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To: wastedyears

Doesn’t count be because the bureaucratic euro soccer snobs of FIFA screw us anytime they can. Thus only England and Mexico get apologies.


10 posted on 06/29/2010 5:58:19 PM PDT by Proud_USA_Republican ("The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.")
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To: Proud_USA_Republican

“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.


16 posted on 06/29/2010 6:38:56 PM PDT by MplsSteve (Don't Be Stupak!)
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Thus only England and Mexico get apologies.

In fairness to FIFA, the blown calls in the England and Mexico games likely influenced the ultimate outcome for those teams, whereas the blown calls against us did not. If England's goal had been allowed, and the score had equalized at 2-2, they would have had a chance to win. They would not have been forced to play as aggresively on offense, and hence would have been less vulnerable to the counterattack. A similar argument can be made in the Mexico-Argentina game.

Thankfully, the blow calls against us, while deplorable, ended up not mattering.

27 posted on 06/30/2010 9:51:08 AM PDT by curiosity
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