Well that didn't last long, he's been found out.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/8274016.stm (http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/8274016.stm)
QuoteKeeper 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.
:)
Well he was rather skilled at moving the goal posts in Languish threads.
:lol: :thumbsup:
Quote from: Valmy on September 25, 2009, 11:11:49 AM
Well he was rather skilled at moving the goal posts in Languish threads.
:face:
Nice one Mongers. :lol:
Quote from: Armyknife on September 25, 2009, 11:07:34 AM
Well that didn't last long, he's been found out.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/8274016.stm (http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/8274016.stm)
QuoteKeeper 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.
:)
I don't get it.
Quoted for preservation purposes.
Not just a few centimeters! See for yourselves, it's a full goal-post-width inwards. :mad:
http://www.expressen.tv/Sport/allsvenskan/1.1717953/har-myglar-kim-christensen
They have also admitted moving the opposing team's goalposts outwards by kicking at them during offensive corners!
The disciplinary board will reach their decision on October 1st. Christensen better receive a suspension for several games, and IFK Göteborg a reduction of points.
The villains and criminals of IFK Göteborg have already done their best to deny us tickets to the final game of the season. If it is the game to decide who will be champions, as it very well could be, many AIK fans will go there regardless and roam the streets outside the arena. As a student of law I can not not endorse violence, but razing that stinking fish-mongrels-burgh to the ground would certainly allow them to build something less hideously ugly in it's stead.
For those with knowledge of Swedish, some music for your ears:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mg7LnFvMVgM&feature=related
For all lovers of justice, I am pleased to announce that IFK Göteborg is down 1-0 against Kalmar :cool:
1-1 now, but at least IFK Göteborg got a man sent off for taking a dive, so there's still some hope they get a well-deserved defeat
2-1 Kalmar :yeah:
Game over, 2-1 to Kalmar :thumbsup: which brings us to...
Miglia's Short Introduction to Contemporary Swedish Football (Tm)
While there are also provincial teams of little note, we shall mainly concern ourselves with the big three Stockholm clubs. These are Djurgården, Hammarby, and the oldest and largest, AIK.
Djurgården and Hammarby are both crap, as is evident from their current position in the Swedish league
Pl. Lag Ma V O F GM IM MS P
1 IFK Göteborg 25 14 5 6 44 19 25 47
2 AIK 24 14 5 5 28 17 11 47
3 Kalmar FF 25 13 6 6 43 26 17 45
4 IF Elfsborg 24 12 7 5 37 31 6 43
5 Örebro SK 24 11 7 6 29 20 9 40
[...]
12 GAIS 24 6 9 9 31 31 0 27
13 IF Brommapojkarna 24 6 6 12 26 41 -15 24
14 Hammarby 24 5 4 15 17 33 -16 19
15 Djurgårdens IF 24 5 4 15 17 44 -27 19
16 Örgryte IS 24 4 5 15 16 40 -24 17
AIK is going for gold, and will lead the league by three points if we win against Djurgården on monday, which we should, seeing as they're crap.
That you'd be able to do this to the goalposts in first division Swedish football says more about Swedish football than anything really, I'd think pretty much every pro team here at home has fixed goalposts...
edit- oh shit, I'm in Sweden aren't I.
All arenas in the top division have their goal-posts fixed except three (or so I'm told) - I don't know why these are the exception.
If you're anywhere near Stockholm, you should get your ass to the Swedish National Arena of Råsunda this monday. AIK is fighting for gold, DIF is fighting for their existence, a lot is at stake and the atmosphere will be dense.
Is this the Sandbox?
AIK defeated Djurgården today, as expected :cool:
Update on the goal-post issue:
The Swedish climate is not always kind to our football fields, even though we play our seasons from spring to fall and not fall to spring as most other countries, so some teams have turned to artificial grass. Apparently the three arenas in question are ones with artificial grass. Why they for this reason don't have their goal posts fixed I don't know.
Quote from: garbon on September 26, 2009, 07:45:50 PM
Is this the Sandbox?
I suppose, now that you're here... :rolleyes:
I read an interesting short story ages ago (maybe in Sports Illustrated) about a baseball hustler who went town to town challenging local semi-pro teams to money matches, them against himself as pitcher and whatever local high school talent he could pick up. His trick was to sneak onto the field at night, dig up the pitching mound and move it back a couple feet. Then he told his pickup batters to sit on fast balls, knowing that all the other guy's offspeed stuff was going to bounce in the dirt way in front of home plate.
:lol: Only Europeans get this worked up over something as stupid as soccer.
Of course you would never understand; for you sports teams are no more than shallow money-making franchises with rediculous by-names that moves to other towns when they are bought or sold. I wouldn't be able to feel very strongly about that, either. My father signed me in as a member of AIK the day I was born.
And you're the only ones who don't understand football.
Quote from: Jaron on September 28, 2009, 05:05:07 PM
:lol: Only Europeans get this worked up over something as stupid as soccer.
Given the sport's popularity in South and Central America (where two countries fought a brief war over a football match, allegedly) you may want to extend this generalisation to at least one other continent.
Indeed, and having been in Beijing at the time of the asian championship final between China and Japan I can assure you they take their football seriously as well. At least I found the thousands of riot-gear-clad police marching in square columns outside the arena and the, despite the thousands of riot-gear-clad police, full-scale rioting after the game, indicative of that.
(Though admittedly we had been sold phony tickets and had to see the game from a nearby sports bar after we were denied admittance :blush: And we only read about the rioting in the international press later (there was not a word in the local english-language newspapers).)
Quote from: Jaron on September 28, 2009, 05:05:07 PM
:lol: Only Europeans get this worked up over something as stupid as soccer.
Non-whites and scum get worked up about it.
Quote from: Neil on September 28, 2009, 07:30:31 PM
Scum get worked up about it.
:hug:
I don't get worked up about soccer.
Quote from: Agelastus on September 28, 2009, 06:22:47 PM
Given the sport's popularity in South and Central America (where two countries fought a brief war over a football match, allegedly) you may want to extend this generalisation to at least one other continent.
One area where Venezuela is indeed a superior country.
Quote from: Neil on September 28, 2009, 09:31:40 PM
Yeah, but you're still non-white.
Which is why I removed that part of your statement. :smarty: