BoneDog Posted 25 June 2010 Posted 25 June 2010 Wow, seen the replay. More horrible gamesmanship. And the ref was shite again.
BlueSi13 Posted 25 June 2010 Posted 25 June 2010 It wasn't playacting. The referee just simply fell for it. Blame the man in black. Fell for it!? Football as a mans game is dead.
Dylan Posted 25 June 2010 Posted 25 June 2010 Never a sending off- shocking decision- ruined the game for me. And disgraceful from Torres- flying to the floor like he's been punched, when he was clipped, at worst. Can't see Chile getting back from this, even though they've looked good.
Fosse Boy Posted 25 June 2010 Posted 25 June 2010 I would make a standard "Alan Partridge World Cup '94" comment about that Chile goal, but this whole Pearson situation has left me too down to do so.
Fosse Boy Posted 25 June 2010 Posted 25 June 2010 Tyldesley's made his first cricket analogy of this tournament. It was only a matter of time...
FoxyPV Posted 25 June 2010 Posted 25 June 2010 Football as a mans game is dead. Soccer hasn't been a man's game since the 70's. For fucksake you get more physical contact playing basketball (and it's non contact!!!!!)
Finnegan Posted 25 June 2010 Posted 25 June 2010 OH fook OFF SPAIN! Disgraceful dive and play acting from Torres to get the man sent off. Typical from them. Shit. Slimey, racist, fascist, work shy lazy ****s. Can't wait to see Spain get fooking destroyed. You know what irony is, right? And the man deserved to be sent off, it was a careless trip whether he meant it or not and he should have gone off five minutes earlier. And anyone claiming Torres dived has obviously never been clipped or trodden whilst sprinting, best way to end up flat on your arse/face. Being fairly quick as a younger lad I can tell you you get it a damn lot as well. Glad the Swiss went out and these two went through, Switzerland are barely a step up from Greece. Boring.
Tilley Posted 25 June 2010 Posted 25 June 2010 The Swiss are out, thankfully, rather watch paint dry.
MC Prussian Posted 25 June 2010 Posted 25 June 2010 We were shocking and deserve to pack our things and head back home. All these misguided passes in the first... The inability to string more than two successive passes together. The will was there, but we couldn't make it happen. Not even against ****ing Honduras. I didn't expect us to go through, though. From the start I knew this would be a tough group and I had both Chile and Spain on the cards to progress to the Last 16. However, we had it in our hands to come up with another veritable sensation. The lack of firepower up front, the desperately missed midfield creativity (bar Hakan Yakin, who came on in the second half) and the injuries before the World Cup showed tonight. N'Kufo was a big letdown and shouldn't have played tonight. A tad bit disappointed, but that's football. My interest in the competition's now pretty much gone down to 0. I'll open up a case of beer together with Shen now. Brothers in Arms and whatnot. Probably won't be able to sleep tonight with all the bastard Spaniards doing the honking and shouting.
shen Posted 25 June 2010 Posted 25 June 2010 We were shocking and deserve to pack our things and head back home. All these misguided passes in the first... The inability to string more than two successive passes together. The will was there, but we couldn't make it happen. Not even against ****ing Honduras. I didn't expect us to go through, though. From the start I knew this would be a tough group and I had both Chile and Spain on the cards to progress to the Last 16. However, we had it in our hands to come up with another veritable sensation. The lack of firepower up front, the desperately missed midfield creativity (bar Hakan Yakin, who came on in the second half) and the injuries before the World Cup showed tonight. N'Kufo was a big letdown and shouldn't have played tonight. A tad bit disappointed, but that's football. My interest in the competition's now pretty much gone down to 0. I'll open up a case of beer together with Shen now. Brothers in Arms and whatnot. Probably won't be able to sleep tonight with all the bastard Spaniards doing the honking and shouting. Replace Honduras with Japan (granted, they did play well) and you have the same sentiments here. It wasn't the Japanese but Tomasson's misses/miskicks/miscontrols that haunted me most of last night! Was looking forward to an amazing atmosphere at Roskilde too watching Denmark on big screen in the World Cup in lovely weather...oh well... I hope those beers are cold and plentiful!
