Euro 2012

**Kasabian** · 22-06-2012, 01:10 PM

Originally Posted by luce

This guy has done YEARS of training and has loads of experience. Only those judged to be the best from each league are sent who has European experience as well in the CL. Please don't even pretend you could have done a better job, it's easy to ref from the sofa where you have time and no pressure. There were 40,000 Ukrainians supports in there all screaming for a goal. It wasn't taken lightly and if the actual ref or any of the linesmen had also thought it went over they could have overruled. But none of that happened and as is still the man was offside anyway, clearly so maybe the linesman was more to blame? And they wouldn't have gone though anyway as it stood.

Let's think about it; 1 Referee, 2 Linesmen, 4 'other' officials(who can alert the ref about anything)[2 of which were behind the goal, level with the goal line]. They didn't see it.
40,000 Ukrainian fans, commentators(even the biased English ones), photographers, cameras, substitutes(who were warming up on the side line), saw it cross the line.
The offside was a lot harder to call, the ukrainian defender was pretty much on the edge of his box, and the striker was on the centre circle, in the england half. By the time the ball had been struck, he was offside - by the time the ball came into the linesman view(bare in mind, a linesmans job is to follow the last man and not watch the ball), he was onside, as Lescott ran behind the man.

Take off your rose tinted spectacles for just a minute, and open your eyes. Any football fan in the world could see it was a goal - the same as we all saw lampards etc, so don't try and defend the 'officials' who have been poor the whole tournament(you only have to look at the opening game to see that). I genuinely would love to have seen your reaction had it of been an English goal struck off.

I bet you were the exact same after Lampards 'goal', no? or are you telling me you still tried to defend the officials?

Originally Posted by luce

Yeah Blatter has come out and, whereas before he was a little skeptical and hesitant about introducing it, now he's adamant it must happen ASAP. In some games at the Euro's and practices it is being tested actually, and this was before this incident.

He wasn't "skeptical" or "hesitant" about it, the guy has a vendetta against England(and that's coming from a neutral). Like I said in an earlier post - after Lampards goal against Germany, he said it wasn't needed[this was a decision given AGAINST England]. When Devic's goal against England was struck off, he said it is a necessity and must be introduced[this was a decision FOR Engand]. Sepp Blatter is an absolute ******* clown, who deserves to be no where near football, let alone the president of FIFA. He's one of the most controversial and biased men in football.