World Cup - Page 8

Für Elise · #**106** 06-26-2006, 08:00 PM

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Originally Posted by bretonbanquet

Italy-Australia was yet another game ruined by the referee. When are the officials going to be as good as the players?

What a horrible way to end, on a bad foul call. When are they going to introduce video playback is the question. Some countries might be plotting the murder of that referee by now. Australia was all over Italy in the end, Hiddink should have again caused the biggest upset of the Cup, how unjust! Why on earth don't they give in and use replay like just about every other sport?

Serrart · #**107** 06-26-2006, 08:49 PM

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Originally Posted by bretonbanquet

Italy-Australia was yet another game ruined by the referee. When are the officials going to be as good as the players?

Well the referee kicked out one of our players instead of giving him a yellow card, and we had to play in ten for 50 minutes, so there was a sort of balance.

Romy

tynan88 · #**108** 06-27-2006, 04:01 AM

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Originally Posted by Für Elise

What a horrible way to end, on a bad foul call. When are they going to introduce video playback is the question. Some countries might be plotting the murder of that referee by now. Australia was all over Italy in the end, Hiddink should have again caused the biggest upset of the Cup, how unjust! Why on earth don't they give in and use replay like just about every other sport?

So, so cruel

Mari · #**109** 06-27-2006, 07:08 AM

Sorry the Socceroos are out as well... yeah, bitter to loose it that way. But that's football.

DavidMn · #**110** 06-27-2006, 12:08 PM

****! I have to wait till Friday for the big Germany/Argentina game.

At least Maradona will have to watch from the stands.

Gailh · #**111** 06-27-2006, 12:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Serrart

Well the referee kicked out one of our players instead of giving him a yellow card, and we had to play in ten for 50 minutes, so there was a sort of balance.

Romy

The ref sent off the Italian player rather harshly so I agree there was a kind of balance to it.

Gail

Gailh · #**112** 06-27-2006, 12:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Für Elise

What a horrible way to end, on a bad foul call. When are they going to introduce video playback is the question. Some countries might be plotting the murder of that referee by now. Australia was all over Italy in the end, Hiddink should have again caused the biggest upset of the Cup, how unjust! Why on earth don't they give in and use replay like just about every other sport?

Football is a deceptively simple game. You score one more goal than the opposition and you win!

For all Australia's dominence they couldn't convert that into goals.

I think that video replays could work perhaps for penalities and to see if the ball had crossed the line

Gail

DavidMn · #**113** 06-27-2006, 12:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Gailh

The ref sent off the Italian player rather harshly so I agree there was a kind of balance to it.

Gail

Oh btw, sorry if I was a bit hard on Mr Beckham the other day. I guess I'm just a little excited abotu Germany's chances.

Gailh · #**114** 06-27-2006, 12:39 PM

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Originally Posted by DavidMn

Oh btw, sorry if I was a bit hard on Mr Beckham the other day. I guess I'm just a little excited abotu Germany's chances.

Well you clearly upset him - he threw up on the pitch!

Gail

DavidMn · #**115** 06-27-2006, 12:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Gailh

Well you clearly upset him - he threw up on the pitch!

Gail

Oops.

This Argentina game has me quite nervous.

bretonbanquet · #**116** 06-27-2006, 04:31 PM

Brazil 3-0 Ghana

Brazil get through without looking very impressive. Fat Ronald scores again, and he's now the top World Cup scorer in history. He even managed to jog about a bit today

France 3-1 Spain

France successfully cancel out Spain's midfield cleverness, and thanks to Henry's simulation (I still like the guy but today he cheated), a free-kick leads to France's second, and decisive, goal. And I think their third was offside

As you can guess, I was supporting Spain

So the quarter-finals are all sorted out:

Argentina-Germany
Italy-Ukraine
Brazil-France
England-Portugal

Not many teams there that have been convincing...

danax6 · #**117** 06-27-2006, 04:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Mari

Netherlands - Portugal
That wasn't football anymore, was it? That was war.

Meh, don't get me started. I am still mourning.

I could start blaming it on the referee, but the entire country has been doing that for days. I will just stick with the 'We were better, Portugal was smarter' phrase. They saw what kind of guy the ref was and took advantage of it. Maybe we should have done that also instead of becoming insanely frustrated. Either way, it killed the entire game.

Serrart · #**118** 06-27-2006, 08:12 PM

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Originally Posted by DavidMn

Oh btw, sorry if I was a bit hard on Mr Beckham the other day. I guess I'm just a little excited abotu Germany's chances.

Sorry David, but I've just become Argentina 's greatest fan, after reading an article on Der Spiegel, where the nicest things said about Italians are some bad comments on our mothers and that we are filthy parasites.

Romy

Street Angel · #**119** 06-27-2006, 08:34 PM

Can you give me the link, please? Or if it was the print edition, the headline and the author.

It's hard to imagine that Spiegel would publish something like that!

Serrart · #**120** 06-27-2006, 08:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Street Angel

Can you give me the link, please? Or if it was the print edition, the headline and the author.

It's hard to imagine that Spiegel would publish something like that!

here it is:
http://www.spiegel.de/sport/fussball...423809,00.html

Apparently the parasites part was partly edited after they got many protests, but the original version of the article was already on many Italian sites.

Romy