The All New Unworthy Of It's Own Thread AFC General STUFF Thread

[Panda]

17 hours ago, OrlandoDon said:

Maybe I’m in the minority, but I don’t want hearts to win the league.

I think Hearts challenging for the title has been great for Scottish football.

I don't think we (as in Aberdeen) need them to win it for it to still be great though.

It'll actually be a negative as they'll bank a huge sum of money. Even if they don't make the Champions League group stage, I think they get €4m just for losing in the play-off then €8m for the Europa League group stage.

We're both trying to find the next Lewis Ferguson or Claudia Braga - we'd now be competing with the league winners who are in Europe and have deeper pockets. 

So nah, I don't want them to win it.

However, I have a sneaky feeling they will. And if they do they deserve it. And at least the consolation will be Celtic not winning five-in-a-row.

[The.Moog]

That last night is not a penalty, never in a million years.

Yes the hands up, but you have to raise your arms to jump, that’s natural, its not fuckin Riverdance.

The well boys arm is then knocked by the jumping Tim (its not an elbow either, the Tim jumped with and into him - he actually elbowed the Well lad in the guts too so that could easily have been given as a foul too).

That knock to the arm moves his hand towards the trajectory of the ball but its still obviously headed clear.

Anyone who’s ever played football knows a ball only flies through the air like that when its been cleanly headed. No ball could or would fly like that off the palm of your hand. Its just impossible.

Its a scandalous call, even for Scotland, one that would never have been given at the other end, and one that was given either because of:

Blatant cheating to engineer a last day decider, or

Bottling officials too scared of the flak they knew they’d get from those unhinged weegie minkers if it wasn’t given.

Its how football works up here. Always has been and its why the rest of us are all just wasting our time…

[tlg1903]

It's handball all day long for me.  You can't go to head the ball with your hand in between the ball and your head and not expect to concede a foul.  

[Jupiter]

If he did handle it, he didn't gain an advantage from handling it.

[RicoS321]

22 minutes ago, tlg1903 said:

It's handball all day long for me.  You can't go to head the ball with your hand in between the ball and your head and not expect to concede a foul.  

He didn't go to head the ball with his hand in between the ball and his head though.

[tlg1903]

2 hours ago, RicoS321 said:

He didn't go to head the ball with his hand in between the ball and his head though.

Of course he didn't intend it but it's what happened.  My point was if you did intend it it would be a foul. That his hand was in that position was not due to a foul so intent is completely irrelevant.  It was, and, to my eye anyway, a foul and a penalty.  Hell, even my jambo neighbour has accepted (grudgingly) that it was the correct decision. 

[Mason89]

It’s good that VAR has cleared up the rules and ended all the controversy 

[The.Moog]

8 hours ago, tlg1903 said:

Of course he didn't intend it but it's what happened.  My point was if you did intend it it would be a foul. That his hand was in that position was not due to a foul so intent is completely irrelevant.  It was, and, to my eye anyway, a foul and a penalty.  Hell, even my jambo neighbour has accepted (grudgingly) that it was the correct decision. 

Go read the rules then. Just cause the ball hits your hand (and i’m not convinced it does given the way the ball pinged off him exactly like a clean header does) doesn’t make it a penalty and in that situation under the rules - if interpreted correctly - that is not a penalty…

Edited 3 hours ago by The.Moog