World Cup 2010

[Fedya]

Actually, it wasn't a goal.

[Jonas]

This was a very bad referee mistake, nevertheless the english team should have played better in the second half. I think with this performance the germanteam deserved the win, hopefully we'll see a great Argentinia - Germany match!

[freegame]

lets hope we get a fair referee

[karaklis]

lets hope we get a fair referee

oranje boven

[Ookami]

mega lol!!!!XDDDDDDD.......

but now im going to cry...because i can't forget that italy lost in this way.............
4 years has changed everything.....however also the second of 2006 lost like us XDDD....so....
And now.......Go Japan!!!!XDD

I Dream a japan like in captain tsubasa XDD

[Jonas]

hehe my bet is on japan 1:0 paraguay this afternoon ^^

[Solomon]

Even if my brackets didn't come out to the ro8 quite as well as I had hoped, looks like my prediction of the Netherlands beating Brazil came true after all .

[Hushfield]

I had guestimated this outcome as well. I am really sad I couldn't watch the actual game, was at work until 7 pm. Oh, and just when I was leaving a co-worker came up to me and said: "have you heard? The Netherlands beat Brazil!" Other co-worker chimes in "Yes, with 2-1." Effectively ruined my plan to watch the game after work. They have since been notified not to spoil world cup results for me, unless they want their lunchboxes spoilt as well

[SpongeBob]

Isn't the way how Uruguay won against Ghana saddening? In my world, it would not have been red card for Uruguay in the last minute of the game, but goal for Ghana! After all, using the hand is not allowed and if this is prohibiting a goal, the referee should have the power to declare that a goal - in my world, at least.

[karaklis]

That was a very clever play of Uruguay's player. If he hadn't used his hand, Uruguay would have been out 99.99999%. But with his action they still had a 20-30% winning chance. And they used it. Congratulations to Uruguay (though I rooted for Ghana....)

[Solomon]

Wow, was I fortunate enough to watch this game when it went into overtime. Sure it was bad sportsmanship, but I'm stunned by the number of people I've seen already on other sites/forums ragging on Suarez. He did something that I think most of us would have also done, and if you look at this shot:



It's pretty obvious he couldn't have stopped that shot without using his hands. He didn't try to hide the fact or argue with the ref about what he did and accepted the consequences because strategically it was the right thing to do. Morally...well that's another thing, and besides the point. People should be criticizing the rules/procedures for situations such as these, not Suarez.

[freegame]

It's pretty obvious he couldn't have stopped that shot without using his hands. He didn't try to hide the fact or argue with the ref about what he did and accepted the consequences because strategically it was the right thing to do. Morally...well that's another thing, and besides the point. People should be criticizing the rules/procedures for situations such as these, not Suarez.

I completely agree.
Guess we go players might be used to trying to see the best strategic "move" in a situation (compared to an emotional response from a lot of other people).

now I just hope they don't get away with a simmilar "move" against The Netherlands and beat us to the finals

[Hushfield]

I hope not. I have been waiting for the Netherlands vs Argentina for a long, long time. But the German team might prove too much for the flaws in Argentina's defense. We shall see.

[freegame]

I was not able to watch most of the game that The Netherlands played today.

For some odd reason the university did not even take this match into account when scheduelling final exams of this accademic year .
So, while 99.9% of the Dutch people were watching soccer, I had to sweat in a way to hot exam room for 3 hours

Luckily it was the last exam this year for me so I get to see the other game (and hopefully games)

Maybe I'll go to Rotterdam tomorrow to watch a little bit of the Tour de France prologue.
I'm not that much into cycling but it's only 20 min by train from where I live, so I don't think I'll get another chance like that any time soon.

[quantumf]

Wow, was I fortunate enough to watch this game when it went into overtime. Sure it was bad sportsmanship, but I'm stunned by the number of people I've seen already on other sites/forums ragging on Suarez. He did something that I think most of us would have also done, and if you look at this shot:



It's pretty obvious he couldn't have stopped that shot without using his hands. He didn't try to hide the fact or argue with the ref about what he did and accepted the consequences because strategically it was the right thing to do. Morally...well that's another thing, and besides the point. People should be criticizing the rules/procedures for situations such as these, not Suarez.

Note how the other player is also reaching out to try and stop it. It was the right thing to do, given the rules of the game. If FIFA are unhappy with this, they could easily change the rules to give the referee the right to award penalty goals, but I don't think FIFA are unhappy. In fact, I think FIFA are generally delighted with this world cup. There's been no shortage of excitement and controversy.