Benwell Lad Posted March 18, 2013 Share Posted March 18, 2013 The behaviour of Wigan Athletic Football Club, their manager, their fans, the thug MacManaman and now their chairman has been vile and despicable, not to mention insulting to the injured player. It should never be forgotten. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beren Posted March 18, 2013 Share Posted March 18, 2013 "He's not that kind of player," Roberto Martinez, one of the top flight's good guys, had the nerve to say when questioned about the heinous, career-threatening tackle that Callum McManaman unleashed on Massadio Haidara at the DW Stadium. It was an assault so vicious it practically demanded that the ground be sealed off immediately so accident investigators could scour the pristine turf for pieces of the French defender's knee in order to reconstruct it from the gloopy mess it surely now resembles. Even more inexplicable is the fact that referee Mark Halsey, wilfully abandoned by his two assistants, didn't even see the need to award a free kick, let alone the red card McManaman's reckless lunge warranted. It was this failure to deal with the situation that led to a poisonous atmosphere for the rest of the game. Should the FA fail to take any action – how can it not? – perhaps vigilante justice should see the Wigan lad locked in a small room with John Carver for ten minutes. To compound the visiting Europa League specialists' fury, Wigan were assisted in their late winner by a blatant near-post handball by Maynor Figueroa. Martinez insisted these were previous injustices evening themselves up. If that were true, I must have missed the game earlier in the season when Halsey stuck the ball up his jumper before depositing it over Wigan's goal-line. The cheering of McManaman by Wigan's usually silent fans only added to the noxious nature of the occasion. When one starts to feel sorry for Alan Pardew, you know a deep injustice has been served. I like the Fifth Official http://espnfc.com/columns/story/_/id/1379547/the-fifth-official?cc=5739 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilson Posted March 18, 2013 Share Posted March 18, 2013 When one starts to feel sorry for Alan Pardew, you know a deep injustice has been served. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beren Posted March 18, 2013 Share Posted March 18, 2013 I love Lamp Chelsea may not be anywhere near the title race shake-up, but their journey from now until the end of the season is likely to be littered with glittering praise for their cherubic goal machine, who continues to make their decision not to offer him even a year-long contract extension as bewildering as the anointment of Rafa Benitez as chief interim turmoil overseer. West Ham's fans seemed to want to pay for Frank's extra year themselves, showering him with coins after his 200th goal for Chelsea, with the odd hot dog thrown in for good measure. The assault was launched with a precision Andy Carroll can only dream of. "What are those shiny things they're throwing at Frank?" one young Blues fan was overheard asking his father. His reply: "That's the type of money the poor people use, son." Big Sam, always keen to hop on a bandwagon, drew an ill-advised parallel between Lampard and everyone's favourite apparition, Casper. "Frank is the ghost in the box that nobody seems to see," he mumbled, at once projecting himself as both humble man of the people and gold-chained footballing Gandalf. Bobby Tambling's record is now just two away for Frank. Also good ^ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superior Acuña Posted March 18, 2013 Share Posted March 18, 2013 The thing that bewilders me about that tackle is that it seemed so obvious from where I was, right on the edge of the toon fans, about as far as you could be. You knew instantly he would be badly injured. I don't meaning that in a foaming newcastle fan way, it just seemed obvious to anyone. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Slippery Sam Posted March 18, 2013 Share Posted March 18, 2013 The behaviour of Wigan Athletic Football Club, their manager, their fans, the thug MacManaman and now their chairman has been vile and despicable, not to mention insulting to the injured player. It should never be forgotten. 100%. A disgraceful performance by the lot of them. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cp40 Posted March 18, 2013 Share Posted March 18, 2013 The behaviour of Wigan Athletic Football Club, their manager, their fans, the thug MacManaman and now their chairman has been vile and despicable, not to mention insulting to the injured player. It should never be forgotten. A sewer pipe of a club. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NEEJ Posted March 18, 2013 Share Posted March 18, 2013 The behaviour of Wigan Athletic Football Club, their manager, their fans, the thug MacManaman and now their chairman has been vile and despicable, not to mention insulting to the injured player. It should never be forgotten. A sewer pipe of a club. Sewer pipes have a purpose. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LRD Posted March 18, 2013 Share Posted March 18, 2013 "He's not that kind of player," Roberto Martinez, one of the top flight's good guys, had the nerve to say when questioned about the heinous, career-threatening tackle that Callum McManaman unleashed on Massadio Haidara at the DW Stadium. It was an assault so vicious it practically demanded that the ground be sealed off immediately so accident investigators could scour the pristine turf for pieces of the French defender's knee in order to reconstruct it from the gloopy mess it surely now resembles. Even more inexplicable is the fact that referee Mark Halsey, wilfully abandoned by his two assistants, didn't even see the need to award a free kick, let alone the red card McManaman's reckless lunge warranted. It was this failure to deal with the situation that led to a poisonous atmosphere for the rest of the game. Should the FA fail to take any action – how can it not? – perhaps vigilante justice should see the Wigan lad locked in a small room with John Carver for ten minutes. To compound the visiting Europa League specialists' fury, Wigan were assisted in their late winner by a blatant near-post handball by Maynor Figueroa. Martinez insisted these were previous injustices evening themselves up. If that were true, I must have missed the game earlier in the season when Halsey stuck the ball up his jumper before depositing it over Wigan's goal-line. The cheering of McManaman by Wigan's usually silent fans only added to the noxious nature of the occasion. When one starts to feel sorry for Alan Pardew, you know a deep injustice has been served. I like the Fifth Official http://espnfc.com/columns/story/_/id/1379547/the-fifth-official?cc=5739 Would love that to happen. Round 1 - McManaman Round 2 - that Barrow guy Round 3 - Martinez Round 4 - Dave Whelan (Mike Ashley can take this round if he desires) Reckon Carver will win them all too. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Numbers Posted March 18, 2013 Share Posted March 18, 2013 Has the filthy cunt been charged yet? If hes not charged today will he get away with it? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BONTEMPI Posted March 18, 2013 Share Posted March 18, 2013 Hope Whelan chokes on one of his rancid pies. Fucking senile arsehole! How can you even defend that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NG32 Posted March 18, 2013 Share Posted March 18, 2013 FILTHY FUCKING EGG CHASING TRAMPS Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
