Stephan Lichtsteiner

Wouldn't lose sleep if he got his leg broke.

 

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Waw !!!!

No clips of big Vic strolling by half the Juve midfield as if they weren't there ?

 

If a Celtic player did what he did along the way to a victory last night I'd bet your tune would be different. The player done his job, the referee didnt.

Personally, I think given Platini's comments and then for a UEFA referee, linesman & additional assistants to continually miss that sort of behaviour is completely inept at worst. If they arent downgraded for that performance, I'd consider corruption involved.

 

What he did was against the rules, but it was the refs fault for not giving the pen. Tbh if i was him and i knew i was going to get away with it, i would be fouling players like that aswell.

 

Well done you signed up to a forum to show a 10 second clip of a 90 minute match.

As that is the only thing Pirlo did.

 

Worst case of "owning" I have ever seen. Izzy, Hooper and Commons destroyed your guys with some touchs.

The worst part of your post it that your obviously a Juve glory hunter.

 

WOW! Talk about life changing!!! I guess I'll change my name,leave my wife,quit my religion,stop drinking,pet stray dogs,sleep upside down,and anything else extreme! In short

 

Hooper should have stuck the head on the *

 

To call it cheating is being completely melodramatic. Firstly, the referee saw what he was doing and didnt punish him for it.

His job was to stop Hooper impeding Buffon at set pieces so he can come for crosses, Hooper never impeded Buffon, Lichtsteiner did the job asked of him by his manager better than he could have dreamt about.

I see you have no issue with Celtic trying impede goalkeepers at set pieces, we've done it regularly in the UCL. The rules clearly state you cant impede keepers. If what Lichtsteiner did is cheating, then whats that?

 

No, it's cheating, end of that one.

His job was to cheat.

Standing in front of a goalkeeper is not against the rules.

 

Is that why he didnt get sent off?

Hoopers job was to impede the keeper as much as possible without getting pinged by the referee. To just stand there isnt against the rules, the stand there, be in the keepers way and make no attempt to play the ball is against the rules.

 

swiss

 

Cheat

 

You can stand anywhere you like in the penalty area, there is no rules against "being in the keepers way" and if the ball doesn't come your way then there's no need to attempt to play it, as long as you don't physically impede the goalkeeper then there is no foul which Hooper doesn't as he just stands in front of him. That I'm afraid is just plain fact.

There is of course rules against players physically manhandling each other in the box which the Swiss * was guilty of on numerous occasions as well as a few other of their defenders. The rules state quite clearly that the punishment for this is a warning for the first offence, a yellow card for the second and a second yellow and therefore a red card if it persists. The rules also state that a penalty or direct free kick depending where the foul took place should be awarded if the fouling persists after the ball comes back into play, which it did, on numerous occasions.

 

He really distinguished himself in a sea of * by being the basterdest of them all last night

 

Hooper is there to impede without getting caught, to think otherwise is being naive. He cant header a ball to save himself, he's not going to out jump a half decent keeper for anything.

Again, you blame the referee for the rules not being enforced. I'd be happy bending and breaking rules like that knowing the referee doesnt have the stones to pull me properly for it, most players would too

 

You're making * up to back up your already flawed argument. He is not there to impede and does not impede goalkeepers, he's there to stand in front of him to put him off, similar to "screening" in ice hockey.

Again, I do blame the referee for not applying the rules in the rulebook, if he's a professional referee then there's no excuse for him either not knowing them and/or failing to apply them. I also blame their players for not playing within the laws of the game, both parties are as bad as each other.

If you would be happy bending or breaking the rules just because you can get away with it then you are a cheat but then again that's the attitude of cheats, just ask the now deceased Rangers, Lance Armstrong, anyone involved in Italian match fixing or any other named and shamed cheat in sport and they'll tell you that when it comes down to it, they cheated because they got away with it.