Dr_Q
Well-Known Member
Evidently the English team is being selected too soon, it should be done by phone vote while all players are in the changing room.
After Match Unofficial news quote: A large number of England fans were booing in the last ten minutes or so. A TV pitch side reporter got an off the cuff remark from Wayne Rooney slating the fans for booing.
Cue Tabloid meltdown & media frenzy from Saturday onwards or I should say an even bigger one than otherwise would have happened. :lol:
Thank the referee you lucky bastards. He should be a national hero in your shit hole.
I'm a competitor, and we were robbed. Keep on hating haters.
There is a lot of politics in FIFA, which means they have to select referees on criteria other than just technical competence and fitness etc.About Grand Theft Goal: South Africa, it really doesn't bother me much that the particular bad call was made. Referees are human too and we all make mistakes. But what does bother me is the fact that a wrong call was made while other blatant fouls were ignored. The only way the Slovenian players could have made those holds more evident would be to tie the American players up in bright pink rope. But even that would be somewhat permissible at an amateur-level game, not the world's top-level event. To make that kind of mistake at this level is inexcusable.
Another thing: how could you possibly tell if anyone was offsides from where that referee was standing? It's almost as if he decided the goal wasn't going to count before the ball was even kicked. Referees are there to enforce the rules and protect the integrity of the game. That clearly didn't happen in this case.