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Benitez: Stoppage time cost Chelsea
April 20, 2013
By ESPN staff
Chelsea manager Rafael Benitez believes the officials cost his side a much-needed win after Luis Suarez scored in the seventh minute of stoppage time to seal a 2-2 draw for Liverpool at Anfield on Sunday.

I am neither a Highlanders supporter or Dynamos supporter and i followed this match over this platform. i really respect every fan' comments. Highlanders is struggling to beat Dynamos in Harare or Bulawayo since 2006 in the premeirship. Thats should be the problem statement. the solution is not putting a Ndebele referee but changing strategy. Highlanders used to beat Dynamos before 2006. what went wrong?

It promotes hooliganism!

All those making this a tribal issue shld go hang.Mfo kaMoyo pliz block some of these comments becoz by publishing them u are actually promoting tribalism and this animal do not have a place in Zimbabwe.

if i had powers dubious referees were going to be dieng on the sport while doing their dubious refeering

to zifa, dynamos, referees God is for us all even lingaze lenzeni u will never win e championship.

where is felix tangawarima to come and teach these dubious referees hw to handle matches

to referees we don't pick money we use to pay when we go for football matches we work for it so lingasenzeli amanyala lisibulalela ibhora

these referees are a problem to our football. zifa have been making noise about asia gate that happened in asia living zim gate which is happening in front of their eyes and do nothing.

Guyz did u watch e match btwn livapool & chelsea, 6mins aded & suarez scores in 97 mins 37 scnds.So y dembare is said 2 be favoured

its an obvious case the refering z poor.psl and zifa have failed 2 address this and 2 correct it.highlanders could have won the match but the referee costed em e 3pts...

bosso lets meet at amakhosi 2moro nd i teach u 2b a dance group yembube. U can make money.

Yazi madoda kunzima ukuba lindebele sithwele nzima ngala amasthona !!hayi boo!!

lina vazukulu vamandele. Hw many times has bosso been favoured at B.F. Learn to win e game nd dnt b cry babies. Al soccer players n zim ngama nyasaranda. Ndebeles nd shonas ar gud at drinking beer.

The refs are not doing any justice. PSL should do something because its not fair

*angry and worried bosso supporter*

http://football.isport.com/football-guides/understanding-stoppage-time-in-soccer



No Fear No favour

The Referee made a perfect call. In stoppage time the referee only stops the match when the ball is in the neutral part of the field and there is no scoring chance for either team. In this case Dynamos had 2perfect consecative chances of scoring at 93min and onwards. Dont be emotional Google "Stoppage time or injury time" Bosso players should learn to play to the whistle. Its not over until its over. Optional time is at referee's discretion.

Sleep soccer. No fear No favour.

kulabo abathi silobadlululo kengibuze how many tshonas are in bosso team & e same how many ndebeles in dynamos team who are triberlist here , nxeeeeee these idiots are killing e game we always know that u are corrupt thus why munumutapa was once a national team asia scandal was ochestrated in hararaare sies liyenyanyisa f**********-

Isenzo sika nompembe silihlazo kakhulu njalo siyayangisa. Sibonakalisa ubandlululo oluse Harare. *etsho ehlabela* "a[Some people] heya ayebulala obaba"

First nd foremost we need 2 understand e laws of e game!the optional time raised by e 4th official is e minimum that can be played. Ninety third min nd thirty seconds 2 go a bosso player feigns injury nd match is halted bt the clock in football unlike in basketball doesnt stop.on resumption dembare wins a corner.by our watch yes 7mins bt by referees' it cld hv bn less

Dynamoz can alwyz dance and enjoy thoz nfair wins thnkng tht thy ar clever,no thy ar not coz we ar killng our football as Zmbabwnz 4 exmpl lets say u ar a schul child and yr tcher alwayz favourz u evn if u gt somethng wrong he/she gives u e ryt mark and u alwys enjoyng bt one dy u wl b alone ku final exam and u wl gt nothng as yr result so plz as Zmbabwnz lets try 2 do wat is ryt,no favourz plz coz yr favourz cost and kill us as a nation

I think its high time we leave this Zim psl league as Bosso ngoba vele kulamasimba wodwa! OkungamaRef lokhu akukho proffessional ngitsho, thus why they can't be called even to be lines man on ny internatinal friendly.

Why they do 2 highlanders lt,s disgusting yazi zim soccer

Nonsense nd disgraceful to soca lovers dats y we are only respected in having the gud players but our officials nd the Zifa body are killing our soca,nd if they continue to allow such thangs happen we still gona hv sum problems lyk match fixings

Bosso will not win the case because Referee's decision is final nomatter how biased he was, he will just be disciplined by his Association, thats it, and league goes on, Yah life is that unfair...

