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Bill Thomas, member of blinkers anonymous.

Come on, even you have to admit that it's a bit rich us complaining about a
Rooney elbow when Gerrard is guilty of an alomost identical incident.

As far as the 'not many youtube videos' defence goes. I'll see your rooney
elbow, and raise you a Gerrard two footed lunge:

http://fortheintegrityofsoccer.blogs.com/.a/6a00d83478053469e201127945fcbc28a4-800wi

Don't get me wrong, the Rooney elbow was dangerous and should be punished.

On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Bill Thomas <anfield@me.com> wrote:

> Brown was a more deserving recipient than McCarthy too!! :)
>
> Plus, no ones denying that Gerrard was wrong there. But can anyone come up
> with another Gerrard elbow? There's at a bare minimum three youtube clips
> out there of Rooney incidents. The one I sent yesterday is followed by him
> telling the linesman [who should have clearly seen it right in front of him]
> to go forth in short jerking movements for eventually giving a freekick
> against him.
>
> Rooney constantly goes purple faced telling officials where to go and gets
> nothing.
>
> Here's a couple more incisents
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dHVtqMl0Xg&feature=player_embedded
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxcXT9PH91M
>
> The only thing that surprises me that the opposition don't wind him up more
> often.
>
> Those that complain about this stuff may have "blinkers" but they're not
> blind.
>
> I'm looking forward to the crucial decisions going against the Mancs
> today....yeh, right!!!
>
>
> On 2011-03-01, at 9:24 AM, andym2210 wrote:
>
> > Agreed but in that case it was of course incompetence :)
> >
> > --- In lfc@yahoogroups.com, David Knowles <retroquestions@...> wrote:
> > >
> > > Think there are far too many blinkers on this list. A certain mr
> Gerrard was
> > > more than guilty of a similar 'unseen' incident not so long ago.
> > >
> > > On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 2:19 PM, andym2210
> > > <andy.macleod@...>wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Got out of the coffin on the wrong side Ed?
> > > >
> > > > I dont think this is particularly about one player but about the
> obvious
> > > > bias or incompetence (depending on which way you look at it) on
> behalf of
> > > > the football authorities.
> > > >
> > > > As such it affects Liverpool football club as much as any other club
> so in
> > > > my view is a valid subject for us to discuss and comment on.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > --- In lfc@yahoogroups.com, "Edward Crusoe" <Edward.Crusoe@> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > What the hell?!?
> > > > >
> > > > > We've now had more comments about a bloody Manc player than our own
> > > > games.
> > > > >
> > > > > This is the Liverpool list, you know.
> > > > >
> > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > From: Colin Rowlands
> > > > > Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2011 12:38 PM
> > > > > To: lfc@yahoogroups.com
> > > > > Subject: RE: [lfc] Dave Whelan
> > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story/_/id/887476/dave-whelan-claims-
> > > > > > double-standards-over-wayne-rooney-escape?cc=5739
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Not really double standards so much as incompetence and/or
> dishonesty
> > > > > really and all that rubbish from Riley about refs relying on
> peripheral
> > > > > vision to pick up on an off the ball incident clearly ignores the
> > > > > assistant who was right on top of the incident and should have
> brought
> > > > > it to the refs attention.
> > > > >
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