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Official - Holtby
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SteveAWOL
Chris Jones
All I could find regarding the thickness of goal lines is...
http://www.fifa.com/aboutfifa/footb...eing/laws-of-the-game/law/newsid=1285960.html
So if Villa Park had slightly thinner posts then it would've been a goal!
Depends on where the paint was removed from. If the outer bounds remain the same it would still not be a goal.
SteveAWOL
Chris Jones
If Villa Park had 4" diameter goal posts (assuming the current ones are the maximum 5" permitted) then wouldn't the entire goal line also be 4" thick?
SteveAWOL
Chris Jones
Ah, a picture is worth a thousand words.
Although if the pitch was marked like that then the defence may have held their line one inch further towards the top of your pic and thus Holtby would've been a bit closer so his strike would have just enough speed to cross the goal line!
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Spur of the moment
Frederic Kanoute
No doubt about it! :ross:
spasm
Gudni Bergsson
From the Metro.
The prospect of signing Lewis Holtby is incentive enough for relegation-threatened Fulham
Any team going through a crisis requires a quality player to step up to the mark, take control of the wheel and steer the ship clear of an iceberg – Fulham’s man is Lewis Holtby.
Arriving in a January transfer window, which fluctuated in both hope and frustration, (Fulham were linked to a number of high profile midfielders including Steven Defour and Sergio Canales) Lewis Holtby joined the club’s relegation dogfight.
One of seven new signings brought in by the then manager Rene Meulensteen – who correctly noted Fulham’s lack of quality in central midfield, something I feel Martin Jol avoided – Holtby was the standout signing.
I must admit after the reported speculation of Canales and Defour disintegrated, I did not hold out much hope Fulham were going to pull out the stops and attract a similar kind of player.
It seemed too obviously necessary for us, and as anyone who is familiar with the club will know, Fulham do not ever like to make things easy for themselves.
But as they say, everything happens for a reason, and with the benefit of hindsight, signing the German over the aforementioned midfielders worked out better than anyone at the club could have hoped.
What Holtby has over the other two is something you cannot buy and perhaps more importantly for a team in need of immediate impact, something you cannot wager on.
That something is of course the ability to perform in the Premier League. Yes Defour and Canales are quality players, but expecting an immediate impact from players unproven at this level is a risk we could not afford to take.
In some ways I wish we had considered this a bit more. We could have perhaps attracted another coup (on-loan at least) by offering them first-team Premier League football in the run-up to the World Cup, if of course they were like Holtby, and deemed surplus to requirements at their current club.
‘What if’, however, can no longer plague us. What we have now is the team that we are going to see the league out with, and one that has to work if we are to survive.
And having Holtby on board certainly makes things a little bit more bearable.
From day one he took to our team like a fish to water. While Fulham isn’t a club renowned as being particularly loud or passionate, it’s one that has a solid set of traditional and historic values – values that an outsider may never understand.
And Holtby gets it. As I said previously he bleeds black-and-white. He’s the closest player, for me, that we have had since Danny Murphy – and in some ways could be better, because we have him in his prime.
The 23-year-old’s work rate and tenacity is fantastic to see, but what really sets him apart from the pack is his creativity and instinctive quality that can turn a stagnant midfield battle into a possible attack with a single touch of the ball.
Unlike much of Fulham’s possession play this year, which has been sideways and back to the keeper at every moment of danger, Holtby adds a fluid, attacking dimension that encourages everyone to get the ball forward.
Pulling the strings and getting involved, Holtby is so unlike Bryan Ruiz and Dimitar Berbatov (the latter more so), who showed moments of class, as he is in no way arrogant.
Instead of throwing his arms around like a petulant and spoilt child, Holtby pulls his sleeves up and works hard for the team tracking back, going forward and rallying the fans.
He’s without a doubt a fans’ favourite and the prospect of staying up, so that we can activate the supposed £8million clause in his loan contract, is for me another incentive to keep fighting.
