Good morning.
The good news is in the clip below as Hugo Lloris saves a penalty conceded by an Arsenal player and taken by an ex Arsenal player. Laurent Koscielny did his best to put Pedro’s shin into a different part of the stadium from the rest of him and the resulting penalty was saved well by our new boy.
I know we’ve seen little of him, but he looks right to me.
Lloris
The bad news is in the clip below and you’ll not be shocked to know that it relates to the nasty treatment that Danny Rose (and others) were subjected to last night.
UEFA president Michel Platini has already threatened Serbia with expulsion from Euro 2012 before a ball was kicked; because of their hooliganism and racist fans. Clearly they thought he was bluffing. Which is funny, because I think he was bluffing.
If Platini does do any more than make a dull speech and call for a low key enquiry resulting in a notional fine I’ll be pretty surprised.
But all football’s governing bodies are the same. Bathed in cash, basking in their own self importance. It’s 2012 and we have two Internationals scheduled. One is marred by right wing thugs and the other is allowed to degenerate in farce as a roof that takes just 20 minutes to close is left open for hours in torrential rain.
I wonder, just much more of a ride the people at the top of football family tree can take fans for before the money begins to dry up?
Serbia
A Shout for Dempseys two goals last night!!!!!
And Siggurdson’s winner last week!
And Sandro’s 5 minute Cameo err
shame sigg couldnt score last night….those icelandic dicks cost me money.
Lloris’ penalty save cost me money!
Moral of the story:
Never bet against the Cool Hand of Lloris
Double up tonight on clyde v elgin.
Thats not a boxing match neither…
That’s not a moral that can be applied widely is it?
danny Rose gets a yellow card and subsequent red for kicking the ball(after the final whistle) and every other English player is being shoved and kicked and the serb players are not punished?
Do you think they will appeal Rose’s red?
It was a second Yellow…
No appeal for Yellow.
Another mindless rule.
kicking the ball after the full time whistle is blown….yellow card, at least, everytime! We have to rid the game of scurge of “ball kicking after the final whistle” FIFA and Refs have to make it their top priority. Act now FIFA, lets start a Kick Out Kicking The Ball After The Final Whistle campaign…KOKBATFW for short
Love this :daumen:
Where do you go to escape racism – honestly? We can’t escape it here (or at least I can’t escape it, in Brixton anyway). We know from certain sets of supporters, us at the lane can’t escape it.
It isn’t about football – football brings it to a forefront with its popularity. Agreed – action should be taken and we have seen a lot of it recently, but punishment of inderviduals should be taken more seriously, removal of inderviduals like after France ’98 with bans/temporay passport removals for the next Euro/World cups competition on inderviduals for their behaviour (Could you imagine if England where banned from the World cup/Euro’s). I’m not sure collective punishment in the form of a national ban will ever stop the most influential of racists in the crowed, perhaps it would even make them more sour.
And then why should the players be banned? We are talking about careers here, competitions that can get you noticed and get you contracts/ big moves. It cannot be acceptable to tarnish and punish a footballer simply because he comes from a country with more than your average set of holigan thugs. The most I would suggest is playing behind closed doors.
Bottom line, it needs to be stamped out, period, and we all know this… but we cannot lose sight of the fact that punnishing inoscent players trying to play fair game is in itself unfair. It could be seen as stereotyping inderviduals because of certain members of their nationality.
It;s my oppinion anyway. I could be wrong
Nothing will stop it. The minority will always exist, its just in some places the minority is larger. You go to these places and you know this will happen. fifa dont give a shit, they have to keep up appearances. Some peoples are just daults.
Completely agree. I fear punishing the majority instead of targeting the minority will only increase the minority… (I had to read that a few times, I hope it makes sense?)
I dislike FIFA on many levels and we all know about their issues, and I agree, as long as they are making money – why should they care? I don’t think anything will happen.
While we are on it, has anything happened to Lazio or their fans for what happened at the lane whilst the EUFA official was sitting with DL? I have not heard of anything…
I dont think it has, and its bound to be worse in the away fixture and nothing will be done then either. The main catalyst for change is the people themselves rather the prosicutions etc from official bodies. I remember going to spurs and mitchell thomas and the like getting racial abuse by our fans, that just wouldnt happen anymore, not cos of the fa or fifa or whatever but cos it just wouldnt be tolorated by the immediate supporters.
If you equate the mid 1300’s to the situation today, substituting the bubonic plague for racism,the endless wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with The Hundred Years War prosecuted by the Plantagenet dynasty we haven’t moved on very far. It seems whenever you think you are starting to get on top of racism, much like the plague, it slithers into our very being. If top professional players can get away with it then the morons in the crowd last night have every reason to believe that they are immune from any sanctions. Fining John Terry or a few matches ban is useless. Terry should have been banned for LIFE. I think Daniel Levy should say something too. I think anything he says to the FA would be listened to. I am also going to write to my MP Liz Kendall and f*****g well demand that they take this seriously.
the penalty looked debatable to me.
Its Serbia they are Serbians what do you expect?!
Serbia right.