Football - July 2006

apologies if this has been asked b4. I think england played very well esp. under the circemstances ie WITHOUT beckham, owen and Rooney! and esp. considering they have a crap manager.

ok england lost fair and sqaure and they ARE crap at penalities, but who thinks england played better in the real part of the game, albeit without scoring.

2006-07-05 22:15:06 · 17 answers · asked by wave 5 in FIFA World Cup (TM)

2006-07-05 22:13:28 · 14 answers · asked by rhul2008 2 in FIFA World Cup (TM)

2006-07-05 22:09:20 · 12 answers · asked by neelpagol 1 in Other - Football

2006-07-05 22:09:06 · 10 answers · asked by artful dodger 3 in FIFA World Cup (TM)

2006-07-05 22:07:58 · 13 answers · asked by steph 1 in FIFA World Cup (TM)

Final score is optional

2006-07-05 22:06:25 · 17 answers · asked by Malcolm uses Xbox 360 Avatar 7 in FIFA World Cup (TM)

2006-07-05 21:59:15 · 21 answers · asked by jem 1 in FIFA World Cup (TM)

2006-07-05 21:49:15 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in FIFA World Cup (TM)

Portugal - France
Didn't like the ref, he clearly was taking the side of France.
France did most the diving not Portugal.

2006-07-05 21:45:56 · 29 answers · asked by EG 1 in FIFA World Cup (TM)

Italy - Australia: penalty last minute. Neill goes to ground in the penalty area, doesn't touch the ball. Grosso makes no attempt to jump over him and falls over. Decision - penalty. If I had been a referee I would not have given the penalty as it was pretty 50:50 -Neill made a mistake with his lunge but Grosso could have avoided him. Australians are up in arms over this yet if the roles had been reversed (ie Australia attacking) and the penalty had NOT been given, I'm pretty sure there would have been uproar in equal measure. My question is this: is there a genuine psychological block in our brains which makes us see whatever we want to when watching our teams or are we just pretending not to see but really know the truth?

2006-07-05 21:45:27 · 9 answers · asked by Matthew M 1 in FIFA World Cup (TM)

2006-07-05 21:44:36 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in FIFA World Cup (TM)

2006-07-05 21:27:42 · 14 answers · asked by ns_v_civil 1 in FIFA World Cup (TM)

I find it so ridiculous that after every single match the fans blame the referee for everything.. Why is that so hard to accept that their team lost, it's a game, someone has to lose! I personally don't think referee's were unfair or biased towards any of the teams.. Look at this this way, whoever gets the penalty the fans will think it's unfair. So what i there left for referees to do? Never to give penalties to anybody?
Moreover for most of the time you can see it from the angle which doesn't show what has really happened so it may seem unfair! But the referee is there so he can see better and he knows what he is doing.. I know for a fact that this has happened to me when Ukrainian player got a red card and Spain got a penalty shot, from so many angles it seemed like this was such an unfair decision and everybody agreed, even though they were not ukrainians at all...And only after the game they showed it from another angle and you could clearly see that the referee was right!

2006-07-05 21:25:56 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in FIFA World Cup (TM)

2006-07-05 21:17:59 · 6 answers · asked by johny 1 in FIFA World Cup (TM)

2006-07-05 21:17:30 · 6 answers · asked by ns_v_civil 1 in FIFA World Cup (TM)

i'm not from portugal or anything like it...i just like their style:D now...we have the little final, germany-portugal...hope they'r gonna' win[-o<

2006-07-05 21:16:53 · 21 answers · asked by lili_GD 1 in FIFA World Cup (TM)

germany 2006 world cup final

2006-07-05 21:13:21 · 24 answers · asked by george 1 in FIFA World Cup (TM)

Who would benefit, who would not, could it work?

2006-07-05 21:12:32 · 3 answers · asked by gordon-21up 2 in FIFA World Cup (TM)

What do you think will be either teams downfall or their tryumph?

2006-07-05 21:09:06 · 3 answers · asked by Luis C 1 in FIFA World Cup (TM)

2006-07-05 21:06:10 · 10 answers · asked by immaculated 1 in FIFA World Cup (TM)

not really TAKE THAT HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

2006-07-05 20:58:13 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in FIFA World Cup (TM)

2006-07-05 20:53:50 · 9 answers · asked by TristonJaw 2 in FIFA World Cup (TM)

2006-07-05 20:33:28 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in FIFA World Cup (TM)

2006-07-05 20:32:40 · 21 answers · asked by srracvuee 3 in English Football

Many people have used words like "unsavoury", "diving", "cheating" when talking about the Italians here. I just want to know what is this based on seeing as in this particular world cup (apart from the De Rossi red card) I haven't seen them behaving particularly badly and, in fact, would say that one of the reasons they have got so far is the positive and concrete way they have reacted to the more physical tactics thrown at them and the fact that they seem to have eliminated most of their characteristic play acting. Am I wrong or have they got better?

2006-07-05 20:29:59 · 12 answers · asked by Matthew M 1 in FIFA World Cup (TM)

2006-07-05 20:24:12 · 5 answers · asked by rosepetal 1 in FIFA World Cup (TM)

2006-07-05 20:20:13 · 15 answers · asked by ? 2 in English Football

an old addage but would that put us all on a LEVEL playing field?

2006-07-05 20:14:36 · 13 answers · asked by cassjag 3 in FIFA World Cup (TM)

2006-07-05 19:56:44 · 11 answers · asked by aschheim49 2 in FIFA World Cup (TM)

Italy or France

2006-07-05 19:55:48 · 21 answers · asked by soad_cesc 2 in FIFA World Cup (TM)