Portland Bill

Genuine question, have you ever refereed a game?.

David Horesman as well.

The sort of response I expected!. I guess people have to know the laws of the game to notice!.

Quick question, I haven’t time to trawl back through this thread, but has anyone mentioned the two great advantages the referee played for England’s third and fourth goals ?.

Robbo, you will find that even players from your local Nailsea and Tickenham football club ( you probably have never watched them though!) try and con referees. It’s a world wide phenomenon nowadays, cheating and trying to con the officials, but of course it’s always the fault of the referee, the Lino’s or the var officials ?

I didn’t realise they were in it, perhaps the bottom half of the Southern league south go in it as well ?.

Western League clubs and below go in the Vase. Clevedon are in the Western League prem, Bridlington and Hallet in Western League 1.

Except it was offside!.

What difference does it make, USA,South Africa and Russia have all recently held World Cups, none of those three had any chance of doing well. Qatar and their neighbours run European football with their money nowadays. The last 8 of the Champions league will probably be all teams with oil cash backing them. FIFA and UEFA don’t care if Qatar lose by 10, but fans of football should question why they hate the World Cup venue, but dote over the champions league!. The cash comes from the same places.

No, when the attacker and keeper attacked the ball, the attacker got the last touch, the Ecuador player who played it next was in an offside position. No conspiracies, just var that most on here wanted… before they all realised it would spoil the game!.

Got Argentina to a WC Final, won the last Copa America. Scored 91 International goals ( so far ) mostly against South American sides which are much stronger than the European cannon fodder teams!. He has carried the Argentinian side for years, getting them through qualifying on his own at times, finally it looks like they have a decent side to back him up now. Still probably the best player on the planet ( after 20 years at the very top), not too bad I would say!.

After 40 years of watching City home and away ( roughly 75 away league grounds) I can 100% say that I now prefer watching non league football. Pay your fiver or tenner, have a drink, no hassle, no jobsworth stewards, no posturing on the terraces, stand where you want, no hassle parking, more entertainment on the pitch, no falling over when touched, and very little diving and cheating. What’s not to like!.

Several ex Taunton Town players got done for this a few months ago!.

A lot of the Samoan squad will have been born and bred in NZ, Auckland alone has about the same amount of Samoan’s as the actual country of Samoa has!. For instance, in the last Rugby Union WC, 18 players in the Samoan squad were born in New Zealand!.

6 of Englands squad play in the nrl. In all seriousness the NRL is streets ahead in quality. The intensity is something else.

Personally I think the Aussies will be too strong, but it will certainly be a fierce one!!.

The NRL league comes out as the big winners. It’s proved ( if it actually needed proving) that it’s a class above the Super League. Samoa have 8 Penrith Panthers players, the NRL winners.

Think we also have to remember that NZ lost the worlds best winger to a head injury due to the red card incident. Woodman is a try scoring machine. So even though England were down to 14, NZ lost probably their best player for 65 minutes!.

More than likely he did. I agree re priorities, as no one really cares about this cup until the very late stages. But it also goes to show that we aren’t good enough to take any team, regardless of what league they play in, lightly.

Lincoln will be absolutely fuming about going out of the cup at Chippenham, they will have been given an absolute roasting over the last 2-3 days by their coaching staff. So if there was ever a time to put out a weak side, tonight clearly wasn’t it.

I for one would love to get them in the cup, I miss the derbies.

Exactly.. but you aren’t allowed to tell it as it is mate!!. OTIB rules, always blame the officials when City don’t win. Its tedious.

For me human error is part of football. Officials make mistakes yes, but the players make a whole lot more!. I don’t want the ‘perfect’ game, I want football as it always has been, unpredictable. I hate the way the game is going,it’s not a tv programme, it’s a sport where anything can happen. Plymouth v Exeter on Monday night was the sort of game I want to watch, none of this VAR rubbish. Just give me good honest football without the cheating and diving….. please. He stops his watch when he feels he has to, it’s really that simple Dave. Or one of his watches I should say.

The fourth official doesn’t tally it up, the referee tells him what it is.

The thing is, this was a common coming together, it happens all over the pitch at different stages in every game. These are accepted as ‘part of the game’ nowadays.