The Official 2010 FIFA World Cup Thread

[Croyles]

OMG Greece you play 1000x more annyoing football than Italy.

That's because Italy (sometimes) know the art of being defensive and good at the same time. Greece clearly operate from the Bolton/Stoke handbook of football.

England 2 Slovenia 1 (I'll take England to squeeze through)
USA 0 Algeria 0

Ghana 1 Germany 1 (for some reason I see Germany going out)
Serbia 2 Australia 0

Youve given a draw prediction for every Germany game.

thank god Greece are out. Woeful.

Yes!

Come on England! Get your together!

[Croyles]

Goal!

[Old Manus]

Very shaky start from England, but after the goal they're playing more like the players we know they can be. THEY ARE BEGINNING TO BELIEVE.

[Kirobaito]

Sigh. Yet another wrongly disallowed goal for the US. This is robbery.

[Aerith's Knight]

Sigh. Yet another wrongly disallowed goal for the US. This is robbery.

It'll be robbery when they lose. Now it's just annoying.

And I kind of feel for the guys. So many good chances, perfect chances and they miss..

[Kirobaito]

Sigh. Yet another wrongly disallowed goal for the US. This is robbery.

It'll be robbery when they lose. Now it's just annoying.

And I kind of feel for the guys. So many good chances, perfect chances and they miss..

Everyone should feel for us. We, without any legitimate dispute, should have won this group, and we may not advance out of this stage.

[Aerith's Knight]

Sigh. Yet another wrongly disallowed goal for the US. This is robbery.

It'll be robbery when they lose. Now it's just annoying.

And I kind of feel for the guys. So many good chances, perfect chances and they miss..

Everyone should feel for us. We, without any legitimate dispute, should have won this group, and we may not advance out of this stage.

Let's not get that far ahead. The USA team isn't that great. But they should win this game, I think, I hope at least. It'll give me sooo much point in the poule if they do.

[Kirobaito]

Sigh. Yet another wrongly disallowed goal for the US. This is robbery.

It'll be robbery when they lose. Now it's just annoying.

And I kind of feel for the guys. So many good chances, perfect chances and they miss..

Everyone should feel for us. We, without any legitimate dispute, should have won this group, and we may not advance out of this stage.

Let's not get that far ahead. The USA team isn't that great. But they should win this game, I think, I hope at least. It'll give me sooo much point in the poule if they do.

We should have won this group. We beat Slovenia, and it got taken away from us. Though there's still time left, we *did* score against Algeria. If international referees weren't so incredibly incompetent, we would have won this group. I don't see how you can dispute that.

EDIT: And now Dempsey gets a mean punch to the face, yet it goes uncalled. Should be a penalty kick and ten men for Algeria.

[Croyles]

Sigh. Yet another wrongly disallowed goal for the US. This is robbery.

It'll be robbery when they lose. Now it's just annoying.

And I kind of feel for the guys. So many good chances, perfect chances and they miss..

Everyone should feel for us. We, without any legitimate dispute, should have won this group, and we may not advance out of this stage.

Let's not get that far ahead. The USA team isn't that great. But they should win this game, I think, I hope at least. It'll give me sooo much point in the poule if they do.

We should have won this group. We beat Slovenia, and it got taken away from us. Though there's still time left, we *did* score against Algeria. If international referees weren't so incredibly incompetent, we would have won this group. I don't see how you can dispute that.

If that is your logic, then all the OTHER games would have been different too, and you STILL would have been out. You still act like USA are the only team that had bad decisions made for them.

The offside this game was ARGUABLE, he was SLIGHTLY in front. The question is was it enough. The rule of thumb for referees this world cup is if in doubt, give it to the defender.
I was rooting for the US to go through, but you're seriously giving me second thoughts.

[Cuchulainn]

And Ireland would be there instead of France...

[Aerith's Knight]

The referee's decisions are part of the game. If you can't take that, then stick to your rugby ripoff.

If one team was really that much better than the other, even a referee's bias wouldn't change much.

[Kirobaito]

Sigh. Yet another wrongly disallowed goal for the US. This is robbery.

It'll be robbery when they lose. Now it's just annoying.

And I kind of feel for the guys. So many good chances, perfect chances and they miss..

Everyone should feel for us. We, without any legitimate dispute, should have won this group, and we may not advance out of this stage.

Let's not get that far ahead. The USA team isn't that great. But they should win this game, I think, I hope at least. It'll give me sooo much point in the poule if they do.

We should have won this group. We beat Slovenia, and it got taken away from us. Though there's still time left, we *did* score against Algeria. If international referees weren't so incredibly incompetent, we would have won this group. I don't see how you can dispute that.

If that is your logic, then all the OTHER games would have been different, and you STILL would have been out. You still act like USA are the only team that had bad decisions made for them.
I was rooting for the US to go through, but you're seriously giving me second thoughts.

This isn't just bad decisions. This isn't even sending players off. This is goals legitimately and physically scored taken away, the epitome of screwing a team. This screwing has cost the US 5 points and advancement. There are judgment calls to be made, which can be iffy and go against a team, and DO go against every team. This goes far beyond judgment calls. The US did the work they needed to do, and it got robbed from them.

EDIT: You have it backwards. Dempsey was, at most, even, and when in doubt it's supposed to go the attacking team, unless the commentators for this game made that up.

[Croyles]

Sigh. Yet another wrongly disallowed goal for the US. This is robbery.

It'll be robbery when they lose. Now it's just annoying.

And I kind of feel for the guys. So many good chances, perfect chances and they miss..

Everyone should feel for us. We, without any legitimate dispute, should have won this group, and we may not advance out of this stage.

Let's not get that far ahead. The USA team isn't that great. But they should win this game, I think, I hope at least. It'll give me sooo much point in the poule if they do.

We should have won this group. We beat Slovenia, and it got taken away from us. Though there's still time left, we *did* score against Algeria. If international referees weren't so incredibly incompetent, we would have won this group. I don't see how you can dispute that.

If that is your logic, then all the OTHER games would have been different, and you STILL would have been out. You still act like USA are the only team that had bad decisions made for them.
I was rooting for the US to go through, but you're seriously giving me second thoughts.

This isn't just bad decisions. This isn't even sending players off. This is goals legitimately and physically scored taken away, the epitome of screwing a team. This screwing has cost the US 5 points and advancement. There are judgment calls to be made, which can be iffy and go against a team, and DO go against every team. This goes far beyond judgment calls. The US did the work they needed to do, and it got robbed from them.

EDIT: You have it backwards. Dempsey was, at most, even, and when in doubt it's supposed to go the attacking team, unless the commentators for this game made that up.

Have you watched any of the other games?
Also, the US had so many chances in this game and couldnt score, in a way it was all in their own hands.

[Aerith's Knight]

That pass, that 88 min pass.

That is why you don't belong in this sport.

[Croyles]

Theres your goal, now stop moaning