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Republik Of Mancunia: A Manchester United Blog: RoM Reads
Avoiding the Drop: About Last Night
TheOriginalWinger.com: Birmingham City’s Lee Carsley Has His Say Over David Ngog
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The joke is actually on those dinosaurs in FIFA and FA. http://bit.ly/1G68bo #refereesNeedFuckingCameraAssistance #Ngog #Liverpool #Penalty 11 days ago |
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No surprise to hear Birmingham feeling aggrieved after David Ngog's dive for #Liverpool last night http://bit.ly/1G68bo 11 days ago |
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Ngog's 'embarrassing case of cheating' gets Liverpool a draw http://bit.ly/4BIgUt 11 days ago |
RoM Reads
Republik Of Mancunia: A Manchester United Blog —
The Evening News defends Fergie’s latest referee complaint.
Mark Ogden compares Owen to Tevez in The Telegraph.
Red Rants looks at the ref conspiracy after the penalty Liverpool won for a dive last night.
The Guardian looks at Ngog’s “embarrassing case of cheating”
F365 reports on Fletcher’s comments about Wenger
"RoM Reads" was originally published at The Republik of Mancunia.
About Last Night
Avoiding the Drop —
... David N’gog will be pleased that there was no splash, but he’ll be upset that his body was nowhere near close to vertical at the point of entry during his shameless dive against Birmingham City yesterday. Also, Liverpool add ...
Birmingham City’s Lee Carsley Has His Say Over David Ngog
TheOriginalWinger.com —
... With all the video evidence pointing towards Liverpool striker David Ngog going down without being touched under Birmingham City defender Lee Carsley’s challenge, who better to hear from than the man who put the tackle in. Via Guardian The Liverpool striker David Ngog was accused of indulging in “an embarrassing case of cheating” last night as a controversial penalty salvaged a draw against Birmingham City but left Rafael Benítez’s team seventh in the Premier League and 11 points behind leaders, Chelsea. Liverpool were dominant but trailing 2-1 with 20 minutes remaining when ...
USL - TOA = Yet Another North American Soccer Acronym
A More Splendid Life —
I am a pretentious soccer writer, and a lazy one at that, which means I like my football news monumental and easily digestible. In Europe, for example, things are easy; Big Four team cheats, post. Club has really stupid, flamboyantly dressed owner, post. Accusations of bungs, massively indebted teams, bouts of hilarity as Old Europe slouches toward American-style marketing techniques (crappyproduct.com@storiedBritishstadium), post, post, post. In North America, you have to work in about seven acronyms before you've even got to the main story. The TOA has a ...
Cheating and Replay. Plus: USL breakaway, another girl's team fight and the Daily Reads for Nov 10
JamieTrecker's blog listings. —
Today s tabloid headlines say it all : Diver! Cheat! And even his coach admitted, a bit ruefully, that the call was a bit suspicious. Yesterday, as his team floundered, Liverpool striker David Ngog conspired to flop, winning a penalty that Steven Gerrard converted. The fact that Ngog dove is not in question. But the incident once again raises the issue of how many calls referees at the top level get wrong and what can be done about it. Few today are blaming last night s man in the middle, Peter Walton, despite the fact that he was right on top of the play. Why? He didn ...
Dive! Dive! Dive!
BOSTON IRISH —
... With Liverpool basically admitting they cheated their way to a 2-2 draw with Birmingham on Monday night, the Football Association in England is scrambling to basically cover the incident up. From the Guardian; ''Benítez revealed he had questioned Ngog on the legitimacy of the penalty award. "I asked him about the penalty and he said maybe it wasn't. I haven't seen a replay but I spoke to him about it," he said.'' There are several interesting points coming from this. First of all, it would appear Soccer, and ...
