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July 01, 2006

Why I Hate Soccer

England's best striker, Wayne Rooney, was just given a red card and kicked out of the game for a small push against Portuguese player Christian Renaldo. Not a punch, not a kick, not even a shove, just a push.

That has probably sunk England's chances of being one of the last 4 teams in the tournament. If they do make it to the next round, Rooney will be suspended automatically for that game, as well.

Portugal is one of those teams that spends most of its time laying on the ground, writing in feigned agony after the slightest touch. And Christian Renaldo is one of the worst.

Liveblogging here, for anyone who is interested.

Rooney and Renaldo are team mates on Manchester United when not playing for their nations. The locker room should be interesting when these 2 see each other next.

0-0 in overtime now.

England holds Portugal scoreless for 61 minutes with 1 less man. Now we are going to penalty kicks to decide the winner.

Portugal's first kick: goal.
England: save.
Portugal miss off the woodwork!
England: goal, ticked off the keeper's hand! Tied at 1-1.
Portugal: save by the keeper!
England: save by the keeper.
Portugal: goal, the keeper never moved. 2-1 Portugal.
England: goal...referee waives it off, he wasn't ready. Re-kick: Miss.
Portugal: Goal. Portugal wins 3-1 on penalty kicks.

Posted by: cbjohnson at 11:28 AM | Comments (29) | Add Comment
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1 Well if England does lose because of this ... imagine what the post game riot will be like?

Bloggers start your engines.

Posted by: Red at July 01, 2006 11:51 AM (cQLlQ)

2 Well if England does lose because of this ... imagine what the post game riot will be like?

Bloggers start your engines.

Posted by: Red at July 01, 2006 11:55 AM (cQLlQ)

3 Rooney was red carded for stomping on the portuguese defender's groin.

Posted by: Jesusland Carlos at July 01, 2006 12:28 PM (8e/V4)

4 Yeah, the ol' groin stomp will get you thrown out every time. Twenty year olds don't always think before they act. I would have given him the red too for what I saw.

Posted by: slug at July 01, 2006 12:40 PM (47Lhe)

5 3-1, Portugal.

Posted by: Jesusland Carlos at July 01, 2006 12:47 PM (8e/V4)

6 Soccer? Like watching grass grow . . who cares?

Apparently the high point is getting to hug your buddy . . . either vertically . . or . . . horizontally . .

Posted by: large at July 01, 2006 12:55 PM (fEUSs)

7 Soccer is bbbooorriinngg and when they tried to start a big time soccer league in this country it failed

Posted by: sandpiper at July 01, 2006 01:59 PM (ba9dN)

8 They need to be more like hockey in the playoffs and just play (sudden death, next goal wins) until someone scores and settle it that way. A shootout (penalty shots whatever they want to call it) after the overtime is such an arbitrary way to settle the game, kinda like flipping a coin or rolling a dice. Not a very sportsmanly way to play if you ask me...

Posted by: CanForce 101 at July 01, 2006 05:58 PM (BRXB/)

9 Soccer is okay to get little girls into exercise, but other than that, well, it just sucks.

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at July 01, 2006 07:06 PM (v3I+x)

10 World Cup soccer rocks.
England has a second tier squad.
They aren't in the same league as Germany, Italy or France.
Bye, bye Portugal.

Posted by: Greg at July 01, 2006 08:39 PM (q5wwn)

11 I wouldn't count Portugal out. At this level in the sport any given team can win on any given day.

Posted by: Jesusland Carlos at July 01, 2006 08:50 PM (8e/V4)

12 They do have an excellent goal keeper.

Posted by: Greg at July 01, 2006 10:09 PM (q5wwn)

13 My son is playing all-stars right now. A couple of kids were hit by pitches today. My son hit two kids while pitching; one of ours was hit hard right in the helmet.
To their credit, all three kids got up and played macho and jogged to first. None required a stretcher or faked injury.

As a sports fan, I kind of get into the World Cup as one of those special events like the Olympics. Having watched the games, it is fun, but they do have a flopping problem.
Seems like the South American's especially Argentina are the worst at taking a dive.
The world can say what they want about baseball, but no 10-year-old kid I saw on the baseball field today would want his friends to see him cry and whine like the soccer players that I see in the World Cup.
Is the word Pussy too strong?

Posted by: Brad at July 01, 2006 10:15 PM (utJ4A)

14 The host nation wins the cup half the time.
Italy could provide an upset.
They have scored against every opponent with out allowing an earned goal.
(Big) If that statistic were to hold, they would win.

Posted by: Greg at July 01, 2006 10:16 PM (q5wwn)

15 "England's best striker, Wayne Rooney, was just given a red card and kicked out of the game for a small push against Portuguese player Christian Renaldo. Not a punch, not a kick, not even a shove, just a push."

I don't know that Rooney is England's "best" striker. I'd still say Michael Owen is. Although obviously Owen is out due to injury. Well, unless you meant Rooney is the best they have available.

And Rooney was not red-carded for a "small push"! He was red-carded for stepping on another player's groin while down.

But yeah, I agree, Rooney is a hot-head. I was rooting for England to go all the way, and I'm definitely an England fan, but I have to say Rooney definitely deserved the red-card if it was intentional (which it looked like to me it was).

Not that it matters anyway now that England is out.

Oh, well.

