World Football Thread XXX - Germany 2006

[Lawrence of Arabia]

man, l'Equipe's preview of the Switzerland - Ukraine game is a riot! they take ever chance they can to take a shot at switzerland, including the ol' "switzerland has never won on june 26th in a world cup, losing 7 - 5 to hungary (sic) in 1954 and 0 - 2 to columbia in 1994" (note the article is loaded with mistakes, they say that they lost to hungary in '54, when it was austria) boy are the french hoping we lose or what after we've embarrased them three times over the last year.

http://www.lequipe.fr/Football/CM2006_SUI_UKR.html

[Cort Haus]

Don't worry, Lawrence, even with the mighty Senderos injured, I'm sure your boys can make L'Equipe eat their words. Djourou will have Shevchenko in his pocket, I'm sure.

[Cort Haus]

According to Sky Sports News, Fake Ronaldo reckons he's playing on Saturday. I'm sure his mate Rio will organise something to unsettle him, though.

[alva]

Originally posted by CyberShy
As I said, the dutch tried to counter the sneakyness of by copying it now and then. * snip *

Funny should say this. On the BBC they showed the highlights of the comedia della arte and 90% of the people involved, were dutch.

[Robert]

Then the BBC isn't capable to see the portugese acting.

[Locutus]

And the Oscar goes to.... LuÃs Figo, for a very moving death scene after throwing himself into Boulahrouz's arm. A world class performance

Gods, that referee should never be allowed to work at this level again. He should've been sent home after his horrible handling of France vs Switzerland but he did even worse this time. What kind of amateur is this guy? And forget the 146 cards he gave, he didn't even allow the second half to be played! Of the 45 minutes, maybe 15 consisted of actual footballing and the rest of Portuguese trying to win an Oscar. The ref should've given AT LEAST 10 more minutes of extra time (and even then the Dutch still would've been robbed), in which I'm pretty sure the Dutch could've scored a goal as the Portuguese were absolutely god-awful. The Dutch weren't great either but they deserved at least an equaliser.

At least it seems to have waked Blatter up, maybe next WC we'll get actual capable referees, rather than politically correct ones... (Yeah I know, idle hope, but that's better than no hope at all)

[DanS]

What really happened is that the Dutch thought they deserved an equalizer, and when they didn't get it after several tries, they tried unsportsmanlike means to take advantage of the fact that the ref was in over his head.

[Cort Haus]

More posts here than yellow cards in Holland vs Portugal, so ...

New Thread :

http://www.apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=154202

[Drake Tungsten]

It's hilarious seeing all the wooden-shoe wearers on the board (who were so willing to defend the bad refereeing up until this point) crying like little girls now that their team is the one that got worked over by ****ty officiating. Boo hoo...

[Ming]

Way past 500...