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courage

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about 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
courage

Oi Oi Edgecumbe... lets have a clean sheet

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about 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Well that was pretty brave refereeing, not to be swayed by the drama of the last minute winner, the desire of the home crowd and players ... no penalty - I said "penalty" as soon as I saw it, then not to award the goal because they couldn't see it had crossed the line. Courage. Well done refs.
I must admit that when I saw the youth of the officials coming onto the pitch at the game's start I didn't have a good feeling about them.

Oi Oi Edgecumbe... lets have a clean sheet

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about 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Yeah, I haven't really thought about that. You are right, there was good refereeing in that game, although I did think that Muscat's foul should have been a penalty.. Finally we get some halfway decent ref's. We had that same ref at our last home game, and he did a terrible job - but he's well improved now. Sweet as. Though it's not really courage, they are just doing their job.
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about 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
yeah its their job, but it still takes some serious balls with the crowd and players all screaming at you
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about 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
I don't think it's a goal and not sure about the penalty.  Muscat's hands shouldn't have been there but Williams went down very easily.
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about 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Williams went down softly all night and didn't get the memo that the refs weren't giving him anything


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about 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
it wasn't a goal.

and it was a penalty.
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about 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
nah, wasn't a penalty, hands were raised but no way. im going to be honest about the goal, the ball looks like it does cross the line, in the pics provided, but if the assistant got it right there was like a cm of ball not over the line
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