A bizarre fan handcuffed himself to the goal post during Everton's 1-0 win over Manchester City on Tuesday night thus stopping play for several minutes. Related posts:Video: Maynor Figueroa Handball Wigan 0-1 Manchester City VIDEO: "Fuck Them!" Carlos Tevez Caught Cursing & Mocking Manchester City! VIDEO: Tim Howard Goal Everton vs Bolton Related posts:

1. Video: Maynor Figueroa Handball Wigan 0-1 Manchester City
2. VIDEO: "Fuck Them!

They say that play acting and feining injury has become rife in football and when videos like this emerge it is no wonder why. We at In The Stands can only shake our heads and laugh. For the record his name is Narcisse Ekanga Amia, a 24-year-old Cameroonian-Equatoguinean midfielder who currently plays for TP Mazembe [.

Venue: Amex Stadium, Brighton Date: 28th January 2012 Kick Off: 5.15pm Referee: Lee Probert Quite simply, this was a game United should not have lost. Even with the cautious tactics employed by Pardew we were clearly a class above, dominated 75% of the game and had a penalty appeal for a blatant handball turned down.

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The African Cup of Nations just wouldn't be the African Cup of Nations without some questionable goalkeeping, and Zambia keeper Kennedy Mweene was first of the mark with this effort against Senegal. Mweene raced off his line to claim a ball he didn't really need to get. Only after making the catch did he pause [.

Fed-up of a night of Sergio Aguero running in behind the Wigan defence, Latics left-back Maynor Figueroa came up with a new way of defending Manchester City's counter attacks. After misjudging the flight of the ball, Figueroa opted for a leaping handball to deny Aguero a clear run on goal. Referee Chris Foy opted to [.

szólj hozzá: Wigan 0-1 Manchester City

Edin Dzeko sighting once again. This time he flew high over the Wigan defense to head the ball home of a David Silva free kick. The 1-0 win established a three point lead over Utd at the top of the table.

Roberto Mancini reignited his feud with Wayne Rooney as he brandished an imaginary red card against Maynor Figueroa for a handball.

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If defeat to Man City was as honourable as defeat can be, and defeat to Fulham as good an example of self-implosion as you're likely to see, yesterday's loss to Swansea is one in which we ought not to be churlish straight away and offer congratulations to our opponents for the way they played (in general).

Barcelona returned to within five points of Liga leaders Real Madrid with a 4-2 defeat of ten-man Real Betis, on a day when Athletic Club improved their European chances by beating Levante.

Josep Guardiola's men made an explosive start at Camp Nou as Xavi Hernández opened the scoring after ten minutes and Lionel Messi took his league tally to 18 shortly afterwards.

By Walter Broeckx

What on earth is wrong with ref Probert? Last year I wrote an article after the Wigan game which was also a Christmas game only 2 days after a previous game. He then screwed us over with not giving a blatant penalty for handball in the last minute. And that after he [...]

Fulham 2-1 Arsenal

So, a pretty dismal start to the New Year, but perhaps a focus sharpener as this month's transfer window opens.

It was the ultimate clichéd game of two halves. Arsenal were pretty damn good in the first, creating loads of chances, passing neatly, very enjoyable to watch and well worth their advantage.

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Midfielder Charlie Adam has no qualms about taking Liverpool's next penalty despite squandering the spot-kick which saw his side lose ground on the Premier League's top five.
Having created a number of chances against Wigan on Wednesday night, Gary Caldwell's handball gave the Reds the perfect opportunity to break the deadlock just after half-time.

By Ref Reviewer 02

Ref Oliver did the game between Manchester United and Wolverhampton. Did he have a good game?

Min Type Foul from On C/NC Comment points weight 1 Foul Nani Ohara C 1 1 3 Handball Nani C 1 1 3 Foul Nani Wolves N/C Missed by ref, me thinks Nani [...]

Everybody I talked to said the same thing – we were up for it like no other game in recent memory. Not just a derby, this one has become more sour over the last few years. There's a bitter edge to it, compared with the intense but long-standing rivalry with the Arsen*l, heightened by the welcome but unusual sensation of being third and favourites.

This isn't going to be overly analytical of the game, THFC1882 is about to go on it's Christmas holidays! Before that though we take a brief look at Tottenham Hotspur versus Chelsea from The Lane.

On the balance of play both sides will have been satisfied with a point.

Carragher talks Torres, funny Gary Neville video and the worst handball decision ever

Our look back at the best of talkSPORT.co.uk in 2011 continues with the most popular content from February

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Kenny Dalglish has hailed the Liverpool fans that made the trip to Wigan for the support they showed controversial striker Luis Suarez in his side's 0-0 draw on Wednesday night.
Liverpool had released two club statements since the FA announced Suarez's eight-game ban for "misconduct" towards Patrice Evra, and the players warmed up in 'Suarez 7' t-shirts as a show of support.

