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What a cock Nah, ..... Love Sir Ricky A total Piss Take

Wonder which team gave Palace their only league win this season?

I was watching at work (so no sound). I bet the CR over ruled the AR on this one.

The ball is "technically" in play as soon as it is kicked and moves. Alas, in this example, the intended deception of the defending team also included the AR who also didn't register that the player had intentionally played the ball, and ruled that the there was second touch by the dribbling player. A team tried this during a game I was refereeing, and I allowed it (didn't result in anything). But I did give a IFK to the opposition at the next free kick to the "clever" team as the kicker repositioned the ball with their foot and I called it a double touch. They never tried that again. I also guarantee that had the defending team in the video, swooped in and taken the ball up-field after the first slight kick, that the team taking the clever corner would have protested. Can't have it both ways.

Generally, the players will reflect the coaches demeanor, and so will the parents (although to a lesser extent as there is less direct control over them). But if the players could play withou coaches or parents it would be great.

What am I missing? Why is Ashley Cole an oven/stove/cooker?

Aye, tis why i said it in that comment. If you missed it like I saw it. (just gave it it's proper name ) I liked how you handled the parents with the double touch on the penalty.....look it up and get back to me. At which point the answer was ..... you were right......, but now you are a c*** who was right. Hahahahahahh that's the life of a referee.

Players have no obligation to go to a referee - for whatever reason the ref deems it desirable. However, one would think a player would be walking on thin ice for future decisions, if he had walked away from a ref previously. What? Don't the players have to do what the referee says? Yep, players don't actually have to go to the ref, the rules are bit vague around this. A player just has to acknowledge he's recieved whatever punishment the ref has given out, ignoring the ref can be a bookable offence though. Just put into the rules properly like it is in Rugby. Then that's solves it. Correct, but failing to acknowledge could also be Dissent (and a second yellow) if the player really wants to push the issue. That's really all the options the referee has. Of course they can hold a grudge through the rest of the game and give the player not protection and no leeway, but that would have the effect of boiling up the game and escalating fouls. Second yellow is the only option if they are being a total scote.

Didn't the 8 year contract come about during our 5th place season when England was looking for a new manager? Ashley gives Pardew an 8 year contract in case he gets poached by the FA who look to buy him out of his current deal. Meanwhile there is a clause in the contract that stipulates that NUFC only have to pay Pardew for one year if he is fired. That's how I understood the deal when it was first announced

I'm surpised that no one has mentioned the rumour of Zaha and Moyes' daughter as part of the loan move. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2442327/Wilfried-Zaha-Manchester-United-star-denies-affair-David-Moyes-teenage-daughter-Lauren.html

But if he is making money, why would be sell up? Ashley would need to A) have a higher priority project that needed investing in where he could re-invest the Monday earned from selling NUFC, and B) an interested purchaser who wanted to buy the club. I fear that if NUFC is making him money then he will stick around and keep taking the money (albeit whether its through Sports Direct or through NUFC accounts)

Probably hadn't worked out the tax issue. Less salary in the UK might still have given him more take home pay than in France.

That's the beauty of January signings......they apply to both the summer before and the summer to come. They can be applied to either's spending tally without any firm definition. They were either to make up for last summer or brought forward from this summer or both or neither. Apply as needed for the current discussion at hand.

I agreee with that.....I don't think that this window played out the way Mike had intended. I'm not thinking that Mike planned on spending 50M or even 20M (unless there were a lot of real bargains out there). I just think that they expected the Gomis to deal to fall into place, just like they expected the Debuchy deal last summer to work out, and now they are stuck with looking to January.

And what we need to provide for him (and the team) are players who are also "Always open, always moving, always an option, always finds space." I saw a fare few times yesterday where Anita moved into space to receive the ball from the defense and then looking for the next pass but no one else was opening up to get in a position to receive his pass. He saw the need to move into space to make himself open for a pass, but it looks like none of the others are Ajax trained for this pass and move style football.

I like Goufran because he plays with heart and desire too. Always trying to make a run at the defense, takes them on and pushes the defenders back

Remy's first touch was to push the ball behind the defender and run at them. That first moment told the defenders that they had to worry about the threat behind them and that started to open open up the game. The defenders had to start covering the space behind them, stand off the ball carrier a bit more and that meant that they couldn't press forward as much. The age old difference in making them play our game not their game

It's amazing that we aren't playing a front 3, like, absolutely amazing. I suspect that the forward line looks very different now that Remy is playing

Ben Arfa's game seemed to open up once Remy started working the left side and suddenly Fulham were getting pushed back on both sides. Prior to that it seemed the the only threat was Ben Arfa and Fulham could over man that area to shut him down. Amazing how a bit of attacking pressure opens up the game and puts doubt into the oppositions defense. Beautiful goal.

Ashley is a business man - not a fan. He makes his decisions looking at the balance sheet not the pitch, so he has a different focus to the fans. He wants to make money (either for NUFC or for SD) and how he does that does not necessarily mean that the quality of the product on the field has to be good. If Ashley thinks that SD is getting value from their brand exposure through NUFC, then he is probably content with the arrangement. The difference is that fans are only interested in the product put forth on the field, and we don't value the SD advertising (especially as it doesn;t show up on the balance sheet at NUFC).

I see the Demba loan bid as a way of pressuring Aulas to stop messing around and sell Gomis to us. And at worst a stop gap until we can sign Gomis on a pre-contract (or January bid). Based on these options it's win-win for us. Of course the likely option is that Ba says no to the loan, and we don't get Gomis either now or then, so its lose-lose.

Probably - but throw ins are just a method of getting the game restarted and in general (except for Stoke) do not result in goal scoring opportunities. I'd rather that the referee crew focused on more serious fouls and tactical misconducts rather than worrying about throw-ins at midfield. (This is a big problem in youth referees, especially beginning teen refs - for some reason they like to call foul throws but wont call a foul , so when I am the CR I always tell them that they cannot call a foul throw until they have flagged a foul).

Yes. The law says the ball cannot go directly into the goal on an IFK. It doesn't say WHO has to have the second touch before a goal can be scored.

Smart GK will let the IFK go straight in to the goal rather than trying to save it. Slightest touch means its a goal. When I coached youth teams I always told them to shoot directly on goal for an IFK because you knew that some one would panic and try and stop the shot.

Partly Correct, as long as the free kick was taken correctly then the ball is in play. The ball must, however, touch another player before a goal can be scored. The restart would be a goal kick, as the ball left the field of play over the goal Lin last touched by an attacking player.