Got something to say or just want fewer pesky ads? Join us... 😊
[Football] Amazing scenes at MIGHTY Leeds
- Thread starter Ernest
- Start date
He is a **** that Baker.
The difference is, Roberts (Leeds no.11) looked like he was stopping, and playing the ball out, so all the Villa players stopped.
You're certainly right that the team with the ball doesn't have to stop (and I remember our game where we didn't, because the other side were time wasting and feigning injury), but you can't pretend to stop and then carry on - that's what caused the problem.
Deadly Danson
Well-known member
I've already said I wouldn't be upset to see a parting of the ways in the summer but there's no point replacing him unless we can get someone in who's better. I don't know what objective justification there can be for suggesting Bielsa would be a better bet. He might get us playing more entertaining football, which may well see us relegated. Who knows?
clockend1983
New member
- Apr 1, 2010
- 368
Absolutely this
We did it earlier this season
Leeds did nothing wrong at all
I certainly wouldn’t have allowed Villa to walk it into
the net
Also, I thought the commentator said that, earlier in the game, Villa had put the ball out when a Leeds player was down.
I missed it as well. However, the BBC match report states "In the ensuing heated aftermath, Villa's Ahmed El Ghazi was wrongly red carded for an alleged elbow on Leeds striker Patrick Bamford, who was shown up by TV cameras to have simulated his fall to the turf".
LamieRobertson
Not awoke
You really aren't an idiot
LamieRobertson
Not awoke
Bamford should be given a ban on that basis
Apologies for being dim. But why did the Leeds manager let Villa score?
I agree. A straight red and 3 match ban for that, would have been the cherry on the cake of the whole hilarious episode.
LamieRobertson
Not awoke
Slightly off topic.....loved the chant from the north stand yesterday when the ball was kicked out with Ritchie appearing to feign injury ...I have an intense and probably dislike of Ritchie on the pitch...he's probably quite pleasant off it
HAILSHAM SEAGULL
Well-known member
- Nov 9, 2009
- 10,347
ignore
Because he recognised that his team had been bang out of order, scoring their goal, after Villa had been duped into stopping by Roberts stopping as if to knock it out, and then carrying on.
LamieRobertson
Not awoke
I wonder if he would have done the same if Sheff Utd had only drawn yesterday
Totally agree. This cheating needs to be stamped out as quickly as possible, together with all that holding/wrestling at corners.
Sussex Nomad
Well-known member
Could say the same about Hassenhatl, Santos and a few others that have done ok in the Prem.
kevo
Well-known member
- Mar 8, 2008
- 9,103
Highlights here:
https://www.skysports.com/football/leeds-vs-a-villa/393074
https://www.skysports.com/football/leeds-vs-a-villa/393074
You need to have watched it. The winger was pointing for the player to kick it out. He then received the ball and slowed down as if he was going to stop/ kick it out, the Villa players had stopped. He the put the ball through. There is a difference from teams falling down and trying to break up play, that’s what happened to us earlier in the season and we rightly played on. Before that foul a Leeds player was injured and they called for Villa to put the ball out and they obliged. The outcry by everyone is pretty clear as it was blatant un gamesmanship and added to that Bamford clearly getting a fellow pro sent off by making out he was hit in the face.