Bents goal celebration

[JBizzle]

Liked the celebration, liked seeing a little bit of needle from our otherwise polite "after you" style squad.

What "inspired" Fulham was the rabbit in headlights "I HAVE IDEA HOW TO DEFEND A LEAD" looks between our players; the panic that spread through our ranks and our left back being 40 yards our of position.

 

[Langley]

People seriously think Bent was at fault for us losing?!

Apart from Dunk he was the only one of our players who can look at himself and honestly say that he played well today.

I think you need to add Hughes to that list.

 

[SAC]

Being intimidated by the home fans is a myth though, there's no evidence it has an impact on players.

True.

Hostile home fans at Celtic Park didn't seem to help Scotland against England.

 

[BrianWade4]

I loved the fact he showed passion and wanted to stick it to them

 

[Hungry Joe]

I enjoyed Bent's celebration. It may have woken the sleeping 3k Fulham fans up but it had feck all to do with the result as they were carving us open long before that.

 

[marshy68]

I liked it. Shame Hyypia tactics were so shite that we didn't go on to try and dominate the game rather than trying to sit on a 1-0 lead from the 55th minute or whenever it was. A blind man could see Fulham were going to get an equaliser sooner rather than later. OK the way the winner went in was unlucky but only one team was ever going to win that game after Fulham equalised.

We would be having a good laugh about that goal celebration if we had managed to win the game.

Although I think the players are trying they really don't seem to have a clue how to play for 90 mins, the manager takes the blame and he will be taking us down if Bloom doesn't replace him quickly.

Boom! This is the correct answer.

 

[tinycowboy]

It wasn't spitting . They'd heard confit of duck with a red wine jus was on the menu in the 1901 and they couldn't control their drooling .

Was it a duck bred and slaughtered by the monopolists Gressingham Foods Limited?

 

[No. 25]

Surely he is here for himself? Whats wrong with that?

Do you think he looked at the championship table and thought 'oh my, i must make it my mission to sign for Brighton immediately and help them out of this predicament'?

 

[Mellor 3 Ward 4]

I thought his celebration inspired Fulham.
If your heart is in it, if you score on your home debut, you should be running to the North Stand and saying, "I'm here to score goals for you, and f**k the opposition.
But no, he runs towards the north, turns and heads for the half way line, slaps skin with a few of his new team mates on the way, then struts in towards the Fulham fans holding his hands to his ears.
I know they gave him shit, and were singing "You're just a fat Rodielga", but your on 60-70k a week FFS.
He should rise above that, instead he lifted the away fans and they lifted the way team to get back in the game.

To me that showed his true colours, i'm not here for Brighton, I'm here for me. Shame cos I thought he looked good and just what we needed.
I hope i'm proved wrong

I just thought it was a bloody stupid thing to do.

Last minute winner, possibly, but not then. I knew it would come back to bite him, and only inspire Fulham.

 

[spring hall convert]

I overheard a bunch Fulham fans on the train voice this opinion, saying it got their fans going and directly influenced the result. I'm not sure it did. Good to see some passion though (whatever the motive)

They're likely to say that as it suits their agenda. Absolutely sod all to do with it in reality

 

[spring hall convert]

Whats seemed to wake yur lot up was fulham scoring a goal...in common with most supporters

Exactly.

 

[MIDDXFFC]

They're likely to say that as it suits their agenda. Absolutely sod all to do with it in reality

Bugger all to do with agendas. Trust me I was in the away end. People who had sat on their arses not saying boo to a goose all first half were suddenly out of their seats baying for blood and that set the tone even before we equalised. Bent running up to us sparked the Fulham support into life and any Fulham fan in that away end will tell you that.

 

[el punal]

I thought it was great for him to show a bit of attitude. One of the main problems at the club is everything is so bloody nice. Nice training ground, nice stadium, nice manager and nice players. No body is scared of playing us, it's becoming an easy away day for a lot of teams.

I'm a bloody nice guy!

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Patently the club needs to invest in some professional media training for our strikers on how to celebrate a goal. Its been so long, they've probably forgotten.

 

[Triggaaar]

To me that showed his true colours, i'm not here for Brighton, I'm here for me.

Indeed. If he wants to do things the Brighton way, the last thing he should be doing is scoring goals.

 

[kevtherev]

Iv'e heard some excuses before for losing a game. But if people really think Bent's goal celebration somehow contributed to us losing that game, then they are living in cloud cuckoo land and are probably the same people who can't see the woods for the trees, just how tactically inept Hyypia really is.

 

[HAILSHAM SEAGULL]

Nobody has said we lost the game because of it.
IMHO, his celebration lifted the Fulham fans. Even the National Press had the same opinion this morning, "Bents gesture fuels Cottagers revival"

 

[bigcabboy]

the amount of crap he was getting from away fans id probably had done it myself

 

[Icy Gull]

Fulham fans waking up and Bent's goal celebration had nothing to do with us losing that game, it was losing all ambition once we scored and falling apart when Fulham equalised that caused it. Bent's goal and celebration were high points of the game for me.

 

[MIDDXFFC]

the amount of crap he was getting from away fans id probably had done it myself

He got slaughtered. Last season he was unfit and overweight when he came to us and basically he was piss poor. He actually seemed to get fatter every week and rumour was he didnt exactly bust a gut in training. Gave the impression of being a bit of a mercenary, shame because we all thought it was a top signing at the time. Having said that I was surprised at the amount of flak he copped yesterday, Fulham fans generally give ex players a good reception.
He definitely looked a lot leaner yesterday, if you create enough for him he`ll definitely put them away