Andy Dibble v Gary Crosby

[levets]

Can we request a replay?

A friend has brought it up in conversation and i forgot all about it.

Any of you at the City Ground that day?

And should it have been ruled out?

I was and it was unsporting. Dibble had control of the ball

 

[Cellarite]

Pretty sure, without googling it, that Shay Given (in his barcodes days) got done like that. Put the ball down to dribble it to the edge of the box before launching it. Never looked behind him, and an opposition player came from behind (Oo-err) him, robbed the ball and tapped it into the empty goal.

Was it against Spurs?

It was Dion Dublin for Coventry City.

 

[jimharri]

It was Dion Dublin for Coventry City.

It was. Well remembered. I had Jermaine Defoe in my head for some weird reason.

 

[dickie davies]

I'm sure the four steps rule was in place at the time, so by allowing that, the referee ruled that a goalkeeper could run around with the ball in one hand as he wasn't in control of the ball

Wind the clock forward a number of years and (I think it was vs Aston Villa) Rodri came back from an offside position to tackle a centre half. We scored a goal from it and there was absolute outrage, yet the Cosby Dibble incident was just a bit of a laugh

 

[Kippax77]

I was there and remember alot of argy bargy on the terrace at the end of the game with the stewards and then the police.

 

[Stelea]

Was there in the terrace behind the goal it happened ( as was Billy Boswell, Bread)
Remember the outrage and Kendall absolutely fuming.
Also removed somebody throwing an open umbrella

 

[bluebc]

Pretty sure, without googling it, that Shay Given (in his barcodes days) got done like that. Put the ball down to dribble it to the edge of the box before launching it. Never looked behind him, and an opposition player came from behind (Oo-err) him, robbed the ball and tapped it into the empty goal.

Was it against Spurs?

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Just imagine the furore had it happened to a certain team that plays in red.

Forest?

 

[BillCarlisle]

Can we request a replay?

A friend has brought it up in conversation and i forgot all about it.

Any of you at the City Ground that day?

And should it have been ruled out?

I was there and recall uttering the words 'Typical City' at the time !
Accompanied by several expletives.......

 

[carlosthejackal]

I’ll request my train fare back as a bare minimum, remember the police escorting us back to the train station with a “typical “ City mood descending on us .

 

[kashmir]

I was there….can laugh about it now…cups for cockups

 

[ysmsa]

Can we request a replay?

A friend has brought it up in conversation and i forgot all about it.

Any of you at the City Ground that day?

And should it have been ruled out?

Yep, was there.

Didn't we play them in some Mickey Mouse cup too, mid week.

Went on the coach from Maine Road with me mate, bag o'shite that was.

 

[Kippaxpete]

Forest?

Oh you. I said a 'certain team...'

 

[m7mcfc]

I was there. All us blues were behind that goal where it happened. Crosby took the corners for Forest but after that goal he got coins threw at him and some one else had to take them.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Oh you. I said a 'certain team...'

Couldn’t resist!

 

[Andy TheCatalyst Morrison]

Can we request a replay?

A friend has brought it up in conversation and i forgot all about it.

Any of you at the City Ground that day?

And should it have been ruled out?

Yep was there - still fucking livid!

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Think it was probably a goal, by the strict laws of the game.

Football rivalries aside, it was an incredible moment of sporting instinct. And Dibble was unquestionably at fault.

 

[Pubteam Lomas]

I was there. Had a 'few' in Nottingham before the game. Got home and family were asking about controversial goal.
Remembered we'd given dogs abuse to lino and ref, but couldn't remember everything!!!!!!!!!!

Dawned on me later but I'd been found out by my dad by then!

 

[Scaring Europe to Death]

First time I ever took a girl to a football match, and her mother had been influenced by the events at Hillsborough the previous season.
I think Daft Donald on the return journey was the Final Straw, but she dumped me the following day.

 

[Dirty Harry]

Always felt a bit ‘iffy’ to me the way Dibble held it out like it was on a platter, still remember when it was happening thinking what a strange way for him to hold the ball out, it’s like he’s inviting someone to do it, and then….

Was a bit weird.