Comments on: Wild Times in Stuttgart as Poll Cautions Simunic Thrice

By: Massimo

Massimo — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 17:10:18 +0000

Still the record for most biased ref ever was the 2002 match Italy- South Korea. A special mention should be made of that referee every world cup.

they should show every referee how Moreno controlled that game and tell them “You stupid referees do this you will not be given another game in your lives”

But it’s not gonna happen, everyone knows that the referees are only doing what they are told. FIFA is the world’s nost corrupt agency after U.N.

By: Massimo

Massimo — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 17:08:05 +0000

Seriously, If a ref can’t count. Dude don’t give him a whistle and send him to the world cup. Then all sorts of crazy things can happen.

Poll says he couldn’t sleep for two days after that. Well good. Even though I know he is lying he still probably hasn’t figured out were he screwed up.

By: PureMuscle

PureMuscle — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 12:52:18 +0000

“Now, perhaps Poll didn’t have a good view of things from his angle, but the Assistant surely did and he should have raised his flag and wiggled it a bit to call the foul before making his way to the corner flag to indicate that the proper restart would be with a penalty kick.”

This is a big no no, defensives fouls within the box are 99% of the time the Referee’s responsibility. Unless it was extremley blatant and the referee had no view.

Even though a penalty kick maybe totally warrented, it is the Referee’s disicion. Imagine the AR with his flag in the air while cole is saying no foul, the players would flip.

Instead making the trip to the corner flag, the AR subtley let cole know that he believed a penalty kick was warrented.
Imagine

By: timaah

timaah — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 23:38:09 +0000

uh yeah, a pretty poor (read disgraceful) performance all round. (i) two obvious penalties missed (Viduka being rugby tackled and an even more blatant handball than the first),
(ii) no yellow card for a handball resulting in a penalty (which he actually spotted) which probably should have been a red,as compared to:
(iii)Emerton’s yellow for an innocuous handball a metre from the sideline and thirty metres out with four or five defenders still behind him,
(iv) the three card trick – despite being told by players that simunic had been booked twice (he was also the player who should have been sent off in the seventh minute for the abovementioned rugby tackle)
(v) blowing fulltime as the ball hit the back off the net. it wasn’t a foul and he didn’t call a foul, he just decided to blow fulltime,
(vi) kewell was offside for the second goal – but given the five previous errors, as an Australian, who cares??

despite these obvious blatant errors he was actually better than Merk was in Australia”s game against Brazil. Although Merk’s error weren’t as obvious (apart from penalising Viduka for getting hacked in the back off the ankle 25m out), his subtle denial of numerous Australian freekicks in goal scoring range, plus the constant rewarding of Klinnsman-like dives from the Brazilians all over the park had a greater impact on the result than Poll.

awaiting the listing of referees for the round of 16. i don’t think Australia (or anyone else) will see ANY of the referees who handled the Australians first round games.

By: Julia

Julia — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 21:49:36 +0000

No need John apparently the British press have already done that and i’m sure FIFA will have something to say to him too.

By: John

John — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 19:14:47 +0000

i am going to kill you poll.

By: ed

ed — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 13:56:20 +0000

I’m not sure where this blog originates from but I assumed that only the people living in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres thought that Tommy Smyth was a joke!

By: Cambuskan

Cambuskan — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 00:41:50 +0000

The thing that I just cannot get my head around is that Poll called a penalty against Tomas for a deliberate Hand ball, yet no caution. How can that happen, especially when Emerton gets a second for a handball in the middle of the park!!

By: matilda

matilda — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 21:10:37 +0000

Tolga: I thought that too but actually second yellows in the last Group Stage game do equal missing the Round of 16. (So Emerton, in a sense, is missing it twice.) Everyone else’s yellows re-set now though. Cheers.

By: matilda

matilda — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 21:05:25 +0000

Yeah stuff happens… and then we discuss stuff.

“Poll said he incorrectly noted down the name of the Australia number three Craig Moore when booking Simunic for the second time”

I guess they mean the first booking? Doesn’t make much sense if it’s the second booking because that’s the red card point. I’m not sure how you could write down Aust 3 rather than Cr 3 for a foul against Kewell anyway. Don’t they write yellow cards down straight after they happen? I’ve never seen a ref check in his book before sending someone off; they just keep track and know. I guess that’s the crux of the problem – he couldn’t keep track (and none of his team noticed).

His excuse won’t make a difference because the idea of having to replay a game would have given FIFA nightmares. When they start saying you are a a great sportsman who will “overcome the situation” I think that means you’re on the first plane home!

Oh well, the whole thing is bizarre.

p.s Yes, Viduka has known Simunic since they were young. Funny thing is, he said to Poll “isn’t that his second?” when it happened.