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What the hell was that from Kuyt?!

First contact outside of the box tbh. See post above. And also the thread we had about Graham Poll's column a little while ago. If the contact continues into the area, it's a spot kick.

These TV people know nothing. It doesn't matter where the initial contact was, he carried on pulling him down when they were in the box, so its a penalty. Simple.

Definite penalty, definite red card.

World class own goal from Sami Hyypia in the Merseyside derby.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_div_2/7043096.stm

Give it a rest please.

Apart from our offside goal in the first half, then.

Dropping Robinson would be a start.

Rubbish 2nd half cost us dear. Now we need a favour from Israel next month. Or a Macedonian miracle.

It's a big country! Israel, obviously

If it stays this way, we need to beat Croatia at Wembley and hope Russia take less than 6 points from away games in Israel and Andorra.

Yeah we're fucked now.

Looked like the foul continued until just inside the box to me. Remember a foul on the line is a penalty too.

Poor tackle, though. It was, and worth the yellow too, still annoyed me Rooney's had a poor start, he's misplaced just about every pass. How long before he clatters someone out of frustration and gets sent off then? Dunno but he's scored a belter. Great work from our Michael.

Did he not slip on the drainage bit, between the running track and the pitch? Aye. No way should either track of drains be that close to the pitch like.

Poor tackle, though. It was, and worth the yellow too, still annoyed me Rooney's had a poor start, he's misplaced just about every pass.

Joe Cole doesn't half piss me off with his rolling around crying and general histrionics.

That Rooney throw-in made Geremi's long throws seem 10 times better all of a sudden.

Very wobbly camerawork.

Yikes, that tackle was a legbreaker. Milner's fortunate to be ok, and the Irish guy is very fortunate not to be sent off.

Not true, there are 2 rounds of group games in the UEFA and 1 round in the CL, plus a round of the Carling Cup.

So who was the big lanky lad who finished the game next to Steve Harmison in defence? I thought that was Ben. That was. The young lad was Max Turner or something.

Home to Barnsley on Easter Monday 1998. Saw goals by Andreas Andersson (!), Jan Aage Fjortoft (who slid into the post as he scored, as I remember), and a late winner from Big Al in the dying minutes. Oh and it snowed.

Argentina vs Chile in the World Cup 2010 qualifiers underway on SS1.