FIFA World Cup 2010

[Moondance]

Wow... That was extremely marginal. Probably onside.

Great to see France get shafted.

 

[Anonymous]

France getting what they deserved. .Should never have been in the world cup.
No consolation at all for the Irish, but its something at least.

 

[zapata]

Looked onside by a tiny bit. And even if it wasn't, it's still a goal now..I'm rooting for mexico, by the way..

 

[Anonymous]

its also really nice to hear/watch a game of football and be able to hear the crowd, and the drums and not those bloody vuvezulas..

Was the crowd noise made me look up from the computer and see the goal.

Ah.. turns out BBC have filtered the vuvuthings out, because of radio commentary they are still there well and truly.. Brilliant job by the bbc in removing them.

 

[Moondance]

France getting what they deserved. .Should never have been in the world cup.
No consolation at all for the Irish, but its something at least.

I object to this. Obviously the Henry goal shouldn't have counted, but even then it would still have gone to penalty kicks, and there's no guarantee Ireland would've won that. Yes, it should've gone to penalties, but France could've still won those and qualified.

 

[zapata]

France is really not looking good. Nothing like last time. Uruguay and Mexico through from this group. (too bad about the host eliminated).

 

[Moondance]

Au revior Les Bleus

 

[Anonymous]

Penalty :d

 

[Anonymous]

 

[zapata]

that's what a football should look like.

 

[luckyboy]

They should play with these to make it even more unpredictable!

Bye France.

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

France getting what they deserved. .Should never have been in the world cup.
No consolation at all for the Irish, but its something at least.

amen brother, although as mentioned it was no guarantee for the Irish (they did deserve it though).

I'm over the moon. There is no team I detest as much as the french.

Mexico were the better team and deserved their win, and now France have an uphill struggle.

Epic Gesink Victory + Epic French defeat = Epic Night

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btw it's not so much the ball, but the balls reaction to the altitude. Guarantee other balls (not all) would react similar in this climate.
And it should be noted also, that every nation had been given these balls four months ago, but only the bundesliga played with them --- this is because leagues like EPL and erdivise are binded to the nike sponsorship.
And I'm sure anyone else who has watched the bundesliga in the last few months (I know i have, it's my favorite league) can vouch that the ball did not react like this in Germany.
So yeah the notion that the balls are crap... is bullsh!t.

 

[zapata]

I really don't understand how france can be this poor. They've got the players, they just didn't do anything. Maybe that's what happens when you hire an astrologer for your manager.

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

France was as horrendous as the footballs being used at this Cup.

I think France is out, honestly. I don't see how they make the 2nd round.

 

[mr. tibbs]

Looked onside by a tiny bit. And even if it wasn't, it's still a goal now..I'm rooting for mexico, by the way..

It was offside, but Mexico deserves the win. France looked terrible (and I was cheering for them!).

 

[zapata]

France was as horrendous as the footballs being used at this Cup.

I think France is out, honestly. I don't see how they make the 2nd round.

they only have to beat south africa, which they should be capable of, and hope mexico and uruguay don't draw. and score enough goals to pass whoever loses out of M and U. Hope and think they won't, though.

 

[Moondance]

France was as horrendous as the footballs being used at this Cup.

I think France is out, honestly. I don't see how they make the 2nd round.

Not impossible. If Uruguay beats Mexico 2-0, say, and France crushes South Africa 4-0 then France will go through on better goal difference.

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

It was offside, but Mexico deserves the win. France looked terrible (and I was cheering for them!).

I disagree. His feet where behind the french defender's feet.

 

[Anonymous]

Not impossible. If Uruguay beats Mexico 2-0, say, and France crushes South Africa 4-0 then France will go through on better goal difference.

you really think uruguay and mexico will do anything other than draw?

 

[Anonymous]

I disagree. His feet where behind the french defender's feet.

I agree.. he was level

 

[icefire]

Not impossible. If Uruguay beats Mexico 2-0, say, and France crushes South Africa 4-0 then France will go through on better goal difference.

I wouldn't mind if Uruguay and Mexico make something like Germany and Austria did in 1982 and send the French back home.

 

[zapata]

It was offside, but Mexico deserves the win. France looked terrible (and I was cheering for them!).

I haven't studied the replays, but it looked onside to me. Just. Anyways, as I said, it doesn't really matter once the referee says it's a goal..

 

[The Hitch]

I hate France but the worst thing about this is the draw england now have.

For england the worst case scenario was that they would have to face France (who barely qualified and the worst of all the seeded teams) in the last 8 and that was by no means guaranteed.
Now to get to the semis they have to beat the following.

algeria
slovenia
ghana/ serbia/ australia
south korea/ greece/ uruguay/ mexico

Meanwhile in other parts of the draw Portugal, Germany, Spain, Netherlands, Brazil, Ivory Coast, Italy, Chille, Paraguay will all cancel eachother out.

Usually when someone gets an easy draw its because weaker teams have knocked out the big guns. But here england are simply given all the easier teams while the big guns have to fight eachother for the right to meet england in the last 4.

The equivalent of this in a tennis grand slam would be seeding Federer Nadal Roddick, Djokovic, Del Potro in one half of the draw and Murray + the girls under 15 singles in the other.

 

[shawnrohrbach]

I disagree. His feet where behind the french defender's feet.

Agreed; this was covered enough times on re-run to make this very clear. the ref got it right.

 

[issoisso]

To be fair to Verbeek, he also got his tactics horribly wrong in a miriad of different ways

Blablabla

Chill out dude, I'm not exactly the guy's biggest fan, but Australia losing 4-0 wasn't all down to tactics.

Oh, and by the way, Forza Svizzera!

You changed my post to "bla bla bla"? Seriously?
I argued he made a number of incredibly basic tactical mistakes that completely burned Australia out of the game and I detailed them in a rational manner, and your argument to the contrary basically amounts to "nyah uh!".

Nice. What level. What constructive critique.

EDIT: Oh right. I remember you know. You're the guy who always blindly defends every dutchman. Verbeek is dutch. It all makes perfect sense now.