Weekend Football: 10th -> 15th May - Looks like we've made it.

[Rosco]

Mike McCurry had a bad game but it doesn't make him a cheat. Some cheek of Celtic supporters to be up in arms about the refereeing of our match considering some of the favourable decisions they've had recently. Swings and roundabouts and all that.

[Jushin Liger]

Motherwell In Europe!

Fuckin Yas! We were brillliant at points earlier in the season and I was waiting for the wheels to fall off but we stuck to it and got results when we had to. I can't wait to go to some eastern european country and see us get put out by a mob I've never heard of. Reaching the group stages and playing a big club would be amazing but it might be beyond us but Aberdeen got through which shows it can be done.

Mark McGhee, genius!

[Rosco]

Dundee Utd looking to sue over McCurry

For what exactly? This is bonkers.

P.S. Congrats to Motherwell, terrific for them getting into Europe, hope they can get some goos results in Europe next year.

[Draven]

Originally Posted by From article

Record Sport also understands that several people at Dundee United, including manager Craig Levein, have seen television pictures which appear to show McCurry saying to Rangers' Nacho Novo, "Good goal, Nacho" midway through the first half after the Spaniard had put his side 2-0 up.

Uh oh, big Chris Maximius is not going to leave this one lying.

[Watty]

Originally Posted by Rosco

hope they can get some goos results in Europe next year.

Aye I'll have a gander at a couple of their games as well.

[Rosco]

Originally Posted by Draven

Uh oh, big Chris Maximius is not going to leave this one lying.

He doesn't leave anything lying

[Draven]

Originally Posted by Rosco

He doesn't leave anything lying

Don't worry, he's currently occupied with a campaign against farmers markets, he might miss this one.

[XMachina]

Originally Posted by Westy

I doubt he's going to blatently cheat in front of 50,000 fans and tv crews. I don't agree with the cheating bastard bit. If he did, he'd be risking his job. And I just don't see that happening.

Why don't you see it happening? It happened in Italy at the behest of a club who held quite a bit of sway with the National Association and blatant cheating in front of large crowds happened in Brazil and Germany to name but 2. What makes Scotland so different?

[Rosco]

Are you alleging some big corruption case with nothing else to back it up except paranoia?

[AWESOMEUS MAXIMUS]

Well, someone think's there's plenty of facts to back it up, that's why there's a lawyer involved.
No Lawyer worth his salt would accept that case if he didn't think there was grounds for appeal.

Originally Posted by Rosco

Mike McCurry had a bad game but it doesn't make him a cheat. Some cheek of Celtic supporters to be up in arms about the refereeing of our match considering some of the favourable decisions they've had recently. Swings and roundabouts and all that.

It was more than bad game.
It was cheating.

How you can honestly, straight face, say it was "just a bad game", after seeing the decisions, is honestly, beyond me.

Levein's got a lawyer on the case as you say!
Well in Craig, fully backed.

There's a wee interview with him here with some english journo;
More or less the same as the interview with Clyde 1, except you can see the rage on his face.

http://sports.setanta.com/en/Sport/N...tch-v-Rangers/

Originally Posted by Jushin Liger

Motherwell In Europe!

Fuckin Yas! We were brillliant at points earlier in the season and I was waiting for the wheels to fall off but we stuck to it and got results when we had to. I can't wait to go to some eastern european country and see us get put out by a mob I've never heard of. Reaching the group stages and playing a big club would be amazing but it might be beyond us but Aberdeen got through which shows it can be done.

Mark McGhee, genius!

Aye, fully deserved.
Been great all season...bit gutted it leaves the teams below with less to play for (obviously as it effects us, but, well in all the same.

[Jaemi]

Tha was an utterly shocking decision by the linesman, the fact that the ref was in a better position to see that it hit Davie Weir makes it all the more mystifying.

Dundee Utd denied a pen and had a goal chopped off, Levein was rigtly raging. "what's the point in us playing on" he said to the ref.
That display has saved Rangers in the SPL title race, no doubt.