Frank Lampard came off the bench to rescue Chelsea's season with a penalty which he blasted down the mniddle to give Chelsea a 2-1 win over Premier League leaders Manchester City. Joeleen Lescott was the guilty party as his handball from a Daniel Sturridge shot handed Chelsea their chance of a winner at Stamford Bridge and the Chelsea old boy duly obliged.

Kaboul tells it like it is Dissapointing. Stoke harassed us in the first half, didn't let us play and we clearly struggled with the pressure. Before we continue, the ref... Robbed us of a perfectly legitimate goal, denied us a handball on the line, plus numerous other handballs in the area that we should have had penalties for.

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By Alan Duffy

Manchester City 3-1 Newcastle United Premier League 19th November 2011

Two of their goals may well have come from the penalty spot, but nouveau riche Manchester City were always in control of this top four clash against the surprise package of the 2011/12 season so far, Newcastle United.

Time to sing "Everything you own in the box to the left!" to Diego Forlan because Uruguay have officially reaffirmed their commitment to their new national hero (handball and all), Luis SuaaaRez!

Of course, it's hard to ignore his four goals against Chi-le-le over the weekend but the Italians can sit down and relax because he won't be featuring against them tonight in the Italy-Uruguay international friendly.

Ireland assistant boss Marco Tardelli has told Ireland's players they could be preparing for the most important games of their lives as they attempt to book a trip to the Euro 2012 finals in Poland & Ukraine next summer.
Ireland face Estonia in a two-legged play-off over the next seven days with a place at next summer's tournament at stake.

Hands up! It's our Top 10 unpunished handballs

Following Kyle Walker's incredible unpunished handball against Fulham at the weekend, we've wracked our brains and scoured the net to compile our Top 10 handball-related injustices.

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Heading into the final 30 seconds of the second overtime Saturday afternoon, the University of Wisconsin men's soccer team continued to attack.

And it paid off in grand fashion for the Badgers.

Penn State was called for a handball in the box with 21 seconds left and junior Tomislav Zadro converted the ensuing penalty kick to give UW a 1-0 victory in State College, Penn.

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There is something fishy about Simon Borg's article about the Gabriel Farfan's tackle on Danny Cruz that was posted today on both the league's and Union's website.

If you read the version of the article posted on MLSSoccer. com (HERE), it looks different from the version posted at PhiladelphiaUnion.

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By Ref Reviewer 03

Ref Taylor did Manchester City – Aston Villa. Lets see how he did.

Kenny Dalglish paid tribute to another star showing from Luis Suarez after watching the Uruguayan torment West Brom on Saturday.
Suarez played a part in both of Liverpool's goals as they left The Hawthorns with a 2-0 win.
He won the penalty from which Charlie Adam opened the scoring, before playing in Andy Carroll for the Reds' second.

Goals:
Adam 9' (pen)
Carroll 45+1'
A thorough, comfortable win, never in doubt after notching a second on the stroke of halftime, a clean sheet easily kept away from Anfield.
Had Liverpool scored so early in their last league match, converting just one of the chances from their fast start, we could have seen a similar result.

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By Chris Wright

Wayne Rooney became the highest scoring Englishman in Champions League history after sticking away a brace of penalties (Rooney now has 26, having stood level with Paul Scholes on 24) as Manchester United chalked up their first European victory of the season with a bitty 2-0 win over also-rans Otelul Galati in Romania last night.

This feels like the only fitting way. Put the ball in the back of the net yourself, if no other team is able to. Holger Badstuber put it there under pressure to Napoli's credit. Philipp Lahm failed to deal with Maggio to Badstuber's credit. And so Manuel Neuer's record run across all competitions ended after 1147 minutes.

In order to qualify for the 2010 World Cup finals in South Africa, France needed a goal involving an uncalled handball by Thierry Henry in order to beat Ireland. On Tuesday, France qualified for Euro 2012 thanks to the penalty call depicted in the video below. Bosnia had been leading the match, 1-0, thanks to an Edin Dzeko goal in the first half, with only 13 minutes plus penalty time left to go.

The draw for the European Championship qualifying playoffs took place on Thursday morning and no country is happier with the results than Ireland.

The Irish, who missed out on the 2010 World Cup after facing the tough draw (and Thierry Henry handball) of France, drew Estonia out of the eight-team pot, giving Ireland the easiest draw in the pot.

By Alan Duffy

Ireland boss Giovanni Trapattoni collapses with joy on hearing the play-off draw

I think it's fair to say that the Irish have been paid back with interest for that infamous Henry handball in the World Cup qualifiers in 2009.

By Alan Duffy

Three years after Thierry Henry's infamous handball in France's World Cup play-off with the Republic of Ireland, the Irish finally received some kind of footballing karma at the Aviva Stadium, courtesy of another appalling refereeing decision, this time by Spanish official Eduardo Ganzalez.