Comments on: We Wuz Robbed

By: Looking for good, fair football.

Looking for good, fair football. — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 05:18:31 +0000

Funny how the refereeing has been a lot better since the quarter-finals. What’s up with that ……. the other games didn’t count ??

LOL…..football needs a “pink-card” for the divers.

ps. someone else mentioned this about pink cards.

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 04:58:25 +0000

But he still got to referee a quarterfinal game between France and Portugal to go to the finals? WHAT?

That’s messed up.

By: Ben

Ben — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 04:49:22 +0000

Well, Larrionda is officially in the bottom two of referees at the world cup.
Congratulations!

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/worldcup/stats?type=ref&year=2006&cc=5901

Ben

By: David

David — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 14:25:29 +0000

This may sound like sour grapes but I think Australia has copped more than its fair share of bad decisions.

In our first game, Japan’s goal was allowed when it shouldn’t have been. Our second game we held Brazil to 1:0 for 89 minutes despite fouls going 25:9 against us (leading to Kewell’s outburst).

Our third game gave us the dubious honour of being the only side to have had to play against someone with two yellow cards. And full time called whilst the ball was in the air going into the goal.

Finally have a dive awarded a penalty with 12 seconds to go.

I know that some calls went the other way. Italy got a red card for what should have been a yellow offense but I don’t think having to play 35 minutes with 10 men (after playing nil all for 55) is equal to such a decision.

Although we only knocked out two teams from our group we ensured all three of our first round referees did not make it to the final 16 and I’m betting our referee from the final 16 will not make it to the finals.

By: the pill book

the pill book — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 19:59:36 +0000

the pill book

the pill book

By: Bobbio

Bobbio — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 15:29:09 +0000

An official that has not ruined a world cup game does not exist.

By: John

John — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 13:16:30 +0000

hey micha, are you serious? i think asking any real american fan about the cards might draw alot of complaints, no rational person would even try to argue you on the fact that the US did not play well enough to advance out of its group. only one player scored a goal, they were arguably plagued by poor coaching, and they made tons if mistakes. america rules… but in the 2006 cup we sucked in soccer

By: micha

micha — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 11:52:13 +0000

Hey Americans, the guy who quotes the rule book to justify the referees atrocious misconduct is probably just saying that bad calls not withstanding, the u.s. still only played well enough to lose. This team showed that the only thing stupider than 2 of the 3 red cards handed out by the uruguayan referee, was the math FIFA used when they ranked the U.S. fifth in the world. Tommorow France will have to face the most infamous referee team of the tournament; if they do manage to progress, they may not have enough players left to play with. Why FIFA would allow this officiating team to ruin another game is beyond me? Cant they be replaced by an official that dident completely ruin a world cup game?

By: marcelo

marcelo — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 00:42:00 +0000

I am not sure what games you are watching AC, not the ones the rest of us are. Put the crack pipe down.

By: Primitive Information » Blog Archive » Don’t Blog Angry

Primitive Information » Blog Archive » Don’t Blog Angry — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 23:27:33 +0000

[...] Although as I mentioned the other day, I wasn’t expecting much, it still hurts. And it hurts to lose like this. But this has been the story of the World Cup so far. U.S. isn’t the only team to have legitimate complaint about officiating — just ask Zidane. Looking ahead, I do think there was some promise (straining to see the silver lining here; I am a Cancer so have a bit of a negative streak) with Convey and Johnson at the top of the deck. Obviously, the U.S. needs to find offense somewhere. Atrocious penalty aside, Onyewu looks to be the back of the future. They’ve got good athleticism and team speed, really there’s no excuse for not being more dangerous on the attack. U.S. soccer will wait a respectful amount of time before giving the boot to Bruce Arena, who couldn’t have looked less into it on the sidelines, and bringing in someone who’s right for this team. They’ll faze out aging stars like Donovan and Reyna (whose giveaway would’ve been the story if not for the ref) and find guys to plug those midfield slots. Olsen looked pretty good back there, actually. [...]