Alan Hansen and the rules of football...
Monday, 22 December 08, 11:47 AM · Comments(2)
After watching the rather Liverpool centric highlights on Match of the Day last night (that's of course my Arsenal centric perspective anyway!) I was struck by two things regarding the refereeing decisions made during the game. Firstly looking at the two tackles made by Adebayor that Webb deemed both to be yellow cards. If you take each on their own a referee could just about make a case for a booking (putting all our own bias aside) with the first tackle more of a case. However, no football fan or manager would ever think that they warranted together a red card. Referees apply the rules, in my opinion, rather too religiously some times and then, for no apparent reason, in other matches they ignore them completely.
The second point was Alan Hansen's comment regarding Robbie Keane's lunge on Clichy. Hansen said that as Keane got the ball it couldn't be a yellow card. Well listen Mr Hansen maybe you should look up the rules of football since if in the act of getting the ball you endanger the opposition player then it's a foul and, if serious enough, it can be considered a booking. See page 33 ( and below )of the rules of the game here..
"A direct free kick is awarded to the opposing team if a player commits any of the following seven offences in a manner considered by the referee to be careless, reckless or using excessive force:
- kicks or attempts to kick an opponent
- trips or attempts to trip an opponent
- jumps at an opponent
- charges an opponent
- strikes or attempts to strike an opponent
- pushes an opponent
- tackles an opponent"
That last line Mr Hansen tells you all you need to know but why should a well paid pundit actually know the laws of the game.
Oh and one more thing how many times a game does Steven Gerrard dive in the penalty box to try and win penalties..
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hmmm i agree. and its also not just MOTD who were liverpool-centric, all bbc reports, news, even bloody radio 1 were jumping on the bandwagon, the thing is.....i thought liverpool were pretty awful bar keane's shot. I know we were hardly brilliant, but maybe this shows that there's not much ground to be made up after all. I mean, if they're top and play such rubbish football, we haven't got too far to stretch perhaps.
I didn't see MOTD but I don't rate Hansen anyway. He's not as bad as Jamie redknapp though.