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Erol Bulut at Cardiff. Like you guys with Sunderland, us Swansea fans are so upset when they sack a manager doing such a good job.

That would be a site wouldn't it

Back out - restarting

We're beating Coventry away and the ref's pulled everyone off because it started raining heavy and heard some Thunder. Hopefully it will continue.

When he first came to Swansea on loan he didn't play too well, we wanted to send him back. By the time his loan finished he was one of our best players.

Like most Welsh fans I've been amazed he was appointed and amazed he stayed so long. Haven't heard a single word in support of him the whole time he was manager. Should never have been appointed and how they extended his contract when everyone was aghast at his inadequate tactics is anyone's guess.

Had to look it up myself, lol. "having a fantastic or deceptive appearance, as something in a dream or created by the imagination." Sounds about right.

5 years on and Cardiff are still chasing the money. Taking Nantes to court for 120 million Euro's. Tragic as it was, Cardiff offered a flight on a normal flight, it was Sala that turned that down. https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240422-cardiff-puts-losses-at-120m-euros-in-dispute-over-sala-death

Leighton James. Was a class player for us during the Toshack days. Scored one of the goals at Preston to take us up into the old First Division for the first time.

This is the incident I thought it was referencing due to someone saying Stroud is the ref.

Ha, my assumption on the disallowed goal, should have watched the link lol, someone referenced Stroud, who ref'd our game.

The ref actually got it right. Pinched the below from our site, someone looked up the interference rule. Definition of 'possession' by a goalkeeper "Once the goalkeeper has gained possession (also known as “control”) of the ball, an opponent may not interfere with or block the goalkeeper’s distribution of the ball. For example, players have a right to maintain a position achieved during the normal course of play, but they may not try to block the goalkeeper’s movement while he or she is holding the ball and trying to distribute it. Nor may opposing players do anything to hinder, interfere with, or block a goalkeeper who is throwing or punting the ball back into play. The goalkeeper has already gained possession and is granted up to six seconds to release the ball back into play by other players. A goalkeeper in the act of distributing the ball may not be challenged under these circumstances. (This includes trying to head a ball out of the goalkeeper’s open hand or playing a ball being bounced or tossed into the air by the goalkeeper.) An opponent does not violate the Law, however, if that player takes advantage of a ball clearly released by the goalkeeper directly to him or her, in his or her direction, or deflecting off him or her nonviolently” In yesterday's case, Rushworth definitely had 'possession' and 'control' of the ball with both hands but it was dislodged from his 'possession' by Ennis's head as he stood up. Yes, it was clearly unintentional but that doesn't matter, any infringement is still an infringement whether intentional or unintentional. In fact, free-kicks are probably awarded more often for unintentional fouls or handballs than for clearly intentional ones with the latter more likely to result in a yellow card. Maybe it was borderline at worst but reading that, I think the ref just about got it right.

Of course it had to happen now, just as we are next to play them. The number of times we see an opposition struggling only for them to change manager before we play them.

Yes he's been injured, came back today and not played well. As can be seen on our forum, someone started a thread after today's game about how bad he was. https://jackarmy.net/forum/threads/harrison-ashby.13222/ I must say though, we've had this before where a player we loaned was rubbish and came good after, Gyökeres is one