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Arggh! I missed this game and will miss tomorrows as well. Stupid national guard duty :furious3: I hope tomorrow my video recorder actually works correctly, I used an old tape today and all it did was record static.
Glad for the German win though, hooray!:balloon2: :balloon2: :balloon2:
very nice 3rd price game with plenty of goals :2thumbsup: Now it's time for LES BLEUS to teach Italy what football is about!
Oh please, let's hope so. I do hope they will have the energy to do so. Frankly, they were wasted after seventy minutes against Portugal. And it takes older teams more time to recover between matches. Perhaps it was no coincidence that Zidane played his best after he had a week of rest before the Spain and Brazil matches.Quote:
Now it's time for LES BLEUS to teach Italy what football is about!
The Italians looked fresher, more fit. The way they overran the Germans in extra time was simply unbelievable. And they've had an extra day of rest.
But Italy doesn't have Henry, Ribéry, or Zidane. :2thumbsup:
It's Judgement Day! It is going to be either Heaven or Hell now.
Nothing in between is possible at this point anymore. Tonight, I shall be in either one of them.
I didn't mention it before, but thanks to everybody for the support and those many 'Allez les Bleus!'
I must go now, my destiny awaits. Au revoir.
Vive la République!
Vive la France!
Allez les Bleus!
One last time before the game...
Allez les Bleus!
Crazed Rabbit
And the award of least deserved WC victory ever goes too... *drumroll*
Italy!
This was the last football game I'll be watching in at least 10 years time - even longer if the rules and ref equipment isn't changed drastically before that time ends. A team that tries to murder Henry (no doubt the greatest offensive player of the entire tournament), dives twice a minute, cheats and bribes referees, and play injured every fifth minute because they have no endurance and need to drink water and rest. A team that disrupts the play by these things - people are paying for 90 minutes of football not 40 minutes - wins an international championship by lies, deceit, violence and unsportsmanlike behavior of whose like no other team in the tournament showed. Can we blame Italy for cheating, nearly killing a player, and getting this undeserved victory? No, not as long as the rules are so screwed up that they allow and help a team that uses those tricks. Therefore, it's football that I'll quit watching, supporting or showing any interest whatsoever in.
Signed,
LegioXXXUlpiaVictrix
I agree with everything said by Legio above,
I take my football seriously, as an englishman, and France deserved alot more than second place. All foul play with Zizou aside, the Italian footballers are a bunch of proffesional divers and arent fit to cut the grass they play on.
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Originally Posted by LegioXXXUlpiaVictrix
luckily Zidane was there to show us all true sportsmanship.....~:rolleyes:
yes, he did what everyone should have done from start of the game. He stood up for what he believed in. Someone should have given Cannavaro a fist in the face and *** (not sure if the rest is suitable to the frontroom) after his murder attempt against Henry. The ref should be imprisoned for encouraging and allowing such a murder attempt to take place. Wouldn't surprise me if the Italian Zidane gave a pat in the chest to in the overtime said something along the lines "haha we'll win because we nearly killed Henry so he couldn't score". Whatever he said justified Zidane's behavior. The ref's behavior and the behavior of the Italian that dove backwards after the gentle touch in the chest however is not forgiveable.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ronin
wow, some of us watched a very different WC and final apparently.
all i can say is congrats italy, very even game. crossbar won it for them in the end, but can't say they deserved it any less than france. plus their victory against germany was a classic.
JAAAAAAAAAAA !!!!! JAAAAAAAAAA !!!! TOOOOOORRRRR !!!!!!
LEN THE FOOTY GOD SPEAKING !! AS PREDICTED FROM THE START, ITALY OWNS AND RULES AND FOLDS INTO SEVEN THEN PUTS INTO THE POCKET !!!
Y'AAAAAAALLLLL !!!!!
Italia Italia Italia
is it possible to find a video of the murder attempt directed against Henry? I'd like to post it here
Gentlemen,
Zero tolerance for nasty nationalism and ethnic comments. This thread will be reviewed during the night and WP will be handed out with great speed to anyone breaking Frontroom rules.
LOUUUUIIIIIIIS !!!
Mate, I can't post in DA LOSAH'S THREDso please can you link your post here when you sign in there ~D
Oh my where is that bouncing gif?
:bounce:
Good effort from Les Bleus but, well, LEN the Footy God had written the destiny long time ago.
LEN your getting a bit hyper...
The Gods have the right to in times, lad.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Spartan
"dove backwards"????Quote:
Originally Posted by LegioXXXUlpiaVictrix
http://www.stoo.cc/images/SAimages/6561zidane.gif
I don´t know....that hit actually looks like it has a good deal of force behind it.....
Bad luck France, you were clearly the superior side. The Italians didn't have a clue even when you were down to ten men. So negative.
If Italy are the best football side in the world then I'm a Chinaman.
I don't know what happened with ZZ, Marco obviously said something ... but what?! He shouldn't have reacted as he did, and got his revenge for whatever it was later, after the match.
No way he dove backwards there.
