Coaches are Screwing up and Refs are ruining the World Cup

[Resha]

Let us add Graham Poll's decision to not give Mark Viduka a penalty for that foul to this hall of accusations. It was a poor decision.

[JaytodaP]

Another thing really annoying is players are over-exaggerating and calling for stretchers and doctors and waste time. i know theres stoppage time, but it doesnt make up all time wasted. It pisses me off even more that theyre absolutly fine after that. They will be holding there legs in "pain" and then two seconds later theyre running around fine. WTF

[Resha]

That was beautiful! Simunic received THREE yellow cards! :laugh:

[Cz]

Nice work, Graham. xD

[Psychotic]

Are you reading Graham Poll? Are you reading Graham Poll? Are you reading? Are you reading? :laugh:

[Bart's Friend Milhouse]

yes i am reading

[Croyles]

Every team does it, including USA.
We've been there, we've seen it, we've been really angry about it, and we've given up and just carried on watching it anyway, do that or dont watch the game. Thats not to say that we dont all get pissed off about it, but diving is just so ridiculously common now that we, as fans, just cant do anything about it.
Heres a second place to let your anger out though, since its not easy bottling it up:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article...029982,00.html

[black orb]

>>> The ref from the USA vs Italy match was pretty fair, and the US coach moaned and yelled the whole game, it was fun to see it.

[escobert]

WHat pisses me off about soccer is how the cry about EVERYTHING thet get hurt and need a stretcher when someone pushes them. WTF? grow some balls and take that non-existing hit.

[Croyles]

Its football. Ball + Foot = Football.
Glad I cleared that up

[-N-]

On the whole, the refereeing in the World Cup has been rather good, but with so many decisions to make, there will always be errors. A way to stop this would be video refereeing, but FIFA are extremely opposed to this, presumably so they can't give smaller nations an unfair advantage, for example South Korea in 2002 (and perhaps Ghana in 2006, because that was not a penalty. We'll see how they fare against Brazil)

I don't think I understand what you're saying, because I don't see the logical flow in that kind of argument at all. Specifically, I don't see how "giving smaller nations an unfair advantage" results from "implementing video refereeing". Do you have any further ideas on why FIFA doesn't allow video refereeing?

[Psychotic]

Without video refereeing, they can justify a dodgy decision with "The referee only got to see it once and he was several yards away at the time" whereas if he and the other officials got to view several replays of the incident, it would be much harder for them to give the correct (and possibly biased) decision.

As dodgy decisions in international football often go in favour of smaller teams (as I said, check out the controversy surrounding South Korea's run in 2002) the inclusion of video refereeing would mean that that the smaller teams could lose this edge.

Interestingly, I think referees are biased in favour of the big teams in club football, or the home team. The Serie A debacle playing itself out as we speak is a perfect example of this.

[escobert]

Its football. Ball + Foot = Football.
Glad I cleared that up

No, I live in America we call it soccer. You can call it football. I don't care, i'm going to continue calling it soccer since I hav emy entire life and every person I know offline calls it soccer.:mog:

[Old Manus]

Hey guys, I'm gonna play some sawwker

[-N-]

As dodgy decisions in international football often go in favour of smaller teams (as I said, check out the controversy surrounding South Korea's run in 2002) the inclusion of video refereeing would mean that that the smaller teams could lose this edge.

As far as I've seen, dodgy decisions have pretty much gone against any team I choose to root for. :\

2002 was pretty much one big exception to international football, what with the US getting to quarters, and South Korea and Turkey getting to semis.

I haven't seen any statistics confirming weaker teams getting calls, though. I feel like I've seen major teams (especially divers like Argentina and Italy, and now Ghana) get all sorts of ridiculous calls go their way.

Even if that theory were true, then the US wouldn't have gotten their <img src="/xxx.gif"><img src="/xxx.gif"><img src="/xxx.gif"><img src="/xxx.gif"> luck calls. Oh wait, some retard decided to rank them fifth. My argument has crumbled.

[q=Psychotic]Interestingly, I think referees are biased in favour of the big teams in club football, or the home team. The Serie A debacle playing itself out as we speak is a perfect example of this.[/q]Unfortunately I don't follow the European leagues (I assume that's what you mean by "club football") - I guess it's difficult to get news of it out here. I also haven't watched Group A except for the first match, but I assume you're talking about Poland dropping out of the tournament?