Our old friend Cognitive Dissonance was at play again last night. Hearts manager, Paolo Sergio, seemed to accept Stephen Elliot’s second minute attempt was cleared so quickly officials might not have had a chance to ascertain if it crossed the line, but he tried to reconcile his frustration at this reality by publicly adopting a position which, on reflection, he should accept is in contravention to the rules of the game.
Elliot’s attempt struck Joe Ledley, who was standing on the line with his arms stationary and by his side, before being cleared by Fraser Forster.
Sergio said, “If you don’t see the ball over the line then you should see the handball which is a penalty and a red card.”
It’s scarcely credible that the Hearts manager is unaware of the rules of the game which clearly establish that for a handball offence to be committed the player needs to deliberately use a hand or arm to play the ball, not have the ball played against his stationary hand or arm.
No one had much of a clue whether the ball had crossed the line or not until after watching multiple TV replays and even then, while I can understand the attacking team claiming a goal, TV evidence does not provide conclusive proof that the whole of the ball crossed the line.
This will no doubt be the source of Sergio’s frustration; his team could have taken the lead but didn’t. Armed with this frustration he then created a false scenario which allowed him to reconcile his feelings of grievance.
What a shower. Struggling to operate in the SPL and pay tax, disorganised team structure and afflicted by football’s Cognitive Dissonance epidemic.
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Jimmy Quinn
thanks
Partizan
What is wrong,
Its a joke,I also said “eating orange lollipos and watching quintessntially british Tv programmes like Antiques Road Show and Last Night at the proms” (or words to that effect)
I would have thought that every body would realise I just being silly,having a laugh etc
But you have to go all PC on me
Why,
Are you just looking for an argument or something
I have no interest in religion one way or another.
What is the stars.
Wish you had just stuck to slagging huns.
But, subject dropped. Life’s too short.
Mad night in Derry…Masked men entered 3 bookmakers shops and shot the poker machines..this is honest..the machines were shot for dealing..
Sadly it didn’t end there,a young Derryman has been shot dead also across the boarder near Buncrana..
And I was really enjoying catching up on here as well!! :)))
Lads lets look at this scenario, if they get liquidated b4 season ends and they can’t fulfill fixtures, do you honestly think which ever team is at THE bottom of the league will vote them in and they go down, NO CHANCE.
WITS
“My point exactly,but no one does irony on here”
I object.
I do irony.
But I do it in a post-ironic way
I work with an angers fan and i have to post tonight what he stated to my good self today.
Today was one of days when he passed opinion that once again made my chin drop.
I walk into work and straight away he was telling me that the ball was over the line blah blah blah on on on.
Well i was 2 rows back and right behind the goal last night so i told him that i thought it was over the line when i seen it.
So this is the train of thought that he wanted to make a point of.
“i think that the s.f.a should be using video evidence” he said.
i was thinking goal line technology
NO
he was on about using video evidence for this.
“Fraser Forster should be given a ban for cheating because he would have known the ball was over the line but cleared it”
“that is trying to deceive the referee for an unsportsmanlike advantage”
“he cheated and its no different Sone Aluko’s dive. both cheated so the keeper should also get a 2 match ban just like Sone did”
I could only think, how desperate is that :O)
tictalker talking tic
Davythelotion
Nice one.HH
How can a Newco play at ibrox if the old co owed millions in tax.
If there is anything worse than the inane squawking of a Talking Bird, then it surely has to be the endless tergiversating of a CHAMELEON.
Maks nae sense tae me.
What is the Stars says:
9 February, 2012 at 23:14
Is mise Neil Lennon
You are obviously too good looking to be a hun,you give off an aura of pure timothyness
So you get to pass Go and collect £200
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We’ve obviously met and you are a fine judge! now where exactly do i pick up the £200?
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NextWee 10.30 and Me says:
9 February, 2012 at 23:15
Is Mise Neil Lennon
only been on 30 minutes and I’ve had it, so here ye go
Yer a hun ;)
Wee 10.30
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I’ve arrived! And with £200!
Partizan
Good man
life is too short.
Here is James Joyce views on the Catholic/Protestant nonsense (his friend “Cranly” has heard that he (Joyce )has lost his Catholic Faith.
