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Have I missed the thread or is no-one wanting to discuss 'that' goal against Sunderland? I don't think it should have stood and the refs' lack of experience and common sense really showed. i am not happy to have gained a point this way against a team that we should be thrashing.

Would you have rather lost then and gained no points? Fact is the ball was standing still at the free kick area and their defender played it back to their keeper to resume play. I dont know why their defender rolled it back when the infringment was exactly 2 yards off him and not 20 yards as that fathead said. Even the governing body has backed the refs decision that its a correct one so really i cant see anything wrong with it. Also this is payback for their beachball trick.

'Their beachball trick'? i thought the ball was from our supporters.

Attempted to take a free kick. Brought it back to where it should be taken. Ref blows his whistle. After which, the player back heels, not rolls, back heels it towards keeper then does a little jump when he sees where its gone. Goal should of 100% percent stood. That is a goal within the rules of the game. Referee might have had his back to most of it, but the linesman had a clear view of the whole thing and he said yep that is a goal. Refereeing chiefs said, obviously that is a goal. So that is, in every sense of the word, a goal.

Now is it the kind of goal we should be scoring? Is it particularly sporting? Well Torres wasn't to know what the fella meant, I would rather he have that killer instinct and wait to see what the Ref does after he's put it in the net than pussy foot around and loose oppertunities. I can understand if people thought he was just letting someone else take it (but then there is no need to back heel it like he did) then they might have an unsporting gripe, even though i disagree with that, but i cannot understand why anyone says that is not a goal. It very clearly is.

Unsportsman like or not, Torres is a striker and part of his job is knowing when he's well within his rights to go for it.

The freekick was taken and it just didn't occur to Turner that he had actually played the ball back in play... If Turner had tryed to chase the ball or Torres with the ball knowone would be questioning it.

Its only because Turner stood still and never even attempted to stop it happening after he had kicked the ball that people question the goal.

Ref tells you to replace the ball, and you do just that. Any time after having done so you move the ball with your foot it is in play. He knows it. Steve Bruce knows it. The whole world knows it. He screwed up and Torres punished him. No one at Sunderland has any right to complain. Their protests are even more ridiculous in the light of what happened with the beach ball.

My point exactly.

Yeah right, so our supporters thought it was fun to throw a ball in the mix to distract Reina so sunderland can get a goal.

Nice one

it was thrown from our supporters.

Watch Turners boody language just after he's touched the ball.

He meant to take the free kick by knocking it back to the keeper and didnt connect properly. He knew he messed up and yes the goal should of stood and you know what the way Steve Bruce has bitched about us I'm glad it has and I hope that pr!ck gets the boot. He's showed no loyalty to any club he's been at as a manger.