[Archived] Southampton 3 - 2 Rovers

[Cheshireblue]

God forbid Dunny should ever score a goal past us....

Not a predicament that we are likely to have to face.

As long as there is Levers pie shop, Dunny will always be distracted at Ewood.

Edited August 23, 2004 by Cheshireblue

[Blackpool_Rover]

Look what i found...

I just closed the page where i got it and i cant find it again. I hope its the real one as ive just sent a very polite email which outlines a few facts.

d'Urso's e-mail addreess removed by Paul

Edited August 24, 2004 by Paul

[Manchester Blue]

He is a bank manager so it may well be correct but i'd be wary of sending anything dodgy or harassing him. He'll only end up coming back and being even worse. Is that possible?

Thinking about it further sorry to be sad but I suspect if he got abuse and it was traced back here where the email address was displayed the site may be in trouble so i'd think of editing that. I remember a case where someone's phone no. was put up and they got abuse and the site had trouble.

Edited August 23, 2004 by Manchester Blue

[Scotty]

Premiership referees are full-time professionals now so I would imagine that the e-mail address is an old one.

[Manchester Blue]

Yeah I did think of that although I was under the impression they could still work part-time as i'm sure i'd read an interview with one that said as much. Incidentally on digging around I found an interview with D'Urso in which he stated the ref he most looked up to was a certain George Courtney. What a surprise.

[broadsword]

He's a full-time plonk!

Although that term is interchangeable with bank manager.

I guess it's a natural progression from banker to ref. In both positions you get the chance to wield an excessive influence over people's happiness. And in some cases you get the chance to ruin a person's livelihood - great!

[Glenn]

In both positions you get the chance to wield an excessive influence over people's happiness.

Sadly modern banking has changed a lot. A modern bank manager is little more than head sales person with little more power over the finances of his/her customers than the lowliest of bank clerks. No real decision making (other than what charges to let people off) seems to be done in branch any more.

The days of being a pillar of the community with a decent pension and benefits package and Rover on the drive are now gone.

(Quick, after the topic, it went that away -> ).

Erm .... anyway ..... Andy D'Urso ...... Muppet or what

[Oklahoma]

Urso means Bear in portuguese

[USABlue]

Sensible post Rev. It is something I have mentioned before, a sort of "I'll show you Souness" from the refs. It is the only explanation I can offer outside of my consiracy theory as to why we seem to consistantly get a raw deal from officials.

I for one, most likely the only one, have no problem with Souness speaking his mind and showing his displeasure. After all we all go on about much the same things on here. My only difference in opinion Rev is that the tone was set much earlier than you suggest. The well bad tackle on Gray that went unpunished was a clear indicator of how the game was going to go.

Gray could easily have been injured, it was a clear foul, possibly warranted a booking but D'Urso chose to look the other way, that is when I realised we would be up against it.

Well a couple of fair spankings coming up, we will all have to suck it up for a few weeks and then hopefully we can start to string somethings together.

My only real criticism of, and real frustration with, Souness is his insistance on playing players out of their best positions. Clearly a player is up against it when being forced into an unfamiliar role. Let's play our best eleven players in their preferred positions and see how we go, play to our strengths whenever possible.

Edited August 24, 2004 by USABlue

[greggyk]

Football 365 talk about d'urso and talk about rovers fans

[Philly Rover ®]

Good spot, greggy. I was beginning to think that Rovers fans were the only ones who saw what a s*** call D'Urso made.

[Jan]

Nice ignoring why they actually felt sorry for us, Philly!!

[Radagast]

Yes, because Dickov had a real nightmare, didn't he?

And Dom's hardly what would be refered to as a true Scot, is he?

[Philly Rover ®]

Oh I just ignored that part, Jan. No one in the media gives a crap about Rovers so I dismissed the Scottish comment as rubbish penned by the ignorant.

My point was that they were the only media source (apart from the actual Sky commentators who covered the match) who recognized D'Urso's call for what it was: the worst %*@#!^& penalty decision I've probably ever seen.

[BRFC4EVA]

Still can't believe how robbed we were. Anyway, i didnt got to the game (to early lol), but was wondering for those who did go what stupid hour the coaches left from Blackburn in order to get there for that kind of kick off time?

[waggy]

lets hope we have a homer ref today

[Simon Says]

Neale Barry.

No chance!

[philipl]

To be fair, Southampton have suffered some ill-fortune against the Rovers on occasions- a remember a completely unwarranted red card at Ewood a few seasons ago and us being played off the park a couple of times and still winning.

However, for

Andy D'urso

them coming back from 1-3 to 3-3

Osgood getting John Bailey sent off.

TIME TO GET EVEN LADS

Edited April 9, 2005 by philipl

[Simon Says]

They didn't have ill-fortune last season Philip. Seem to remember Emerton straight through on goal and Le Saux hacking him down.

Should have been a penalty and a sending off. But the ref just waved play-on.