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VILLAIN OF
THE WEEK 18-9-08
Peter Owen
Welcome to Villain of the Week - the most upfront feature the face of football has ever eyed. It promotes honesty and relegates cheats - and has no match.
Let's move straight on to this week's nominations:
Game: Liverpool v Man Utd, Player: Albert Riera of Liverpool
You seemed to be doing fine until you crossed that white line
and ended up diving inside the box.
Game: Newcastle v Hull, Player: Peter Halmosi of Hull City
When Nicky Butt tackled you inside the box you exaggerated the incident
beyond all proportion.
Game: Blackburn v Arsenal, Player: Emmanuel Eboue of Arsenal
You found the wings to soar over Warnock’s legs inside the box, but your dive was pathetic and on top of that, you feigned injury!
Game: Wigan v Sunderland, Player: Lee Cattermole of Wigan
You played right into the hands of referee Rob Styles with your two open leg challenges and left him with the simplest of tasks.
Game: Portsmouth v Boro, Player: Nadir Belhadj of Portsmouth
You hit Downing like a tug in distress and the ref was out of his depth.
Game: Newcastle v Hull, Player: Danny Guthrie of Newcastle
Fagan of Hull must have thought you were a Rottweiler biting at his legs and the red card was what you were begging for.
Game: Liverpool v Man Utd, Player: Nemanja Vidic of Man Utd
The ref gave you the benefit of the doubt when you brought a leg out to
bring down Keane as he was heading for goal. However, you then chose
to lead with the elbow during an aerial clash with Alonso and paid the price.
Game: Man City v Chelsea, Player: John Terry of Chelsea
You were sent packing because apart from anything else you grabbed Jo round the waist to prevent him from advancing on goal.
Game: Stoke v Everton, Player: Leon Cort of Stoke
You handled the ball.
Steve has the casting vote this week:
Steve Goldby
My nomination this week is Danny Guthrie of Newcastle in Saturday's game between the Geordies and Hull City.
The foul which earned Guthrie a red card at the end of the game mirrors
exactly the frustration and tension that exists at Newcastle right now and as the team clearly didn't want to be there on Saturday, maybe Guthrie's blatant hack was a deliberate attempt to escape St James's early?
Guthire misses two games now but he can console himself with winning my
nomination for VotW this week.
Peter’s analysis:
This feature gives every fan the opportunity to air their respective views.
It is the only one kicking about in football that has no match or substitute.
It even has an honesty award to boot if someone comes up smelling of roses.
Therefore, on the back of the above, let’s blow the whistle on the villains and look at a few very basic points in regard to the game's officials!
Riera of Liverpool had perfect balance as he dribbled between defenders but when he entered the box, his legs turned into strawberry jelly. You are another diver.
Halmosi of Hull City was fouled by Butt inside the box but he completely exaggerated the incident and didn’t he look totally pathetic? You are another diver.
Eboue's dive must have shown up on an Air Traffic Controller's screen and the Gunners have more divers than we sent to the Olympic Games.
Cattermole of Wigan only needed a word in the ear from ref Rob Styles after his first mediocre challenge and it would have probably saved a red card. I hope Styles realises that one is allowed to talk to the players as well as the captains.
Guthrie of Newcastle behaved like a family Rottweiler chasing a cat burglar out of the house and the words of Steve Goldby - our expert panellist - say it all. The Newcastle team certainly did not want to be there and neither do all those loyal-hearted fans.
Vidic of Man Utd had the bastard cheek to say that our weather was foul. He could have been sent off by ref Howard Webb for using his leg so recklessly in the first incident but he then goes in with a deliberate elbow when the game was lost.
When Terry of Chelsea put the bear hug on Jo, referee Mark Halsey showed him the correct card, which was red. To have that overturned pours utter ridicule on a referee of his vast experience.
What guideline will Mark Halsey and the other refs use as their benchmark now when producing a red card? This is the question without an answer. If Terry had grabbed hold of Linford Christie’s shirt, would that have made any difference?
When Jeff Winter was the top-whistle in the Premiership, the vast majority of refs were a team of competent minded individuals with strength of character.
As things stand at present, we only have a few referees who are the business and the others are a pool of good refs who are all short of becoming anything other.
The awareness levels of some refs and their assistants are so amateurish that they are inviting trouble, as we saw over the weekend on the swings and roundabouts!
The Everton manager should not have ended up in the stands. Ref Alan Wiley had a perfect view of the incident and this was why he pointed to the spot immediately. But instead of listening to his assistant and putting him right on the incident, he let water in.
Referee Atwell took Mido’s facial knock in his stride and waved play on. However, he should have been looking over his shoulder to keep time with developments and the play should have been stopped under that recognised fact.
Hackett could not patrol an empty car-park in daylight hours and what we are seeing now is his total incompetence.
I don’t believe in demoting an established referee who makes an error, because what already lives upstairs in their minds is fully furnished and well past touching up.
Our honesty award is well earned this week. Kevin Keegan usually walks out for the wrong reasons and needed to bury that tag. The three wise men are now finished but the fans will see the resurrection of their new Messiah perhaps.
Steve - our expert panellist - has duly awarded our prestigious Villain of the Week prize to Guthrie of Newcastle, who looked like he was kicking his way out of the ground.
Respect is everything in life and those losing morons from Croatia who racially abused Emile Heskey have the mentality level of a limbo dancer’s arse at the height of its performance.
If you disagree with any aspect of this feature - or wish to offer a different view - then please shout up... especially on the John Terry incident.
Peter
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