Andy Dibble v Gary Crosby

I was there, I remember it getting a bit feisty on the terrace. Couldn’t believe it stood, but then again it is City we’re talking about.
 
Man-chester copperpot said:
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?
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I was there, at the time as a keeper you couldn't travel more than 3/4 steps once you had the ball under control.

Courtney said Dibble didn't have it under control hence he allowed the goal.

There was no way if he'd moved around the area he'd have not penalised Andy for deliberately carrying the ball.

Atmosphere turned pretty nasty that day.
 
We have at least one ref on here so I'll wait to see if he replies. I'm not sure if the laws define "ball under control" in this scenario but I seem to recall someone at the time saying two hands on the ball or one hand on the ball with the ball held against the body was required.
At the time I thought Crosby was a cheating twunt and dibble was a dozy twunt.
 
East Level 2 said:
We have at least one ref on here so I'll wait to see if he replies. I'm not sure if the laws define "ball under control" in this scenario but I seem to recall someone at the time saying two hands on the ball or one hand on the ball with the ball held against the body was required.
At the time I thought Crosby was a cheating twunt and dibble was a dozy twunt.
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‘Holding the ball in the outstretched open hand’, wasn’t in the Laws of ’keepers being in control of the ball back then. I actually think at the time it was only if he had it in two hands.

Now ’keepers in possession can only be challenged if the ball is at his feet.
 
I was there. Dibs was never the same again after that. Should have been a draw on balance of play.
 
Man-chester copperpot said:
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?
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Wasn't there but a few years back I was working at a golf club near Peterborough. Dibble and others were playing in what I assume was their club golf day. I said to him something like "Gary Crosby sends his regards". He blanked me completely and stalked off to the first tee.
Fair enough I suppose, if anybody had played the smartarse like that with me I'd have smashed their teeth in with a 9 iron.
 
dickie davies said:
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
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Everything gets amplified now due to social media plus rolling sports news and radio relentlessly demanding ‘content’. The days before the PL era and the internet were a much more innocent time.
 
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Hence the subsequent umbrella ban
I seem to remember being at the side, did we have behind the goal and the side? All got a little fractious
 
What annoyed me about it, apart from the fact it clearly shouldn’t have been allowed, was that the referee claimed afterwards that he had seen it and came up with some bullshit excuse as to why it was a legitimate goal.

I was in the main stand that day, pretty much level with where the referee was standing at the time and he wasn’t even looking at the incident. He’d turned his back on play and had no idea of what had happened.

If he’d just admitted that and said he couldn’t give an offence he hadn’t seen, I wouldn’t have held such a grudge for so long.
 
Stephen230 said:
What annoyed me about it, apart from the fact it clearly shouldn’t have been allowed, was that the referee claimed afterwards that he had seen it and came up with some bullshit excuse as to why it was a legitimate goal.

I was in the main stand that day, pretty much level with where the referee was standing at the time and he wasn’t even looking at the incident. He’d turned his back on play and had no idea of what had happened.

If he’d just admitted that and said he couldn’t give an offence he hadn’t seen, I wouldn’t have held such a grudge for so long.
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He said as he only had one hand on the ball he wasn't in control - seemed very lame at the time.
 
Stevieatlasblue said:
I was there and the right decision too. Gutted all the same it was embarrassing
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Well it wasn’t but don’t particularly want to get into a big in-depth discussion about a decision from 33 years ago.

Similar to the one George Best put in the net against England that he whinged about until he finally drank himself to death.

Both clearly impeding the ‘keepers right to be free to clear the ball without interference.
 
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