Casper Ankergren

[marko]

Fair enough if he didn't have any options to pass to but eventually he has to do something.

But to me the ridiculousness of it perfectly highlighted the stupidity of all the rules regarding time wasting.

Essentially if the ball is in play and you're time wasting............you can't be punished for time wasting.

But if the ball is out of play and you time waste you can be punished for it. WTF?

I get that the rule is there to stop people from breaking up the momentum of the game - i.e stopping a free kick from being taken etc. But why not just make the rule about breaking up momentum and kicking the ball away, rather than time wasting????

In fact if we're going to bother punishing players for time wasting they why bother with most of Stoppage time?

Massive, massive difference. If the ball is out of play there is no way the opposing team can get possession of the ball until it's returned to the field of play, hence the teams duty to restart play promptly. Whereas if the ball is in play, like it was when Ankergren had it, we could have attempted to regain possession at any time - there was nothing stopping us closing him down and hurrying him up.

Anyone who thinks he was time wasting needs to have a word.

[Bugg]

The Brighton fans are giving him ratings of 7/8s, I personally thought he was a bit shit.

[Yojoe36]

He was such a muppet. He clearly has no idea what the rules of the game are. The ref blows his whistle, and 5 seconds later, he drop-kicks the ball...??????

Did they pull him out from Morrisons up the street, and offered him £1000 to stand on the pitch for 90 minutes

[Legend_in_blue]

The bloke is an idiot.

Simple as that.

League 1 and it showed.

[The Doctor]

Casper Ankergren = Anti-Football.

Shouldn't that be Anke-football?

And the bloke's clearly an idiot and a shit keeper to boot - the balloon incident was very funny mind.

[Karljohn]

Ankergen reminded me of Rab Douglas, the ref should have taken control and booked the bastard.

[Clazie]

Am I the only one who thought that the minute where no-one moved was actually very funny? I was in tears, he made my day!

[wattolcfc]

Personally I think what he did was a great idea, if he hoofed it we would just win it and kill the attack. What he was trying to do was give it to a brighton player so that they kept the ball. Don't see why you lot are bothered? I'd rather Kasper do that instead of hoofing it towards our small attack and give them the ball back. The games changed from what it used to be 10 years ago, it's all about possession.

[Fox96]

All the time he used time wasting and getting ready to take a goal kick, they could of scored from.

[phillthefox]

funniest part of yesterday, when he kicked the rolling ball for goal kick then when had it passed back to retake he dived on it and held to his chest like king had unleashed and 30 yarder at him. total and utter COCK. so glad we beat these bunch of cast offs that think they are better than they are.

C'MON YOU BLUES !!!!!!!!!!!

[fleckneymike]

I really can't see the problem here. He had the ball, we stopped him playing short. We did that all afternoon as they tend to go to a back three at goal kicks, every time they took a long goal kick we won the ball very easily.