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VILLAIN OF THE WEEK 10-4-08
Peter Owen
Welcome to Villain of the Week - the most upfront feature the face of football has ever eyed. It promotes honesty and relegates villains - and has no match.
Let's move straight on to this week's nominations...
Johnson – Birmingham
Your tackle on Kilbane was another nightmare on Elm Street.
Lucas – Liverpool
You were lucky not to concede a penalty after holding Fabregas.
Guthrie – Bolton
A less experienced referee may have taken a dislike to your steam but at least you will be able to cool off in the Championship.
Baros – Portsmouth
Yours was a rather sly but a very well controlled arm-to-foot goal.
Mark Hughes - Blackburn
You criticise referees' decisions every week so you can obviously see through dense fog whilst wearing a blindfold, such is your eyesight.
Sir Alex Ferguson – Man Utd
You don’t like it up you do you? And when the extra time board went
up, the assistant should have told you to get back in position.
And so over to the panel...
Graham Frankland
Tackles like those perpetrated by Damien Johnson have no place in our game and that is the sentiment of all involved in football.
Those tackles serve no purpose but to injure your opponent. Fortunately, in this case, Kilbane was lucky enough to escape intact. A red card was rightfully shown and the time of inactivity should be used by Johnson to reflect on his actions and hopefully will result in him never repeating what we saw on Saturday. You are my villain of the week Mr Johnson.
James Bassett
I'm adding my own nomination this week. Gary O'Neil's trip on Ronaldo was the most cynical foul of the entire weekend. Just because it was by a Boro player against Ronaldo, it doesn't make it okay.
Jeff Winter
Johnson – It was a terrible tackle and deserved a red card.
Lucas – It was a sly act and should have been a penalty.
Guthrie – I doubt those comments Peter. He will go back to Liverpool reserves probably, although Bolton do want to sign him permanently.
Baros – It was match deciding. At least he did not try and deny it.
Mark Hughes -
You criticise referees' decisions every week so you can obviously see through dense fog wearing a blindfold, such is your eyesight.
I would expect nothing less from Mr. Grumpy.
Sir Alex Ferguson -
You don’t like it up you do you? And when the extra time board went
up, the assistant should have told you to get back in position.
I would expect nothing less from Mr. Grumpy.
My overall winner has to be Baros. Whilst it was nowhere near as violent as Johnson, this was a match defining form of cheating. There is no comeback in an FA Cup semi final.
Peter's analysis:
Our expert panellists have run the rule over this week’s nominations and the best
feature on the net kicks off again!
Lucas of Liverpool was very fortunate that his hold on Fabregas went unseen but
the ref and his assistant didn’t seem too concerned.
Guthrie lost possession and tried to steam in to put things right. According to the
grapevine, he is only a filler-in anyway - and not a very good brand name at that.
Parrot Faced Hughes is just a pain in the backside and moans about every referee. If Bentley goes on holiday then I suggest a two week diving course off-shore.
Ferguson would argue with a mirror if he got marooned on a desert island. So from
now on he will be known as Tom Hanks Junior. The one trophy he would love to lift
is that extra time indicator board and I am not joking either.
Johnson of Birmingham could have blown the whistle on Kilbane’s season with his
lunge.
The leg breaking news is that the FA have a plan to cure it next season. I can well
understand Graham’s anger because an ex-referee of his calibre must feel that
the game is going to the dogs. Perhaps that sums up Johnson to perfection.
James has seen fit to add O’Neil of the Boro to the nomination list after his tackle on Ronaldo. That is the beauty of opinions and explains why penalties are choice!
I accept it was a touch rash but at the same time I feel Rooney’s follow through on
Mark Schwarzer and his ongoing gob are also worth mentioning. Two Boro players
have picked up our award this season which shows that this feature favours no-one!!
However, O’Neil has been nominated and in due course has had his hand slapped.
To reach the semi-final of the FA Cup is a dream in itself, even though one team
will have to shake hands and accept defeat.
I’ve read a load of crap about the incident, so let’s put that to sleep first.
Referees unfortunately cannot see round corners and when a ball is controlled by
any player at such height and speed, their assistant’s eye balls do not magnify.
Even Kanu would not have been wise to what lay behind his simple tap in.
I do not like having the casting vote unless it concerns the thickness of the rope
because I am more into erecting the gallows than bothering about the noose!
However, Baros wins it hands down and is our “Villain of the Week”. It’s just a pity that more observation hasn’t a structure which would have sin-binned the goal.
If anyone begs to differ with our expert panel's observations then please be kind
enough to stick a name tag on your own balls and shout out.
That excludes our thousands of female fans of course, who adore the scent that
they give off each and every week… which I simply spray about.
Finally, the penalty which was awarded to Liverpool stretched Pinocchio’s nose at
least another inch I reckon. I cannot wait to see that reviewed and answered...
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