English Premier League 2014-2015

[horses4courses]

Originally Posted by PhantomOnTour

As I predicted in Post #1

What a turn of events in the QPR-ManCity match.
QPR scores twice in about 45 seconds and both are disallowed. The first was way offsides and the second one was an obscure ruling about a "double touch" on a free kick.
City goalie Joe Hart was taking the free kick after the offsides goal and he slipped, tipped the ball with his lead foot and then hit it his with his other foot (which went straight to a QPR player who put it in the net)...but that's a double touch and a City player must be the next man to touch the ball before a QPR player can legally have it.
Makes no sense

That is an obscure rule.
You will wait a long time before seeing that again.
Joe Hart can count himself very lucky to have touched it twice.

I agree that Chelsea should stroll to the title.
They are too solid for anyone else right now.

[PhantomOnTour]

Huge game just underway btw Chelsea and ManCity.
A win by Chelsea may just wrap this title up.

Costa and Fabregas out for Chelsea today...big losses

[DJofSD]

Ya, ya, the DVR is catching it for me for later viewing.

[horses4courses]

Originally Posted by PhantomOnTour

Huge game just underway btw Chelsea and ManCity.
A win by Chelsea may just wrap this title up.

Costa and Fabregas out for Chelsea today...big losses

I wasn't able to watch more than a few minutes of this match.
Chelsea are odds-on to win the title, and rightfully so.

However, if they hit a bad patch, there is one team playing
well enough right now who might get into the race late.
That team? Arsenal.

Currently 50-1 odds to win the Premier League, they can't
afford many slip ups in order to challenge, but their recent
win against Man. City was impressive and well deserved.

Arsenal could just play themselves into the race, should
Chelsea and City hit the skids for a couple of weeks.

You heard it here!

[cj's dad]

Originally Posted by horses4courses

That is an obscure rule.
You will wait a long time before seeing that again.
Joe Hart can count himself very lucky to have touched it twice.

I agree that Chelsea should stroll to the title.
They are too solid for anyone else right now.

It only seems obscure because it rarely happens. The rule interpretation was 100% correct

I am assuming it was a goal kick which is an indirect free kick

From the Sheffield Rules

"The referee indicates an indirect free kick by raising his arm above his head until the kick has been taken and ball has touched another player other than the kicker or has gone out of play"

If, when the free kick is taken by the defending team from inside its own penalty area, the ball does not travel directly out of the penalty area:

• the kick is retaken

RE:Chelsea- I agree they are the best but harken back to Liverpool last year; the title was theirs to lose which they accomplished easily !!




BTW- Swansea polled a huge road upset vs. Southhampton yesterday and Astom Villa has now gone 10+ hours of league play without a goal. Can you say relegation ?


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[horses4courses]

Will Hill customer at Tuscany wins over $8500 for fifty bucks.
This is progress as far as wagering goes in Nevada.
Less than a few years back, NV books would not parlay multiple soccer games.

[horses4courses]

Figures are a year old, but can't have changed much.

[horses4courses]

Originally Posted by CurtisontheBay

It only seems obscure because it rarely happens. The rule interpretation was 100% correct

I am assuming it was a goal kick which is an indirect free kick

From the Sheffield Rules

"The referee indicates an indirect free kick by raising his arm above his head until the kick has been taken and ball has touched another player other than the kicker or has gone out of play"

If, when the free kick is taken by the defending team from inside its own penalty area, the ball does not travel directly out of the penalty area:

• the kick is retaken

RE:Chelsea- I agree they are the best but harken back to Liverpool last year; the title was theirs to lose which they accomplished easily !!




BTW- Swansea polled a huge road upset vs. Southhampton yesterday and Astom Villa has now gone 10+ hours of league play without a goal. Can you say relegation ?


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Missed this post, COTB

You're spot on about the rule.
It's just that it only comes up about once every 10 years.
Even more rare than a foul throw in, which I actually saw called yesterday.
Been years since I've seen that come up, too.

Chelsea have a stranglehold on the title.
City are in and out of form, and while Arsenal and Spurs
are playing very well, they have next to no chance of challenging.

Southampton, Man.Utd., and Liverpool are fighting for fourth place
at best - and that means a lot to them for Euro qualifying next season.
Nothing is impossible, though. Chelsea pick up some injuries,
get some more suspensions like Costa's, they might lose a few games.

They have to self-destruct to lose the PL, and someone has to get hot.
They're approaching the 3/8ths pole about 6 in front.

I haven't studied the relegation situation, yet.
Those lower teams are so Jekyll and Hyde.


Btw, should be a good game between Liverpool and Spurs tomorrow.
Harry Kane has been scoring goals like crazy lately, and Liverpool
are improving - plus Sturridge is healthy again.

[cj's dad]

Harry Kane could be the next Suarez !

[DJofSD]

Only if he starts to bite players.

[horses4courses]

Originally Posted by CurtisontheBay

Harry Kane could be the next Suarez !

Kane is razor sharp, right now.
Has that extra bit of quickness and craft around goal that pays off.

He doesn't quite have the skills of Suarez, but Spurs won't mind.
It's that fraction of a second where you outthink your opponents
that gives you an edge. He's definitely fun to watch.