[Stew]

Originally Posted by Stew

According to the BBC website, Olof Mellberg bought a Villa shirt emblazoned with 'Mellberg: Thanks 4 your support' for each of the 3,200 travelling Villa fans today, his last game before leaving for Juventus.

If he paid £30.00 per shirt (though I'm sure he didn't) it would've cost him £96k, well over 2 weeks wages within Villa's pay structure.

Absolute, utter class.

Managed to find some images of this.

[Jaemi]

Originally Posted by Rosco

Mike McCurry had a bad game but it doesn't make him a cheat. Some cheek of Celtic supporters to be up in arms about the refereeing of our match considering some of the favourable decisions they've had recently. Swings and roundabouts and all that.

You can go back, literally years, and see that Mike McCurry seems to always have bad games. Problem is, 99% of his fuck ups in these "bad games" go in favour of Rangers.

[Rosco]

Mike McCurry explains the decisions

Referee Michael McCurry has today moved to explain the reasoning behind two of the decisions he took during this weekend’s match between Rangers and Dundee United at Ibrox.

“In the 55th minute of the match Rangers were in possession of the ball and attempted to clear it from their defensive area. As is normal practice, I started to run towards the half way line, anticipating the ball being cleared from defence. The clearance, however, was not successful and the ball struck Noel Hunt of Dundee United, who then played a very quick “one-two” allowing him to chase the ball into the penalty area closely followed by David Weir of Rangers.

“At this point, given the very quick change of the direction of play, I was caught out of position and my line of sight was partially obstructed by another player.

“I saw Noel Hunt fall to the ground with David Weir in close proximity behind him. As my vantage point was extremely poor it was not possible for me to say what or, if any, infringement had occurred.

“Given this significant doubt in my mind it would have been improper for me to simply conclude that an infringement had occurred on the opposite side of the field of play from me. On this basis, I had no option but to allow play to continue amidst the appeal for a penalty kick.

“I have now had the benefit of seeing the incident again on television. I believe that were it not for the fact that I had been caught out of position by the quick transfer of play I would have awarded Dundee United a penalty and would have cautioned the Rangers player David Weir. In my opinion there was another defender in close proximity with the possible opportunity to make a defensive challenge on the attacker.

“In the 71st minute Dundee United were in possession of the ball and Danny Swanson shot towards the Rangers goal from approximately 30-35 yards. The ball appeared to me to be deflected off a Rangers player and entered the goal.

“As I turned to award a goal to Dundee United it was brought to my attention that the stand side Assistant Referee had his flag raised signalling that an offside infringement had occurred. I also noticed that a Dundee United player required medical treatment.

“Having made sure that the player received the required treatment, I then went across to the Assistant Referee and confirmed that he was signalling for an offside infringement. He confirmed this was the case and informed me that a Dundee United player had been in an offside position and that he had played the ball prior to it entering the goal.

“I informed the Assistant Referee that it appeared to me that the ball was deflected off a Rangers player. The Assistant Referee told me that he had not seen it touch a Rangers player but had definitely seen it played by the Dundee United player, David Robertson. Given that David Robertson was behind the Rangers player, my view was such that I could not tell if the ball had been played by Mr Robertson last before entering the goal. Consequently, I decided to accept the advice of my Assistant Referee.

“Again, having had the opportunity to review the incident on television, it is clear to me that the ball is not played by the Dundee United player Robertson who was, however, technically in an offside position and was in close proximity to the ball.

“I can understand the difficulty faced by my assistant referee in this incident and why, David Robertson may have been considered offside.

“Again, with the benefit of seeing the incident again numerous times on television, I consider it would have been more appropriate to conclude that the player, David Robertson, was not involved in active play and would have allowed the goal to stand.”

Of course, it's a conspiracy. Taken from the SFA website.

[Jaemi]

And what?
He thought the goal should've stood and still thought this when he spoke to his linesman, then decided to take the linesmans decsion?
But thats alright, he apologised.