Posted on 06/29/2010 5:18:29 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
WC ping!
Don’t forget the couple of times they screwed the US team.
Wow! They have a President Blatter and we have a President Blabber!
you can't get away from it at sports bars. It's just weird. Guys PRETENDING to fall down and PRETENDING to get hurt in order to somehow get a chance to score one goal and then stall till the clock runs out.
It takes skill, I get it. But so does bowling, curling, archery, growing Bonsai, croquet, tiddly winks, badminton, tying a good knot with a cherry stem in your mouth.... but I'm not gonna watch it on TV unless there's nekid women doing those aforementioned "sports".
Hell, womens NBA is starting to look interesting. I just want them to keep letting the officials make the wrong score and replaying it on the jumbo-tron television so that maybe a full blown soccer riot breaks out. (same mentality as NASCAR, ya go to drink beer, listen to music in the outfield and look at wrecks).
Why would anyone care?
This WC has had the worst officiated series of matches that I have witnessed in the last 16 years. I am not a big fan of TV replays to chastise the officials but something must be done to correct the terrible calls without interfering with the pace of the game.
“Naturally, we deplore when you see the evidence of referees’ mistakes,”OK, I think I've got it — he's deploring your seeing the evidence of them while not deploring the referees' mistakes themselves?
While English not being Blatter's first language may be garbling his message a bit, he's certainly got the instincts of a Democrat politician when it comes to placing blame.
Doesn’t count be because the bureaucratic euro soccer snobs of FIFA screw us anytime they can. Thus only England and Mexico get apologies.
Yes - when I first saw this post I thought it had to do with our President ('President Blather') - especially when I saw the 'apologizes' in the parenthesis...
Nobody screwed us as hard as we screwed ourselves in the first half of that game vs. Ghana.
I'm not so sure that's what some of them meant...
“Don’t like it?..Watch something else.”
Well put.
“Doesn’t count be because the bureaucratic euro soccer snobs of FIFA screw us anytime they can. Thus only England and Mexico get apologies.”
Well put.
No apologies to all the other teams that got screwed out of goals (U.S. comes to mind)?
Excellent? No.
Batter takes a page from the Obama playbook. Instead of cleaning up the corruption and incompetence in his own organization, he’s looking into “technology”.
Officiating mistakes (blatant ones) occur in every sport. Look at Jim Joyce’s call in the perfect game that wasn’t earlier this year.
The guys on ESPN were yapping about a blown strike call (the ball was 8-12 inches off the plate) that cost the Tigers a game. Yesterday, I think.
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