Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: "Rikki Prince" Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: Freetalk - La Football! Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 19:06:45 -0000 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 22 Message-ID: <9790q7$7e1@www.netyaroze-europe.com> References: <976uu6$mal4@www.netyaroze-europe.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: th-gt148-152.pool.dircon.co.uk X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 "Tony Bolton" wrote in message news:976uu6$mal4@www.netyaroze-europe.com... > So, is there any Liverpool supporters out there, or indeed Roma nes - and > dare I say it, was it a penalty ?!?! Nope, not a penalty - he was protecting himself and his arms were held to his body. It wasn't purposeful handball, and most fair refs don't give those as penalties, though there's ambiguity as refs are sometimes asked to use their own judgement, and other times told to stick strictly to the rules. As for what the ref. was doing, I have no idea. I still haven't heard a statement from the ref explaining what he did. Roma have lodged a complaint, and want the match replayed, so we'll probably soon find out what he did. I'm glad Roma didn't win as they dived too much and were dirty tacklers. And they had the evil one, Batistuta on their team... Rikki