And I totally agree with you about everything you said about Cristiano Ronaldo. The guy dives so much he should seriously consider joining the Portugese swim team or something. He whines like a little girl, too, when things don't go his way. Drama queen. Maybe he should move to Hollywood.

I'll have to root for France to win it now because I think that'd be cool if Zizou finished his career on such a high note.

Posted by: CalBear at July 02, 2006 12:37 AM (IyBdY)

16 I didn't see a groin stomp. They showed the reply 5 or 6 times and the commentators said he should have gotten a yellow for holding the 2 Portugal players away from the ball, but they thought the red was for the push.

"An initial stamp and a slight push on Ronaldo added up to a dismissal by Argentinian referee Mr Elizondo."

You guys must have different video and commentary than I did.

Posted by: Chris at July 02, 2006 01:17 AM (5ve1C)

17 Sissies. Who was the ref?

Posted by: greyrooster at July 02, 2006 09:04 AM (N2Rg1)

18 England deserved to lose. The only time they've ever won the cup was when they were the host nation (1960 ?)
Half their players are black and are subject to racist attacks by the boorish English fans.
They are the only fans to start a riot in Germany.
They whistled (booed) the entire time Portugal had the ball and during the Portuguese penalty kicks.
Rooney is a thug like the fans.
Good riddance to bad rubbish.

Posted by: Greg at July 02, 2006 09:41 AM (q5wwn)

19 As for the pussy factor, dives do detract from the game and should draw a card.

But the real pussy factor involves the penalty kick shootout.

I'm glad Portugal beast England, but that's not soccer. It's a different game. If the rest of the games go to PKs, Portugal would win. Their goal keeper is amazing.

After the extra 30 minutes, if still tied they should go into an indefinite sudden death overtime. As they become exhausted, someone will eventually score. This is needed to preserve the sanctity of the game.

Posted by: Greg at July 02, 2006 09:58 AM (q5wwn)

20 Greg, I think the dives do hurt the game. Another thing is the stalling that goes on. When Argentina was up on Germany, it seemed like obvious stalling was taking place. Their goalkeeper was rolling around for 5 minutes; other players were taking dives then rolling around to take time off the clock. It all stopped when the Germans tied it up. I know about stoppage time but it does not make up for all the time lost in the game.
They need to stop the clock when someone appears to be seriously injured. To make flopping around a faking injury an accepted strategy in the game is pretty lame. I guess thatâ€™s just a casual Americanâ€™s take on it.

I have really enjoyed the games, especially the 45 minutes or so I can sit back and see sports with no commercials. Iâ€™ll watch the final 3 games Germany/ Italy looks like the real final.

Posted by: Brad at July 02, 2006 10:25 AM (utJ4A)

21 Soccer sucks!! Almost as boring as golf. The offides rule is ridiculous. Instead of being associated with the position of the players, it should be a stationary line like in ice hockey.

Posted by: docdave at July 02, 2006 10:44 AM (4Qaw8)

22 The offsides rule is absolutely necessary, otherwise there is nothing to protect a striker from camping out with the goal keeper. Basically, to earn a goal, you have to beat the goal keeper plus one other defender. The choreography and artistry that results is a pleasure to watch for soccer enthusiasts. In the World Cup, nothing less than national pride is at stake.

Posted by: Greg at July 02, 2006 11:17 AM (q5wwn)

23 In the World Cup, nothing less than national pride is at stake.

Methinks national pride would be better served if these idiotic socialist layabouts rescued their respective societies from decline and oblivion rather than obsessing over a game best suited for little girls.

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at July 02, 2006 05:55 PM (v3I+x)

24 Methinks?
Thatâ€™s woman talk, you over compensating, effeminate, panty sniffinâ€™, anal implosive, ass swishin', limp-wristed faggot.

Posted by: Greg at July 02, 2006 08:29 PM (q5wwn)

25 Greg calling someone else a effeminate faggot. An example of the pot calling the kettle black.
Just because his live in boy friend is a black muslim he thinks he can call others faggots.

Posted by: greyrooster at July 02, 2006 09:31 PM (ofp0L)

26 The world cup soccer brings nations together to to enjoy the game of soccer and forget about political issues for a while !
I'm not sure why soccer is associated soccer with "little girls" often in the US all the time. It is a sport played all over the world by mostly males. Also it is a very physical game where you do not get to wear lots of body armor. I would say basketball was considered more a girls game with any contact resulting a foul and all you get to do is throw a ball around. In other countries it is called netball and played by girls because its not physical.
Soccer in its current form will not take off big time in the US because there its enough air time for TV commercial breaks.
Ronney and other england players are over rated, over paid and don't have what it takes as a team to win the world cup. Rooney is a very young (20) inexperienced international player who robbed england of the change to at least one more game.

Posted by: rob at July 03, 2006 11:27 AM (QpkBe)

27 In case you want to see a clip of the Rooney stomping on groin red card here it is (about 40 secs. in):

http://tinyurl.com/mtxd9

Posted by: none at July 03, 2006 02:11 PM (+F8RJ)

28 Well, I guess England's gotta expect something like that when the ref is Argentinian.

Posted by: Venom at July 04, 2006 09:30 AM (gtzil)

29 Italy and Germany...
Good soccer.
What a classic match.

Posted by: Greg at July 04, 2006 04:54 PM (q5wwn)

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