Quote ="Lord God Jose Mourinho"Roddy - I'm not going to go back through the thread because you might have taken a holiday that week, but was Chelsea's blatant timewasting from the first minute of our game at Anfield acceptable or unacceptable?
I thought the referee was utterly appalling with his control of Krul. Krul made it clear that he was going to absolutely take the urine from the start and he just stood there and let him.
Players have strict rules where they all need to stand and what they need to do. But now keepers can go for a walk while the his opponent is waiting? The keeper can just come forward for a chat?
Look forward to any shootouts in subsequent matches taking 3 times longer because keepers come up with increasingly stupid ways to put players off.
The referee should have ordered Krul back to his line as soon as he walked out. If Krul ignored it he should have booked him. If Krul continued he should have sent him off.
I don't blame Krul. I blame that moron of a ref.'"
You're comparing a bit of wasted time, when play was finished and only penalties were left to take, to blatant time wasting from the first minute? It's not really the same, is it? I don't recall anybody moaning after the game about how long the shootout taken. Is that your issue?
I didn't view what Krul had done as time wasting - I viewed it as trying to gain an advantage over an opponent. I couldn't really give a sh*t what Krul was saying to them, he was doing what he could to gain an advantage. Anybody that's played sports, watched live sports in person or sometimes even watched it live on TV, will know that things like this go on in nearly every sport at nearly every level. It might have intimidated them, but it all adds to the drama for me and I enjoy seeing the mental side of the game on show at the highest level.
For the record. I hate time wasting in play because I've been in stadiums and I've forked out £50+ for a ticket, only to have some t*t on a field waste my time that I've actually paid for. I've never seen a penalty shootout, but given that I'd already had 30 mins extra play, I wouldn't really be complaining about players wasting an extra 20 seconds or so for each penalty.
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