Our old friend, Mark Homer Catchabung was at it again! After disallowing Piquionne's perfectly legitimate winner at Wolves - we can't have an away team winning can we Mark? - he was at it again today, guaranteeing Man Utd a victory with a surreal goal against Tottenham.
Now I am not having the playing advantage nonsense. Nani clearly handled the ball. It was a free kick to Tottenham, pure and simple. In fact, Catchabung should have booked Nani for simulation and deliberate hand ball, as he took his exaggerated tumble in the hope of making it easy for Man Utd's twelth man to guarantee their victory.
Tell me, would the goal have stood if it had happened at the other end? Not in a million, biillion years! Catchabung would have had his card out in a flash, booking the Tottenham man for taking the dive and, no doubt, touching his forelock to Ferguson whilst he was about it!
Of course it was very funny to see Gomes look a complete arse and to watch 'Arry's 'ead corkscrew from off his shoulders, but leaving rivalry apart, the erratic refereeing of Catchabung is beyond a joke. He should have been stood down after the Wolves game; it's now time for the authorities to give him a long winter break!
A Jeff Winter break preferably
ReplyDeleteYou have a biased interpretation and do not know the rules of the game? He fell and his hand was on the ball, agreed but did the Ref blow for a free kick? NO!!! How can the keeper assume that to be a free-kick? Wait till the ref blows. The ref said play on so why should the keeper put the ball on the ground as if the ref blew? The keeper should be blamed. Did Spurs not benefit from a ref decision against Fulham the other day? So what has happened since then? Learn how to be unbiased if you want to be a good football blogger.
ReplyDeleteCatchabung has claimed he played advantage, therefore it was a deliberate handball. How can it be an advantage to concede a bloody goal?
ReplyDeleteCatchabung disallowed Piquionne's ball for hand ball when he didn't handle, and allowed Nani's goal after he did handle! He is making up the rules as he goes along! And in both cases, he IGNORED his Assistant Referee who did NOT see Piquionne handle but DID see Nani handle. Like I said after the Wolves game, the guy's arrogance is astounding!
ReplyDeletePoint being, play to the whistle. Spurs advantage was that Nani was still on the floor whinging about a penalty claim, which was turned down. Gomez picks the ball from under Nani's hand and walks 10 yards with it. If it had been a free kick, surely it would've been were Nani was still sitting? How can the ref not play advantage with Spurs now effectively a man over, a goal down and in possession with 6 mins left? Kick the ball keeper! And quick! your team are losing!
ReplyDeleteStill the best Spurs blog on newsnow. Great stuff HF as ever. COYS!
ReplyDeleteI can understand what Catchabung might have THOUGHT he was doing but that clearly was not communicated to Gomes, who clearly THOUGHT a free kick had been given. Referees stop the play for various reasons during a game and this was a clear case of when the play should have been stopped. Nani should have been booked before for simulation. He could have been booked for deliberate handball - Noble was two seasons ago, seeing a second yellow and so red against Man City shortly after if my memory serves correctly. He should certainly have been booked for ungentlemanly conduct in trying to exploit the situation. He knew he had dived, he knew he handled and he KNEW Gomes had stopped the play. It is the same as the Liverpool goal against Sunderland a few weeks back. Neither goal should have been allowed.
ReplyDeleteIncidentally, Piquionne was booked for handball when he didn't handle it by Catchabung so can anybody explain why Nani wasn't booked for a deliberate handball?
ReplyDeleteOh hang on, Nani plays for Man Utd and Man Utd were at home and Man Utd are a big club and Man Utd are managed by Ferguson and Catchabung was suspended after his business hit financial problems...all a coincidence of course. The truth, I suppose, is that Catchabung makes it up as he goes along and so is utterly inconsistent from one week to another. That makes sense. That's exactly what the game needs!
What we all want in life is fairness. The referee is there to ensure that the game is run in a fair and proper manner. The second goal definitely was not fair.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely John, fairness and common sense. Neither applied with that second goal.
ReplyDeleteDoesn't matter WHAT Gomes THOUGHT. The whistle wasn't blown. The flag wasn't up. If Gomes HAD thought then he wouldn't have made such a cock up. End of story.
ReplyDeletewho cares
ReplyDeleteOf all the mud and insults thrown around, no one has picked up on my comment that AG made a terrible mistake bringing in Faubert and putting him against Walcott 5 minutes from the end. This to me, exemplifies that AG does not really understand what each player can give him (and add to the that the Tony Cottee's worry and mine that he cannot inspire and motivate his players to give 100% every match and it all amounts to us being in deep shit! There is no other way but to act quickly. Let's hope that O'Neil is still available and interested to come in and save us from oblivion. Because that is exactly where we are heading right now!
ReplyDeleteIt was a penalty. Dragged down at the hips. Wasn't given so that wasn't fair either.
ReplyDeleteAs for the advantage; it is advantageous for the keeper to play the ball out from his hands as oppose to the ball on the floor. Playing advantage is part of the game.
Gomez's fault, great awareness from Nani.
your little nicknames are so lame.
ReplyDeleteCommon Sense cares, that's who! Games should be won legitimately, not because of idiotic referees!
ReplyDeleteI did Sav and said i thought you were being harsh. To start, Walcott was playing on the RIGHT of Arsenal's midfield, where he skinned Ilunga, so Faubert was not brought on to deal with him, was he? The idea was to give extra defensive cover and replace the tired Obinna. It was a logical decision. Trouble is, Faubert made Grant look an idiot through his mistake. Was Grant an idiot when he made his substitutions against Stoke? I don't think so!
ReplyDelete1252, your criticisms are so lame!
ReplyDeleteSo, Do you believe that AG is a good manager capable of ensuring our premiership status? I don't. His CV says so too! I am sorry, but if we take too long to act it may be too late. What's more, no decent manager would want to take the job with quarter of the games played and only six points on the board. I think that Tony Cottee was right to express his worries about the manager. I would give AG one maybe two more games. And that is despite being positive that he is not up to the job.
ReplyDeleteGrants CV also says champions league final. I didn't know that the assistant didn't flag for Piq's goal, and has just made me very angry lol. What annoys me is that players are punished and big deals are made over them, why does it seem when a ref makes a MAJOR cock up, does it all seem to be brushed under the carpet? human mistake etc.
ReplyDeleteI don't want to massacre the refs, it is a bloody difficult job and honest mistakes happen. But it is the arrogance of Catchabung that gets my goat. How dare he disallow that Piquionne goal when he couldn't possibly see any handball as he was directly behind him when he controlled the ball on his chest. And why didn't he consult his linesman? He booked Piquionne for cheating too!
ReplyDeleteAnd yesterday was absurd! "I waved play on" so to hell with common sense and justice. The guy is a complete arse!
no one cares of gives a fcuk about poxy tottenham apart from you HF. im glad the goal was given.
ReplyDeleteA few others have expressed a contrary opinion to yours actually.
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ReplyDeleteAs much as I am happy the goal was given as it was Tottscum it should never have stood. It was a Fergie Trafford rule. All was needed was the ref to actually come out to the media like every manager and player and give his reasons. The lino said no goal. He was alot closer than clattenburg. He played advantage which means the goal shouldn't have stood as there was no advantage with the ball in the back of the Tottscum net. As you have mentioned common sense should prevail I would be livid if that was Green in goal and west ham losing a goal. As much as it's Tottscum it shouldn't have counted. Clattenburg needs a break last week was awful. But at least he'll be on Fergie's xmas card list.