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daniel robert chapman wrote:

fantasmatical thorr wrote:france v spain tonight.

now. i know france will probably pip it BUT i really want spain to do it just to win my personal, non-financial bet that spain will do well...so much more satisfying that way.



[size=9]i don't like to say i told you so but, i told you so. one of us will be going home with tha ringing in our ears tonight. but who? me? drc? anyone else?[/size]


come on spain

Now do you see?

oooh. for someone so quiet this week you aren't half making a smug racket eh?! i know i know. france were a tour de force. haw hee haw. i hope they give good game against brasil. that should be a good un!

To reiterate:

ALLEZ LES BLEUS!!!!

Germany - Argentina.
I'm gonna suffer a lot in that game (as pathetic as it may sound )

this reminds of something ...

From Wikipedia:

Edgardo Codesal Méndez is an Uruguayan-Mexican football (soccer) referee, best known for supervising the final match of the 1990 World Cup held in Italy.

During the match, he had incurred the wrath of the Argentinians by refusing to award Argentina an arguable penalty by Matthäus against Calderón and, seconds later, giving Germany a debatable penalty by Sensini against Völler, five minutes before the end of the regular time.

Codesal also became the first referee to send off a player in a final match of a Football World Cup, by showing the red card to Argentines Monzón and Dezotti. Monzón was given a direct red after what Codesal judged to be a harsh tackle on Jürgen Klinsmann, and Dezotti was sent off near the end for a tussle with Jürgen Kohler.

A few days after the match, Argentine coach Carlos Bilardo, referring to Codesal being a gynecologist, suggested him to "take his hands to where he knows". At the USA 1994 World Cup, banners insulting Codesal were hung by Argentine fans.

On October 1999, Jorge Humberto Rojano, former president of the Mexican Referees Association, alleged in an interview with Mexican newspaper La Jornada that FIFA, at that time managed by Brazilian João Havelange, would only allow Codesal to supervise the final match if he prevented Argentina from winning[1][2][3][4].

Codesal had previously been the referee in the England vs Cameroon match for the quarter finals of the 1990 tournament, where three penalties were awarded, all of them scored; the first one was for Cameroon, then the equaliser for extended additional time for England, and the last one gave England the passage to semifinals. During the match, he managed to keep control of a potentially difficult match over a period of 120 mintues. He retired from refereeing at the top level shortly after that World Cup.

Although Codesal was born in Uruguay, he represented his adopted country, Mexico, as a CONCACAF referee in the 1990 World Cup. Among his international posts, Codesal was CONCACAF's director of referees, head of refereeing for the FIFA Women's World Cup USA 1999, and member of the refereeing committee for the FIFA World U-20 Championship in Nigeria, the Confederations Cup in Mexico and the FIFA World U-17 Championship in New Zealand.




We all know how corrupted FIFA can be ...

Gramsci wrote:Holy Fuck! France suddenly got really good!

ahahah!!!

you see!!

whe never know!!

FIFA has chosen a Spanish referee for Brasil - France
France has just eliminated Spain. It's a "weird" choice.

Sly Bug wrote:FIFA has chosen a Spanish referee for Brasil - France
France has just eliminated Spain. It's a "weird" choice.

ça crain du boudin ça!!!!!

Reading that about Argentina in the 1990 World Cup reminded me of one of my favourite World Cup moments; what a great tackle this is...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeRlJJbtdHc

I love the way the Argentina players see he's lost his boot so they stand on his foot....

daniel robert chapman wrote:Reading that about Argentina in the 1990 World Cup reminded me of one of my favourite World Cup moments; what a great tackle this is...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeRlJJbtdHc

I remember when this happened, being very very happy. sorry to any argentinians. To address the balance I do firmly believe Diego Maradona is the greatest player ever and please remember this is coming from an Englishman. But Cannigia? Fuck him, it was a great challenge.

While we're on the subject of great challenges:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RvuuiEgsY0

Harold Schumacher. Didn't even get sent off, didn't even get blown for a foul. Broken vertebrae and no teeth. Apparently Harold even moaned that the physio was taking too long to get the player off. Those unfamiliar with 'soccer' please watch and learn! 1.30 in.

jongoodwin wrote:I love the way the Argentina players see he's lost his boot so they stand on his foot....

Thats Masseys boot! He cropped him so hard his boot fell off. Fair do.