Bees Suffer Last Minute Cruel Blow – Leeds 1 Brentford 0

Posted by BillytheBee Grant | Dec 18, 2016 | 3 |

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Following Brentford for 40 years plus now .. write .. blog .. videoblog .. podcast ... photograph ...eat .. sleep .. Brentford .. am known to attend the occasional England match too (16 World Cups and Euro tournaments now plus a couple of Womens Tournaments too) so can take a few knocks ... Run a grassroots girls football club ... organised husky dog racing rallies for a living back in the day ... as you do .. You didn’t wanna go up!!

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Leeds on December 18, 2016 at 12:28 pm

We would celebrate a last minute winner like that no matter who it was against. Nothing to do with Brentford.
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Keith Halliday on December 18, 2016 at 5:03 pm

If Leeds were poor and they were, it doesn’t say much for Brentford.Thought the bees had no sting and quite honestly Leeds on recent form would have hammered you.
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Richard on December 19, 2016 at 3:25 am

Looked like a game of two very average championship teams & on that display Leeds current league position flatters them. Perhaps if Leeds had been at full strength they would have been more adventurous which would have suited Brentfords counter attacking style and it would have been a better game all round.
Does anyone know the official reason that the goal was ruled out ? Although Hogan was off-side earlier he was clearly behind the ball for the final pass therefore on side. Was Vibe off-side ? He was clearly on-side as Wood started his run-up & he left the screen,& off-side when he re-enters the screen so his position at the exact moment of the kick is pivotal. Does the “technology” you mentioned include looking at Vibe’s position? My guestimate would be that in the current climate of ‘benefit of the doubt going to the attacking side’ this should not have ruled out the goal.
I have long felt the changes to the off-side rule over recent seasons have been detrimental, after all Refs have always had the discretion to rule on a player in an off-side position having not interfered with play. I have a suspicion that for the free-kick, the Brentford set piece coach deliberately had 3 or 4 Bees players standing in an offside position. Reason ? maybe it is to delay the defenders reaction to the through ball for fear of bringing ‘off-side players onside’ thus giving the attacker running through, in this case Vibe the jump on them.
On a separate matter I thought that there was a lot more merit in the penalty appeal than indicated by the Sky commentator.
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