I believe it was during the 2000 season I was watching an EPL game on Fox sports world. I believe West Ham was one of the teams. Unfortuneately, that is all the detail I can remember about this scenario. West Ham (or it could be another team) was coming right to left across the screen on their right flank. It was pretty much a breakaway and the keep for the other team came out to challege. When he went to plant both of the tendons on both knees blew out and he crumpled to the ground. The West Ham player who had the ball was unfazed and crossed the ball into the top of the box where his own player jumped up and grabbed the ball out of the air, shook his head at the temamate and waved for the medics to get out there. My question is.. who is the player that caught the ball and what were the teams? I am sorry if this was brought up before, but I can't remember anything other than a possible blue and purple jersey for one team.
It was West Ham, Paolo Di Canio caught the ball and got a fair play award for it. I believe the opposition was Everton. I think the goalie was Paul Gerrard, but I'm open to correction on that.
I believe Michaec is correct on all counts but I dont believe the injury was quite so serious. I think he took the knock and stayed in the game.
Yes! I remember this game too! It was one of the most amazing things I've seen in soccer. You got me curious so I did some searching. Check out the following stories: Match Summary: http://www.toffeeweb.com/season/00-01/reports/west-ham_h.asp Di Canio seizes the moment to wipe slate clean http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/main.jhtml?xml=/sport/2000/12/17/sfneve18.xml Di Canio Set For Fair Play Award http://de.eurosoccer.com/news/00/1219/s6705.html
wow.. thanks everyone. I wanted to use this as an example of sportsmanship for my kids that I coach, and I wanted specifics. This is great! Again thank you
Robbie Fowler had one a few years back where he fell down in the penalty box and the ref gave him a peno. Robbie, to his credit, argued that it shouldn't be a peno as the defender had not taken him down. In either case the peno stood. Can't remember if they scored from it. Now, even though I'm not Lpools biggest supporter I'll never forget that getsure. course I have forgotten the opponent, venue, score, date, etc... (better not show your kid the endline sniffing incident though).
It was against Arsenal. I'm not sure but I think it was at Highbury. Fowler put the penalty strait at Seaman who stopped it. One of the other Liverpool players then put in the rebound. Don't remember the final score though.
It was at Highbury. Fowler intentionally hit a really weak penalty but Seaman only parried it. McAteer buried the rebound and then rounded on Fowler for trying to miss. We won 2-0.
...first time i visited england was the day after that happened, i remember my dad thinking it was the funniest thing he had ever seen. i fell in love with the game that day, hahaha...
Fowler was trying to score. It was on target. I thought it was Macca that scored the rebound though..........
I am surprised at this statement. Seaman has quite a good record when it comes to saving penalties, for Arsenal and England.
It was McAteer's first ever goal for Liverpool. The shot was to the keepers left, not particularly high. Seaman palmed it to his left. Jason came storming in and slotted it home. Matt... I remember the game and I thought we were wearing the Ecru shirts (and my personal favorite shirt in my closet.) This would mean it was away? I have this image in my head right now of Seaman arguing with the referee, and telling him to go talk to Fowler. At Anfield you say? Well, I'm thousands of miles away, and you're well, just a few. Perhaps I should defer to you The foul in question was on a long through ball. 50-50 for Fowler and Seaman, who was charging off his line. Just inside the box, Seaman slides to make a tackle, but Fowler got their first, and pushed the ball past the pony-tailed one. He had to jump over Seaman at that point, or risk getting killed. God jumped, and kind of fell to the ground beyond the keeper. No matter, as Fowler's touch was too strong, and the ball went out for what should have been a goal kick. On the replay, it was easy to see why the ref called a penalty, especially if he was behind the play. The DiCanio incident was memorable. It was late in the match too.
I saw both of these incidents live on TV as they happened, and I was very grateful for the gestures of both players........ you see in 22 years of playing soccer I have only ever recieved one Red card. I was trying to split between two defenders while on the dribble, and I attempted to lift the ball through the gap between them. One of the defenders made a desperate lunge, and blocked the ball with his thigh. The ref, screened from seeing the ball directly, made an awfully rash decision and called hand ball because it sounded like one. The player argued his appeal inaffectually, and walked away totally dejected, and yellow carded. I tried to tell the ref that he was wrong, that the guy hadn't handled the ball, but he threatened to yellow card me if I argued anymore......... so I took the free kick, passed the ball short to a teamate and made him pass it right back to me. I then promptly picked the bal up, handed it to the ref, and told him that THAT was a handball! The opposing teams' fans applauded me as I walked off the field, red carded.
The fact that West Ham fan Colin Evans was only 1 game away from a win on his Parlay Card due to the event is quite funny. Poor guy!
And there was Portsmouth's goalie, Alan Branaghan I think, who had brain seizures. One time he went to kick the ball out while under pressure from the opposing teams striker and he collapsed. The striker could've scored but called a stretcher on instead. The keeper died last year when he had a seizure at the wheel and ploughed into the central reservation. Poor sod.