Apparently these sprays vanish after a minute or so, that's all right then, any Italian or Argentinian defender worth his salt can always delay a free kick for at least 90 seconds, so, the spray cans may well run-out by half-time.
If it helps, I am all for it; but, I was all for the additional "linesmen" behind the goals, and they've been as much use as a chocolate fire guard. I reserve judgement on this latest Blatter brainchild.
I still maintain, if football bit the bullet and brought in a couple of ideas from rugby - the ten metre sanction for delaying a free-kick, or arguing about the award of a set piece (provided the ten metre penalty was extended to the point where a free-kick could become a penalty), it would cut down the arguing in jig time.
Similarly, if a yellow card meant ten minutes in the sin bin, it would further eliminate offences, albeit initially at perhaps the cost of some games being 45 minutes ov 11 v 11 and 45 of five-a-side, for the good of the game.
COME BACK Craig Whyte. Come on, admit it, for all his crimes, surely in any one-on-one match-up, Craigie Boy comes out as a better club owner than that guy Tan, at Cardiff City.
Not content with turning the Bluebirds into another team in red, he is now hell-bent on sacking big Malky Mackay, the man who got Cardiff into the Premiership for the first time - mair money than sense right enough.
But, well played Malky, who has emerged fromt he entire characde with his considerable dignity intact - just as you would imagine someone whose football education was provided at Hampden and Celtic Park.
WEE Jose Quitongo is back in football, at the very bottom - as manager of Muirkirk Juniors. Speaking as someone was born a long free-kick from Muirkirk's ground and
whose maternal grand-father was player, trainer, committee-man then president of Muirkirk Athletic, the forerunner club to Jose's new team, I wish the wee man well.
He really has picked just about the hardest job in football, as a starting point in his managerial career, but, he will put a smile on the collective face of a near-forgotten village, which badly needs a lift.
First chance I get, I'll be up at Burnside Park to wish Jose and his team well - unless they are playing my own wee team, Lugar Boswell Thistle, that is.
OK
we all accept that PMGB is a tube, with an unhealthy obsession about
Rangers. However, his latest post, which is an attack on Brian
Stockbridge the under-performing Rangers Financial Director does make a
lot of sense. We ought to celebrate such rare moments of clarity from
the Donegal Diddy.
Any idea that emanates from the still-warm-with-sperm-from-the-corrupt-fat-cats-behind-the-scenes lips of such an insidious wee man, must be treated with the same amount of disdain as your granny farting in the car on the ride home on Boxing Day. The tired fool is older than religion and twice as dangerous. Let us accept the farcical spray idea for one moment, but then why not go the whole hog and halt play while we do a live track back on free kicks, penalty decisions and of course, who could forget, the superbly shite goal line technology that works nearly as often as the next wave of Romanian tea leaves. Let the play flow. It's bad enough we will have to suffer the painful tears from the Southerners as they make an early exit, without getting nasty paint marks on the 3 bedraggled and bloodied lions on their shirts.
ReplyDeleteI can't wait to hear old big ears commentate on that wee lot....
That fancy spray has been used in foreign parts (Italy?) for years. The idea of ten minute sin bins in Italian or Uruguayan football would be good, there should be no-one on the pitch within 30 mins!
ReplyDeleteJose is well remembered st Tynie for his last minute goal v Celtic, possibly his only goal if memory serves me right! I hope he succeeds down there.
Spoken like a true Hearts supporter...
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