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Just now, DCJonah said:

So they won an award for fair play in the same game that Bamford cheated to get a man sent off. 

Yup

 

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/sep/23/leeds-united-marcelo-bielsa-win-fifa-fair-play-award-aston-villa-equaliser

 

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Leeds United and their manager, Marcelo Bielsa, have won the 2019 Fifa Fair Play Award at the governing body’s annual award ceremony in Milan.

The Championship side won the award after Bielsa ordered his team to let Aston Villa score an equaliser at Elland Road in April. Mateusz Klich had put Leeds ahead while Villa forward Jonathan Kodjia was down with an injury.

 

Klich’s goal led to a melee between both sets of players, with Anwar El Ghazi sent off for the visitors. When play restarted, Albert Adomah was allowed to run through and level the game – although defender Pontus Jansson still tried and failed to tackle the Villa winger.

Some residents of planet football consider winning the ultimate. The only purpose of playing the sport. For others though, there are values which need to be held even higher than those which bring victory,” a statement on Fifa’s website read.

 

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Just now, penguin said:

Bielsa must have quads like Jacks calves. How he does that every game I’ll never know.

the low position let’s him see between the third and fourth dimensions, where it’s rumoured the football gods wrote scripture on ‘the beautiful game’

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