Soccer

--- In lfc@yahoogroups.com, John Deacon <jrd@...> wrote:
>
>
> well, we're all very quiet aren't we ?
>
> so just for something to say, did anyone hear the 'Monday Night Club' on
> Radio 5 on, errr, Monday evening? they had John Motson and a journo whose
> name escapes me who ended up arguing with Steve Claridge about the
> 'disputed' goal against Sunderland.
>
> very entertaining to hear Claridge arguing how he thought there was
> nothing wrong with the goal as any player would have done the same thing
> and it doesn't matter whether the ref was right or wrong, Sunderland took
> the free kick from the right place and Torres was fully in the right to
> take the ball etc etc. Sunderland appealed but the player who took the
> kick knew he'd made a mistake. the journo argument was that it was
> 'against the spirit of the game' and that Torres could have scored but
> felt guilty and knew he'd done something wrong so passed it to Kuyt so he
> had an 'accomplice'.
>

SNIP

The journo in question who was accusing Torres and Kuyt and vehemently disagreeing with the sympathetic Claridge and slightly less sympathetic John Motson was....

Ian McGarry, who 'writes' for .... The S*n. What a surprise!

John (aka Statto)