I think its you counting them chickens, Falco me lad... you're still 8 points behind. I don't see them dropping more than 10 more points this season, and them you'd still have to go unbeaten yourselves!
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(ie - not gonna happen) Chelsea might manage it though...
Bloody hell, will we ever get decent referees in this country? Riley didn't even make the weekend's worst decision - that honour goes to everyone's favorite, Mr Dean, in the Saints-Brummingham game... Maik Taylor (Brumm goalie) runs forward to catch the ball from a long Saints throw, jumps right into the Saints player from behind (Blackstock, I think), knocking both himself and the striker to the ground. The wonderful Mr Dean gives a free kick
to Birmingham, and gives Blackstock a lecture about backing in, when it was completely impossible for his to have seen Taylor's suicidal rush.
Though of course, it wasn't suicidal, because Taylor knew exactly what the result would be. The bias of referees these days towards goalies and defenders in those kind of situations (corners, close free kicks etc) is the most blatant thing in the modern game, and frankly, it disgusts me. The FA need to take a good hard look at themeselves, and eat some humble pie and learn from Rugby how to referee matches. If defenders attempt to stop a free kick being taken, be it either by picking up the ball, refusing to retreat 10 yards, whatever, should immediately result in the free kick being moved forward ten yards. It would eradicate the problem almost entirely. And drop all the soppy crap with goalies that I waxed lyrical about earlier in the post.
They need to stop wasting their efforts on booking players for
celebrating their goals (Cahill scores his first goal in the premiership, is
sent off for taking his shirt off. WHY!!!???!!! Lee Hendrie booked for jumping over the advert boards (ie, leaving the field of play) to be congratulated by fans after what is arguably still the goal of the season so far) and start REFEREEING THE ****ING MATCHES!!!!!
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