Throw-ins = UNFAIR? Throw-ins to become Kick-ins?
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Arsenal boss Wenger wants ban on throw-ins
Arsenal struggled last season at Stoke City with the prodigious long throws of Rory Delap who set up both goals in the Potters 2-1 win.
It was a tactic which made a large contribution to Stoke's survival, but the Frenchman suggests an alternative of a kick-in would allow the game to flow better.
He told the club's official website: "(The rule I would change would be) maybe to play throw-ins by foot. Why not? I think it would make the game quicker."
Wenger believes the advantage gained by teams possessing long-throw specialists is unfair.
"For example at Stoke, for Rory Delap it is like kicking the ball," he added.
"It is a little bit of an unfair advantage. He is using a strength that is usually not a strength in football."
Radical though it sounds, Wenger insists the suggestion would not be the most revolutionary change to the game as football evolved to its current format.
"Football is the most popular team game in the world and one day some crazy guy said 'we don't use the hands'," added the manager.
"How could you have imagined on that day a game that is completely natural to play with your hands would become the most popular sport?"
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wenger always say things after he lose.
win never say anything.
see that time at liverpool.
starting cannot own.. then give fk up face
behind own. then diam diam. -
Arsene Wenger Wants 'Unfair' Throw-ins Ditched
Kick-ins would be fairer, reckons the Frenchman
Arsene Wenger, Arsenal (Getty Images)Arsene Wenger has been hailed for revolutionizing the way Arsenal play football, but now it seems the Frenchman wants to change the game altogether, by doing away with throw-ins.
The 60-year-old dubbed sides like Stoke City who utilize long throws "unfair" and wants to see throw-ins ditched for kick ins.
The Frenchman saw his side destroyed by two Rory Delap long-throws that led to goals in their 2-1 defeat at the Britannia Stadium last season.
He told Arsenal's website, www.arsenal.com: "The rule I would change would be maybe to play throw-ins by foot. Why not? I think it would make the game quicker."
"For example at Stoke, for Rory Delap it is like kicking the ball," he added.
"It is a little bit of an unfair advantage. He is using a strength that is usually not a strength in football."
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It's fair you little prick! Delap is just one player, so you want rules to be changed so your team can beat Stoke!? That ridiculous!
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walao eh
wenger plz leh
if ppl use foot as a throw in
it like ... free kick man
place the ball
even can direct shoot .... -
Will he say "Ban the keepers from using hands! They are using a strength that is usually not a strength in football." when Arsenal go throphyless a few years down?
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文哥 getting more and more jialat.
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whine again? oh yeah its arsene
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from the very very initial stage of football,
its ardy been throw-ins leh..
walan, as usual he chut patterns again..
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ask that arse to shut up, he just love to be in the limelight, he sees himself as Sir Alex catergory, but i see nothing in him, what silverwares had he got these few years since Viera and Henry left..nothing, and not even one of his old boys praised him for anything, in fact, most criticised him.
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There's one question I wanna ask...
If throw into goalpost... counted as goal?
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Originally posted by Detached:
There's one question I wanna ask...
If throw into goalpost... counted as goal?
If I remember correctly.... no.
Thrown directly into opposition goal ==> goal kick.
Thrown directly into own goal ==> corner kick.
I kinda remember some kind of controversy several years ago where a defender threw the ball to his goalkeeper (who did not touch it) and it went into his own goal.... there was quite a bit of a debate as to whether the goal should have stood.
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Originally posted by fudgester:
If I remember correctly.... no.
Thrown directly into opposition goal ==> goal kick.
Thrown directly into own goal ==> corner kick.
Pity... or every team should hire a NBA player
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Originally posted by Bus&Soccer l0v3r (VO3x 1):
walao eh
wenger plz leh
if ppl use foot as a throw in
it like ... free kick man
place the ball
even can direct shoot ....a direct kick in from the sidelines would not amount to a goal if the rule is enforced.
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exactly
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Originally posted by fudgester:
If I remember correctly.... no.
Thrown directly into opposition goal ==> goal kick.
Thrown directly into own goal ==> corner kick.
I kinda remember some kind of controversy several years ago where a defender threw the ball to his goalkeeper (who did not touch it) and it went into his own goal.... there was quite a bit of a debate as to whether the goal should have stood.
It was Peter Enckelman, then goalkeeper for Aston Villa scored an own goal during a Birmingham Derby in 2002 after miss-kicking a throw-in from Olof Mellberg.
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ok lor throw in use leg then free kick use hand lor
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LOL wenger is a joke la.......if lydat, i think those players who can swerve the ball on free kicks also have an unfair advantage.
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Originally posted by fudgester:
If I remember correctly.... no.
Thrown directly into opposition goal ==> goal kick.
Thrown directly into own goal ==> corner kick.
I kinda remember some kind of controversy several years ago where a defender threw the ball to his goalkeeper (who did not touch it) and it went into his own goal.... there was quite a bit of a debate as to whether the goal should have stood.
Yea. Mellberg and Enckelman.
Worst thing is it happened during a derby lol.