Hello?! Your team has Lehmann!
Knowing now all the Arsenal fans will be in full force saying Spurs are cheats I feel i have to come up and say something about Spurs' "unfair goal".
I really dont understand why everyone cant think straight and think that Spurs players should have more sportman-like etiquette. At first i thought i was biased but after viewing the replays again and again, i think i have compelling evidence that its Arsenal's own fault for their conceding a complacent goal.
For the moment, lets leave aside how Lehmann loves to get involved in every nitty gritty thing in every match, how he wastes time so 'effectively' and how he always falls down under any challenge in order to scold the opposition striker. Talk about sportsman-ship. Lets also not point out that Arsenal's goal was from a foul going unpunished by Adebayor.
Thus lets solely look at the evidence leading up to the goal. Eboue is chasing Carrick for the ball under the latter's control. Gilberto comes in from their front and tries to tackle Carrick off the ball. He hits the ball but it stays in Carrick's possession. He somehow clatters into Eboue after that. The ball from the melee trickles to the byline, Carrick catches up with it before it goes out, he passes to Tainio, who passes to Davids who sets up Keane to score.
Thus Carrick is supposed to kick the ball out because the two Arsenal players are down injured? Question: If a player tries to dribble the ball, he gets past two players and they clatter into each other and lie down injured, is he supposed to kick the ball out for sportsmanlike behaviour?? Then whats the point of dribbling if the opposition gets mesmerized and beaten by you and you still have to kick the ball out?! I clearly do not recall anyone doing this, in fact they usually say that the dribbler is skillful. And if they start having to kick the ball out; every opposition would keep feigning injury once they get dribbled past, so much for Sportsmanship. So why should Carrick kick the ball out if he emerges with the ball cleanly. He might not have done some brilliant dribbling move then but the parallel drawn is a fair one in soccer.
Question 2: If A tackles B and emerges with the ball and the referee waves play on, although B seems to be writhing on the ground, is he supposed to continue? Of course he can. Every soccer watcher knows players tend to fake some falling down or dive when they lose the ball to get the referees' symphathy and maybe the ref will give a foul to them. But if the decision does not go their way then too bad. So why should Carrick kick the ball out when it wasnt even him making the challenge in the first place.
I would also like to add that Gilberto was getting up when the pass by Tainio was made to Davids. Thats right! Get up and continue playing like all teams do when they do not get a foul they think they deserve. It happens in every game. What is Arsenal complaining about?!?! If they cant play to the referee's whistle then they only have themselves to blame.
Sportsmanship is not just the act of kicking the ball out. If i challenge someone robustly and he seems to be injured i can CHOOSE to kick the ball out if the referee waves play on. Thats because the other player might just be faking it in order to get the referee to blow for a foul in the first place. This scenario has nothing to do with Sportsmanship if you ask me. Its a simple case of a challenge by Gilberto that is not effective and the opposition goes on to score because there was one less person in defence. It just so happened that Eboue was unfortunate to be clattered into by Gilberto while his own man made the challenge.
I really dont understand why everyone cant think straight and think that Spurs players should have more sportman-like etiquette. At first i thought i was biased but after viewing the replays again and again, i think i have compelling evidence that its Arsenal's own fault for their conceding a complacent goal.
For the moment, lets leave aside how Lehmann loves to get involved in every nitty gritty thing in every match, how he wastes time so 'effectively' and how he always falls down under any challenge in order to scold the opposition striker. Talk about sportsman-ship. Lets also not point out that Arsenal's goal was from a foul going unpunished by Adebayor.
Thus lets solely look at the evidence leading up to the goal. Eboue is chasing Carrick for the ball under the latter's control. Gilberto comes in from their front and tries to tackle Carrick off the ball. He hits the ball but it stays in Carrick's possession. He somehow clatters into Eboue after that. The ball from the melee trickles to the byline, Carrick catches up with it before it goes out, he passes to Tainio, who passes to Davids who sets up Keane to score.
Thus Carrick is supposed to kick the ball out because the two Arsenal players are down injured? Question: If a player tries to dribble the ball, he gets past two players and they clatter into each other and lie down injured, is he supposed to kick the ball out for sportsmanlike behaviour?? Then whats the point of dribbling if the opposition gets mesmerized and beaten by you and you still have to kick the ball out?! I clearly do not recall anyone doing this, in fact they usually say that the dribbler is skillful. And if they start having to kick the ball out; every opposition would keep feigning injury once they get dribbled past, so much for Sportsmanship. So why should Carrick kick the ball out if he emerges with the ball cleanly. He might not have done some brilliant dribbling move then but the parallel drawn is a fair one in soccer.
Question 2: If A tackles B and emerges with the ball and the referee waves play on, although B seems to be writhing on the ground, is he supposed to continue? Of course he can. Every soccer watcher knows players tend to fake some falling down or dive when they lose the ball to get the referees' symphathy and maybe the ref will give a foul to them. But if the decision does not go their way then too bad. So why should Carrick kick the ball out when it wasnt even him making the challenge in the first place.
I would also like to add that Gilberto was getting up when the pass by Tainio was made to Davids. Thats right! Get up and continue playing like all teams do when they do not get a foul they think they deserve. It happens in every game. What is Arsenal complaining about?!?! If they cant play to the referee's whistle then they only have themselves to blame.
Sportsmanship is not just the act of kicking the ball out. If i challenge someone robustly and he seems to be injured i can CHOOSE to kick the ball out if the referee waves play on. Thats because the other player might just be faking it in order to get the referee to blow for a foul in the first place. This scenario has nothing to do with Sportsmanship if you ask me. Its a simple case of a challenge by Gilberto that is not effective and the opposition goes on to score because there was one less person in defence. It just so happened that Eboue was unfortunate to be clattered into by Gilberto while his own man made the challenge.
posted by efarmer at 10:56:00 AM
5 Comments:
What makes you think the whole world will be talking about this silly match? Perhaps you think Spurs is worth debating? NAH! HAHA
haha.. i watched the match!!
Come on you Spurs!!
haha this post confuses me. i think i need to see the replay myself. ;p but i get your very adamant gist about the sportsmanlike thing.
Hey man. I didn't watch the match but i watched the highlights a couple of times on youtube. You're absolutely right man. Arsenic Wanker is going bonkers i think. Just like Sir Smart Alec Ferguson. If Carrick had kicked the ball out of play, n if i was a spurs fan, i would have to kill him. The arsenal players bumped each other n you expect spurs to kill the ball out? And the referee was there n waved play on!!! Duh... how lame.
Oh and arsenal conveniently forgets how they scored a goal in the FA cup against Sheffield United? Or Wednesday? a few seasons back and there was a great uproar because they were supposed to give the ball back to Sheffield since a Shieffield player had kicked the ball out for an arsenal player to receive treatment! Selective memory!!! Those bastards! They killed Kenny!!!
I was hoping Martin Jol would give Arsenic Wanker a cross-face chicken wing on the touchline. That'll be way cool and his popularity will get a great boost among all soccer fans.
HAHA, good one yogi! I must also add that Jol will so surely beat Arsene Wenger in a punch up. Why Wenger wanted to headbutt Jol i will never know.
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