Message 5/18
Date: 27-Jun-06 @ 12:41 PM -
RE: bullshit!
yeah, i felt so sorry for them... it's not like they were flukey and Italy were all over them & they just were lucky, they did really good I thought and held Italy well.
For me what made it worse was that Chipperfeild (who was fucking superb btw, dunno why Bolton rejected him) did a similar tackle at around 10-11 minutes in his own penatly area, the Italian attacker flew thru the air like crazy... play on says the Ref'!... and there were many many incidents of VERY strong tackles throughout the whole game which the ref let pass and as a result the game was pretty flowing.... given that, i was amazed at such a late minute the game was allowed to be fucked by one aweful descision based on a tackle which was identical to the one at 10/11 minutes by Chipperfeild), at least they should have been given the opportunity to play extra time and for a more honest outcome to be arrived at... even penalties (god forbid), you get 5 chances which is more even than some crap final minute descision.
It's just not right, Australia deserved more, at least extra time
Overall this is common at every world cup and other games of importance, FIFA keep on with this bollox about NOT using a video ref' for critical descisions, but lets face it, they are really not in any position to preach about what is healthy for the game as they are under investigation for fraud etc after being raided by Swiss officials & they are corrupt as f*ck!... it's just a mess. We have the electronic eye in Wimbledon and it has improved things considerably imo. Nowadays with such huge revenues & prestige at stake for teams it's just unacceptable imo to NOT use video playback for critical descisions. I mean sure, FIFA used video to look at Figo's headbutt incident right!... so they want to look at video when it comes to post-game disciplining possibilities... cha!
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