http://www.footymedia.com/videos/Soc...eestyle_Soccer

A must see. ^

Call my cynical but I was just dying for someone like Stuart Pearce to come along & take someone`s legs out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-keC9GymLpI

What ever happened to fair play aye? I suppose dirty tricks are allowed as long as the English do it, but when the Portuguese do it it's an outrage?

What do you mean?

I mean it was a dirty trick and the goal should not have been recognized if the judge had any sense. Not to mention that the French were totally robbed because there was no foul.

Why?

The rules of free kicks are pretty simple , the ref asks the player if he wants 10 yards , if he says no he can take the free kick straight away.
One of the things I was taught was if you concede a foul just outside the area you stand over the ball & block any quick free kicks being taken while your goalkeeper sets up a wall & wait for the referee to tell you to go back 10 yards.

You don`t have to wait for the ref to tell you to take a free kick in any other areas of the pitch.

If you give away a foul then the other team gets the advantage , plain & simple.

Edit: You beat me to it Urb. ^ See Marijan...

*sighs heavily*

If by judge you mean referee, then he did the right thing.
Nowhere in the rules (which you should read by the way) says anything about having to wait for a whistle.
The only time a game is restarted by the whistle is for a retake (Starting the match/2nd half/a penalty/ after a goal is scored). A player can take the free kick at any time he chooses, unless he asks for the wall to be a full 10 yards away. The referee will then tell the kick taker to wait for the whistle while he makes sure the wall is a full 10 yards.

Giggs told the ref to go away and he got on with the game...GOAL.
Cue mardarse Frenchmen spitting out their dummies and throwing their toys around. They should, like you, read the rulebook. :laughing:

I saw this on the news last night.

Personally, I see nothing wrong with it.
Little girls getting all antsy because they conceded a goal.
Jesus.

Ever heard of fair play? It doesn't say the players have to throw the ball out if someone is injured, but they do it anyway because of fair play. That free kick was the equivalent of a surprise punch while the guy is not looking. It's disgraceful, but then again, football is far from being a gentleman's game now is it? Anything is allowed, surprise free kicks as well as faking a foul and getting the other team's player thrown out. What bothers me is the utter hypocrisy of it all. If those players had a shred of dignity they wouldn't have tried winning that way. It's not very honorable...Man. U. was clearly the better team and if not in this game, they would have proven it in the next one.

I suppose you think it's ungentlemanly to put a goalkeeper in the goals after conceding a penalty too?
The biggest sour face was the keeper, of all the players on the pitch he knew the score. He got caught napping and it embarrassed him.
Maybe next time he won't be foolish enough to stand at his post farting around with his wall, when the ball is active.