Quote Originally Posted by Dutch_guy
Well my friend, Pope should not have tackled from behind, with an outstreched leg and in front of the referee. That's asking for it. Also a referee likes to appear unbiased, meaning that when he gave a red card to the italians he was itching to give one to the Americans, to even it up again - it's what you usually see in a match, especially if a referee made a very bad call and thus appeared ill favoured towards a particullar side. It's no written rule,but it does happen quite a lot really.

Keeping that in mind I wasn;t surprised when Mastroeni got a red card, only moments before had the ref. given the Italians a red one, for that horrible elbow to the face

ALso I didn't really understand Mastroeni's intention...it was what, another 2 minutes to half time ? You don't take risks like that when you're almost there.



A bit yes, but it doesn't matter, we all want our team to do well

So if I tell you that ref is going to control your game against Argentina...you're cool with that? Not worried by the way he interprets the rules of the game...I mean it's not as if Van Persie or Van Nistelroy have ever made a rash tackle, right?

Oh and BTW, Mastroeni's call was the make up call, so why did he feel the need to have another make up call with Pope's tackle from the SIDE?