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Post by HometownHoya on Jun 27, 2010 9:28:14 GMT -5
England looked strong the first 15 but Germany got an early goal and the Brits lost some of their luster...still a good game though
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Post by HoyaSinceBirth on Jun 27, 2010 9:40:02 GMT -5
wow england just got screwed that was clearly in. I could see that in real time and on replay it was clearly in. It was in by a foot. Sheesh that's terrible. Sucks to be them.
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Post by prhoya on Jun 27, 2010 9:50:27 GMT -5
The gamecast person at ESPN.com is ranting about the robbed goal. He puts it at almost a yard in.
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Post by FLHoya on Jun 27, 2010 9:57:20 GMT -5
The momentum behind using technology/goal line officials just multiplied exponentially. It was such a blatant miss, but Larrionda (sorry, JORGE EFFING LARRIONDA) and the assistant referee may actually have had two of the worst vantage points to see it on the pitch. Not that it should have mattered.
But just give them the goal line camera/joy buzzer already. If the TV audience can see the replay in 10-15 seconds, the referee should have that option.
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Post by HometownHoya on Jun 27, 2010 10:01:32 GMT -5
Wow, what a half!!! Germany is great on the break but they need to settle down and get some possession, if this turns into a running match, England's attackers will outrun the German central defenders.
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Post by FLHoya on Jun 27, 2010 10:52:30 GMT -5
In the end, Germany are to the World Cup what Michigan State often are to the NCAA basketball tournament...once they get into the knockout round, they know what they're doing.
An Argentina-Germany quarterfinal rematch would be epic (again!).
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Post by HometownHoya on Jun 27, 2010 11:13:48 GMT -5
In the end, Germany are to the World Cup what Michigan State often are to the NCAA basketball tournament...once they get into the knockout round, they know what they're doing. An Argentina-Germany quarterfinal rematch would be epic (again!). True true, they have made the round of 8 every World Cup since '38 (wonder what they were thinking about then ) Germany has the mix to win it all, I think they have more quality attackers then some of the other top teams (who only have one or two star players), they play great SET defense, and are SO clean on their counter attack. Their key weakness is defending the counter attack...their CBs are big, tall, strong guys but aren't the fastest.
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Post by prhoya on Jun 27, 2010 12:25:45 GMT -5
The momentum behind using technology/goal line officials just multiplied exponentially. It was such a blatant miss, but Larrionda (sorry, JORGE EFFING LARRIONDA) and the assistant referee may actually have had two of the worst vantage points to see it on the pitch. Not that it should have mattered. But just give them the goal line camera/joy buzzer already. If the TV audience can see the replay in 10-15 seconds, the referee should have that option. Exactly. I'm glad that the outcry will come from big European teams like England and Italy instead of, say, Honduras. It's time FIFA acknowledges that with better TV technology and the Internet, more people will get to see these blatant errors and get turned off.
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Post by HoyasAreHungry on Jun 27, 2010 15:21:53 GMT -5
By no means am I a soccer fan or expert--but I've got to say that in watching the World Cup, it's type of atmosphere that is fun to watch the players compete. That being said-are the announcers in Soccer always so gutless? I mean a team scores a goal and you'd think it's like the trailing team is searching for the cure for Cancer. "How will the do it?"......."Facing a dreadful scenario that will likely end in death...." (ok a bit of embelishment but not too far off) and Alexi Lalas was about to cry after the game--god's sake be a professional and suck it up. He was/is awful. Thank goodness the players I watched were far more competitive then the cowards who talk about the game and announce it. alexi lalas is an embarrassment....he is the absolute worst and only in there for an "american perspective" john harkes is awful too...they need to stop trying to make ex players into commentators when they are clearly not good at it
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Post by HoyaSinceBirth on Jun 27, 2010 22:24:12 GMT -5
moment of the world cup. absolutely hilarious. I was cracking up so hard when i saw this happen live.
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Post by The Stig on Jun 28, 2010 8:49:41 GMT -5
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Post by prhoya on Jun 28, 2010 9:55:44 GMT -5
Censorship? It is a new low.
I heard Lalas say that Blatter was loving the attention. As with everything else, Lalas is wrong. Blatter is up for re-election and will be forced to address this with powerful national federations.
Mexico joins the call for the use of technology to eliminate human error. The more, the merrier...
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Post by FLHoya on Jun 28, 2010 11:23:03 GMT -5
Censorship? It is a new low. I heard Lalas say that Blatter was loving the attention. As with everything else, Lalas is wrong. Blatter is up for re-election and will be forced to address this with powerful national federations. Mexico joins the call for the use of technology to eliminate human error. The more, the merrier... Weird...I assumed they didn't show replays (or at least the controversial ones) as a matter of course already. Perhaps this was a case where they wanted to show highlights of a goal, but the circumstances of that goal pointed to the very obvious problem. At least my experience with going to soccer games (and a lot of sports really w/ video replay) is that you're less likely to see replays of the controversial plays. My guess: FIFA will relent under the pressure and by the next World Cup we'll have goal-line technology available. Some or all of the confederations will implement it sooner. No chance on technology for offsides calls, nor would I want there to be.
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Post by Boz on Jun 28, 2010 15:19:42 GMT -5
Brazil is sick.
I know some were complaining that they're not playing "the beautiful game" under Dunga, but I still consider them pretty damn beautiful to watch.
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Post by prhoya on Jun 28, 2010 15:29:40 GMT -5
And powerful! The Ned-Bra will be a classic!
Tomorrow's Spain-Portugal is must-see tv.
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Post by prhoya on Jun 29, 2010 12:28:05 GMT -5
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Post by prhoya on Jun 29, 2010 16:34:40 GMT -5
Tomorrow's Spain-Portugal is must-see tv. I stand corrected. Portugal didn't go all out after falling behind. It was frustrating to see Spain with 6 defending and Portugal with 4 attacking.
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Post by The Stig on Jun 29, 2010 20:59:08 GMT -5
It looked like Portugal wanted to make every non-North Korean game they played into a 0-0 draw. That doesn't work too well in the knockout rounds, especially when you're playing Spain. Once there was a goal on the board, Portugal didn't know what to do.
All in all, today was a rather disappointing end to the Round of 16.
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Post by FLHoya on Jun 30, 2010 1:19:07 GMT -5
At least FIFA has done one other thing with the officials that isn't totally tone-def.
The "cut list" for the officials still in consideration for assignments in the QFs and beyond was released today, which brings the # of eligible official crews down from 29 to 19.
Some of the officials cut were only being used as fourth officials anyway, such as Martin Hansson (of the Thierry Henry handball). But among the officials also cut: Coulibaly (the mystery foul in USA-Slovenia); Rosetti (Tevez offside vs. Mexico); Lannoy (gettin' all chummy with Brazil after the handball goal); and EFFING LARIONDA (disallowed Lampard's goal). So at least performance reviews still accomplish their purpose.
The refs left that I'd tab as my picks for the semis or final: Irmatov (Uzbekistan); Archundia (Mexico); and Webb (England). They've all done multiple high profile games very incident-free so far.
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Post by CAHoya07 on Jun 30, 2010 4:08:56 GMT -5
I'm glad FIFA's going to take a look at goal line technology... but I still can't believe that they still don't require refs to explain a foul call (USA-Slovenia) - which player it is on, and what it is for. That completely boggles my mind. Thanks to Landon Donovan's heroics, it ended up basically not mattering (and strangely enough, that call set the stage for his heroics), but that still seems very wrong to me, and I hope another team doesn't get burned by it.
EDIT: Or maybe I should hope that another team gets burned by it at a critical moment, so something might happen...
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