Comments on: Lyon Don’t Do Fair Play

By: Max

Max — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 07:17:59 +0000

Hi
I can see Lyon playing on if the ball is still in the penalty box, but it almost crossed the halfway line. That ball needs to be kicked out. This is going to haunt Lyon at Artemio Franchi. No one’s going to stop for anything if Fiorentina have the ball. And with Gamberini back for that game.

Max

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By: RedLine55

RedLine55 — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 07:40:44 +0000

maybe someone already said this… but doesn’t that ref ALWAYS remind you of that dude from NCIS?! maybe it’s just me…

By: mrCham

mrCham — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 22:23:39 +0000

If the Italian’s wouldn’t have done the same thing I will eat my shorts …. twice … while wearing them.

By: MAD

MAD — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 18:43:20 +0000

Actually my point was to exaggerate to show that everything is abused–even the most important things– at some point and it’s not necessary to “throw the baby out with the bath water”.

Any alternative system is going to be abused.

This system works most of the time, and certainly more often than should be necessary for a football match. Just kick the thing out and you get the ball back.

By: Ghislain

Ghislain — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 18:01:17 +0000

Gentlemen – not much to say other than you have all shown your true colours very nicely here.

By: lefutur

lefutur — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 17:05:37 +0000

2 anti-Lyon threads from the same blogger? thats subtle.

FYI the fiorentina player hurt himself by trying to maul frederique piquionne. thats what i call poetic justice.

By: Johonna

Johonna — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 17:00:39 +0000

Ya, I bet he keeps it on his fridge and it goes something like this:
Feed the cat
Do the shopping
Read the news
Write some stuff
Hate the french
Try to take over the world

By: tito

tito — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:39:12 +0000

Chris has an agenda. That is awesome.

By: sandrahn

sandrahn — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:11:27 +0000

TO CHRIS:

The only reason you even put this idiotic blog up was to indulge in your favorite pasttime of francophobic bigotry and letting people come on here and express the same hatred you have. Your motives are so freaking obvious and petty and small-minded. It’s a favorite hobby of yours: hating the French.

I await (with absolute futility) a blog written by you about an Italian team that demonstrates lack of sportsmanship — I mean, it happens so RARELY, right?

You’re a bigot and a moral hypocrite.

Not only that, you’re thoroughly NAIVE about football: I see this kind of thing happening all the time in the game today. I’ve seen Chelsea do this constantly. The fact that you cherrypicked this particular game and this particular team is all about your francophobic agenda and nothing else.

By: Charles

Charles — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:55:00 +0000

I don’t have a problem with it at all. How many injuries which require players to leave the game are legit in the first place. As a fan it seems like nearly every time the player just hops right back in seconds later appearing none the worse. Unfortunately, faking injury to try and influence the ref is all to common and Lyon did nothing wrong. It should be up to the referee to stop play and if he doesn’t then teams should play on. Soccer is being hurt by all of the fake injuries and diving so prevalent in the game today.