13 min Birsa (SLO) Posted on 06/18/2010 8:58:05 AM PDT by Big Bureaucracy
13 min Birsa (SLO)
42 min Ljubiankic (SLO)
48 min Donovan (USA)
81 min Bradley (USA)
First, a message to the referee: Coulibaly from Mali – go give yourself a yellow card after your balls hit your face! And after that eat them while whistling pretending they are not in!
Second: it is an American thing: we only attack you if you attack us first. And from there we just do our best.
Tim Howard (the Budweiser Man of the Match against England) made the fans sip nervously the golden liquid hoping his ribs will stay in place and not distract him from the game. The US goalie was abandoned alone during the fatal scores.
The USA needed a leader and Landon Donovan took the fate of the team in his hands (legs) going on a lone quest for the goal by himself successfully to keep hope alive after the break.
Michael Bradley made his daddy and his country proud and scored for 2:2... The referee robed us from victory!
Team USA made us proud! Say, say, USA!
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Potugal had the same thing happen to them against Ivory Coast. Announcers couldn’t explain why the refs stopped play when Portugal scored a goal. Result 0-0 tie and anyone who get on Ronaldo and Portugal to cover a goal to a half goal in the game lost. They film commercials of Ronaldo kicking the ball past Homer Simpson but then the guy can never score in a World Cup game, common!
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WE WUZ ROBBED! WTF does MALI get a Ref? Did they comb through the spice markets of Timbuktu trying to find anyone who could breath ref the game.
Seriously? No way. Portugal just didn't put the work in
Everyone should appreciate at least one world cup, just not this one. I can’t even have my volume on any more. I was watching the NBA finals last night and my daughter was watching a taped game in the other room and all I could hear was that damned buzzing.
BOO, don’t let themcome back make them stay in So. Africa with their thrid world game.
We got some horrendous calls 4 years ago too. I chalked it up to Bush hatred at the time. Dont know about this time since everybody loves us now (/s), but that ref was just consistantly awful.
Oh, you mean that game with the brightly colored padding and the eye makeup?
Being down 2-0 at the half, a tie is wonderful (even though yes, it should have been 3-2)
Kobe has a license to foul at will. Loose ball that Rondo was chasing in the final seconds saw Kobe coninuously pushing Rondo with his hand around him like a wrestler.
Then Kobe does his patented snowplow move where he runs over the other player getting Gasol’s rebound and puts in the last basket of the game, runs over Wallace and who is the foul on, Wallace of course.
Wallace who happened to be the target of the referees who were fixing games before.
People thought Wallace was so stupid and out of control getting all of those technical fouls, but they should be like a badge of honor for him here.
Stern who should have resigned as he was and is in the business of determining the monetary value of fines to be given to players who told the truth about the referee foul calls, his nickname should be the Assessor, will tell us that Donaghy is the Lee Harvey Oswald of referees and the only referee who was fixing a game.
Noone else was in on it, it was just Donaghy!
None of the rest of the crews had any knowledge whatsoever.
And they were only fixing the over/under number when there had to be maybe 100 to 1,000 times more action on the sides.
Please.
Quote: “And the NBA refs were better. The Lakers have never lost when they have their ref on the court.”
Can’t disagree with you but with all due respect, Ray Allen’s picture belonged on the back of a milk carton becaus he was missing. If that guy makes just two ONE, TWO freaking shots the Celtics win that game. I suppose what I am saying is that with basketball there is opportunity to make up for the refs blown calls. Put differently, the referees have less of an impact than football where one blown call means you are not advancing to the next round.
Thanks for putting the score in the freaking post title.
Ivory Coast is a decent team that played pretty well in the game. The announcers couldn’t explain the stoppage of play that cost Portugal their only goal though. Ivory Coast gets the money when the public bet Portugal. People need to wake up.
Being down 2-0 at the half, a tie is wonderful (even though yes, it should have been 3-2)
Yes, great fantastic result that we can be fantastically pleased with on the way home as we watch the other teams in then next rounds. We needed and deserved a win here.
But hey, did anyone notice how cool the referee looked? I mean, I really did not tune it to watch football. I tuned in to watch the referee. /s
Well guys you probably need to get a win in your next game to get into the second round - I wish you luck. I contend that the newer, less traditional, soccer playing nations get a bad run when it comes to umpiring in the World Cup - it seems like the refs have more to fear when it comes to the entrenched World Cup nations!
Mel
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