Yesterdays actions were not gamesmanship !
THEY were plain cheating !
We should have won anyway without the penalty so it was our fault we didnt pick up three points BUT HE IS A CHEAT ! & IT SHOULD BE CLAMPED DOWN ON !
WHY DIDNT MALBRANQUE JUST SCORED WHEN THE REF BLEW THE WISTLE & HE WAS STANDING BY THE POST ! BECAUSE FULHAM DONT NEED TO WIN BY UNFAIR MEANS !

Your penelty taker should have taken the kick when the ref blew his whistle.

He wasn't cheating. Cheating's diving or doing the 'hand of god'.

SO you can hold the game up for no reason for as long as you like can you ?
JUST with the aim of putting the penalty taker off ?
I said above he should have taken it then BUT having heard what the ref said on MOD he would have disallowed it anyway ! BUT god know what rule he would have used for that one ?

No you can't hold the game up - hence his yellow card.

The ref said he would have disallowed it, bit he'd have wrong to and now be on the 2nd div list.

A shame as I would have loved to see Fulham do the scum!!

It's obvious that Barthez was trying to cheat by time-wasting...he even got booked for it. But what else can you expect from the Mancs. They just can't accept that they aren't as good as they were - so now have to revert to unsportingly behaviour :(

Any Premiership professional should be able to score from 12 yards with just the goalie to beat, irrespective of whether the 'keeper tries to put him off or not...

If it had been the Fulham 'keeper that had done it, I'm sure a very different attitude would be taken and all the ABU's would be saying how funny it was and how it worked a treat and if you can get away with it then fair play, etc and all the rubbish we come to expect from the ABU population. :rolleyes:

IMO that's the best thing Barthez has done for us in a long time. ;)

I agree, Swin.

He was merely displaying his experience of the game.

Redkop: remember the REAL cheat doing his tricks against Roma? Where's the difference?

At least Bart doesn't try to throw games - he does that naturally!

[Edited by fatherpierre - 10/21/2002 12:20:21 AM]

I didn't condone Grobs antics then :p

I did!

I tried to copy them, but ended up with a clicky right knee!

oh dear :D :D :D

in my view he cheated and got booked for it. i dont see how the ref had any other choice

so why is it a problem that he saved it?
if malbranque had taken the penalty at the whistle the ref said he wouldnt have allowed it.

but you're right fulham should have won.
cant put the blame on barthez though