Greenlizard0 Weekend Football Thread ** spoilers ** [21st - 24th September 2012]

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Azza said:
Hitzlsperger is a done deal apparently. Should be good cover especially while Gibson is out... if it means not having Nev in midfield I'd rather have a moose play there!
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Could be a good signing, was pretty epic for West Ham season before last
 
One More Solo said:
Went to West Ham away in the Carling Cup two seasons back and the stand nearest to us was full of middle aged men making airplane gestures at us. I'm sure similar occurs at plenty of grounds around the country when United visit.
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Loki said:
Seen it on a few occasions from both Utd fans and away fans. Stoke and Leeds probably being one of the worst places. I once visited the old Stoke ground in the cup and that was let's say a quite hairy experience.

Remember these 40 somethings were probably the young lads who wanted to get in and around the respective club firms 20 or so years ago. That was when football was still a dodgy game to goto.
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Wow, pretty naive of me.

Never been to an away game and the only away fans I've been beside at Anfield were the Sunderland ones and they weren't up to much.

How can you get to that age and still be that inept at being a normal person.
 
cm1179 said:
it wasn't just the whole hilsborough thing. in todays game, your fans all turned into a bunch of whinging little kids whenever you didn't get your own way on decisions that were blatently obvious. the foul on welbeck in ET springs to mind.
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That is a bit rich to be honest, all footballers and football fans are whinging little kids in the heat of a match, everyone. Especially a grudge match like LFC v MUFC is, with the added emotion of the occasion, the crowd was always going to be fiesty.

The red card incident, for me, if Shelvey goes, Evans has to aswell, both went in full throtlle to win the ball. Halsey had a great view of it, and how he say it completley as Shelvey's fault boggles my mind.

Suarez pen, for me, I would say it was more of a pen than the valencia one, although I am not 100% either should have been giving to be honest.

On the fan incident - crittens, LFC fans who incited it should be banned from Anfield, and to be honest, vice versa for the MUFC fans. Neither chants belong at a friggen football match, mocking the dead for one up man ship is absolutely pathetic.
 
Purdy said:
Wow, pretty naive of me.

Never been to an away game and the only away fans I've been beside at Anfield were the Sunderland ones and they weren't up to much.

How can you get to that age and still be that inept at being a normal person.
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I think Loki is right, on the whole I think younger fans are less likely to get involved.
 
cm1179 said:
it wasn't a penalty. they've just shown this on motd. they also showed that the valencia incident was a penalty.
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I'm not complaining about it, we should have been 3 or 4 up at half time, we need to finish our chances.

Still not sure I would have giving either as a pen.

Positives for us though after today (even after getting beat by Man U :( )


  • We showed a lot of heart and spirit
    Joe Allen keeps getting better
    Stevie was back to his very best today
    Suso - this kid is going to be a player
    Sterling - another great performance from him, going to be a star for us.
 
MrJohnSherry said:
The red card incident, for me, if Shelvey goes, Evans has to aswell, both went in full throtlle to win the ball. Halsey had a great view of it, and how he say it completley as Shelvey's fault boggles my mind.
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Evans got the ball though, Shelvey was nowhere near the ball and went completely over it hitting around Evans' knee.
 
grimm said:
Evans got the ball though, Shelvey was nowhere near the ball and went completely over it hitting around Evans' knee.
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Shelvey got nowhere near the ball? :confused:

Evans jumped in two footed and studs up. I can accept Shelvey being sent off for excessive force (and the 2nd leg initially appearing to make a scissoring action) but Evans should have also been sent off.
 
Hate it when people use the excuse 'he got the ball', doesn't matter.

Thought that it was a red for Shelvey, thought it should probably have been a red for Evans too, just for arguments sake.
 
I thought the Shelvey sending off was harsh and if he had to go then so should Evans. Also RVP did a tackle just as bad at the end and only got a yellow.

I thought Liverpool should have had a penalty but if Suarez hadn't done a triple somersault they might have got it. Why do players try to make everything so dramatic? So Suarez's fault and serves him right.

I think the Man Utd penalty was very harsh. I don't think many ref's would have given that. Utd were lucky today.
 
I don't think it was a harsh decision to send Shelvey off, I think it was correct, but it stands to logic that Evans should have been dismissed too.
 
Chong Warrior said:
Why do players try to make everything so dramatic?
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I think you answered that with the comment on the sending off. The player that ends up rolling around on the floor (and to be clear I'm not criticising Evans) gets the decision. I remember very similar thing happened a few seasons back with a challenge in a Liverpool - Everton game between Soto and Fellaini; Fellaini (whose challenge was far worse) ended up rolling around on the floor and escaped punishment but Soto was sent off.

Until officials start giving decisions based on challenges rather than reactions, it encourages players to exaggerate contact or feign injury.
 
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