Depending on who is kicking off, refs are told to protect the ball in such cases. Chelsea should have just done it a couple of yards away.
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It's deliberately twattish behaviour though. Rather than do a huddle in your own half, like normal people, they are asserting their dominance over the pitch by doing it on the centre spot.
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"Move out of the centre-circle and into your own half, or I will start booking you all, one by one"
Job done.
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Protect the ball from what?!
The whole point of it for them is to dominate the ball so they can hardly move elsewhere.
I care little about it, but for me the ref was just being a berk. As most of them are.
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Starting with you Cucurella, and where’s that Garnacho twat?
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Cucurella should be booked before kick off of every match as a pre-emptive measure.
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Protect the ball from the nasty men kicking it? Luckily there are five thousand backup balls, only protected by a little boy on a little camping chair, eyeing it from a distance of five yards, while it's tee'd up on a peg.
It's remarkable that we ever manage to get a game going without these heroic referees protecting the ball until kickoff.
Any Leroy, 'respecting the ball'....oh do fuck off. You're just a poor mans moaninho.
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I remember his dad scoring against us at Upton Park. Might even have got a hat trick , can't be bothered to try and check.
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Rosenior senior got the equaliser in a 3-3 draw in the 88/89 season at Upton Park as Forest blew a 3-1 lead.
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Cunt club avoids points deduction.
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With Bayern's 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th choice keepers injured and their 5th - a 16th year old - needing a special exemption Dave Save is awaiting the call from Sabener Strasse
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I saw a thing earlier that said the only available player in the Bayern squad with senior goalkeeping experience is Harry Kane. They should do it for the lolz.
