Does anyone here remember a Wycombe player blatantly handballing a goal-bound shot

in a cup quarter-final against Leicester (I think)? It might even have been that guy, Essandoh, who scored their goal too. I seem to recall at that time everyone thought, well, he got away with it, so that's it. Indeed he probably got some credit for it. Of course, he was a player without a club two days earlier and not a superstar who's been plying his trade at the top level for a decade. After the match his comments were pretty similar to Henry's last night, that is to say, he had to do it, would have accepted the sending-off if it had come to pass, but in the event he got away with it. The overriding attitude seems to be that players feel no moral obligation to moderate their own behaviour, and that's the same across the board.

All I'll say is that you must be a right loon if you choose to referee at any level of the game.

Posted By: King, Nov 19, 12:46:41