toonpete1892 Posted March 18, 2013 Share Posted March 18, 2013 The behaviour of Wigan Athletic Football Club, their manager, their fans, the thug MacManaman and now their chairman has been vile and despicable, not to mention insulting to the injured player. It should never be forgotten. I haven't read the thread as I'll probably just end up annoyed again but has it been mentioned that hundreds of Wigan fans were booing him when he stayed down? Even when he'd been down for 2 minutes and the stretcher finally came on, they were still on their feet angrily wavering their webbed hands. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
huss9 Posted March 18, 2013 Share Posted March 18, 2013 The behaviour of Wigan Athletic Football Club, their manager, their fans, the thug MacManaman and now their chairman has been vile and despicable, not to mention insulting to the injured player. It should never be forgotten. I haven't read the thread as I'll probably just end up annoyed again but has it been mentioned that hundreds of Wigan fans were booing him when he stayed down? Even when he'd been down for 2 minutes and the stretcher finally came on, they were still on their feet angrily wavering their webbed hands. aye reminded me of the southampton fans when dyer had been taken out. absolute cunts. one of them even ran neary half the length of the stand to give him abuse as he was being stretchered off the pitch Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledGeordie Posted March 19, 2013 Share Posted March 19, 2013 Wigan was a poor performance from too many in our side but to have those injuries and those ridiculous refereeing decisions all go against us in one match ffs I hate the fact that the traditional Wigan "March arrival" is being wanked off over off the back of this result where they basically cheated and fluked their way to win off the back of those decisions. Hopefully their true form will show up over the next few games. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SGSC Posted March 19, 2013 Share Posted March 19, 2013 Whelan is such a fucking disgusting cretin and that interview makes me sick. "Our young lad got the ball and followed through". Lost his damn mind. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robster Posted March 19, 2013 Share Posted March 19, 2013 I fully support any action of Mike Ashley's that drives Dave Whelan into the ground. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarrenBartonCentrePartin Posted March 19, 2013 Share Posted March 19, 2013 A day which promised so much, started with a fizz of excitement coming off the back of our last gasp Europa League exploits. The away support was in excellent voice and in the main, well behaved. Stewards randomly selecting queuing away fans and asking them to “go and get a cup of tea if you want to get in” was the first sign that today wasn’t going to be a party. anyone else witness this? Lad in front of me was sent to get a cup of coffee before he was allowed in. Absolutely disgraceful. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilson Posted March 19, 2013 Share Posted March 19, 2013 A day which promised so much, started with a fizz of excitement coming off the back of our last gasp Europa League exploits. The away support was in excellent voice and in the main, well behaved. Stewards randomly selecting queuing away fans and asking them to “go and get a cup of tea if you want to get in” was the first sign that today wasn’t going to be a party. anyone else witness this? Lad in front of me was sent to get a cup of coffee before he was allowed in. Absolutely disgraceful. Wasn't at Wigan but it's happened to me before at White Hart Lane, in fairness I'd been drinking since half 7 so was fairly smashed, but not being an arsehole or anything. Just a power trip for some of them. Tossers. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benwell Lad Posted March 19, 2013 Share Posted March 19, 2013 When the furore over this game subsides a little and emotions aren't running quite so high we're going to look at it in the cold light of day and realise just what it will do to our season. Due to the thug being allowed to stay on the pitch and a general refereeing display of almost unbelievable incompetence/bias we have lost one of our top defenders with a minimum of 10 vitally important games still to play. The one point we would certainly have got, or the three we would most probably have gained, would have put sufficient daylight between us and 3rd bottom to allow a full on tilt at the Europa League. As it is now we will have to go in to the Europa League games with a cautious approach due to our league position and weakened squad. The two or three points which Martinez' side gained by cheating on Sunday could well condemn another club to relegation. The story of this game may have some distance to run yet. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
huss9 Posted March 19, 2013 Share Posted March 19, 2013 yup just a draw against wigan would have seen us safe as it would have kept that 9 point gap from the bottom 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveMc Posted March 19, 2013 Share Posted March 19, 2013 Didn't see this. Can't be arsed reading thread. Did I miss owt? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeyt Posted March 19, 2013 Share Posted March 19, 2013 Didn't see this. Can't be arsed reading thread. Did I miss owt? Probably saw more of the game than the officials Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tachikoma Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 The lesson we should all take from this is, as long as you can bribe the officials to say that they saw you breaking someone's jaw with a roundhouse kick in a publicly aired football game, but didn't think that anything was wrong with that, you'll get away with it scot-free. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cp40 Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 Can you imagine if this principle was applied in the law of the Land. Policeman in court ' Yes your honour I saw the accused approach the victim with a gun, I saw him point the gun, a car passed between us, i was distracted as I ran to help. I heard the shot, I saw the victim on the ground, I saw the accused run away, there was nobody else there, the victim was seriously injured,Another policeman saw the incident from the opposite angle but wasnt sure the extent of the injuries, there is CCTV recordings of the whole incindent from half a dozen angles.' Judge -'dismissed on this evidence, no case to answer Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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