Football's going home :(

Nixon

Unfortunate. :eek: :glare:

elementaluk

haha Englands going home, their going home, there going ... i'll be singing that until the world cup then after the world cup i'll sing it again.

Oh well, at least you can blame Beckham

redrabbit

Originally posted by
Oh well, at least you can blame Beckham [/B]

I dont think you can. He may have missed a penalty, but thats mainly because the penalty spot was in a bad condition.

The only person you can blame is the referee.

After Portugal missed their penalty and the scores were level, the referee should have said "Shall we swap ends?". It was his responsibility and he didnt do anything.

Also Englands disallowed goal should have counted.

By the way, i am unbiased.

redrabbit

Oh and also, after the england goal was disallowed the referee should have stopped play.

A free kick was given, but the england players didnt know the goal didnt count, so they werent ready.

The referee should have stopped play until England knew what was happening.

vaaaska

Sorry folks, but England did not win this game. Portugal did. They deserve credit and I hope they can go on to win the whole thing.

planetsim

Its a pitty every english person (pommy) ive talked to online all complained about that disallowed goal. The ref didnt have to say anything he blew the whistle did what was required and Portugal put the ball down and went.

I say for any english person moaning about the disallowed goal or the pitch (which i thought was in great condition compared to Australia's pitches atm) should get over it. And not be such bad loosers. :glare:

Anyway congrats the Portugal well deserved after attackin the entire night.

redrabbit

Well, firstly, australia are not hosts to one of the worlds biggest football competitions. Portugal won the rights to host the competition, and part of their responsibility is to ensure the pitch is in good condition.

Secondly, after defeating Switzerland they then put a swiss referee in charge of the game. They should have picked an italian, american, australian, brazilian - anyone else that was not directly involved in the competition - surely this is common sense.

Thirdly, the referee was standing 30 yards away when he gave the decision. No one can say that the goal should have been dissallowed. The goal was fairly won, and a bad decision was made, following many previous to that.

At the end of the day, the decisions were made, and Portugal (who did deserve to win) did win. Thats football at the end of the day.

But i agree with the people who say to bring in a video referee, who can then overull decisions if needed.

planetsim

Sorry to be sounding critical but i believe sweden are still in the tournament

http://www.euro2004.com/tournament/matches/Round=1582/Match=1059189/Report=MS.html

But yes that is football. Just remember as well its the refs call and makes a decision from what he sees. Not what the fans want

redrabbit

Originally posted by planetsim
Sorry to be sounding critical but i believe sweden are still in the tournament

I never said they werent

planetsim

Yes i know you didnt however i was showing you that a swedish ref'ed the french v greece game and i do not hear the french complaining about having a ref that had a country still in the tournament.

Nixon

He was getting at the fact that we had just beat switzerland a few days back and knocked them out, which is why there was a possibility that he was biased.

Jack

dalecosp

How about that Namath dude?

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/me ducks and runs ... :p

😃 😃 😃

piersk

It all makes perfect sense now...

(for those who don't know who the guy on the left is, it's Johnny Wilkinson, england rugby player and the guy who made the kick that won england the rugby world cup last year)

planetsim

you didnt happen to get that from sitepoint did you ?

Anyway everyone is talking about beckham's miss just remember rui costa missed too.

piersk

Originally posted by planetsim
you didnt happen to get that from sitepoint did you ?

Nah, got it in an email. Not sure where the sender got it from tho

Weedpacket

So, ah... P.Diddy reckons David Beckham could be the "new Eminem" I hear.

I dunno: would that make him "Smarty"?

redrabbit

lmao at that picture