FIFA World Cup 2010

[BrotherLovesDub]

Even though Germany scored 4, the air was out of the English side after missing the equalizer. Momentum is huge in sport and you can't say the score would have been 4-2 at the end anyway. Doesn't matter now but my belief is the English team lost their heart after getting robbed. Would have been a different game if it had been 2-2 at the half.

[//\/\/]

nope; if anything that 'goal' got them fired up. for all of 5 minutes. then they were back to playing the same turgid, shapeless shit that they'd produced before it.

[34958hq439-qjw9v5jq298v5j]

Originally Posted by BrotherLovesDub

The beauty of this game just shone through on that uncalled goal for England. If you were playing with your mates you probably would have missed the call too. Such a perfect game. I'm sure the England fans understand that's just the glory of football. Who needs replay or technology when you've got tradition to uphold.

ha yeah who didn't see that coming

[cured]

I'd like to welcome Mexico to the "FIFA needs to put in some kind of replay" club.

[chuck]

Re: England v Germany

Who needs a replay? It's clearly not a goal.

[//\/\/]

(yet in the grand scheme of things, haven't these incidents changed nothing? same teams still lost, same teams won their groups...)

[34958hq439-qjw9v5jq298v5j]

Originally Posted by //\/\/

(yet in the grand scheme of things, haven't these incidents changed nothing? same teams still lost, same teams won their groups...)

good point, clearly replay is not needed

[potatobroth]

thats four or five AWFUL calls regarding goals. considering the hardest thing to do in this damn tournament/match is score a goal, having them disallowed (or allowed wrongly) is a MASSIVE problem.

consider this: the USA scored 5 goals in their four games at the World Cup. They also scored 2 more that were disallowed. Thats an increase of 40%. As it turned out, those goals didn't matter, but they sure as shit mattered for Mexico, England, etc.

I was watching the ARG v MEX game live. When that goal went in, my eyes naturally drifted to the side judge, who was running his ass off to get down to the goal box area of the pitch. He wasn't even close and there was no physical way he was in ANY position to adjudges Tevez on or offsides. It was just impossible. Why does Mexico have to suffer that? Even worse, while the stadium replay is running the goal over and over, the referee asks his sidejudge what his call was. I can only imagine what he said was, "i didnt see him as offsides." because he was about 10 or 12 yards away from the play. Prediction: "We think the officiating of the game was fine." They can fuck themselves. (oh, and I'm 100% gunning for ARG - but not at the expense of just shit calls.)

FIFA is failing. The (at least the ones the US hear) announcers were ripping the officiating. The media is shredding the officiating. Teams are dismissing the officiating. Players are lambasting the officiating. FIFA just turns away.

[Dirty0900]

But if only the second goal had been counted...........

(It would have been 4-2_____________________________________)

[BrotherLovesDub]

So momentum and team psychology mean nothing?