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Moving the goalposts - literally

  • 25-09-2009 6:25am
    #1
    Xavi6
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,909 ✭✭✭✭


    http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/8274016.stm
    Keeper guilty of moving goalposts

    IFK Goteborg goalkeeper Kim Christensen could be in hot water after moving the posts during a Swedish first division game in order to make the goal smaller.

    The Danish goalkeeper was caught by TV cameras pushing the posts toward each other before a match against Orebro.

    Referee Stefan Johannesson spotted the posts had been moved a few centimetres about 20 minutes into the game and pushed them back into the right place.

    Christensen later said he had done the same thing before several other games.

    He was spotted using his feet to push the bottom of each post slightly inwards.

    The Swedish Football Association is investigating the incident.

    "I have never heard anything like this before," said Swedish FA's disciplinary chief Kheneth Tallinger. "It's unique."

    IFK Goteborg drew 0-0 with Orebro and top the table on goal difference with just a few weeks of the season to go.


    How the hell did the referee spot that they had moved a few centimetres just by looking at them?!


Comments

  • #2
    keano_afc
    Registered Users Posts: 8,711 ✭✭✭keano_afc


    Jumpers for goalposts?


  • #3
    iregk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,235 ✭✭✭iregk


    How in the hell? I'm assuming they are not planted into the ground?


  • #4
    MagicMarker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    How did they not notice sooner!!

    91810.jpg


  • #5
    gucci
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,283 ✭✭✭gucci


    Xavi6 wrote: »




    How the hell did the referee spot that they had moved a few centimetres just by looking at them?!

    Clearly the referees in Swedan have better eye sight than their peers elsewhere!:pac:


  • #6
    jaykay74
    Registered Users Posts: 6,588 ✭✭✭jaykay74


    The game was on live here in Sweden ! Youtube link below. think the sequence in the clip is wrong though as it shows the ref fixing first and the keeper changing after which is obviously the wrong way around. Has to be the worst cheat ever, worst as in useless. :)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlhU-Ivj1u0


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  • #7
    AnCapaillMor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,920 ✭✭✭AnCapaillMor


    Xavi6 wrote: »
    How the hell did the referee spot that they had moved a few centimetres just by looking at them?!

    At the start of the match the right goal post was in line from the halfway line with a cute blonde, after 20 mins it was in line with a 24 ston brown hiared dude?


  • #8
    cournioni
    Moderators, Regional North East Moderators Posts: 12,739 Mod ✭✭✭✭cournioni


    Ben Foster should take note! :p


  • #9
    Mikeyt086
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,825 ✭✭✭Mikeyt086


    Good reffing.


  • #10
    8-10
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,370 ✭✭✭✭8-10


    Mikeyt086 wrote: »
    Good reffing.

    Did he give a card?


  • #11
    Mikeyt086
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,825 ✭✭✭Mikeyt086


    8-10 wrote: »
    Did he give a card?

    Well the letter of the law clearly states... err, nothing about moving the posts.


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  • #12
    fh041205
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 992 ✭✭✭fh041205


    He was interfering with playing equipment, same as corner flags and the like. So its probably bookable. Would take a brave ref to do it though.


  • #13
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Having watched the clip, the uprights would have been closer at the bottom than the top, and so were spotted. Still need decent eyesight though.


  • #14
    happyoutscan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,137 ✭✭✭happyoutscan


    Clown. Pure clown.


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