Comments on: Here we go again…

By: maj

maj — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 23:14:09 +0000

Seba,hastaelgolsiempre I have never known a governing body to act in such a slow manner. Lucky the Argentine national team does not play like the people that run the countries football or else their would be riots.

By: Seba

Seba — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 17:43:10 +0000

Watching telly can play tricks on you! I heard a few guys on TV saying it was official (probably they have inside info) and so I jumped the gun.

By: hastaelgolsiempre

hastaelgolsiempre — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 17:25:47 +0000

Too quick off the mark, Seba! I noticed the table on Ole’s site had been updated earlier today, but didn’t put anything up because the AFA site didn’t say anything (and hasn’t got an updated table), and TyCSports, the only other site I had time to check from my office, also didn’t have it. It’s looking quite likely, though…

By: Seba

Seba — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 13:45:24 +0000

Wait a minute…wait a minute…apparentely, it’s not official yet!

Tables are updated in most of the sporting websites around (Olé and ESPN’s Soccernet included).

So…we need to wait. As always.

By: Seba

Seba — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:47:14 +0000

It’s official now!

Estudiantes go top of the league. Racing drops even further in the “promedios” (average used to calculate relegations).

As a little note on this, maj, they took so long because they are an obsolete, useless body that is not adapted to the modern times. I’m talking about the AFA in general and the “disciplinary tribunal” (or however you call that in English! ha!).

By: maj

maj — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:57:38 +0000

hastaelgolsiempre, thanks for you post. I find it a bit weird as to why they governing body is taking so long. It would have taken a monumental performance from Racing Club with 8 players to win and as you said it was the Racing fans who caused the problem.

By: hastaelgolsiempre

hastaelgolsiempre — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:39:39 +0000

Maj – as you say, the AFA haven’t yet announced it… and therefore it’s not been made official.

As I’ve said a few times on HEGS, the normal course of action in these cases (where the losing team’s fans are the ones who cause the trouble) is to simply let the result stand, so it’s safe to assume it’ll be recorded as a 2-1 for Estudiantes, but until the announcement has been made we can’t say for certain.

Of course when the announcement is made it’ll be reported here on HEGS.

By: maj

maj — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:20:54 +0000

Does anybody know the official result of this match as the Argentinina FA does not seem to have announced it??

By: hastaelgolsiempre

hastaelgolsiempre — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 18:28:09 +0000

Thanks for the video link, Seba. It’s a little tricky to see, but I think there’s enough there that, with the newspapers’ reactions as well, it probably wasn’t a handball. From that angle, I can certainly see why the fans behind the goal weren’t happy with the decision.

Having said that, fans get angry with referees here in England too. They very rarely throw things and get the game called off…

And so the circle continues…

By: Seba

Seba — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 06:08:15 +0000

By the way…this guy Beligoy has an impressive record against Racing: in two matches, he showed 6 red cards to our players!

Thanks AFA! Thanks a lot!