The prospect of signing Lewis Holtby is incentive enough for relegation-threatened Fulham
Any team going through a crisis requires a quality player to step up to the mark, take control of the wheel and steer the ship clear of an iceberg – Fulham’s man is Lewis Holtby.
Arriving in a January transfer window, which fluctuated in both hope and frustration, (Fulham were linked to a number of high profile midfielders including Steven Defour and Sergio Canales) Lewis Holtby joined the club’s relegation dogfight.
One of seven new signings brought in by the then manager Rene Meulensteen – who correctly noted Fulham’s lack of quality in central midfield, something I feel Martin Jol avoided – Holtby was the standout signing.
I must admit after the reported speculation of Canales and Defour disintegrated, I did not hold out much hope Fulham were going to pull out the stops and attract a similar kind of player.
It seemed too obviously necessary for us, and as anyone who is familiar with the club will know, Fulham do not ever like to make things easy for themselves.
But as they say, everything happens for a reason, and with the benefit of hindsight, signing the German over the aforementioned midfielders worked out better than anyone at the club could have hoped.
What Holtby has over the other two is something you cannot buy and perhaps more importantly for a team in need of immediate impact, something you cannot wager on.
That something is of course the ability to perform in the Premier League. Yes Defour and Canales are quality players, but expecting an immediate impact from players unproven at this level is a risk we could not afford to take.
In some ways I wish we had considered this a bit more. We could have perhaps attracted another coup (on-loan at least) by offering them first-team Premier League football in the run-up to the World Cup, if of course they were like Holtby, and deemed surplus to requirements at their current club.
‘What if’, however, can no longer plague us. What we have now is the team that we are going to see the league out with, and one that has to work if we are to survive.
And having Holtby on board certainly makes things a little bit more bearable.
From day one he took to our team like a fish to water. While Fulham isn’t a club renowned as being particularly loud or passionate, it’s one that has a solid set of traditional and historic values – values that an outsider may never understand.
And Holtby gets it. As I said previously he bleeds black-and-white. He’s the closest player, for me, that we have had since Danny Murphy – and in some ways could be better, because we have him in his prime.
The 23-year-old’s work rate and tenacity is fantastic to see, but what really sets him apart from the pack is his creativity and instinctive quality that can turn a stagnant midfield battle into a possible attack with a single touch of the ball.
Unlike much of Fulham’s possession play this year, which has been sideways and back to the keeper at every moment of danger, Holtby adds a fluid, attacking dimension that encourages everyone to get the ball forward.
Pulling the strings and getting involved, Holtby is so unlike Bryan Ruiz and Dimitar Berbatov (the latter more so), who showed moments of class, as he is in no way arrogant.
Instead of throwing his arms around like a petulant and spoilt child, Holtby pulls his sleeves up and works hard for the team tracking back, going forward and rallying the fans.
He’s without a doubt a fans’ favourite and the prospect of staying up, so that we can activate the supposed £8million clause in his loan contract, is for me another incentive to keep fighting.
El Guepardo
Rafael Van Der Vaart
There best not be a clause in his loan contract or my hatred of Sherwood will move up another notch. Will provide further substance to show how clueless he is.
NaijaSpurs
Les Ferdinand
I will be gutted if we lose Holtby
Rorschach
Sonny Walters
Air hostess?
spasm
Gudni Bergsson
:lol:
Cochise
Steve Carr
Who says Sherwood negotiated the Loan contract, i'd guess that'd be Baldini and Levy.
El Guepardo
Rafael Van Der Vaart
Sherwood must have had a say in it. After all, had his time in charge been a successful one then it would be likely that he'd be our manager next season. Why would Levy & Baldini conspire to move a player on that would make Sherwood's job that much more difficult?
Possibly because Levy has a history of doing that.
Carrick, Berbatov and Bale all spring to mind.
Would hate to lose Holtby. He's the type of player who would score against Arsenal at the Emirates, go mental, take his shirt off, throw it at the Spurs fans, then run round the four corners of the stadium flicking the V's at their fans, before ending in a knee-slide infront of Wenger