albert64 1,882 Posted March 22, 2015 Report Share Posted March 22, 2015 Bring gerrard on half time. Need someone on to keep the ball and pass to a man with a red shirt on !! oops 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Astanley 11,498 Posted March 22, 2015 Report Share Posted March 22, 2015 Alby tell klub foot to stop passing your insults on to me xxx Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Malt 379 Posted March 22, 2015 Report Share Posted March 22, 2015 Bring gerrard on half time. Need someone on to keep the ball and pass to a man with a red shirt on !! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
albert64 1,882 Posted March 22, 2015 Report Share Posted March 22, 2015 Alby tell klub foot to stop passing your insults on to me xxx what ever do you mean stan Quote Link to post Share on other sites
cragman 2,644 Posted March 22, 2015 Report Share Posted March 22, 2015 Feck off to the USA Gerrard. What a great example you are to kids. He's just been on apologising to everyone but the guy he stamped on! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
gnasher16 29,752 Posted March 22, 2015 Report Share Posted March 22, 2015 Not sure why he,s apologising to anyone.......certainly not on camera anyway ! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Malt 379 Posted March 22, 2015 Report Share Posted March 22, 2015 Not sure why he,s apologising to anyone.......certainly not on camera anyway !Read a good piece on that earlier: * "The man that Steven is, he has apologised, and we move on," said Brendan Rodgers, by no means alone in giving Gerrard credit for taking "full responsibility" for what his leg did. 'Man does good job' deserves applause but 'man says sorry for being a d***' really shouldn't. We have a bizarre obsession in this country for 'fronting up'. Whether you have stamped on somebody's leg, cheated on your wife or mowed down a pedestrian, you get brownie points for saying 'yes, that was me, I did it'. We know you did it, Stevie. You don't have to take 'full responsibility' for us to know what you were fully responsible. Oh and we seem to have missed the apology to the man you actually, you know, stamped on. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
THE STIFFMEISTER 14,629 Posted March 22, 2015 Report Share Posted March 22, 2015 I love threads like this as you can tell how much people have actually played... Simple fact is Gerard hit mata with that tackle as if to say "yeah I'm on now, I'm here" Herrera , to try and get back at Gerard came flying in , one leg off the back and Gerard gave him a little Nick, To say, "you want to play like that, I can as well, " Herreras reaction though is classic of the type of player he is, cultured ball players who think they can mix it, pointing and looking for action. He was lucky to stay on with a challenge like that. Gerrard didn't injure anyone, he didn't have a rush of blood or was fired up. It's simple midfield play to come on and break a rhythm like what United had in the first half, it wasn't a red, although the challenge on mata did not help with the decision, just unfortunate that the United weasel went crying to the ref.. Coward Quote Link to post Share on other sites
gnasher16 29,752 Posted March 22, 2015 Report Share Posted March 22, 2015 Not sure why he,s apologising to anyone.......certainly not on camera anyway !Read a good piece on that earlier: * "The man that Steven is, he has apologised, and we move on," said Brendan Rodgers, by no means alone in giving Gerrard credit for taking "full responsibility" for what his leg did. 'Man does good job' deserves applause but 'man says sorry for being a d***' really shouldn't. We have a bizarre obsession in this country for 'fronting up'. Whether you have stamped on somebody's leg, cheated on your wife or mowed down a pedestrian, you get brownie points for saying 'yes, that was me, I did it'. We know you did it, Stevie. You don't have to take 'full responsibility' for us to know what you were fully responsible. Oh and we seem to have missed the apology to the man you actually, you know, stamped on. If he felt like he let his side down apologise to them in the dressing room.....if he felt like he let Liverpool fans down apologise to them in next weeks program...............but this ridiculousness of public apologies in order to be " a good example " .........i suppose its the pressure players are under from advisors these days but i dont recall Franny Lee making an immediate public apology for trying to punch the head off Norman Hunter years ago !!.....But i guess players were just judged as footballers back then and didnt have to conform to monk like behaviour in order for mine and your children to grow up good citizens !! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
