Ghana vs Uruguay:don't read if you don't want to know result!

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Anonymous wrote:16:38 What if such handballs become commonplace? Wouldn't that detract from the sport?

I guess we will have to see. Maybe it will become a standard move in soccer, like the diving theatrics which originated in South America.

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Anonymous wrote:That whole situation shouldn't have happened in the first place. There were two ghanian players in offside an the lineman didn't catch it.

That's so unfair! Why didn't the Ghanaian players alert the ref to being offside? Cheaters. I just hope I raise a child who will alert the ref when he is offside.

Hilarious !!! Comparing outright cheating to offsides now, aren't you? Either you know nothing about soccer rules, or your fairplay radar is seriously offkilter.

anyway karma is a bitch, the cheaters are going home where they belong.

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Anonymous wrote:16:38 What if such handballs become commonplace? Wouldn't that detract from the sport?

I guess we will have to see. Maybe it will become a standard move in soccer, like the diving theatrics which originated in South America.

Not if people get a red card for it. Playing a man down is often correlated with losing.

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Anonymous wrote:"um...that german goalie didn't cheat. The ref didn't give the goal. How is that the germans fault? I'm so sick of everyone beating down on the germans. Of course they won't beg the ref to give england that goal, just like england didn't beg the ref 44 years ago to not give them a goal that wasn't one. And england ended up winning the world cup because of this.
In this case, there is no way england had any chance to win. Germany was the better team, and won fair and square. The not given goal, bad call from the ref and not at all germanys fault. They didn't cheat!!!!! "

Rationalizing cheating. Well done.

Germany's goalie admitted that he deliberately grabbed the ball out of the goal and threw it the other way to fool the ref into thinking it wasn't a goal. He knew it was a goal and deliberately deceived the ref. Is that really more sportsmanlike than Suarez? Germany likely would have won anyway, but the fact remains, the goalie was very unsportsmanlike in that way.

Even if the German goalie kept the ball in play, the ref and his lineman, who should have seen the goal, could have still stopped the game and giving England the goal. After all the shit the Germans have been taking, I refuse to believe, it was the German goalies fault.
And I don't believe ANYONE would be honest enough to alert the ref to a goal in a world cup quarterfinal. So I don't think anyone can blame it on the German keeper. It's all on the ref who did other than that, a pretty good job.
I wouldn't call it cheating. It's history finally corrected. England didn't alert the ref that the goal that changed the FINAL of the 1966 WC wasn't a goal at all. So no harm done.
We're even.

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http://g.sports.yahoo.com/soccer/world-cup/blog/dirty-tackle/post/Frank-Lampard-s-shot-was-too-fast-for-linesman-t?urn=sow,253782

Funny!

Thank god they didn't see a replay in half time. They might have made another bad call against Germany.

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Anonymous wrote:Hahaha

Different poster here, but I didn't have a problem with the Uruguay "handball" either. It is not a matter of rooting for Uruguay (I was rooting for Ghana), but a recognition of the rules and penalties of the game, and what makes sense.

Now Uruguay out and I don't care about that either.

I posted the laughter, but I did have a problem with the Uruguay handball. I was laughing when Uruguay was losing today's game by 2 goals and I'm glad that they were knocked out today. Not because they won against Ghana but because of how they won.