baboon2004
Darned cockwombles.
hoddle was a nutter and kind of an idiot but at least we played some nice football under him, on occasion.
cosign. bring hhim back on a contract that ensures he doesn't talk about anything other than football.
hoddle was a nutter and kind of an idiot but at least we played some nice football under him, on occasion.
I dunno, I thought that all the insane stuff was fairly entertaining."cosign. bring him back on a contract that ensures he doesn't talk about anything other than football."
Well, we'll never know but it just seems stupid to argue that a wrongly disallowed goal that would have meant a team who had played disastrously for thirty minutes and gone two down were back level and in the game is not a turning point."I disagree, as Germany would still clearly have won the game, due to being superior in every department. I don't think sheer momentum would have made up for the glaring deficiencies in the England team - they were simply outplayed by a better team, and that would have shown up later in the game whether that goal had stood or not."
The score doesn't always tell the whole story. I'm not saying that England were good, just that the goal that they had disallowed was surely a factor. It's not exactly beyond the realms of possibility to suggest that the way they played in the second half was to some extent influenced by the score-line.
Well yeah, or not as it turned out. England are/were the weaker side, to have something like that happen further stacks the odds against them. Maybe if it had been Germany who had that happen to them they would have overcome the psychological blow and if so all credit to them but it's not supposed to be a required part of the game."of course it's a factor, but all you can do is play through it"
Yeah, true enough. I really do wish they would change that by introducing video replays for goal line calls though, then offside decisions, and, if that works, possibly for other controversial things as well."regardless of whether or not, moving forward, FIFA institutes an army of 25 robots to lord over the game and make sure that every single call is unequivocally correct, the fact is that going into that game, the English and German football players are both operating in a football world where sometimes wrong calls get made--one takes this into account and nonetheless tries to win accordingly."
Well, I'd say they were mounting something of a challenge until the third goal went in."i guess what i'm saying is this: if England were mentally weak enough to be influenced by the scoreline in such a way that they didn't mount a credible challenge in the second half.... then it is stretching credulity to suggest that they would have been strong enough to win at 2-2 against a side playing/who are much better than they are"
Don't bother getting the decisions right, just try and prevent people knowing that they're wrong. In fact why not ban televison replays of controversial incidents altogether?"Maingot added that Fifa will be cracking down on World Cup match action being shown on stadium giant screens after replays of Tevez's disputed goal against Mexico sparked arguments on the pitch.
Maingot said the replaying of such incidents "should not happen" and will be more tightly controlled at future matches."
I like this Orwellian statement
Roy Keane
maradona make just run naked thru buenos aires...