The legendary Columbian goalkeeper, Rene Higuita, perfected the 'Scorpion Kick.'
As the ball approached the goal in the air, Higuita would get his body ready and perfectly time his action to flex his torso and bring his legs back together in the air to boot the ball out away from the goal.

As Arsenal threw away two vital points in the race for third, Norwich City left the Emirates with a 3-3 draw, after a match that can only be compared with a 90-minute rollercoaster ride.

As Arsene Wenger celebrated his 900th game in charge of the Gunners, the Canaries pounced on Arsenal's mistakes and were able to grab an excellent point that summed up their impressive first season back in the Premier League.

-
- For More QPR History: Visit the truly-fascinating Bushman QPR Photo Archives
- Follow QPR REPORT on TWITTER!
- QPR REPORT MESSAGEBOARD - Visit the cutting-edge, football-only, QPR Report messageboard (and see items you won't usually read elsewhere
-
________________________________________________________________________________
- Update Snippet on QPR Former Chairman, Gianni Paladini (Enters the World of Horse Racing)
- NEXT: West Bromwich Albion (WBA) vs QPR: Shared Players/Past Results
- Published (But not Publicized) - The 2011-2012 QPR Customers Charter
- Birthday for Rapper & Former QPR, Shabbaz Baidoo
- On This Day: QPR Try and Sign George Best!

With Patrick Vieira claiming that Manchester United get preferential treatment form referees in their home games this week, Sir Alex Ferguson has responded by claiming that their isn't much water to that theory and that each team in the league all have good and bad decisions against them.
You have to say that Sir Alex does have a point.

Monday's training was optional for players who played more than 45 minutes on Saturday, so those players did not participate in the regular training. Rodney Wallace and Kalif Alhassan ran laps around the field. Kris Boyd joined Wallace later on, and they kicked the ball around.

The rest of the boys, plus Spencer and assistants Cameron Knowles and Amos Magee, played a half field scrimmage.

Three times in the last 24 hours, I thought about the figurative 'ass kicking' that kids need from their parents or coaches.
Teenagers or young adults at home that may need some 'tough love' to encourage them to have a little more urgency in their lives; A coddled NBA basketball player (DeMarcus Cousins) who demands a trade from his current team; a number of high school basketball players who come back from a holiday vacation lacking some of the focus and urgency in practice needed to be successful when games resume.

Today's result says a lot to me about where this team is right now. There's not enough depth, and there's not enough finishing. Not only is the league race way out of reach, but we have to stop and wonder about the likelihood of overtaking Spurs, and also finishing 4th. Hopefully this one will motivate Wenger to do some real spending in January, although I'm still not holding my breath.

Younes couldn't have picked a worse time to roll out his Petr Cech impressionWWWWDWWWWWWFOY. Tottenham's remarkable run of winning form came to a shuddering end at Stoke yesterday but the controversial decisions made by referee Chris Foy left a particularly bitter taste in the mouth.
An inept first half showing from Spurs, unbecoming of a title-chasing team, had left them 2-0 and with the prospect of scaling a metaphorical mountain in order to get anything from the game.

Sone Aluko got banned for diving.
Garry O'Connor got away with diving.
Ergo the new disciplinary procedures in place at the SFA are ridiculous and hellbent on making a mockery of the Scottish game. At best.
At worst the new procedures have been all but designed to penalise one team above others.

7am. Get up, grab Sunday and don't let it go.
And spare a quid or two for the Homeless World Cup and Alzheimer Scotland.
You ask for suggestions for blogathon topics on Twitter you get inundated with chat about referees. So, for y'all, here goes.
Referees. What a shower of crooked bastards.

This is it folks! All the drama and tears and cheers have led us to the end of MLS playoffs. Most fans are left rueing squandered chances, bad decisions, and a lack of that intangible but often referenced "heart", but a few lucky fans get to experience the true excitement of their team in a MLS Cup. It's something you can only really feel when your team could win it all.

Photo: Nicolae Stoian

Click here to view the embedded video.

We know, guys. Trust me. We know.

We know you played your hearts out Sunday.

We know you left everything on the field in those ridiculously exciting, maddening, painful closing minutes.

We know you had to overcome your manager's bad decisions.

Will the Premier pressure send AVB OTT?

Andre Villas-Boas is clearly a fiercely intelligent man and a brilliant coach. But even this early in the season, he seems alarmingly susceptible to pressure. If he's uptight now, heaven help him when the going gets tough. ** Sven Goran Eriksson reacted with great dignity and class to his firing by Leicester City but sometimes it seems that in the latter years of his career, he has made a series of bad decisions based largely on salary.

Don't tell me bad decisions even themselves out over a season that's garbage!

It has always been said that the final table never lies. Every team plays each other home and away over the course of 38 games and where you finish when it all comes to an end in May is where you deserve to be.

If players can be banned for bad tackles why aren't refs banned for bad decisions like Rodwell's red card?

As a player, I was a regular customer of FA disciplinary commissions, and I usually came away poorer for the experience. But, finally, I can now speak my mind about referees without dreading another summons landing on the doormat.

