Friday 3 May 2019

FAIR PLAY FROM AN ARGENTINIAN

This week Aston Villa's Jonathan Kodjia was badly injured having been fouled, after 72 minutes in a match between his side and Leeds United, a crucial game at the head of the Championship. Leeds players were asked by Villa to put the ball out of play, but they didn't stop the game to allow Kodjia to be treated by the medical staff and subsequently scored. Leeds' Klich scored during this part of the game, possibly earning his side crucial promotion points.
After some mayhem and various yellow and red cards, Leeds manager Marcelo Bielsa instructed his players to let Villa score a goal which they did and the result ended 1-1.
Bielsa, an Argentinian, said after the game:
"English football is known around the world for its noble features".
 Leeds' next play off match might be against Derby, whose manager Frank Lampard accused Leeds of "spying" on his training sessions earlier on in the season.

Paulo Di Canio is often best known for his bad behaviour on and off the pitch, for example, pushing hapless referee Paul Alcock so that he fell to the ground during a "coming together" over an incident on the pitch OR performing the Nazi salute on the pitch when playing for Lazio OR smashing up his office at Swindon Town when he was sacked as manager.
https://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?fr=yhs-adk-adk_sbyhp&hsimp=yhs-adk_sbyhp&hspart=adk&p=pAULO+dI+cANIO+PUSHES+OVER+REFEREE#id=1&vid=2bd31b6a5216b053bc56cc28459a8ae5&action=click

BUT in 2000 when West Ham were playing Everton during injury time Di Canio's opposing goalkeeper Paul Garrard went down injured and when Trevor Sinclair sent over an inch perfect cross to Paulo, he caught the ball instead of scoring and ensured that West Ham did not take advantage of the goalkeeper's injury. The score remained 0-0, his team lost 2 points and D Canio got a FIFA Fair Play Award at the end of the season.

https://www.sportskeeda.com/football/5-most-vivid-moments-of-fair-play-in-football-history/5

When the Corinthian Casuals were blazing a trail as the founders of organised, amateur football in the 19th Century, they would never accept that any of their team would give away a penalty or indeed benefit from one. So important was their belief of fair play that they would purposely miss a penalty if one was given to them and they would instruct their goalkeeper to leave the goal empty if a penalty was awarded against them. They were usually so far ahead of most teams they met that this would not make much difference to the score, but they were real gents!

https://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?fr=yhs-adk-adk_sbyhp&hsimp=yhs-adk_sbyhp&hspart=adk&p=moments+of+fair+pay+of+football#id=3&vid=51b11b53f359459ba2061a78d91afe59&action=click

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