Well, we lost...

[Cyberus]

:-(
Well, until the next world cup...

Here's the thread you've been waiting for Kenny :pissed:



I wish Portugal success in Euro04. Although that Ronaldo is an arrogant c&*t...  

[Cyberus]

Speelgoedmannetje wrote:

Yup, I like the game, but not all the fuss around it.
And in particular, I do not like the ":pissed:" aspect of it, tis a friggin' game for goodness sake Cyberus! Well, now you lost, it's also fun to be for the green guys instead of being for the yellow guys (or whatever colour the English are).

Well, you missed the point.....again.

I was trying to convey the idea of expectance of some ribbing from Kenny. If you knew about the relationship between Scots and the English, particularly where football is involved, you'd perhaps see what I mean. It was meant to be a bit of fun.

If you really don't like football, why post on this thread anyway? It'd be like turning up to a Star Trek convention and standing at the back shouting, "Star Trek is crap!"

[Cyberus]

pixie wrote:

Portugal did play better but they did make mistakes. If there had been no contact with the goalie then that goal could have been the end. Sloppy defending from both sides.

Everyone make mistakes, even champions.. as to this clear non-situation (about the goal who hadn't happened) brought by UK press is that can easily be seen that our goalie has been touched, obviously not by Sol, but he didn't need to be the one making the fault to void the goal, the english player was rather naive when he give Ricardo a chance to void the goal... but oh! We're so big, we're so beautiful, we cannot loose, it can't be our fault kind of attitude that show your arrogance towards the game itself...

England was winning against france and loose, played poorly against Swiss and still all you blame is the referee... typical from someone who cannot see himself on the mirror.

Cheers and happy riddance 'beckhome'!
 :lol:

Yep. There'll be celebrations in the olive groves!
Perhaps people will treat themselves to a new donkey to commemorate the win. I hear you guys can get running water as well these days.....

;-)






Oh, am I generalising? Stereotyping? Silly isn't it...

but oh! We're so big, we're so beautiful, we cannot loose, it can't be our fault kind of attitude that show your arrogance towards the game itself...

Yeah, that must be where I said "I wish Portugal success in Euro2004". Arrogant aren't I?

[Cyberus]

So every time the goalkeeper thinks that he might concede a goal, he just has to stand somewhere where an opposing player will touch him?
That's a great defensive tactic!

[Cyberus]

Glaucus wrote:

So every time the goalkeeper thinks that he might concede a goal, he just has to stand somewhere where an opposing player will touch him?
That's a great defensive tactic!

I think he was clearly interferred with. I think he could have had that ball if it he wasn't otherwise.

  - Mike

The point I was trying to make, wasn't that, "Oh I'm so bitter, we was robbed" but that in a contact sport, being 'touched' shouldn't be an offence. Pushed, elbowed, etc, yes. But being touched?

As an aside, i.e. not thinking of Euro championships now.
People go down far too easy in football. I mean, have you ever watched Italian football? Someone breathes and they fall over. Like I say, football is meant to be a contact sport. Not a load of people mincing around falling over.

[Like I say, I'm talking in general - I don't care what team they play for, they shouldn't just fall over, before anyone says "What about X English player that fell over in 1978"]

[Cyberus]

The press in this country are unbelievable. They have always been like a pack of rabid dogs though...

They rarely suprise me though, not even when the Mirror published lists of known paedophiles, resulting in innocent people receving death threats or being driven from their homes in some kind of angry villagers with pitchforks and burning torches situation, all because the Mirror had made a few errors, ot the paedophiles had moved. Its the press that stirred up the people.

If the press had said the ref's decision was questionable, fair enough, but allegations of foul play get people incensed. The press should be more responsible than that!

What does worry me is that MPs are talking about refereeing decisions. WTF?

Maybe we should ask Beckham what he thinks of the recent constitutional changes, or proposed changes, such as the abolition of the post of Lord Chancellor, one that has been in existence for about 800 years....?