Kenny Dalglish maybe right to have a grievance against Premiership referee's decisions thus far this season.
Already Liverpool are 5 points behind League leaders Man City and Man Utd on 12 points while the Reds lie in 5th with 7 points, early days yet though.
Kenny had a peculiar rant against the Premiership officials when he complained about decisions have gone against Liverpool.

After Liverpool's defeat against Stoke City today, Kenny Dalglish was clearly frustrated by the 'contentious decisions' he believes are going against the club on a regular basis. There may be a some truth to that but the club should not be relying on refereeing decisions to win games. Liverpool (arguably) had more than enough quality on the pitch today to comfortably beat Stoke, and the failure to do so is down to the players and the coaching staff, not the referee.

I think those who saw the match just now on TV would agree that bad decisions against us had cost us dearly at Kunming.
Already handicapped by the climate that bogged both sides, the controversial call by the referee in the second half on several decisions must had fumed a lot of folks back here with two dubious penalty decisions that eventually paved the way to an unglamorous win for the hosts.

Ian Holloway: Why Sepp Blatter is more to blame for bad decisions than referees

MirrorFootball has signed up Ian Holloway to be our latest star columnist. Read his views every Sunday... *** Having just discovered that journalist Tim Long has ­conducted a study about how poor refereeing decisions ­affected the final ­Premier League table last season, I am not surprised at his ­conclusion that my ­Blackpool team got a raw deal.

San Antonio based Spurs Sports and Entertainment company owns the NBA San Antonio Spurs, the WNBA San Antonio Silver Stars, the AHL Minor League San Antonio Rampage and the NBA D-league Austin Toros. They wanted to bring professional Soccer to the Alamo City, but bad decisions and delayed action caused the organization to watch from the sidelines as another investor bought the rights to a NASL second division club.

On Wednesday night Arsenal qualified for the Champions League. It was a very tense first half, with the Gunners going down 1-0 (agg 1-1), the tense half was a different story. After the break, Arsenal came back strong, dominating the game as we are so used to seeing them do. The game ended 1-2 Arsenal (agg 1-3).

Kind of a slow news day for the Timbers, well at least yesterday was. Seems like the only thing anybody is talking about with regards to the team is Darlington Nagbe's goal and, well, there's only so many articles you can read about a single goal, as fantastic as it was regardless.

Other news today focuses around Sporting KC's rise to prominence and how they only have a few road games left and some player speculation outside of the Timbers.

-
- QPR's Truly-Historic 1968/69 Season
- Any American or Canadian Readers of QPR Report/QPR Report Messageboard? (Or any QPR Fans from Central or South America?)
- Throughout the day, updates, comments and perspectives re QPR and football in general are posted and discussed on the QPR Report Messageboard.

Written by Gooner in Exile

It has been a troubling few weeks for us all as Arsenal fans, unfortunately it has led to navel gazing and infighting which is unhealthy for the club and its supporters. So today I aim to give us something to unite in anger against.

After another particular raw deal from the man in the middle I decided to have a bit more of a look at our Select Group of Referees.

By JONATHAN VERA

CARSON, Calif. -- Chivas USA won its second straight match after goals from Nick LaBrocca, Marcos Mandaini, and Alejandro Moreno helped the 'Rojiblancos' post an emphatic 3-0 victory against New England at Home Depot Center on Saturday night.

Former Liverpool chairman Sir Martin Broughton will be remembered by most fans as part of the team that got rid of Hicks and Gillette, but looking back he made a few bad decisions in his time - firstly sacking Rafa Benitez, and secondly choosing Hodgson over Dalglish; claiming Kenny was never a proper candidate for the job.

Down, yes. But out? Certainly not.

A game of inches

In re-watching the match last night, I was reminded of Al Pacino's memorable halftime speech from the movie Any Given Sunday. Inches, he said, were the difference between winning and losing. Between living and dying.

Morning folks,

the weather in Dublin this morning is like the Arsenal mood. Grey, miserable and drizzling slightly with a chance of heavy rain later in the day. The first two were probably sufficient for the description but there you go.

There is a fairly widespread acceptance that Saturday's display against Blackburn has cost us our chance of the title.

Apologies for the temporary hiatus from blogging. Thankfully Jeff did a great job of recapping the recent matches against Luxembourg and Croatia.

Probably the biggest recent story in group D is the suspension of Bosnia from all international competitions. I do believe this destroys any hopes of them qualifying for the tournament as I do not think they will be able to fix things before their next qualifier on June 3rd.

I hope that clip of Cesc in the new Spanish film Torrente 4 has you prepared for the randomness that will be today's blog post.

What better place to start than on Arsenal goalkeepers? Jens Lehmann made his triumphant Arsenal return with the Reserves team who played Wigan today.

The ref just blew it..

Bloody pissed!

Talking points –

• The starting eleven, it sucked! Showed the deficiency in tactical astuteness. We should have played with Gibbs and Clichy on the left and Nasri on the right, to exploit their weakness on their left.
• Where the fuck was our passing?