Wednesday, July 05, 2006

The Ugly Duckling Has Been Drowned

France, congratulations, more cars will burn in the Parisian night, I’m sure.
The smarter team won.
I don’t even think they needed that gift from the referee.

We’re out because we couldn’t score the few opportunities we had.
We lost, having the best chances, the most shots on target and off target, without Ricardo having to apply too much of himself.
We are not good enough to be in a final, with the likes of Argentina; but we are not so bad that we deserve to loose with a questionable penalty, a CLEAR dive of the best actor in the World Cup. Definitly a dive to remeber!
We have to admit, he did an excellent job providing an even more excellent opportunity for the Burroguayan referee to give them a penalty.
This time Ricardo couldn’t stop it, but nearly.

That’s what won them the game – they scored, we didn’t. Even if they had some help to achieve that, they didn’t waste it.
No excuses.
No matter how many replays you see of that penalty, in all you can clearly see that after Carvalho’s clumsy fall, there is contact indeed – definitely not enough to bring a player down, but Henry cleverly, theatrically and belatedly drops to the ground, like the log he is.
Maybe we should have been given a penalty as well, just as arguable, over C. Ronaldo when he was flying to the ball and a hand goes in his back…
But we didn’t score, we couldn’t do it with our mediocre effort, so that really was our penalty.
Ricardo Carvalho has been one of the best defenders, and didn’t deserve to see his role in the world cup penalized.
The middle-field, though, hasn’t been brill… hence…

May the best team, Italy, win the final – Italy.
That should be a tight game – both teams usually play with 12 players, only this time I don’t know which team will have the referee.
Without the 12th player, Italy is the best team and deserves to be the champion.
They will win.
And we shall be in one more game - the worst that can happen is forth place - pretty good, though, for the ill-loved finalist...

Ps – we couldn’t have lost to nicest savages… while I type, the Freaks, I mean the French crowd in the streets, show they sportsmanship by pushing the Portuguese TV crew in Paris, throwing objects, water and offenses. Look who was barkin about Fair Play...
Some people can't loose, some people can't (and shouldn’t) win. At least the English had the excuse they were drunk…

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Disgusting. To see the French and English, who have both won Cups, be so vile in defeat is beyond me.

It's also unfortunate because they have a much more powerful media influence.

6:36 PM  

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