jrfatfan

It’s a myth, I’m afraid John, that there is such a time when the “score stands”.

Law 7 states that a game lasts two halves of 45 minutes, and it states “an abandoned match shall be replayed unless the rules of the competition state otherwise”. The FA Cup and Premier League have no such clauses, so any abandonment should be replayed in full. There was the famous 1961 case of Denis Law scoring 6 for City in a game that was abandoned, and had to be replayed. His goals were all erased from the records, and City lost the rearranged match.

In practice the organising committee can look at whether a game abandoned near the end has to be replayed, but it would have to be very near the end.

I was actually at the famous “Denis Law backheel” match that sent United into the (old) second division and that was abandoned after about 88 minutes because of “crowd invasions” (it was actually non-threatening – just kids running all over the pitch) and that wasn’t replayed.

But in answer to your question – there isn’t such a time.[/quote]

Thanks for clearing that one up George. I’m sure at the time we thought there was a cut off point for the game to stand.

I was at The Dell when United played Southampton in a cup match back in the 70’s. The game was all square with about 2-3 mins to go when a shed full of united fans went out of the away end and came marauding into the home end. Everyone spilled onto the pitch and the ref blew up for full time and quickly ran off with the players. I might have said this afore but what happened next was the biggest battle I have ever been in or seen in my time watching football. Hit or be hit was the name of the game which made it quite difficult with both sets of fans wearing the same colours.
It lasted for at least 30 mins before the cops on horses came onto the pitch to try and clear things up a bit. :woohoo:

Remember the game well, was willing the ref to continue till the time elapsed whereby the score would stand.
George may be able to tell us what that time was, 75 mins? or have I dreamt it?.

I think we also played with orange ball which was fairly rare in those times. Fekin cold that day, toes and fingers well and truly shot at, but not has bad as the Halifax game you mentioned.

Watched it from the the shed stand behind the goals which eventually became the away end. Remember crying with pain and it got worse when I got home and hit the warmth of the fire. Unbelievable thawing out pain. :woohoo:

Not been on their site online..

Only thing I would tend to do online is Poker.. Used to always be on it.. Saying that it isn’t quite ‘gambling my life away’ as more or less all the times I would be up and have won a decent wedge

Why did u pack in then when you were winning wads of money. You inferred that you used to bet online which infers you don’t now. If I had the poker tallent that you claim then I would still be cleaning them out.
PS Hope this thread doesn’t trigger filmoss into starting his nags tipster service.

Good on him, I know I would sooner be sat in the sun with a pint in my hand to say “yes” or “no” when my manager asks me a question. Do you not think that targets are already sorted and the stance is known on what it would take to let any of our players leave.

Yes and Yes to the first two questions. From my seat I really didn’t think we lay down for utd. In fact, we took the game to them when 2 down only to be done on the break.

Did we have our belly tickled at Villa?, I’m having trouble finding your post after the 3 nil win at VP.

You total gnaw yed!!, 13 points every 9 games will see us safe as fek this season. You have just put the bones on the very theory that I put forward and was too dumb to notice. :P goodpost