Blackburn - Cheating? SPOILERS

j00ni · 22 Jan 2006 at 21:49

Gilly said:
Hehehehehe, I take it you're not a Geordie then?

He punched it in. It was blatantly cheating.

Even as a Blackburn fan I will readily agree with that

SexyGreyFox · 22 Jan 2006 at 22:24

Reidy said:
That goal should be disallowed... using video footage... it was obveouse cheating!!!!

Tell you what then - on a Monday morning the FA can all get together and watch all the matches again and dissect the footage and then make the score up at the end of the day.

Or perhaps we should let them get on with it and hope one day there is a better system for refereeing.

NokkonWud · 22 Jan 2006 at 23:05

I love how you have '*SPOILERS*' and 'Blackburn - Cheating to Victory' in the topic.

The spoiler is that Blackburn won... which was given away by the title..

HangTime · 22 Jan 2006 at 23:06

Blackburn cheating? Whatever next!

Chris Sutton, 1997 anyone?

CliffyG · 22 Jan 2006 at 23:08

Why put spoiler at the end of a title which quite clearly says who won :confused:

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j00ni · 22 Jan 2006 at 23:37

HangTime said:
Blackburn cheating? Whatever next!

Chris Sutton, 1997 anyone?

I hope your not another whinging gooner, still holding a grudge after 9 years

Spud21 · 22 Jan 2006 at 23:44

Yes it was cheating, but then it happens, and he obviously did it well enough to make it so 50,000 plus people didn't notice it, swings and roundabouts, sometimes the luck goes with you and sometimes it goes against you, the way of the world.

NokkonWud · 23 Jan 2006 at 00:00

Spud21 said:
Yes it was cheating, but then it happens, and he obviously did it well enough to make it so 50,000 plus people didn't notice it, swings and roundabouts, sometimes the luck goes with you and sometimes it goes against you, the way of the world.

Indeed, Newcastle are amongst the biggest cheats in the league (better now with no Bellamy) so Swings-&-Roundabouts is about perfect.

HangTime · 23 Jan 2006 at 00:08

j00ni said:
I hope your not another whinging gooner, still holding a grudge after 9 years

Well these sort of things happen in games everynow and then (from those dereft of sportsmanship anyway), it's just that the lost points cost us a place in the Champions League in the end, which makes it more memorable. That and Forest lying down on the last day of the season to let in 5 as they were already down....

VonClinkerhofen · 23 Jan 2006 at 01:18

NiCkNaMe said:
Newcastle deserve it mate, they're *****

j00ni · 23 Jan 2006 at 12:35

HangTime said:
Well these sort of things happen in games everynow and then (from those dereft of sportsmanship anyway), it's just that the lost points cost us a place in the Champions League in the end, which makes it more memorable. That and Forest lying down on the last day of the season to let in 5 as they were already down....

Yeah and Blackburn were struggling against the pull of relegation, and couldn't afford to give away premiership football in the name of sportsmanship (and don't forget it wasn't cheating, your player [viera?] played the ball to touch). And maybe if your defender hadn't been half asleep he would have been able to play the ball that was thrown towards him, rather than giving away a corner.

Besides which we deserved a point from the way we played 2nd half, and due to the fact that the Arse couldn't wrap it up with another goal after totally dominating the 1st 45.

vanpeebles · 23 Jan 2006 at 12:38

arsenal fans are not allowed, i repeat not allowed to complain about cheating

Gooner14 · 23 Jan 2006 at 12:44

j00ni said:
Yeah and Blackburn were struggling against the pull of relegation, and couldn't afford to give away premiership football in the name of sportsmanship (and don't forget it wasn't cheating, your player [viera?] played the ball to touch). And maybe if your defender hadn't been half asleep he would have been able to play the ball that was thrown towards him, rather than giving away a corner.

Decent side replay games where that sort of thing happens

And it's VIEIRA

Lets be honest things like this happen, 1986 World Cup or the 2001 FA Cup final for example. Nothing we say will change it.

One More Solo · 23 Jan 2006 at 15:51

Gilly said:
Hehehehehe, I take it you're not a Geordie then?

He punched it in. It was blatantly cheating.

On second viewing, he's a cheating git.

I was clutching at straws since I like Pedersen (and not Souness).

HangTime · 23 Jan 2006 at 16:19

j00ni said:
Yeah and Blackburn were struggling against the pull of relegation, and couldn't afford to give away premiership football in the name of sportsmanship (and don't forget it wasn't cheating, your player [viera?] played the ball to touch).

Well to be fair you should have had an extra 2pts that year anyway because Boro never showed up to a match, which was later replayed and ended in a draw IIRC (?). Of course Boro got 3pts deducted (net result -2), but Blackburn only got 1pt for a game they should have been awarded all 3.

As for Vieira kicking the ball out, of course he did, one of our players had been hacked down and was genuinely hurt (he was subbed).

j00ni · 23 Jan 2006 at 17:13

HangTime said:
Well to be fair you should have had an extra 2pts that year anyway because Boro never showed up to a match, which was later replayed and ended in a draw IIRC (?). Of course Boro got 3pts deducted (net result -2), but Blackburn only got 1pt for a game they should have been awarded all 3.

Good point, had forgotten about that

HangTime said:
As for Vieira kicking the ball out, of course he did, one of our players had been hacked down and was genuinely hurt (he was subbed).

I realise that, but there is nothing in the rules to say that we have to give them the ball back, what I was inferring is that we weren't cheating as accused

Murf · 24 Jan 2006 at 12:47

NokkonWud said:
Indeed, Newcastle are amongst the biggest cheats in the league (better now with no Bellamy) so Swings-&-Roundabouts is about perfect.

Rubbish. We're hardly the biggest cheats in the league. The only genuine gripe would be Shearer's tactics. But EVERY ref is aware of exactly what he does and they rarely pull him, so I see that as more pushing the rules to the limit.

We are terrible at the moment though. In the words of Bill Hicks, "Show some ****ing heart!!"

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