Liverpool vs Man United | FA Cup

I thought Halsey had a decent game.

Laurencio wrote:Whut. The referee was good. One of the best these fixtures have had in recent years. Could have decided the game in our favour by sending off maxi for a bit of a reckless tackle, but not giving him a red is completely justified. Saved the game.

Agree completely with this, let the game flow, did not bring out unneeded cards.Great ref.

ResurrectionRooney wrote:

InGlennyWeTrust wrote:"That leukaemia referee."

What a pointless, classless, and disgusting insult to throw about.

It's pertinent. How can the World Cup Final referee be stood on the sidelines while someone who has only been appointed because he had a disease referees the game? How?

Webb was officiating yesterday, I believe.

And if you look at Halsey's yellow cards per game ratio, it has actually increased from the few years immediately before his unfortunate illness And no, it is not pertinent, it is vile and disappointing from a good poster such as yourself.

How you can praise a referee who allowed that first goal I do not know.

InGlennyWeTrust wrote:

ResurrectionRooney wrote:It's pertinent. How can the World Cup Final referee be stood on the sidelines while someone who has only been appointed because he had a disease referees the game? How?

Webb was officiating yesterday, I believe.

And if you look at Halsey's yellow cards per game ratio, it has actually increased from the few years immediately before his unfortunate illness And no, it is not pertinent, it is vile and disappointing from a good poster such as yourself.

He doesn't have the balls to send players off any more, he's a coward of a man. If he is only getting games because of his leukaemia then it is pertinent.

Jordi wrote:I thought Halsey had a decent game.

He did, it's just the Mancs can't deal with a referee that doesn't give them an unfair advantage.

ResurrectionRooney wrote:How you can praise a referee who allowed that first goal I do not know.

What was wrong with it?

ResurrectionRooney wrote:How you can praise a referee who allowed that first goal I do not know.

There was nothing wrong with it. If anything, De Gea was pushing Carroll.

Liam gutted

ResurrectionRooney wrote:

InGlennyWeTrust wrote:Webb was officiating yesterday, I believe.

And if you look at Halsey's yellow cards per game ratio, it has actually increased from the few years immediately before his unfortunate illness And no, it is not pertinent, it is vile and disappointing from a good poster such as yourself.

He doesn't have the balls to send players off any more, he's a coward of a man. If he is only getting games because of his leukaemia then it is pertinent.

He was getting to referee matches before the illness, big matches as well.

And honestly, just give over. It's a shame you have this reputation, but you bring it upon yourself with comments like this

Dan wrote:

Jordi wrote:I thought Halsey had a decent game.

He did, it's just the Mancs can't deal with a referee that doesn't give them an unfair advantage.

The Mancs.

Come on Dan. It's only RR moaning about it.

Laurencio wrote:

ResurrectionRooney wrote:How you can praise a referee who allowed that first goal I do not know.

What was wrong with it?

Obstruction. Did you not see Liverpool's gutter tactics, stationing 2 or 3 players solely to block off De Gea? Clearly unfair impedement.

ResurrectionRooney wrote:

Barton wrote:

Maybe that's the way to go about things, but correct me if i'm wrong, the rules state that all two-footed tackles should warrant a red card? If that's the case then Maxi should've been sent off, end of story.

That's not the fucking rules, honestly they're not hard to come by, just Google for 'Laws of the Game', you can read them in less than an hour.

I may have a quick scan through later, but i swear i've heard on numerous occasions people saying two-footed tackles MUST warrant a straight red.

Danny wrote:

Dan wrote:

He did, it's just the Mancs can't deal with a referee that doesn't give them an unfair advantage.

The Mancs.

Come on Dan. It's only RR moaning about it.

Take no notice of him.

Danny wrote:

Dan wrote:

He did, it's just the Mancs can't deal with a referee that doesn't give them an unfair advantage.

The Mancs.

Come on Dan. It's only RR moaning about it.

He's allowed to generalise. Why can't I?

ResurrectionRooney wrote:

Laurencio wrote:

What was wrong with it?

Obstruction. Did you not see Liverpool's gutter tactics, stationing 2 or 3 players solely to block off De Gea? Clearly unfair impedement.

I'm fairly certain marking the goalkeeper is allowed?

Barton wrote:

ResurrectionRooney wrote:

That's not the fucking rules, honestly they're not hard to come by, just Google for 'Laws of the Game', you can read them in less than an hour.

I may have a quick scan through later, but i swear i've heard on numerous occasions people saying two-footed tackles MUST warrant a straight red.

I'm sure you have, but it's not true at all.

Laurencio wrote:

ResurrectionRooney wrote:Obstruction. Did you not see Liverpool's gutter tactics, stationing 2 or 3 players solely to block off De Gea? Clearly unfair impedement.

I'm fairly certain marking the goalkeeper is allowed?

Why would you mark a defensive player if not to block him off?

Laurencio wrote:

ResurrectionRooney wrote:Obstruction. Did you not see Liverpool's gutter tactics, stationing 2 or 3 players solely to block off De Gea? Clearly unfair impedement.

I'm fairly certain marking the goalkeeper is allowed?

I'm so glad you're one of the few United fans on here with a brain, Laurencio.

Well De Gea is shit at catching, so Liverpool will obviously bombard him with players.

Marking De Gea was good tactics.

ResurrectionRooney wrote:

Barton wrote:

I may have a quick scan through later, but i swear i've heard on numerous occasions people saying two-footed tackles MUST warrant a straight red.

I'm sure you have, but it's not true at all.

Laurencio wrote:

I'm fairly certain marking the goalkeeper is allowed?

Why would you mark a defensive player if not to block him off?

You wouldn't, but it's still allowed. Someone like say Van Der Sar would have had the upper body strength to push him away and get to the ball, and somene like Vidic or Rio would have had the positional sense to stop the ball from getting to Agger.

If anything it was a good tactical move by Liverpool.

Drake wrote:Well De Gea is shit at catching, so Liverpool will obviously bombard him with players.

You thought Liverpool would lose Pilkington

Jord wrote:

Drake wrote:Well De Gea is shit at catching, so Liverpool will obviously bombard him with players.

You thought Liverpool would lose Pilkington

Did i ??

It was good tactics, but it was poor refereeing to allow those unsporting tactics to prosper.

Drake wrote:Should be a good game, i see United winning this.

I don't

Jord wrote:

Drake wrote:Should be a good game, i see United winning this.

I don't

ResurrectionRooney wrote:It was good tactics, but it was poor refereeing to allow those unsporting tactics to prosper.

It was bad marking that made it successful. Teams have tried to do that against us for years, usually Rio, O'Shea or Vidic have been marking the player that marks the goalkeeper to open space for him. It's a perfectly legitimate tactic, which we should have been able to fend off. Our marking was simply terrible on both goals.

what round is this

ResurrectionRooney wrote:It was good tactics, but it was poor refereeing to allow those unsporting tactics to prosper.

Maybe De Gea should have dived to "draw attention" to the bad foul?

When is the draw for the next round?