Fulham Post Match Thread

[Mattshark]

Well it happened twice last night, thats two times to often. One hit the crossbar, the other resulted in a goal.

To be fair a lot of that was probably also due to Spearing not providing enough cover for the back line when he was on the pitch and the obvious lack of cover when he wasn't.

[Mostar]

Continually hitting the woodwork would suggest our players lack accuracy when shooting.

Don't get me wrong, I think we're being unlucky but at somepoint we've got to say it ain't luck, we're just a team of crap finishers.

Consistently missing by a few inches isn't luck - it's a lack of accuracy.

My analysis:

It was an incredibly irritating evening.

[kris90210]

He'd won the ball a long time before the challenge though, there was no intent to catch the man. The ball had gone long before Dembele was caught. I think Dembele could've easily leaped Spearing's legs which were carried by momentum but knew the outcome would be a red.

No way. He came flying in at such a speed that he could have easily broken the blokes leg. Come on. It was an extremely dangerous tackle. If an opposition player had done exactly that to Suarez and seriously injured him, we'd all be baying for blood.

He was off the ground, both feet in the air, studs showing AND he made contact with the man. Spearing gave the ref a decision to make.

Seen far more contentious red cards given than that one.

[Mostar]

I think yellow would have been sufficient. He won the ball and he got little over excited but there was no intent in his tackle.

It was that Dembele got air-borne, which made things look much too worse than it should.

[BringbackBiscan]

In fairness to Dembele it's the smart thing to do. You don't want your leg to be grounded when someone could make contact with it. Being airborne turns a potential leg break into a bruise at most.

[Mostar]

In fairness to Dembele it's the smart thing to do. You don't want your leg to be grounded when someone could make contact with it. Being airborne turns a potential leg break into a bruise at most.

I'm not blaming him. I just pointed out to the fact that he got air borne made the whole incident look much worse that it was.

[BringbackBiscan]

I'm not blaming him. I just pointed out that the fact that he got air borne made the whole incident look much worse that it was.

Definitely does.

[cream]

How many games is Spearing banned for?

[BringbackBiscan]

Three, unless we appeal.

[Exiled_red]

But this is always the case with us. Thats why we didn't win the league in 2008/09. We drew something like 10 games and only lost 2. United can get the 1-0's when they play full on ****e! We can play well and lose and its so frustrating!

At least its only 4 days until the next match. Hope we hammer them and get Fulham out of our system.

We are the opposite of Man Utd, we dominate games and lose/draw them, while they can be completely outplayed and will scrape a spawny 1-0 win. That's been the case going back as far as when Roy Evans was in charge.

It's the playing badly and winning that wins you the title, they run of form that the scum are going through at the moment is typical of it, a number of scruffy 1-0 wins.

It's so annoying

[Exiled_red]

Three, unless we appeal.

There's no way an appeal would be successful.

For the FA to overturn a decision it has to clearly be wrong (something like mistaken identity). You could argue that by the letter of the law you could give a red card for that challenge, making the referee's decision correct within the laws of the game, and therefore now appeal will be sucessful.

[danperkins]

Well the fact is even with Spearing on the pitch supposedly holding, Dempsey found acres of space in front of our back four on frequent occasions

Jay has done well in previous games (last season) but he was a mile off the pace yesterday

[BringbackBiscan]

There's no way an appeal would be successful.

For the FA to overturn a decision it has to clearly be wrong (something like mistaken identity). You could argue that by the letter of the law you could give a red card for that challenge, making the referee's decision correct within the laws of the game, and therefore now appeal will be sucessful.

Shocking really. Turning into a woman's game.

I'd of been sent off every time I'd played.

[cream]

Three, unless we appeal.

Can see us reverting to a 3-5-2 or 5-3-2 with Carra coming back in.

----------------------Pepe---------------------

-------Carra---------Skrtel--------Agger--------

Johnson----------------------------------Enrique

-------Henderson-----Adam------Maxi-----------

----------------Bellamy------Suarez-------------

[~LFCHistory~]

Isn't it amazing how when Maxi starts we seem to be ''lucky'' and take our chances but when he dosen't start we become the ''unluckiest'' team in the league. Truly amazing.......