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Post by Velkontés on Nov 18, 2009 19:30:51 GMT -5
Did any of you - e.g., those of you who give even a remote shit about soccer - see this. Thierry Henry's goal is the most blatant piece of cheating I've ever seen.  Now France gets to go to Wrestlemania and Ireland have been wished well on their future endeavours. |
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Post by Champ on Nov 18, 2009 21:22:48 GMT -5
Oh I see, he put his hand on the ball. I was trying to figure out what I was missing. I was so distracted by the asshole announcer GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!
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Post by Naitch on Nov 19, 2009 11:58:59 GMT -5
Video is down.
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Post by MasterSnit on Nov 19, 2009 16:00:02 GMT -5
It was pretty sickening. It was bad enough on its own, but France had two players offside to begin with and before the ball dropped to Henry some other guy went leaping up with his arms in the air as if he was trying to handle it.
Plus he even controlled the ball a second time with his hand to set himself up for the flick. Yeah. Bullshit.
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Post by Naitch on Nov 19, 2009 18:48:55 GMT -5
So did they call a foul or throw a flag or whatever on the dude?
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Post by Velkontés on Nov 20, 2009 8:12:00 GMT -5
Mastersnit, youtube took down the first video I posted, it showed the whole goal and all the cheating and bischoffed refereeing. So did they call a foul or throw a flag or whatever on the dude? No. If the ref doesn't see it, he can't call it. It's like the ref being distracted by the tag team partner while someone uses brass knucks in the ring. Yeah, the ref should have seen it, but the guy still cheated like a WWE face. |
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Post by MasterSnit on Nov 22, 2009 15:26:39 GMT -5
I don't think you can blame the ref. Or the linesman for that matter. They can't spot every single thing that happens in a game. Since the game Henry has said that his handling for "instinctive", I can believe that it was instinct to let his arm drift out as the ball bounced away from him, but that excuse was voided the moment he consciously decided to caress the ball with his hand a second time and set himself up for the flick. He cheated. Plain and simple. He is a WWE face.
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Post by Velkontés on Nov 27, 2009 2:57:28 GMT -5
He cheated. Plain and simple. He is a WWE face. Yeah, his "instinct" explanation was goofy. He doesn't advocate blackmail cheating unless he really really wants to score a goal. Anyway, moving on, I thought I'd make this a non-fighting miscellaneous sport-type discussion thread, because I saw this news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tennis/8378944.stm, and it made me laugh. Of all the bizarre, improbable, statistically-anomalous ways to not make it to the knockout stages of a competition, leave it to a Brit to find it. |
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Post by MasterSnit on Nov 27, 2009 15:20:04 GMT -5
Yeah, that was a weird one. I think Del Potro and Federer will probably play again in the final. You know the opposition fans think you are a total sporthole when they start throwing pig heads at you.  I doubt Luis Figo will ever enter Catalonia again. |
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