Strangest booking I've ever seen

Stuttgart were 1 nil up today and their opposition made a mistake at the back allowing the Stuttgart striker to nip in between keeper and defender and run towards the net for a certain goal. However instead of scoring straight away he stood on the line waiting until the keeper eventually ran back at which point he kicked it into the net.

The ref booked him.

I honestly don't see why. The ball was in play and he was doing exactly what jeepers do every game, standing with the ball at their feet till strikers chase them down but for some reason the ref booked him

 

Unsporting behaviour?

 

I just watched it - the booking needs to be rescinded.

He hasn't done anything wrong. Is it nice? No. Would I like it if I were the 'keeper? No. But those are subjective laments. He's done nothing wrong.

 

Where do you draw the line. How many should have been booked at Huddersfield. For not continuing to play in the right spirit.
Although relieved at the end, I was fuming at the time thinking Peterborough could equalise during the shenanigans. Relegating us on goal difference. Exasperation then jubilation.

Don’t blame the player btw. He was just running the clock down In injury time. No different to any other time wasting exercise.

 

Running the clock down has been around as long as I can remember. Totally understandable.How many of us shout. “ GET IT INTO THE CORNER “ to run it down. I do.

 

Sadly of all sports football is the worst for out and out cheating and
as fired said "shithousery".
The problem is it's all too often written off as "part of the game" when on many occasions there are rules that the ref can enforce but doesn't
(kicking the ball away, picking the ball up and walking away holding on to it, faking injury in the last 5 minutes etc)
not to mention diving, screaming like yve been electrocuted and rolling around only to leap up when the ref doesn't give the free kick. when was the last time ya saw someone booked for obstructing a free kick although this is a bookable offence. sadly it won't change because there's no will to change it from the clubs and players.for me it's spoilt the game and these days (apart from the super Reds) I don't watch much football anymore.

 

Didn't Terry Curran (?????) do something similar for Sheff Weds many years ago?
He bamboozled the keeper and then dropped to the ground to head the ball over the line.
Or am I making this up ... can't remember exactly.

 

I vaguely recollect George Best doing something similar back in the day. He had turned a couple of defenders inside out and did the same thing. However when a defender ran towards him he went to beat him again and in the end failed to score. Utd were about three up at the time and it didn’t affect the result. The great shame about Best was being Irish he never played at top international events, World Cup etc otherwise he would have been recognised as the greatest of them all. He never had to resort to using his hands.

 

You’re making it up

 

Mitch Wards second yellow at Fulham. Let him play on for 3/4 mins before liner told ref it was his second yellow, so then showed him red.

 

Stupid decision as far as I can see, you can’t differentiate one type of holding onto the ball from another.
What’s he done wrong? If it was time wasting it would be minuscule, it’s hardly likely to be repeated on anything like a regular basis.
How can it be unsporting behaviour, football is after all an entertainment sport and fans love to see a piss take on the opposition, be it nutmeggging, a winger turning players inside out and holding the ball in the corner, what’s the difference?

 

It's a shame we weren't there Friday to shout it to Cauley

 

Can remember many years ago before the back pass rule there was a European game and the winning team were just passing it along their back 4 and keeper for a long period of time.

The referee just got fed up of it and booked them all.

 

I might be in the minority but I think it's just as hard to hold the ball in the corner as it is to try and score the goal that would put the game to bed. How many times does a striker get penalised for backing in whilst trying to hold the ball in the corner? If you've got the pace and the wear with all to beat the defender into the corner you've got the pace and wear with all to put a cross in or take a man on and shoot at goal.

 

When I was at school I played in goal in a superb team that won every match we played for 3 successive seasons. We regularly scored double figures. In one game, when I was about 14, we were leading by 10 goals to 0, and we got a penalty. Somebody put the ball on the spot and the lads called me up to take it. It was the longest penalty run up ever, from my penalty area without stopping, and I blasted it in. We scored another and won the game 12-0.

After the game the coaches of both teams came to see me and explained softly that what I had done was to publically humiliate the other team. I was young and inexperienced, but I remembered that occasion and, despite having numerous opportunities, never did it again.

Years later in 2006, it actually nearly happened in an international match between Germany and San Marino. The game ended 13-0, and near the end the German 'keeper wanted to take a penalty. The San Marino players protested that it was humiliating, and the 'keeper, Jens Lehmann, backed down.

So, after all that, I think the scorer was taking the p*** and was rightly booked.

 

Any chance of a link to this yellow card, don't do twitter, cheers.

 

Ow, some on the BBS take the **** & are never ever booked

 

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