Comments on: Ronaldo: I Didn’t Want A Penalty http://therepublikofmancunia.com/ronaldo-i-didnt-want-a-penalty/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ronaldo-i-didnt-want-a-penalty a Manchester United blog Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:15:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: denton davey http://therepublikofmancunia.com/ronaldo-i-didnt-want-a-penalty/#comment-17380 denton davey Tue, 30 Sep 2008 13:34:45 +0000 http://therepublikofmancunia.com/?p=3553#comment-17380 Sittingbison: it may be "professional sport" but it's adjudicated by amateurs, denied technological assistance by the head-in-their-arse administrators who want to keep the game in the 19th century. For all the talk that video replay would slow the game, what about goal celebrations, argy-bargy surrounding yellow/red cards, and the countless other un-noticed time-wasting activities that are accepted as part-and-parcel of the game ? Given the number of cameras at most (all !) matches, it doesn't seem difficult to take a one-minute "technology break" and if the situation can't be resolved then allow the ref-on-the-field's immediate respnse to stand. The real thorn in this rose has to do with when such "technology breaks" will be called for. To me, the answer is simple - on a penalty award or a disputed goal; not on offsides, which are almost-always called incorrectly. Offsides should be governed by new, more lenient rules - but that's another story. Sittingbison: it may be “professional sport” but it’s adjudicated by amateurs, denied technological assistance by the head-in-their-arse administrators who want to keep the game in the 19th century.

For all the talk that video replay would slow the game, what about goal celebrations, argy-bargy surrounding yellow/red cards, and the countless other un-noticed time-wasting activities that are accepted as part-and-parcel of the game ? Given the number of cameras at most (all !) matches, it doesn’t seem difficult to take a one-minute “technology break” and if the situation can’t be resolved then allow the ref-on-the-field’s immediate respnse to stand.

The real thorn in this rose has to do with when such “technology breaks” will be called for. To me, the answer is simple – on a penalty award or a disputed goal; not on offsides, which are almost-always called incorrectly. Offsides should be governed by new, more lenient rules – but that’s another story.

]]> By: sittingbison http://therepublikofmancunia.com/ronaldo-i-didnt-want-a-penalty/#comment-17350 sittingbison Tue, 30 Sep 2008 05:27:05 +0000 http://therepublikofmancunia.com/?p=3553#comment-17350 God I get sick of the moaning, also from cricketers. Its professional sport, you win some refs decisions, you lose some - get a penalty, score the goal. If the penalty is dodgy, it makes up for the myriad that are NOT given. Same as LBW's and snicks behind. So next week when we are denied, don't go so berk. God I get sick of the moaning, also from cricketers. Its professional sport, you win some refs decisions, you lose some – get a penalty, score the goal. If the penalty is dodgy, it makes up for the myriad that are NOT given. Same as LBW’s and snicks behind. So next week when we are denied, don’t go so berk.

]]> By: OTRed http://therepublikofmancunia.com/ronaldo-i-didnt-want-a-penalty/#comment-17342 OTRed Mon, 29 Sep 2008 22:58:27 +0000 http://therepublikofmancunia.com/?p=3553#comment-17342 I don't know exactly why i should believe a word of what Nolan has said. I don’t know exactly why i should believe a word of what Nolan has said.

]]> By: Tom F http://therepublikofmancunia.com/ronaldo-i-didnt-want-a-penalty/#comment-17320 Tom F Mon, 29 Sep 2008 19:14:04 +0000 http://therepublikofmancunia.com/?p=3553#comment-17320 That's one thing that gets me about players getting booked for diving is when they don't even dive in the first place and when they are on the floor don't ask for a free-kick, and have only lost their balance... yet straight away the cards if not the critics come out. English players like Gerrard never make the back pages for diving! That’s one thing that gets me about players getting booked for diving is when they don’t even dive in the first place and when they are on the floor don’t ask for a free-kick, and have only lost their balance… yet straight away the cards if not the critics come out.

English players like Gerrard never make the back pages for diving!

