Too bad it's not possible to do soemthing about the rules in football

[Guns 'n' Roses]

to prevent such sh*t as Chelsea displayed yesterday. In basketball, you have thirty seconds to fire a shot, if not the ball goes to the opponent. Same if you pass the ball back across the halfway line. In handball, it's called passive play and you can do it for about 30 seconds until the ref says "enough of this crap". In curling you're not allowed to remove a "guard" in the first rounds to prevent defensive play.

Maybe they should start by implementing the sleeping rule again, whereby the goalie cannot hold the ball for more than what is it, 5 seconds?

[Pat Vegas]

[Luis Anaconda]

Or other inferior sports :shrug:


It was a 10 second rule btw and it still applies. Refs just need to man the f**k up and start booking people for time-wasting as soon as a side starts doing it. Lost count of the number of times the ref said "no more". If a team is doing it persistently, book the captain - ridicules that the only person booked for timewasting was the

[Guns 'n' Roses]

coz it's impractical.

I agree with you - the refs need to man up an use the rules. It's not ten Seconds, I just checked, it's 6.

[Guns 'n' Roses]

:hehe:

[Pat Vegas]

If only we had some of our own.

[Guns 'n' Roses]

[Pat Vegas]

it will soon stop when they realise they could miss the next match.

[Pat Vegas]

[Billy Goat Sverige]

not get one.

[Luis Anaconda]

:hide:

[Luis Anaconda]

They have to be more open at home and Atletico can take advantage

[Pat Vegas]

end up winning 1-0.

Torres or Ba will score right at the end of the game.

[Luis Anaconda]

Takes more than six seconds, after controlling the ball with the hands, to release the ball into play.

Six seconds is not hard and fast; referees are instructed not to count or signal publicly, and first offenses are usually given verbal warnings. But six seconds is plenty of time to settle the ball, jog up to the edge of the penalty area and find an outlet. During this six seconds, the goalkeeper can move anywhere in their penalty area. Don't get caught by this Law - instead, use it as a reason to work on quick distribution to start the counterattack.


Not sure David James was given a verbal warning before this :-)

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4beh6_suker-indirect-freek ick-goal-v-astn_sport (http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4beh6_suker-indirect-freekick-goal-v-astn_sport)

[Rich]

Deal with it.

[Luis Anaconda]

[Pat Vegas]

and they scored.

I can't remember the game. Was it Ian Harte? I am getting it all mixed up.

[Luis Anaconda]

rather than a controversial offence (if it is the one I am thinking about)

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

We are currently living through a Golden Age for football. Those of us who grew up watching the game in the '70s and '80s remember all too well the horrors of crumbling terraces awash with piss, dreadful players playing negative, boring football, hooliganism and pitiful crowds.

Now we can sit in wonderful facilities in perfect safety watching the world's best players, simply because football sorted itself out and made itself sellable. The success of Manchester United and ourselves in the '90s and '00s as well as Real Madrid and Barcelona made the game exciting again and a global audience responded by showering it with money.

The day that success is deemed to be more efficiently achievable by the tactics of Mourinho, Allardyce and Pulis is the day the game will start to die again, because when negativity becomes the norm people will simply stop watching again. No audience, no money. Back to the piss.

[Billy Goat Sverige]

through after a 0-0 in the first leg in 67% of matches. Does this mean the away side in the first or second leg?



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The number-crunchers can also provide statistics that, in the history of the European Cup, the away side goes through after a 0-0 draw in the first leg in 67% of matches. What is clear is that it will need another performance of defensive expertise if Chelsea are to buck that trend.

[Luis Anaconda]

[Classic Jorge]

[Rich]

Real etc, then things would be less interesting.

Chelsea probably know that they can't win the Champions League by playing someone like Bayern at their own game. They need to make the game choppy if they want to win.

That will be how they are characterised - unpleasant to watch, but winners.

[Guns 'n' Roses]

[Guns 'n' Roses]