Guest DavidJCW Posted 25 June 2010 Posted 25 June 2010 Can't understand why so many people are having a go at Torres for 'diving'... he was clearly clipped whilst in a full on run into the box and I challenge anyone to be running full pelt, get clipped from behind and then stay upright!!! Was it a sending off, no. The ref clearly misjudged things... it was a simple error, neither player was to blame and nothing should have been done about it. As the replay showed, neither player was even looking at one another... The ONLY thing that Torres can be perhaps criticised for is that he didn't just hold his hands up and say, no, it was a mistake and he doesn't deserve to go... but how was he to know? He was facing the other way!!! For all he knows, he could well have done it on purpose! In the end, Spain showed their quality and deserved to top the group. Switzerland got lucky in their match against them and hopefully they'll have learnt from it and go on to do very well in the tournament! Not as well as England though...
Finnegan Posted 25 June 2010 Posted 25 June 2010 With respect, I think Japan are and were significantly better than Honduras. Make no mistake, they deserve their place in the last sixteen. I don't see them as being there only by being gifted a win by an under performing Denmark.
shen Posted 25 June 2010 Posted 25 June 2010 Can't understand why so many people are having a go at Torres for 'diving'... he was clearly clipped whilst in a full on run into the box and I challenge anyone to be running full pelt, get clipped from behind and then stay upright!!! Was it a sending off, no. The ref clearly misjudged things... it was a simple error, neither player was to blame and nothing should have been done about it. As the replay showed, neither player was even looking at one another... The ONLY thing that Torres can be perhaps criticised for is that he didn't just hold his hands up and say, no, it was a mistake and he doesn't deserve to go... but how was he to know? He was facing the other way!!! For all he knows, he could well have done it on purpose! In the end, Spain showed their quality and deserved to top the group. Switzerland got lucky in their match against them and hopefully they'll have learnt from it and go on to do very well in the tournament! Not as well as England though... What people (includes TV pundits) fail to acknowledge is that Torres stayed on his feet when Ponce kicked his shin moments earlier. That, in my book, clearly warranted a red card and just about any player at the World Cup would have writhed in agony either because it hurt or because they knew it would get the man sent off.
shen Posted 25 June 2010 Posted 25 June 2010 With respect, I think Japan are and were significantly better than Honduras. Make no mistake, they deserve their place in the last sixteen. I don't see them as being there only by being gifted a win by an under performing Denmark. No doubt they were. Yet I think I can safely say they've never played better either. They thoroughly deserve their place in the last sixteen, but it could have been such a different outcome had a sharp Tomasson taken any of the three chances he was presented with in the opening 15 minutes where Denmark basically played Japan off the park. Until that Honda revved his engine that is...
Guest DavidJCW Posted 25 June 2010 Posted 25 June 2010 Just had a look at the Torres moment again and I can see why people think he was playing for it... it seems that the Chilean player clips his right foot which then causes it to drop back down onto his left foot causing him to fall over. What can't be justified is his slight overreaction to the fall... but as I said before, how was he to know the Chilean didn't mean to do it? Still though, it wasn't a red and that was the ref's fault.
MC Prussian Posted 26 June 2010 Posted 26 June 2010 Switzerland you fvcking bunch of tw@ts!!!! I wholeheartedly agree. We were piss poor in creating chances up front. Couldn't hit an open barn door without blindfolds.
Webbo Posted 26 June 2010 Posted 26 June 2010 He trips over his own two legs. Clumsy ****er. I never saw the game. I have to say that's one of the worse dives I've seen.
Alexikokopops Posted 27 June 2010 Posted 27 June 2010 My gay Welsh friend as just described David Villa as looking like a "tragic gay hairdresser from South Wales"
BoneDog Posted 27 June 2010 Posted 27 June 2010 Blatant dive followed by a 60 second nap face down. Dirty shameful tactics. 6 match ban plus 38 minutes with your wife if I was chief of FIFA.
Guest DavidJCW Posted 27 June 2010 Posted 27 June 2010 Once again, look carefully and you'll see that Torres's right foot hits the Chileans knee before bouncing back down onto his left calf... once that happened, there was no chance of staying up. He made a meal of it, but as I said, how was he to know it wasn't intentional... Not a dive, but certainly not a red.
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