It's official: Hendo and Morgs.....

[Tynemouth Blade]

...are picked on by Refs!

Dr. Steffan Giessner and Dr. Niels van Quaquebeke, 32, two German scientists and researchers at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University in the Netherlands, assert in a paper entitled “Height-Related Bias in Foul Calls,” published on the Web on Tuesday (and in the February edition of the subscription-only Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology) that soccer’s tall people usually got the short end of the stick in ambiguous situations when a referee calls a foul. Their research indicates that taller people are more likely to be perceived by referees (and fans) as foul perpetrators and their smaller opponents as the victims.


And I thought Hendo got pulled up by Refs because of his constant pushing, pulling, needling....he just can't help himself...and as for Morgs?????

 

[Toronto Blade]

They should check out Stoke that is a team full of giants but they don't have more fouls than other teams.

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

So why isn't Peter Crouch sent off as soon as he sets foot on the pitch?

 

[Paulus]

One of Crouch's constant whines is that he is punished unfairly all the time because it looks as though he is bearing down on shorter defenders. I suspect he is probably correct because he's such a lightweight in most of his play it seems unlikely that his approach changes in a challenge.

 

[Bristol Blade]

I seem to remember one of the English referees- maybe Poll- saying that, before the 2006 World Cup, all the referees for the tournament were shown a video of Crouch and told that they should watch out for him in particular committing fouls.

In fact 30 seconds of searching and I found the link:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/internationals/6979674.stm

 

[Santos]

I seem to remember one of the English referees- maybe Poll- saying that, before the 2006 World Cup, all the referees for the tournament were shown a video of Crouch and told that they should watch out for him in particular committing fouls.

In fact 30 seconds of searching and I found the link:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/internationals/6979674.stm

Haha, brilliant, does anyone remember Crouch basically pulling on the dredlocks of some Trinidad & Tobago player to head in our opener against them in the group stage?

 

[Bristol Blade]

Haha, brilliant, does anyone remember Crouch basically pulling on the dredlocks of some Trinidad & Tobago player to head in our opener against them in the group stage?

Yeah I remember that, was a moment of genius/ dirty bit of cheating. Judge for yourselves:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JURU3iFmRxs

 

[mattbianco1]

Yeah I remember that, was a moment of genius/ dirty bit of cheating. Judge for yourselves:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JURU3iFmRxs

Can't be a foul!! It was us that did it. Maybe the Trinidad player shouldn't have long hair, then it couldn't be done in the first place.