sportsmanship, not bad.

I was thinking about this very thing today, don't think we would ever see the Premier League do this.

Well done to them.
 
Robert1986 said:
or when Klose told the ref he handballed it and to disallow the goal.


Then you have people like this....

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I would have done the exact same thing in Suarez situation. Playing for your country i would hand ball if it stopped the goal.

It's not like he didn't get punished, Ghana got a penalty and Suarez got sent off. Nobody would be talking about that incident if he didn't blunder the penalty which cost his team a semi-final appearance.
 
In that case, everyone should be taking one for the team and just doing stupid things in order to win the game. Its a dirty little nasty thing to do and its blatant cheating.

Another good one.

 
Malevolence said:
Would've been so funny if, after they'd let him run through to score, he miss-kicked it wide.
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What about tapping it past the keeper and then doing an Ashley Young sticking his leg out to be fouled by the keeper, opposition down to 10 men and penalty. :cool:

In all seriousness it's great to see sportsmanship still around in competitive sports, in most professional sports there is too much money at stake though.
 
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To be honest, letting someone score at the other end after an "accidental" goal is barely fair play. It's pretty much what you'd expect, those things happen exceptionally rarely and the majority of times it happens a goal is gifted right back.

Declining a penalty or a corner, in real play when the ref has given it and the only thing you have to do is keep your mouth shut, is indeed a big display of fair play, and bravery. The crap you'd get from fans, maybe team mates and manager if you refused a penalty that could be the difference between a title or relegation would be immense.
 
I saw the hunt one, fair enough he did it, doubt he would if the score was 1-1 or 1-0 (they were 2-0 up already) but nice to see regardless.
 
As an Evertonian the Di Canio one is my favourite. He'll always have huge respect from the Everton fans for that. I doubt many people would have stopped the game like he did.

The Hunt one is good to see as well. At least the referee listened to him, unlike the ref when Robbie Fowler admitted he wasn't fouled against Arsenal, and the ref gave the penalty regardless.
 
Something similar to the OP happened in a game I was playing in. We let the striker walk through from kickoff and somehow he managed to miss! We had to pass the resultant goalkick to him to have another go!
 
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