Comments on: Bloody penalties again!

By: Milos

Milos — Sun, 09 Jul 2006 03:40:27 +0000

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By: Graham Sanders

Graham Sanders — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 16:37:43 +0000

2 players were missing from the Portuguese side who faced the lack lustre English: Deco and Costinha

By: Bruno Santos

Bruno Santos — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 01:13:06 +0000

I agree with Leszek, more than ever, sport is loosing a little bit of what it was suppose to be about; Fair play.
Either in the field or outside it.

Being Fair Play the main idea the german organisation wanted to promote, we shure did have some bad moments in this world cup. I can recall two games, one of Argentina and Portugal vs Netherlands, in witch players made themselfs center of the atentions for the wrong reasons.

And the same happens with fans. Lately, in the news, I see too often images of wrecked cafes and sports fans beeing arrested.

I don’t believe that is even close to the true spirit of football, or any other sport by that matter!

btw, I’m portuguese and must say that England played really well against portugal, even more if we see that they were one player short.

By: Leszek Swirski

Leszek Swirski — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 20:33:49 +0000

Oh no, football can be beautiful, sure—what I’m saying is that it is also inexplicably linked with constant violence, if not from the players themselves (e.g. Argentina) then from the fans.

By: Norberto Leite

Norberto Leite — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 17:57:36 +0000

Being a portguese guy I must tell you guys that it is quite good to win in penalties. I don’t know why:) Any way Rooney realy meant to do it! Ronaldo made what every footbal player would do and i don’t think that he influenced the referee because he almost doesn’t know how to speak. And no, footbal does’t mean violence, it means physical contact and that influences violence. Football im my opinion is a very beuatiful game or do I have to remind you about the goals that this world cup as given so far as the argentiniam or the Joe Cole goal… Be fare Portugal deserved to win and the french are next:P

By: Leszek Swirski

Leszek Swirski — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 01:28:05 +0000

While “football violence” is a redundant synonym

By: Stephen Clarke

Stephen Clarke — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 01:16:31 +0000

Interesting football, is like ‘military intelligence’ both come under the category of ‘oxymoron’.

By: Pierce

Pierce — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 22:31:18 +0000

>It was his temper that earned him a red card, >not the actual ball crunching.

Well then I would have sent off Ronaldo for interfering too. Since when is refereeing a democratic process?

By: Justin Perkins

Justin Perkins — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 21:59:16 +0000

> Still, I?m not sure Rooney did it on purpose.

It was his temper that earned him a red card, not the actual ball crunching.

By: Pierce

Pierce — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 20:39:12 +0000

I was rooting for Portugal (hoping England lose is bred into Irishmen. Sorry, there’s nothing I can do about it). But to be honest, I was wishing they could both lose by the end of it. One of the worse games of the competition.

Compared to the Brazil/France game that evening… that was a game.

Still, I’m not sure Rooney did it on purpose. Honestly, it looked kind of accidental.

By: steve

steve — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 11:35:18 +0000

England played their best football of the Cup without Beckham and Rooney on the field. Watching the match on tv from Australia I thought England played really well with ten men. Portugal never looked much like scoring whereas England created several chances. Was a shame that England fell apart in the penalty shoot out. I’m not fan of Portugal though, they have couple of potential Oscar winning actors in Figo and Ronaldo.

I for one love the “giraffe”, he gives hope to talk, skinny people everywhere that they can play sport! :) Love him or hate him, he gave it everything against Portugal.