Sunday, 8 November 2009

It's a travesty of injustice!

I am no fan of Manchester United. But did you see that game today?
For most of it they basically cancelled each other out. I don't think there was even one serious shot at goal.
Then, a Manchester United player takes the ball off a Chelsea player (quite fairly, in my opinion) and the Chelsea player jumps up in the air like a ballerina, spins around a few times and lands on the ground like someone who just fell from 20 000 feet without a parachute.
The referee gives a free kick. From which Chelsea score. Now, let's get this out of the way first. A guy who was approximately seven miles offside stuck his foot out at the ball as it went in the net. Now, he didn't make contact with it, but does that mean he wasn't interfering with play?
Of course he was. If you saw the game, you can clearly see that he must have distracted the goalie, and that, in my opinion, is interfering with play (don't get me started on the offside rule, that would take a whole post on its own).
Besides, I hate Chelsea even more than Manchester United. They are a new money team. Chelsea belong in the bottom half of the league table. They always have. And now you get kids running around in Chelsea shirts saying that is the team they support.
So they support some billionaire Russian gangster? Fair enough.
But I particularly hate Didier (big girl's blouse) Drogba. So I was gratified to see that after someone's boot lightly impacted on his chest today and after five minutes of Oscar-winning hystrionics (rolling about on the ground, holding his face and crying like a baby) when he eventually got up, the ref presented him with a yellow card for his performance.
Surely that kind of blatant cheating warrants a red card.

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