Sup footie nuts? Did everyone enjoy their weekend of the beautiful game? I did! FA Cup finals for my beloved Reds!
I thought I'd do a "Jump on the bandwagon" piece this week. The second FA Cup semi-final on Sunday, produced another crazy piece of officiating! Atkinson (who was clearly sipping on Grand Pa's cough medicine) awarded a goal that shouldn't have been.
Granted, Chelsea ran out comfortable 5-1 winners on the day, Mata's goal was the crucial "Second" goal. It changed the complex of the game on it's head.
We know that clubs like Spurs (who don't have tons of Russian mafia money) rely on cup runs and top four in the league financially. So when the ref gets it wrong...it hurts them more financially than anything else.
I'm not going to sit here, and say "WE NEED TECHNOLOGY"! Because, every other Tom, Dick and Sally is doing that already. I would prefer an extra set of eyes on the goal line, like in the Europa. But that assistant should be given more authority, like with awarding dubious penalties (I'm not referring to Ashley Young - or maybe I am)
So I'm sharing some other costly errors by the men in black (with the whistle) too.
So I'd thought we would start in probably the most famous "Was it a goal, was it not a goal" ever. Geoff Hurst's extra time goal against Ze Germans in the final of The World Cup, was only proved some years later to be incorrect. But this was a lot tougher to call than the rest in the list.
Next up is Roy "Butter Hands" Carroll. A rather speculative shot from Spurs' Pedro Mendes directed at the rather Speculative Goalkeeper for Man United resulted in a rather speculative call by the rather speculative Mark Clattenburg (OK I'm done) the ball seemed to be at least 1 metre over the goal line. How the officials got this wrong I'll never know...
It's the Champions league Semi-final second leg. It's Liverpool vs Chelsea. The first leg was a 0-0 draw. It's Anfield. Liverpool are attacking the KOP end. A ball get's dinked over the top. Cech Clatters a Liverpool player but misses the ball. It lands close to Little Luis Garcia. He mishits his attempt...it goes towards goal (In slow motion) Gallas clears off the line! The Kop erupts! The goal is awarded! YES! Wait...that didn't cross the line...did it? Yes, it did. But wait...it didn't. This "goal" knocked Chelsea out of the Champions league. A competition the Russian wants so badly...he will PAY anything for it.
World Cup 2010! It's England vs Germany. The most hated rivalry between two countries in Europe. A youthful German side were up 2-1. Enter Frank "The Most shots ever" Lampard. The ball beats Neuer in flight, hits the cross bar and drops about a metre over the line. The goal isn't given.Bacon and eggs for breakfast anyone? England end up losing 4-1 to the old enemy. That call effectively knocked England out of the world cup...
Last one. And something a bit more recent than the rest. And that could prove a lot more costly than any of the above. We talking Premier league survival. At the moment if there is 1 club who deserve the title as the most "Unluckiest" club in the English Premier league, it Queens Park Rangers (Sorry Kenny) since Sparky took over, I quite fancied them to stay up. But calls like this, is not helping their cause....or my prediction for relegation contender. At a foot over, I still can't believe this wasn't given!
I thought I'd do a "Jump on the bandwagon" piece this week. The second FA Cup semi-final on Sunday, produced another crazy piece of officiating! Atkinson (who was clearly sipping on Grand Pa's cough medicine) awarded a goal that shouldn't have been.
Granted, Chelsea ran out comfortable 5-1 winners on the day, Mata's goal was the crucial "Second" goal. It changed the complex of the game on it's head.
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| Where did it cross the line?????? |
We know that clubs like Spurs (who don't have tons of Russian mafia money) rely on cup runs and top four in the league financially. So when the ref gets it wrong...it hurts them more financially than anything else.
I'm not going to sit here, and say "WE NEED TECHNOLOGY"! Because, every other Tom, Dick and Sally is doing that already. I would prefer an extra set of eyes on the goal line, like in the Europa. But that assistant should be given more authority, like with awarding dubious penalties (I'm not referring to Ashley Young - or maybe I am)
So I'm sharing some other costly errors by the men in black (with the whistle) too.
So I'd thought we would start in probably the most famous "Was it a goal, was it not a goal" ever. Geoff Hurst's extra time goal against Ze Germans in the final of The World Cup, was only proved some years later to be incorrect. But this was a lot tougher to call than the rest in the list.
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| too close to call |
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| How can you miss this?! |
It's the Champions league Semi-final second leg. It's Liverpool vs Chelsea. The first leg was a 0-0 draw. It's Anfield. Liverpool are attacking the KOP end. A ball get's dinked over the top. Cech Clatters a Liverpool player but misses the ball. It lands close to Little Luis Garcia. He mishits his attempt...it goes towards goal (In slow motion) Gallas clears off the line! The Kop erupts! The goal is awarded! YES! Wait...that didn't cross the line...did it? Yes, it did. But wait...it didn't. This "goal" knocked Chelsea out of the Champions league. A competition the Russian wants so badly...he will PAY anything for it.
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| Still not sure this crossed the line |
World Cup 2010! It's England vs Germany. The most hated rivalry between two countries in Europe. A youthful German side were up 2-1. Enter Frank "The Most shots ever" Lampard. The ball beats Neuer in flight, hits the cross bar and drops about a metre over the line. The goal isn't given.Bacon and eggs for breakfast anyone? England end up losing 4-1 to the old enemy. That call effectively knocked England out of the world cup...
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| See? |
Last one. And something a bit more recent than the rest. And that could prove a lot more costly than any of the above. We talking Premier league survival. At the moment if there is 1 club who deserve the title as the most "Unluckiest" club in the English Premier league, it Queens Park Rangers (Sorry Kenny) since Sparky took over, I quite fancied them to stay up. But calls like this, is not helping their cause....or my prediction for relegation contender. At a foot over, I still can't believe this wasn't given!
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| Can they beat the drop? |
This concludes my piece. Hope you enjoyed the read.
Potz
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