Ok, Materazzi is an idiot, a wind up merchant, and yes he probably did say something to ZZ. BUT ZZ is a professional, hes probably heard crap talk like that for the whole of his career, why suddenly lose it at that moment?
Absolutely crazy, and such a shame.
Well done Italy. :balloon2:
I remember Mazza at Everton, a very good player but always in some trouble or other! I bet he never thought he'd score in a World Cup final and end up with a winner's medal when he was pitching in with one of our regular relegation dog-fights!
Signed: edyzmedieval. :shame:Quote:
Originally Posted by LegioXXXUlpiaVictrix
Okay I realise this was a rant but...
Hmm the ref. did a good job this match, really - what mistake did he make ?Quote:
Originally Posted by Legio
I think I'm going to have to agree Big John on this one.Quote:
A team that tries to murder Henry (no doubt the greatest offensive player of the entire tournament), dives twice a minute, cheats and bribes referees, and play injured every fifth minute because they have no endurance and need to drink water and rest
PEople pay for a match of football, and that is what they got, I don't see the problem. They won because they played their game, because Zizou lost his head, and because of a missed penalty. That's what happenend, you might not like it, but that doesnt change a thing.Quote:
A team that disrupts the play by these things - people are paying for 90 minutes of football not 40 minutes - wins an international championship by lies, deceit, violence and unsportsmanlike behavior of whose like no other team in the tournament showed.
I thought Mazzerati almost got killed this match, not Henry - although we might have watched a different match. And personally, I don't think the current fifa held policy is the best one there is, but ''those tricks'' didn't win Italy the tournament.Quote:
Can we blame Italy for cheating, nearly killing a player, and getting this undeserved victory? No, not as long as the rules are so screwed up that they allow and help a team that uses those tricks. Therefore, it's football that I'll quit watching, supporting or showing any interest whatsoever in.
Now I wouldn't advise you to stop watching football, but thats your own loss.
Also, I'm quite interested as to what Mazzerati said to Zidane, surely it was bad, otherwise Zizou wouldn't have lost his head.
:balloon2:
Is there a clip of Henry's "attempted murder"?
I don't have a clip, but it looked more like Henry ran into a Italy player, neither of which were close to the ball.
Crazed Rabbit
I don't understand, Zidane's never an angry guy in the world cup, what did the Italian say to make him do that? I want to know.
Zidane DOES lose his head (no pun intended) at times in games. He was banned for a match already previously in this WC for arguably stupid fouls. The same was true in the 1998 WC. No matter what Mazzeratti did or said, nothing justifies what Zizou did. Good thing it was his last game because he would be banned for quite sometime...Quote:
Originally Posted by Zalmoxis
The clash with Henry and Canavaro was unintentional. Neither player was looking where they were going. Plus, it wasn't that bad either, really. Certainly nothing to do with the result. Italy was luckier and, dare I say it, shot excellent penalties; every last one of them.
Quid
Amazing - among the referee team, they had MEDINA CANTALEJO Luis, the idiot who gave Italy a penalty shot in the 2nd round game vs Australia. Says a lot about what little they cared about ref quality. The most poorly reffed finals I've ever seen. The refs determined the game - 10 incorrect free-kicks given to Italy, 4 incorrect cards given to France, 10 free-kicks missed for France, and 3-5 Italian cards ignored.
Cannavaro looks to the left just before the impact, then when Henry comes, his fist goes up and hits Henry under the chin, when Cannavaro feels Henry's chest against his elbow and knows exactly where Henry's head is. Call the unintentional? Even if it was, you're responsible for where you keep your body parts. Unintentional hits in situations where the player that was hit didn't seek a situation where he would be hit are also to be punished according to the rules, and have been punished earlier in the tournament. The worst thing is the unsportsmanlike thinking behind the Italian actions in the early minutes - they know the ref doesn't dare to give a deserved red card that early in the game, so they knock two players early on then play without violence but dive through the rest of the game. If you'd be in France's situation, I'm sure you'd lose your head over the poor reffing, and what Zidane did in that situation is nothing compared to what the average player would do. In fact, seeing the opposing team playing so ugly, with the ref on their side, then hearing the opposing team sneering you over how little chance your team has because the opposing team can do anything they like, that's enough to justify much more than what Zidane did. Amazing that mass media mention Zidane's perfectly harmless hit in the chest of Maternazi which was more of a way of marking your disgust than a way of hitting someone, while the extremely dangerous situation where Cannavaro nearly kills Henry, and the later situation where they try to put Viera out of action (and succeed in making him feel the injury 70 minutes later) isn't mentioned at all. This WC final is the greatest football scandal ever IMO, and I'm amazing that anyone even dares put the word unsportsmanlike in their mouthes when mentioning Zidane's action in the game.Quote:
Originally Posted by Quid
Remember, in WC 1998 in France Zidane tread Saudis player Nawaf al-Temiat (or similar) and he got red card without reason.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zalmoxis
Congrats to Italy :no:
ehhhhh Zidane? Headbut? Qu'est que c'est?