Platini nice bloke after all?

[Snedger]

Yep, didn't what's his name....... the ref....Colini? have a shocker as well?

Yeah, I am sure it was a stitch up. They changed the rule for the Dippers but made sure they got rid of the 5th English club very quickly. Everton got an unusually tough qualifying match draw against Villareal and Collina who had already retired just pops back for one game and gives some shocking decisions including disallowing a perfectly good goal late on by Ferguson. Why would he just ref one game at the start of the season and then retire?

 

[abigsmurf]

Seen today that Blatter has come out and said there needs to be an alternative to penalties. He had a chat with the Bayern president and he agrees!!!(!!!!)

What a joke that man is. A football governing body shouldn't publicly put his sour grapes on show quite so obviously.

If there was a better alternative to penalties, we'd be using them. There isn't. TV stations don't want to show 180minutes games, clubs don't want their players to get injured playing endless games.

 

[Cam]

How about this. Blatter sits in the middle of the pitch, and the first team to get a player to cleat him in the face wins the tournament.

The team can choose one player, so it's fair, and the fans will be eagerly anticipating the result so it will be entirely entertaining.

In fact, it could be stand alone event. I would buy a ticket to it.