Uefa have charged the FAW for their fans coming onto the field after Gareth Bale's late winner.
The Welsh had to put up with the pitch, the officials and every trick in the book from the home side.
All the elements were combining for a shock result but Wales came through, the softest penalty you are ever likely to see, the worst pitch I have seen at that level since the 70's, in fact considering we are talking international level possibly ever, the home team was allowed to commit foul after foul and somehow nobody was sent off, Wales requested at half-time that the pitch be watered and apparently Andorra then watered the end they were attacking but hardly touched the end Wales was attacking leaving it the equivalent of a 3G mud bath.
The Welsh players did well not to retaliate, the combination of being constantly fouled all the time and having little protection from the ref and the frustration of the state of the pitch acting as a 'leveller' the Welsh boys did well to keep their heads.
Now the authorities are on Wales case for a pitch invasion, you couldn't make it up, the fans were frustrated as were the players, they were singing to the officials 'you don't know what you are doing' or was that aimed at the Welsh manager ?
Looks like the authorities are out to get us again - we was done out of the Euro's in the 70s, when the authorities were said to be desperate to get the hosts into the last 4 and then the resulting riot meant we was done out of the Worlds by been banned from playing within 50 miles of where the riot took place meaning we played in a foreign country and lost although we were the better team.
UEFA charge Welsh FA
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are you really justifying a pitch invasion?
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They were playing a country whose entire population could fit into the Millennium Stadium... there would have been no valid excuse for failing to win, whatever pitch they had to play on and even if the ref had been running round with an Andorran flag. Wales are lucky they have Bale to rescue them, think that's all that keeps Chris Coleman in a job. That crazy Dutch fitness coach would probably have been a better choice...
The pitch invasion was pretty stupid anyway, maybe more understandable if you've just got the winner against Germany, but Andorra?!
The pitch invasion was pretty stupid anyway, maybe more understandable if you've just got the winner against Germany, but Andorra?!
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Just heard a defence for the Welsh and that is - it wasn't a real pitch invasion Mr Platini, because it wasn't a real pitch.
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