English Football Thread 2012/2013

[King Pietersen]

Nope, he hadn't been booked before that tackle. So he shouldn't have been sent off, was never a red card challenge.

 

[BigCrickNan]

Nope, he hadn't been booked before that tackle. So he shouldn't have been sent off, was never a red card challenge.

Oh right fair enough. Was a booking. Hard to keep count of the bookings with Riley innit.

 

[King Pietersen]

Too right. Slightly easier to keep count of Everton's shots on target though. How many was it again? Oh yeh, zero. Shows how well we played going forward

 

[Will_NA]

Riera is looking good. Yet again, Lescott spent most of the time in Liverpool's half. If he doesn't realise he's defending, Evrton will leak a lot more.

 

[m_vaughan]

Riera is looking good. Yet again, Lescott spent most of the time in Liverpool's half. If he doesn't realise he's defending, Evrton will leak a lot more.

I thought Riera had an ordinary game. But he is far better than that, and hopefully that will show soon. Everton didnt force even a single save out of Reina, although Carragher did do one for him.

 

[Leicester Fox]

Mike Riley is close to overtaking Uriah Rennie in the crap stakes.

 

[Deleted member 13648]

****ing hell

 

[evertonfan]

Jesus Christ. Only United could get a penalty from that. Shocking. What on earth has happened to the referees in this country?

 

[Dr. Pepper]

That was such a terrible decision, it was funny. Not Ronaldo's fault. He didn't appeal for it, no one did.

 

[Deleted member 13648]

I'm done with life.

 

[Leicester Fox]

Ok looks like we have a winner for worst referee, coming from nowhere Rob Styles has managed to steal the award right out of Rob Styles hands at the last minute. Respect LOL. Anyway glad Rooney scored

 

[King Pietersen]

Rob Styles has managed to steal the award from Rob Styles ? The name Mike Riley should be in there

 

[Ayub 95]

All Ref's are **** i should be one and i'll do a better job then Riley

 

[PhilD123]

Just got home, at the ground, was pretty sure it wasn't a penalty, got home and just watched it again and it's definitely not a penalty. Oh well, we've been done out of them at other times so I won't waste time worrying about it. Ironically, I thought when I saw Styles was ref that we'd never get a pen, he turned down about 5 stonewall ones from Ronaldo last season (one in particular I remember against Fulham). It's nothing to do with being United, it's just a poor decision.

Refereeing standards atm are pretty shocking. Mike Riley got away with an outrageous performance last week (and from whats been written on here again today). Styles has always been very, very poor.

Nice to see BBC 5 live went with their oh so neutral commentator of Alan Green for the derby today.

On to the game, good football from United especially in the second half, and especially on the break. Rooney's goal was class. Anderson was good, so was Rio, and thought Neville and Evra were pretty good as well. Really impressed by Berbatov today, looked like his upped his work rate massively, put through some telling balls, and got into some decent positions.

Anyway, time to update the Robbie Keane goal checker

 

[Kiko_97]

Viva Ronaldo. Nuff said.