Then, said Cranly, you do not intend to become a protestant?
— I said that I had lost the faith, Stephen answered, but not that I had lost self-respect. What kind of liberation would that be to forsake an absurdity which is logical and coherent and to embrace one which is illogical and incoherent?
Standing Eyes & Forehead above all others his awe struck audience knuckles clenching onto his every erm-n-a-n-em-n-Rangers-n-nobody else-n-safe… word Craig Whyte informs the Huns of his erm accounts and that. Knowingly but without full understanding or comprehension the Neanderthal the audience stands and applauds the most beautiful man in the hall. Wee Billy turns to Donald. Addendum. Wistha? Donald replies. Mind wen yae wiz a wain n yae pit a cover oor her chair well Lord Eyes n Foreheid is geeing us coded secrets that there’s a bunle ae em accontunt hingees in wan ae they tents gettin den them accoonts dum the noo. It’s oh pure securituv genius stuff n patter n at n oor grand master suck will unerstauner an lighten us up aboot wit wee dinnae unerstaner later oan Follow Follow.
Noth Northwest
That song has been around a looooong time mate, but yes, that is the ‘lyrics’
Nicked from the huddleboard,
What you doing on Sun 25th March?
;-)
HH
Here is a great wee read from Rangers rumours:
‘He is either robbing us blind or stashing money away to start rangers from fresh. He is a crook but sometimes you need to break the law to make good, if he is stashing the cash so the taxman can’t get it then do be it! F**k HMRC is my view!’
Jas
Emdae know any good Tim pubs in OBAN????
feedthebhear says:
9 February, 2012 at 22:50
cheers as usual Neil came across well
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXvQYe0jvHU&feature=youtu.be
Also can you all please tweet/Fb/whatever this
http://inverclydenow.com/news/local/6485-greenock-teenager-reported-missing
What is the Stars
Good man yerself
I should have just scrolled by cos I knew how you meant it, but ‘proddy’ stuff just gets ma goat :)
My favourite story growing up was the one where Stein said he’d always sign the protestant if there was a catholic equally as good.
Anyone else catch the ghuy who rang Synde last night demanding Keevins apologise for insulting people who suffer from paranoia in the context of the chorus of condemnation that greeted a caller making an analogy to people having Alzheimer’s disease.
Picky but clever and Keevins wasn’t man enough to say ‘ok, you got me… ‘
Made me smile listening to his gears whirl trying to find a way out.
I asked snyde the other night where C W would be able to HIDE 24mill? Cut off, cant say HIDE!!
WITS
It was sarcasm
Look, I know ye were jokin, but it reads bad on the blog. Statements on proddies and papes from tims raises my hackles. Know loads of good tims who are not catholic, as you probably do.
Anyway, peace and HH
Gnight
Paul67
Any news on our accounts?
Next Monday would be my guess.
Consequently looking forward to see how things are doing.
Regarding the football, last night produced a real ‘Maracana moment’ on RS.
They were just about to self combust over SE’s inability to bury his chance and the possibility that the ball had hit JL’s hand and that it must have been over the line when they had to announce that SB had scored and there was no hope that WC could chalk it off.
The goal was announced in a manner that suggested minor royalty had popped their clogs. Superb as silence engulfed their broadcast and the whining petered out.
Loved the LL spoiler on the result.
Ball boys getting a 50p to the napper is new to me.
Finally back to the football.
FF is starting to grow up.
Love his growing competitive edge.
The defence played well.
KW is at his best chasing and collecting the ball.
Needs work with the ball at his feet.
Loved the way that we overloaded the left and then switched to AM in acres of space on the right. Made huge amounts of cheap ground by working the ball in a much more intelligent fashion. In addition we made very good use of the inside right channel to free up space for the overlap and cross.
JL had a storming game.
All action in the middle doing the pressing game we need when BK is not available.
VW also had some game.
More sitting and picking his moments helped him no end.
However his finish was unbelievable.
You saw the chance develop and you hoped he could make something of it but control / spin / blast into the top of the net …
Unbelievable.
Also big shout for GS.
Very efficient, less effort but more constructive play.
Two big games.
Two big performances.
Two big results.
Conjunctivitis.com
A site for sore eyes.