Bosso will not win the case because Referee's decision is final nomatter how biased he was, he will just be disciplined by his Association, thats it, and league goes on, Yah life is that unfair...

I'm looking forward to hear or read comments from the chairperson of the referees association and other football administrators from the league and zifa. Surely something has to be done about the appalling referring in our domestic legue

Understand this gentlemen esplly Nqo,Highlanders is a team dat iz made up of diff tribes but da fact dat dais team cumz from Matabeleland iz da issue here.wat thiz refiz dislike n hate iz where a team hailz from particulary Highlanderz not da compozitin of da teams' lineup lets face da truth folks.dat has made us az a nation 2 suffer coz even Zifa commizaret with teamz lyk Dynamos ol bcoz of tribalizm.we a killing dis beautiful game ourselves via refiriz that a used by da elite mostly found in H who a sympathazerz of Dembare!

With the way things are happening with our football, i think we need to start outsourcing referees from our neighboring leagues and associations if fair play is to be achieved

Im a Dembare fan I saw it as well. Owen is right

It's a shame that we accept mediocrity on the part of our referees, yes either team could have scored during the added "7" minutes but one thing that we need to bare in mind is that psychologically players are affected when expectations (with reference to time) are trampled on willingly by those meant to govern play on the pitch.

If what Owen has just highlighted is the fact, then Bosso will win the case in the court of law, although this is an ugly and unfortunate scenario in the beautiful game of football

I was watching the match on tv SS9 with digital clock showing 94 min and the referee just couldnt end the game, 96min drawnamos score. 97 min referee ends the match. 3min added for NO apparent reason. 3min added when the ball was in bosso's half and under pressure. When time is up you simple blow the whistle even when the other team is about to score. Poor refereeing indeed. People should admit Dynamos are not at their best this season,

I was watching the match on tv SS9 with digital clock showing 94 min and the referee just couldnt end the game, 96min drawnamos score. 97 min referee ends the match. 3min added for NO apparent reason. 3min added when the ball was in bosso's half and under pressure. When time is up you simple blow the whistle even when the other team is about to score. Poor refereeing indeed. People should admit Dynamos are not at their best this season,

I was watching the match on tv SS9 with digital clock showing 94 min and the referee just couldnt end the game, 96min drawnamos score. 97 min referee ends the match. 3min added for NO apparent reason. 3min added when the ball was in bosso's half and under pressure. When time is up you simple blow the whistle even when the other team is about to score. Poor refereeing indeed. People should admit Dynamos are not at their best this season,

This stupid officials are killing our beautiful game

I wanted to ask the same question Nqo lami? kutsho ukuthi only the refz r tribalists

But Quinton Therapy, Highlanders players are from all tribes. Do you think the team is tribalist?

Well said Quinton Therapy

Not only in Zim but all over Africa

If we a to improve da standard of football in our lig n in our country az a whole we have 2 start by removing elements of trabilizm in our football coz thats where evrithing emanates from.4 our referiz 2 execute their dutiz professionally that mentality has 2 b removed then our sport will develop internally n externally!lets grow u!! we a one Zim regardless of our sporting afficiliation.what iz hapng nw onli makes us go down,then @ da end of da dy we cry n point fingerz dat our national team iz doing wel.evrithing starts from our lig matches dat a cooked!

Lets wait and see if Callisto and company will survive the storm this year؛Indeed todays ref like the thursday one made the day for them.

Captain Grammar but you know what we are talking about I guess

*refereeing

I watched the uhuru after dynamos had scored and towards the last minutes highlanders players had to run off pitch to get soccer balls while those little boys who are supposed to be throwing in balls were no longer doing that so i think favoritism is there we no longer qualify for afcon or any tornament coz the game is dead there is no sportsmanship the beautiful game is dead coz of one team

Wl all knw dat it al bt dat syd of the country whr favours happens

If its match-fixing Bosso is part of it as well Mdluli kengibuze?

Match fixing!

That's what I would like know as well because so far I have heard pple saying he extended by 6mins yet others say 8mins

What is the truth? Did the referee really extend the time?

"anyone could have scored during that time as it was not additional time for any particular team" I Like that!

Ref used his discretion, rightly so to determine time added on. That's what refs do world over and NO, standard of refereeing has not gone down....it has just not improved much over time. By the way, anyone could have scored during that time as it was not additional time for any particular team.

It collapsd 6 yrs ago bt wht can be done sa long as its in favoure of dedraw nothing will be done ngaphandle kuze ku be yi dynalose eku recving side as long as benga beneficiery of the poor officiatin nothing will be done coz also zifa is behind dynalose have u ever heard that they lost a case even if the psl rules against them their father zifa will allwyz cover their backs

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