]]> By: suhayl http://therepublikofmancunia.com/ronaldo-i-didnt-want-a-penalty/#comment-17304 suhayl Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:25:09 +0000 http://therepublikofmancunia.com/?p=3553#comment-17304 Par....dont be stupid. He admitted to his fellow players he thought it wasnt a pen and that he didnt dive. Clear and concise on both points. As for not taking pen and refusing it??????? dont be so stupid. He isnt there to govern the game and become the bastion and become all high and mighty....Oh sorry ref i disagree because im a puritan. What next????? players claiming they werent fouled..players walking off themselves because they feel they deserve to be sent off. Players accpeting things and not accpeting other things. Players not trying to touch their fellow man..because they feel its not right and proper. clown The man in black aka the REF...is there to marshall and govern the game...NOT the players to become ambassdors. Its the man in blacks decision...whether right or fuckin wrong. And lastly...how many times will refs deem against us...happened so many time at the end of last season..carrick handball wiley...glen turner 2 dodgy line calls v boro...atkinson pen decision v pompey. These are injustices... so when your lucks in YOU HAVE TO TAKE IT. Cos it will after 38 games even itself out. Unlike a cup comp...lge always does. And dont tell me...if ronaldo had been high and mighty and not taken pen. And WE hadnt won the game. Wot if those 2 dropped points cost us the title????? Your comment im sure is the only 1 in millions who says such a thing. Seriously silly Par….dont be stupid.

He admitted to his fellow players he thought it wasnt a pen and that he didnt dive. Clear and concise on both points. As for not taking pen and refusing it??????? dont be so stupid. He isnt there to govern the game and become the bastion and become all high and mighty….Oh sorry ref i disagree because im a puritan.

What next????? players claiming they werent fouled..players walking off themselves because they feel they deserve to be sent off. Players accpeting things and not accpeting other things. Players not trying to touch their fellow man..because they feel its not right and proper.

clown

The man in black aka the REF…is there to marshall and govern the game…NOT the players to become ambassdors. Its the man in blacks decision…whether right or fuckin wrong.

And lastly…how many times will refs deem against us…happened so many time at the end of last season..carrick handball wiley…glen turner 2 dodgy line calls v boro…atkinson pen decision v pompey. These are injustices… so when your lucks in YOU HAVE TO TAKE IT. Cos it will after 38 games even itself out. Unlike a cup comp…lge always does.

And dont tell me…if ronaldo had been high and mighty and not taken pen. And WE hadnt won the game. Wot if those 2 dropped points cost us the title?????

Your comment im sure is the only 1 in millions who says such a thing. Seriously silly

]]> By: Par http://therepublikofmancunia.com/ronaldo-i-didnt-want-a-penalty/#comment-17247 Par Mon, 29 Sep 2008 12:09:36 +0000 http://therepublikofmancunia.com/?p=3553#comment-17247 If he didn't want a penalty, he could have maybe NOT GONE AND SCORED IT. It's been done before. When players accept what they know to be illegitimate penalties (and this goes for every team, not just United) they're not all that different from Stephen Hunt celebrating that non-goal against Watford. If he didn’t want a penalty, he could have maybe NOT GONE AND SCORED IT. It’s been done before. When players accept what they know to be illegitimate penalties (and this goes for every team, not just United) they’re not all that different from Stephen Hunt celebrating that non-goal against Watford.

]]> By: OMelhorDoMundo http://therepublikofmancunia.com/ronaldo-i-didnt-want-a-penalty/#comment-17237 OMelhorDoMundo Mon, 29 Sep 2008 10:38:22 +0000 http://therepublikofmancunia.com/?p=3553#comment-17237 Rob Styles is the same c*** that denied Ronaldo his hat-trick against Fulham, ignored Taylor's blatant tripping of Ronaldo when Ronaldo was running full speed (where even Taylor fell down..no contact??) against Newcastle last season and ignored Smith's leg wrap around Giggs in that same match. Three penalties on the top of my head. So once again Styles shows his incompetence but in United's favour, people say "same old Ronaldo" and "United always get penalties at home" and so on. Rob Styles is the same c*** that denied Ronaldo his hat-trick against Fulham, ignored Taylor’s blatant tripping of Ronaldo when Ronaldo was running full speed (where even Taylor fell down..no contact??) against Newcastle last season and ignored Smith’s leg wrap around Giggs in that same match. Three penalties on the top of my head.
So once again Styles shows his incompetence but in United’s favour, people say “same old Ronaldo” and “United always get penalties at home” and so on.

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