Mick Dennis says

[pace89]

Ian McGarry was lying through his teeth when Bowen was on Radio 5 last night. He said the rules explicitly state that time should be added on for celebrations. Sat at my lap top I downloaded the rules from fifa and low and behold it’s not even mentioned in the time added on section or the celebrations section. He also told Bowen that the rag ran on the pitch after the final whistle had gone whilst everyone else seems to think it was after the final goal.

City’s press and PR people should tell Radio 5 to fuck off until they apologise for setting up a ‘debate’ with a typically ill-informed tabloid sports hack who was prepared to lie in order to try and make Bowen look like a dick.

 

[laserblue]

what other stoppages? no injuries, no time wasting. utter bollocks. rag twat.

I have read somewhere that they always have to add a minimum of one minute at the end of each half, when do you ever see no added time? i think even if there were no goals, no injuries and no subs they would still add at least a minute. As an earlier poster says when did anyone ever hear of adding time for goal celebrations though?

i've been to games when there's been no added time in the first half, including some when a goal has been scored. likewise the added time for goal celebrations is a new one on me though. never heard it mentioned before, ever.

 

[ballymunblue]

lets just say for arguments sake he gets his time spot on 2 seconds to go Owen scores, that means theres only 2 seconds to play he celebrates for 1 Min 15 and the game carries on for another 80 seconds you can only waste 2 seconds of the game thats all thats left, if they had gone on for a couple of Min's would they add the time cause if they do next time we draw level in stoppage time lets celebrate for 20 minutes

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why are so many people buying in to that 80 second thing after owens goal.
owen scored on 5:27 the full time whistle went at 6:58. he played 16 seconds after the restart

 

[dannybcity]

Who the fuck is Mick Dennis?

 

[john blue]

Just because he refs under 10s on a saturday morning he thinks he"s the dogs bollocks. stuttering twat. !

 

[bluemonkey71]

Who the fuck is Mick Dennis?

Exactly...obviously someone so important that not many people know who the fuck he is.

I for one dont know who he is and couldnt give a fuck what he thinks/says

 

[becomingparanoid]

Who the fuck is Mick Dennis?

Had been reading the posts and thinking who the fuck is Mick Dennis as well. Got to one said he was a tabloid hack, nuff said. In other words another inbred no brain waste of sperm.

 

[pace89]

According to BBC sport we played 4 minutes 17 seconds added time against Arsenal the previous Saturday. There were five second half goals and five second half substitutions. 43 seconds are already missing if you go by Mick Dennis’s argument. As well as that at least two players received treatment in the second half. Doesn’t look like ref’s are adding on a thirty seconds per sub and per goal.

 

[Royaloak]

RANT OVER TIMING IS WAY OFF THE MARK
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City boss Mark Hughes was not happy about the amount of added time in the Manchester Derby

Tuesday September 22,2009
By Mick Dennis

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LET me tell you a few refereeing secrets, because the utter tosh that has been talked by ­players, managers and pundits over the weekend ­demonstrates a shocking lack of knowledge.

Let’s start with timekeeping, most of which is complete guesswork. Referees do not keep an accurate tally of every stoppage. They make a rough estimate.

The only exceptions to that haphazard approach – pay attention here, Mark Hughes – is that Premier League referees are instructed to add on at least 30 seconds for each substitution and each goal.

In the Manchester derby, referee Martin Atkinson told the fourth official the minimum time to be added was four minutes. In the second half there had been three subs and three goals, so Atkinson had added the bare 30 seconds for each, plus a minute for other stoppages.

Then came another substitution and a City goal. That is at least another minute to add on but because, accordingto Sky’s timing, Craig Bellamy spent 55 seconds celebrating his goal, Atkinson correctly added more.

That meant at least one minute, 25 seconds to add to the four minutes already indicated. Michael Owen scored United’s winner after 95 minutes, 27 seconds, a discrepancy of only two seconds, which made Atkinson probably the most accurate timekeeper of all the officials on duty at the weekend.

There is a little footnote to this, he also says Bellers should be banned for three games.

Well, if this fucker Dennis was any sort of journalist, he'd be working for a paper that appeals to readers with an IQ higher than 20. There was an interesting piece today in the Guardian Sports section which finally proves something which everyone outside Old Trafford knows for a fact already - that Utd get preferential treatment when it comes to timekeeping.
<a class="postlink" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2009/sep/22/manchester-united-goals-stoppage-time" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2009 ... ppage-time</a>

 

[quiet_riot]

Had a few email battles with this prick. He seems to think that because he's got his refs badge and refs under 8's games on a Sunday morning he should be looked upon as some kind of font of all football knowledge.

The fact he called me a 'twat' in one of his email replies just underlines what a prick this guy is.

I love laughing at him on SSN doing the papers. "Erm...there's erm, an good article in the erm, mirror which, which is erm..good, erm. It's about erm, football."