anyone know what the game of the day on football first is?

tia.

The ManUre game

"red6000" wrote in message
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tia.

I was hoping to see the controversial ref descisions in the Arsenal v Fulham
game.


"Brendan DJ Murphy" wrote in message news:...
The ManUre game

"red6000" wrote in message
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tia.

OK, having seen the highlights of the game on "Football First - Match
Choice", I, as an Arsenal supporter, conceede that the ref made a couple of
bad descisions.

The most worrying descision is awarding a penalty, then changing his mind
quoting in a post-match interview..."because of the players' reaction"

I still, even after carefully watching the slo-mo replays, can not see why
Fulham were not awarded that 'goal' in the first half.

I also conceede that Lauren should have been shown the red card in the match
against Norwich two weeks ago.

If Arsenal are going to win the premiership, I would rather we win it
fairly. We certainly dont need lucky ref descicions for us to do it.

Anyway. at the end of the day, it was 3-nil. 2 points ahead of Chelsea
and goodness knows how many above Manchester United! :-)

Brendan

On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 09:06:39 +0100, "Brendan DJ Murphy"
wrote:

OK, having seen the highlights of the game on "Football First - Match
Choice", I, as an Arsenal supporter, conceede that the ref made a couple of
bad descisions.

As a neutral I think by changing his mind Halsey actually reached the
right decision. Andrew Cole was clearly unbalanced and poked the ball
on to Lehman before Ashley Cole made any contact with him. He was not
denied a scoring opportunity by the challenge as he had already
fluffed it. Halsey's biggest mistake was blowing straight away for a
penalty without consulting his assistant when you consider there were
three players between him and the ball. He could not possibly have
seen what happened. He was brave to admit his mistake, although I
concede it might now be a difficult precedent.

The disallowed goal - you see them stand and you see them over-ruled.
I would be disappointed if my team was denied in that way. However,
you were denied a clear penalty at the other end when Volz did his
best to destroy Henry's achilles tendon.

Don't beat yourself up about it. You scored three, were denied a clear
chance of another and they had only one goal disallowed. You deserved
to win it on the balance of the incidents.

In article ,
lid says...
On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 09:06:39 +0100, "Brendan DJ Murphy"
wrote:

OK, having seen the highlights of the game on "Football First - Match
Choice", I, as an Arsenal supporter, conceede that the ref made a couple of
bad descisions.

As a neutral I think by changing his mind Halsey actually reached the
right decision. Andrew Cole was clearly unbalanced and poked the ball
on to Lehman before Ashley Cole made any contact with him. He was not
denied a scoring opportunity by the challenge as he had already
fluffed it.

Its not relevent whether he fluffed it or not, if its a foul then its a
penalty.

Unless your name's Drogba of course then its a dive


Up the Villa




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Roy

The disallowed goal - you see them stand and you see them over-ruled.
I would be disappointed if my team was denied in that way. However,
you were denied a clear penalty at the other end when Volz did his
best to destroy Henry's achilles tendon.

I totally agreee. I deliberatley didn't mention that incident.