Comments on: 3 penalties against Juve… is this real football?

By: Serja

Serja — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 08:48:26 +0000

After all the fuss you’ve been making, I HAD to check out those penalties. As much as I hate to agree with Marco that third PK was indeed a bit nonsense. Mr. Zebina did deserve the red card for his reaction though, but not to be penalized for the holding. The guy he was marking wasn’t even close to getting the ball on that one.

By: Marco Pantanella

Marco Pantanella — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 06:54:33 +0000

Jake: It’s always refreshing to get your non-biased anti-Juve comments. I bet you haven’t even seen the game and the penalty calls…

Will & Mike: I might have exaggerated with the ‘conspiracy theory’ but I was just trying to make a point. Every team screams in scandal every time a penalty is called for Juve against them, so I thought I’d turn the situation around.

What you say Will makes some sense I guess, although if that were true perhaps the ref wouldn’t have given the free kick that lead to Juve’s 3rd goal (the pull on Del Piero was very light I thought).

By: Michael Stensland

Michael Stensland — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 17:45:25 +0000

As much as I hate Juve, I have to admit that this wasn’t the best example of ref fairness, those two penalty calls were a bit dodgy. If you start calling those kinds of fouls in every game, there would be 10 penalty kicks per match which makes absolutely no sense.

I wouldn’t go as far as saying ‘conspiracy theory’ though, that’s a bit crazy. I agree with what Will said though, the ref might actually be afraid of NOT calling penalties against Juve (now that Moggi’s out of the picture) but not as part of any conspiracy, but more like a psychological subconscious effect or something

By: Jake

Jake — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 15:02:26 +0000

You’re so funny Marco… “conspiracy theory”? Against Juve? JUVE? Hell did freeze over it seems, and on top of that you’ve completely lost your mind!

By: Will

Will — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 01:49:10 +0000

Conspiracy theories aside, I think Refs are going to be so afraid of being accused of ‘aiding’ Juventus that they will end up calling any and every type of misdemeanor a Juve player commits. Juve is going to suffer from this a lot. Juve showed they were hungry for the 3 points. Hungrier than Cagliari. You can’t really say Cagliari played better becuz, the aim of the game is to score goals. Despite playing at home, the only goals Cagliari managed were from the spot. Juve scored 3 goals from play….
Forza Juve! Oh and forza Zebina. Grown men don’t get slapped unless they did something bad.