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Funniest joke of the year apparently.
Good evening bhoys n’ ghirls, finally plucked up the courage to join in after lurking for years. These last few weeks have been great fun waiting for the huns to implode. Long may it continue! My son was as happy as I’ve ever seen him last night when he came home from the game. Amazing what a wee drop of jelly and ice cream can do!
Hail, Hail!
ginger1 says:
9 February, 2012 at 23:44
Welcome mate.
Kojo
Get Broonie in the will…
Despite his poor 3rd touch, I have mostly felt hecwas a good player but I was of the mind he was a good player in a team that was not for him. It happens- some players and some teams don’t fit together.
However I think he has matured beyond recognition and is now the player and captain we always hoped he would be….credit to him!
.
Kojo..
You Will be Praising Sammi Next..;0)
$umma of $ammi
Coors
any more info on that shooting in Buncrana
My dear,dear,dear,friend.. TwistnTurns.
Ah am with ye tae.. pally…
Ah Hope that Broonie, confounds his Number Wan Critic..
Oan Here,that is!
Broonie, Has NOT .. in the Past.. FOUR YEARS..
Lived up tae.. Even.. Wan of Kojo’s Rules.. those Rules which govern the
Full acceptance of A Player as being a Man worthy tae command Fan Approval.
Howevahhhh…
Since , Broonie has returned from his Latest Lay Off..
He, soitenly has been Showin’ ..a Gradual .. Change for the Bettah,
Performance Wise.
Like Ah say…
Broonie, gave a Fine Performance.. OVER ALL… during Wednesday’s Game..
Ordinarily,. Ah dae not Consider..
scoring a Goal.. equates tae being rewarded with a Maist Coveted..
” Acceptable Performance.. Diploma..”
Na…not at All.
A player must..
Show..
‘
A Steady and Welcome IMPROVEMENT in his..
OVER ALL .. Ninety Minute Performance ..
Afore, he can be afforded .the Privilege … of being awarded that much saught after …well…Award.
In Broonie’s Case..
Ah shall be watching maist carefully, tae see if he Continues to
show similar advancement in the Quality of his Over-Play..
as he has done in his Last Game…
During ….his Next Game.
Let’s wish him ,all the Best in his continuing Improvement.
Kojo
yer pal..who likes ye aloater
The hospice of hunnery will have boards up on the windows come 25th March,the lethal injection will be administered after this news about the insolvency mobs investigation,it’ll be jelly n ice cream in the public gallery more like.
Summa
The rest of the team have finally caught up with Sammi on a tactical and technical level.
That touch to Brown yesterday was deliberate and sublime.
I seem to recall that his Old Bhoy is a technical director with AEK or the like…hence his great technical ability…
Iain Anderson playing this guy just now on Radio Scotland. Ive noticed Iain’s got a tendency to play a lot of good Irish songs!! Worth a listen with a good malt(is there a bad one?) in your hand.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=md3Q8RbCWM8&feature=related
What is the stars
I know about the Hun supporters moving pubs in Dub, but I have more respect for them than the ‘scottish football is crap, I love Liverpool , you guys hate protestants’ twits I deal with on a daily basis
West Wales
Aye,I made comment this morning on Franks paranoia call,Hugh retaliated by calling the ghuy paranoid yet Delahunt said it was common usage in that context.
Excuse me Jim but so is the blind man analogy.
Dubs are very uneducated in the workings of Scottish society and have an unhealthty love of English society
Another song from Tommy. Thot it was Neil at first sight.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raa8lxWRP1k&feature=related
My dear,dear,dear,friend.. Summa O’ Sammi
Pal.. Get wi the Program..
Ah hiv weeks ago…
Admitted Sammi, intae the Will.
Sammi,is Showing.. the Thing which wull alway endear..
Over- All Improvement… is Whit it is Called..
and
Sammi,
Since, He has been allotted the Left Winger cum Middy Slot..
Has shown Me…. Loats and Loats of THAT!
As a Striker… Ah think Sammi, Stinks.. he misses TOO MINY..
Easy Chances.
So long as Lenny, plays Sammi, as a Rampagin’..Left Wing BERSERKER…
Sammi, will Do. Fur Me.
Kojo
yer pal.. who likes ye aloater.