If you're interested in listening to football people's stories, get Fox Footy, if only to watch the Open Mike series of interviews by Mike Sheehan. This week he had Tadhg Kennelly as his guest. Anyway I found it interesting that Kennelly openly admitted that he had hold of Sampi and it should of been a free kick paid to Sampi when Barry took that mark just before the siren in 2005, "but it would of been a brave umpire to pay it." In fact he said that he had hold of him so tightly that he ripped the 2005 GF badge off his jumper.
The reason I hate Sydney is mainly because in that era they constantly held and scragged their opponents, but would rarely get pinged. That and Hall should never have been able to play, plus there was a soft free kick paid against Cox in the ruck when everything else was being let go, which resulted in a goal to Hall and (IMO) changed the momentum of the game.
Good thing that I've got past that and I'm not bitter. Having said that, I'm looking forward to reading Robert Walls' articles talking about Collingwood's 1990 tainted premiership.
The reason I hate Sydney is mainly because in that era they constantly held and scragged their opponents, but would rarely get pinged. That and Hall should never have been able to play, plus there was a soft free kick paid against Cox in the ruck when everything else was being let go, which resulted in a goal to Hall and (IMO) changed the momentum of the game.
Good thing that I've got past that and I'm not bitter. Having said that, I'm looking forward to reading Robert Walls' articles talking about Collingwood's 1990 tainted premiership.
I think of that frigging Irish jig Kennelly did up on the stage when collecting his medal! That aggravated the sh!t out of me and still does! I couldn't have coped if we lost in 06!
