21.11.11 Yakubu Corner

The fiasco on Saturday shows how pathetic things have become in the world of football.  On a number of levels, the episode of the corner kick taken by Blackburn in the game against Wigan was a low point in the Premier League.

1  Yakubu placed the ball (for a change, in the quadrant rather outside it, which is where most players these days think they can put the ball) and decided not to take the kick but leave it for someone else.  He did not touch the ball - not that 'touching it' would have had any fucking relevance.

2  Pedersen went over to the ball and passed it to himself.  He played it three times, sending it towards the goal mouth for Hoilett to score.  Pedersen quite simply cheated.  If this is how low players will now stoop to get one over on the opposition, then the whole fucking division deserves to drown in its own gripes, moans, stresses and anger.  Where is the integrity?  Where has honour gone?

3  Yakubu grinned as he wriggled and squirmed when asked if he'd touched the ball in an interview after the match.  Without being forthright, he admitted that he did not touch the ball.  Where the fuck was his embarrassment at being party to a con, and contributing to a flawed result?

4  The referee had his back to the ball and the corner of the pitch, so was unaware of what had occurred.  Apparently 'officials claimed they thought Yakubu had touched the ball'.  What cunting crap!  No fucker had a clue - that's the truth.  Four match officials (there's a ban of course on TV evidence) but none was able to ensure proper play.  To retrospectively attest to Yakubu having touched the ball is clutching at straws.

5  Further to point 4, and of rather more relevance and significance for officials, is the fact that touching the ball does not in any event make the ball playable.  For a ball to come into play, it must travel "its own circumference".  So, Yakubu would have had to tap the ball such that it travelled about 30 inches before it could be played.  This proves desperation on the part of officials, and that they are in turn trying to con the public with an excuse - based on ignoring rules!  Appalling input from the fucking bods in black.

6  Where is the fine for the smug Yakubu and Pedersen, who snigger after the goal when celebrating their good fortune.

Flawed refereeing, cheating by players, flawed 'justification' from officials after the event, proof upon analysis that there is no integrity left.  Overpaid cheats and thugs now constitute 60% of all players.

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