26 Nov 2015 22:11:55
Even though it doesn't feel like it, we won. hopefully it gives the team more confidence.
I hate that referee, just slapping yellow cards all over the pitch and stopping the game every five minute. And what was that indirect free kick for. I used to think that yellow card is given if a player is wasting too much time.
Anyways all that's well that ends well. We achieved what we set out to do, although rather unconvincingly!
26 Nov 2015 22:38:38
I thought it was a good refereeing maybe other than the penalty that was very soft but at least he was consistent when disallowing Benteke's goal for physical contact. The yellow cards were deserved and so was the indirect kick. A GK can hold the ball 10 secs and then has to release it. It is not enforceable on the second but he literally held it for 20 secs.
26 Nov 2015 22:49:58
The rule is the rule. Six seconds is the rule. Mingo held the ball for TWENTY ONE seconds. What GK worth his salt does that and thinks he can get away with it? because it's not normally whistled as a foul doesn't make it any less a foul and a free kick inside the box. To make matters worse, he stands behind the wall for the free kick. What the heck? Mingo is to blame for that goal, completely. Stop having a go at the ref for applying the law. If Mingo needs to be told where to be during a free kick and/or to kick the ball long when no passing options are available then Grobelaar is right, he should be sold ASAP.
{Ed007's Note - It's one of my pet hates that the six second rule isn't enforced, that and players blatantly obstructing an opposition player to let the ball run out for a throw-in or a goal-kick - oh and the amount of foul throw-ins that go unpunished is ridiculous.}
26 Nov 2015 23:06:23
It's not time wasting, the keepers only supposed to get 6 seconds with the ball in his hands, first minute or last.
26 Nov 2015 23:24:51
I think it now opens up a world where every referee should be counting. The moment you punish this once you have to enfore it every time for me. The ref should have let it play on, there was 0 advantage being gained.
If you're going to blow for this, you will pretty much have to blow up everytime a player stand in front of a keeper at a corner for obstruction, every time a ball doesn't gov over the head at a throw in or have its original trajectory as upwards, every time players in the champions league and prem in a tight game take the ball to the corner and don't have their foot on it, nor is the ball moving, is once again obstruction.
Migs sure, probably kick it early, but I've seen plenty of keeper hold onto it for longer, especially after corners when they wait for all the players to run past them and assess the options. Daft call from the ref. He kind of pigeon holed himself into a corner and thus had to give the penalty which many would have let go when Benteke was held.
{Ed007's Note - You would think guys getting paid £1000's a week could follow the most basic and simple rules of the game though. If refs started clamping down on things they will soon stop, from the 6 second rule to diving and shirt-pulling.
You have to admit that 21 seconds is seriously ripping the hole out of it.}
27 Nov 2015 00:26:51
I agree fully with the ref.
27 Nov 2015 02:12:44
The ref gave Mingo every opp to release the ball but did not. 21 seconds? You must be taking the mick, then. The rule is the rule and if Mingo is too daft to do the most fundamental off all things at the GK position, then he should be sacked.
27 Nov 2015 07:39:50
The ref had every right to give a free kick, Mignolet was being rediculous and that's me being generous. And to compound it mignolet messes up both the wall and his positioning. At the end of the day though its a moot point, we won the game and hopefully ge learns from his mistakes. Happy days.
{Ed001's Note - I don't understand how anyone can complain about that free kick, the referee was being more than fair by giving him an extra ten or more seconds. For me Migs is lucky we were able to turn it around and get the win or he would be getting slaughtered for that stupidity.}
27 Nov 2015 08:14:51
I don't think any one complained about the ref, I just think if you're going to be that stringent on one thing, you have to be stringent on everything. I've seen keepers (especially cech) hold onto it for much longer than 21 seconds, just a bit of concistency would be nice in rule enforcement. Especially when it's that factual to enforce.