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Ball or Balloon?

Posted by Active Sara Jan 29, 2008

Check out Sheffield United's goal against Manchester City.

The rules state that if there is another ball on the field the game is stopped. Furthermore, it also states that if there are any other objects on the field that can interfere with play, the game is stopped. In my opinion, there is no way this play should have gone on with all the balloons scattered in the box. It isn't Michael Ball's fault, it's the refs fault. The refs should have taken control of the situation on the field.

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Jan 29, 2008 3:15 PM Reply

jspitzberg

Fluke goal, sure. But there's no way that Man Citeh should have gone on to lose 0-2 to the Blades. As I wrote on my blog:

"What does it mean that Citeh were taken apart by Sheffield United? It is certainly unsettling that for the n-th game running they looked horrible in possession. Seemingly all teams have to do is man-mark Elano and shift the defence over to pay attention to Petrov on the left. SGE tried to overcome that by moving MPet to the right in the second half, but it didn't seem like anyone else was aware of that. He just never saw the ball even when he was in acres of space. And Citeh just had too few chances in attack. And those they did have were snuffed out by good defending or just wasted.

Having lost Richards in the back they were seemingly suceptible to pace and were cut apart on several occassions by the Blades' counter attack (get it? "cut apart". "Blades".)."

Citeh have a chance to put things right playing Derby County tomorrow, but it won't be long before they go from being called "Sven's entertainers" back to being called "Man Citeh to nil".

Jan 29, 2008 3:21 PM Reply

jspitzberg

Make that "Man Citeh nil" in the above post. Just another example of why I'm a code monkey, not a writer.

Jan 29, 2008 3:27 PM Reply

Trish18

I think this would have been a goal whether the balloons were there or not--but I agree it should have not been ruled a goal. If officials do not implement the rule of "if there are any other objects on the field that can interfere with play, the game is stopped" in this situation, when else would they?? They were clearly in the way.

Feb 1, 2008 1:51 PM Reply

Active Sara in response to: Trish18

Yeah I was shocked it was counted as a goal. I didn't see the whole game just the clip but there definitely should have been a time where the refs could have and should have stopped play.