Pheeewwww....

[mcquiggd]

Tsk!

I hope the Aussies spank a few Italians tonight before catching the long-haul...

[NickIT]

Rubbish!!!!

Why make the game even more tedious than it is already? why remove talking points?

What they need is to explain to players that they are playing a physical game and not to fall over when an opposing player hovers into sight.

Its a funny old game...its not some clinically clean game....fek that fer a laugh!

[mcquiggd]

It's tedious when teams train for many months, expectations build, then it comes down to a split second decision and some play acting.

That's just is not interesting at all.


Not much point in watching a match to have it won by who could fool the referee, rather than who played the game in question the best, in any sport.

For comparison, the Oympics spend a huge amout of effort trying to stop cheats, - even after they have 'won', when they are found out, they are stripped of their victory - and banned from competition. They do that to try to maintain some semblance of respectability.

[Joe Black.]

gutted. 10 seconds to go till extra time. I feel sick.

[mcquiggd]

It just seems odd to me that within a minute of a contentious decision, several million people around the planet will have seen the event from 2, 3 4 or more angles... yet the people who actually make the decision that often decides the whole outcome of the proceedings are 'blind'.

All it would take is two independent refs and a TV!!

Just refer key decisions such as penalties, red cards, 'did the ball cross the line'...

[Alf W]

Useless Aussie b*stards!

I can't count the number of times Aussie sportsmen have thwarted me in the past by coming up with the goods. This time, I have £20 on them at 11/2 and they can't even win against an Italian side with only 10 men for almost half the game.

I agree it was a disgraceful dive but it was hardly a surprise when it came.

[Dundeegeorge]

They deserved to go home, b*st*rds

Serves them right.
They kicked the Japanese off the park, were lucky Brazil didn't slaughter them, won against Croatia with an offside goal and were just generally a bunch of roughnecks. The hypocrisy of that fscker Cahill trying to get people booked, talk about brass-neck.
Was a bit worried that it was a penalty though. Italians and pressure-penalties don't generally go together, but well done Totti, the fiats will be hionking their little horns out tonight all over Roma.

(And cue SB with moronic polemic claiming it's a plot to discredit ex-celtic players, mwahahaha)

[Joe Black.]

It just seems odd to me that within a minute of a contentious decision, several million people around the planet will have seen the event from 2, 3 4 or more angles... yet the people who actually make the decision that often decides the whole outcome of the proceedings are 'blind'.

All it would take is two independent refs and a TV!!

Just refer key decisions such as penalties, red cards, 'did the ball cross the line'...

I know, why the **** cant we have a video ref for things like contentious goals and penalties. I'm an angry young man at this moment in time.

[Joe Black.]

Serves them right.
They kicked the Japanese off the park, were lucky Brazil didn't slaughter them, won against Croatia with an offside goal and were just generally a bunch of roughnecks. The hypocrisy of that fscker Cahill trying to get people booked, talk about brass-neck.
Was a bit worried that it was a penalty though. Italians and pressure-penalties don't generally go together, but well done Totti, the fiats will be hionking their little horns out tonight all over Roma.

(And cue SB with moronic polemic claiming it's a plot to discredit ex-celtic players, mwahahaha)

If only u guys didn't lose to Moldovia in the qualifiers, u could have been there too..