Just as the referees' apparent lack of fitness stole the headlines in the aftermath of Sunderland's
last game, their latest encounter – and encouraging performance – was lost amongst the furore
surrounding
that red balloon.
Journalists, match officials, and former referees were left to scramble through the rule book to
work out whether the goal should have been chalked off, as confusion reigned at the Stadium of
Light on Saturday.
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Last week's wacky shaninagians really reminded me 0f the short film The Red
Balloon? If you haven't seen the French film, originally titled Le Ballon Rouge,Â
it is the story of a boy who discovers a balloon that drifts around following him with a mind
of its own.
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Just as the referees' apparent lack of fitness stole the headlines in the aftermath of
Sunderland's last game, their latest encounter – and encouraging performance – was lost amongst
the furore surrounding that red balloon.
Journalists, match officials, and former referees were left to scramble through the rule book to
work out whether the goal should have been chalked off, as confusion reigned at the Stadium of
Light on Saturday.
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99 red balloons floating up into the sky, panic bells it's red alert. While the stadium of light
had 98 fewer than an eighties pop classic once spoke of on Saturday, the one massive beach
ball-shaped troublemaker in the Liverpool goalmouth certainly gave cause for the panic bells to
ring again on the red half of merseyside.
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