Except there's not really any proof that Italy 2006 competition was better. They beat Australia, Ukraine, Germany and France. OK wow. Nice to beat Germany at home but it's not really outrageously impressive, not nearly enough to in any way devalue Spain's multi-year run of dominance. It's especially silly to bring up Brazil and Argentian up considering that Italy never played against them.
I disagree, you just remember only the good things from 2006, but it is not like all the national team got worse in the last 8 years. You just romanticize 2006, there is no shame in romanticizing a year your team won. But it is not stating the obvious or simple logic.
I can see how you haven't read the book. It's "OFFSIDE" not "offsides." Please call it correctly. And, it should have been called. But no one made a fuss about it. I think that in both instances, the defender heads it in a way that it drops into an attacker. In the Mexico one, if we go by the way you're interpreting the law, the ball wasn't going FORWARD at the time of the position of ONSIDE of Gio. It was going TOWARDS the goal and it seemed an attacker passed it to Gio when he was in a position of advantage gained. Now I'm thinking the refs may have misinterpreted who touched the ball in the air. In the Suárez goal, at the moment of the pass BACKWARD, the ref interprets that the defender is passing it BACK towards the goal, and Suárez STILL has a position of advantage. It was incorrectly called. Watch... there will be an apology letter from the officials committee in regards to that call and the English will be mad when they review the video. http://futbol.univision.com/video/4...l/videos/jugadas/goooolll-luis-suarez-mete-el Now I don't know how the refs are interpreting the positioning at the pass times. You brought up a good point, thanks.
You can keep trying to write long paragraphs trying to prove yourself right but the rule book is pretty clear about it and in both cases the attackers are in legal positions. Mexico game was a blown call, yesterday's game was correct. The one rule you keep harping on and using as your basis is a rule for when the attacker is offside originally. You might need to re-read the rule book.
^ Sure. I will re-read. There are "interpretations" for the field of play, and refs can't see 100% of the action, and some may be blocked. You have to allow for that type of error. They're human. I may be wrong, fine, but the calls on the field are difficult to make. I just would like to know what they interpreted or what they thought at the time to apply the rule to make it fair, you know? That wouldn't be difficult. There has to be some sort of "Mike Pereira" of the World Cup on ESPN or Univision... no?
Concacaf is really out here except Honduras Honduras world cup is against Mexico & don't show up in the real thing
Costa Rica should have been awarded a penalty. Cambell was clearly fouled. Not sure what the ref was looking at. They scored two minutes later on a nice header anyways.
Candreva has been horrendous, Abate & Motta have been piss poor. I expect two substitutions right off the bat, Cassano for Candreva & Abate for De Sciglio if he's available.
Was there a fight amongst the Italians? I'm watching on univision and they mentioned something about "molestos"
Costa Rica is in position to win a group that contains Italy, Uruguay, and England. That's 7 titles. WTF?
I saw the same thing on Univision, was wondering that is going on lol. Teammates seem to be fighting each other this time around.
That was a FOUL on Campbell NOT called. ¡¡¡VAMOS, Ticos!!!! Costa Rica will put dagger in the Bri'ish necks. "Die, beeshes!"
