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Originally Posted by Zorg
I agree it was played for but only in the sense that when you're running to get to a ball first, you can be sure the defender will take you down if you manage to touch it away from him. But that doesn't make it not a foul. And whether or not he appealed for it is of course neither here nor there.
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anyone who's watched football will almost certainly have remarked upon appeals as being a tell tale sign one way or the other following comings together such as Rooney kicking Caulker and tumbling over yesterday
I put it to you m'lud that in fact Rooney blatantly played for the contact, that there may well have been enough in it to earn a [professional] penalty, and that Rooney's immediate bounce up and appeal tactic was as a consequence of the general feeling in the United camp that that linesman is a bottling @#%&! when he does United games and wouldn't give it. I further suggest that Rooney's appeal was of the sort that follows a decision going against him, even though barely a second had passed before he was in full-on raging scouse wig-wearing sky-pointer mode