gnasher16 29,752 Posted March 22, 2015 Report Share Posted March 22, 2015 I love threads like this as you can tell how much people have actually played... Simple fact is Gerard hit mata with that tackle as if to say "yeah I'm on now, I'm here" Herrera , to try and get back at Gerard came flying in , one leg off the back and Gerard gave him a little Nick, To say, "you want to play like that, I can as well, " Herreras reaction though is classic of the type of player he is, cultured ball players who think they can mix it, pointing and looking for action. He was lucky to stay on with a challenge like that. Gerrard didn't injure anyone, he didn't have a rush of blood or was fired up. It's simple midfield play to come on and break a rhythm like what United had in the first half, it wasn't a red, although the challenge on mata did not help with the decision, just unfortunate that the United weasel went crying to the ref.. Coward You dont think the stamp was a sending off then mate ?......I agree he was brought on to do exactly as you said.......but you cant stamp down on a player like that in todays game mate,he had to go. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
THE STIFFMEISTER 14,629 Posted March 22, 2015 Report Share Posted March 22, 2015 Just shows that when you have been watching players like lampard, Gerard, terry, batty, Keane, shearer, viera, bowyer, Harte, irwin, vidic, all your life you get accustomed to the fact that swollen ankles are part of the pro game and are a given in any league around the uk Pity that the spice boy midfielders so beloved by the European teams , hazard, fabregas xavi etc. and Herrera mata likely coutinho need the protection the game gives them to play. Fair enough they are fantastic on the ball and sublime when in possession but when your needing a fight , and nowhere on a football pitch is this more needed than in midfield, you can't be reliant on them to dig in. Look at the way Chelsea squeezed the barca midfield when they beat them in the semis, or how psg fought Chelsea last week, some people hate scrappy games, but it takes a lot of guts and fitness to fight a scrappy game. Sometimes having a wizard left foot isn't enough. Well off topic and something I have said before but look at Keane in the semi vs juventus. ArguBly the greatest midfield performance by any player I have seen, Gerard was just unlucky to have been on the refs radar Quote Link to post Share on other sites
THE STIFFMEISTER 14,629 Posted March 22, 2015 Report Share Posted March 22, 2015 I played and referre now and I wouldn't have sent him off. He left a foot in as the challenge came, it wasn't a post challenge reaction mate, if he had turned and stamped yes, but he didn't, he merely stayed strong, In chapter and verse, he should have gone, but a word in his shell like and a yellow would have sufficed. Herraras reaction as he gets booked was also inductive, as if Gerard walked, so should he as he was not in control of the challenge, something that has not been widely stated. Incidents like that happen week in week out on the fields, you have no one left on to play if the rules were rigidly enforced. You can say that why should the ref let him off as it's unfair to allow parity for an offence, well when you go down that straight line, Herrera walks as well. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
lanesra 3,961 Posted March 22, 2015 Report Share Posted March 22, 2015 There's A Massive Difference Between A Crunching Tackle & A Stamp . . And As For Coward Id Say Gerrard's Actions Where More Cowardly Than Hierras Response To The Stamp . . Skirtel Was At It As Well At The End On De Gea !! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
gnasher16 29,752 Posted March 22, 2015 Report Share Posted March 22, 2015 Dont referees have strict guidelines they have to adhere to or risk being marked down though ?.......Stamping down on a player is a sending off offence and Gerrard stamped down on a player.......what would you say it is that he,s apologising to his team mates and fans for ? Im not sure if your aware mate but he didnt get sent off for the tackle on Mata he got sent off for stamping down on the 21 whoever that was......im not questioning your expertise mate just im not sure many people would argue it was a straight red in todays game. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
WEDGEY 752 Posted March 22, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 22, 2015 Never a straight red card the problem was the mata challenge before hand it was still in the ref's head Gerrard was up for it and the ref knew it YES he done wrong but he should have never apologized 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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