World Cup 2010 - Quarter-finals **spoilers**

Cob said:
Did the German fans boo their goalie for not running up to the ref and admitting that Lampards shot crossed the line? Were they upset? Was anybody watching genuinely surprised that he didn't?

I doubt it. Because they wouldn't expect or want their own goalie to do the same.
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How is that the same? This and the stupid grenade analogy just goes to show the poor logic shown by some people.
 
What a game...what a penalty miss by Gyan:p...glad that uruguay went through though...Muntari's goal was pretty damn decent from that distance but Forlan hit a sublime strike to level it up...Suarez just lol at his blatant handball but he did what most if not all other players would have done;)...anyone who says otherwise is completely off their heads in all honesty....have to say he got really lucky with Gyans miss though...

Feel sorry for Ghana, they did ever so well to get where they got to...just unllucky with the ET penalty miss and the 2 misses in the penalty shootout.

So looks like its the Dutch vs Uruguay...another tough one to call but ill go with the Dutch on this one although i hope uruguay beat them as after they beat the Brazilians today i dont like the Dutch very much:p

Still shocked and gutted that Brazil are out....just cant figure out what went wrong after the first half which they dominated...came out in the second and completely lost it:confused:.
 
Cob said:
Did the German fans boo their goalie for not running up to the ref and admitting that Lampards shot crossed the line? Were they upset? Was anybody watching genuinely surprised that he didn't?

I doubt it. Because they wouldn't expect or want their own goalie to do the same.
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spot on
 
nicktay2605 said:
You're honestly saying that in his situation you'd let the ball pass you and go in the net, thereby knocking your team out of the world cup? If he'd let that in I bet he would have got loads of stick from his team mates. As some have said, he's taken one for the team there.
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I maybe would have reacted the same way Saurez did, it's hard not to want to stick your hand out when you're last ditch defending like that, a reaction, but what I would never have done is celebrated when they missed the penalty.

No excuses for that imo, but I guess we're all different when it comes to it.
 
Psycho Sonny is completely right, if it was first 5 minutes of the game most players would have let that go in. In the stage of the game they were in tonight, with only 1 minute left, he couldn't leave it to go in because there is no way back in the game.

edit: I agree with regards to the celebration of the penalty miss, he shouldn't have reacted to that, but being so fired up he probably couldn't help it.
 
Suarez did the right thing for Uruguay, but it was cheating.

The only way to prevent that is to introduce the penalty goal in the same vain as the penalty try in rugby.

What choice did he have? Either Ghana win, or Ghana have a penalty they might (and did) miss.

Ghana deserved to win that game though, very harsh.

NB. My opinions may be massively clouded by having Uruguay in the work sweepstake.
 
Raymond Lin said:
How do you know the ball wouldn't have hit the top of his head, bounce to the top of the bar, landed INSIDE the line, bounces BACK OUT, the keeper grabs it and the ref don't give a goal?

Do you?

And the mr platter apologises AGAIN!
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Simple. The flight of the ball. I know this Jabulani moves about a bit, but not that much.
 
skippi90 said:
Simple. The flight of the ball. I know this Jabulani moves about a bit, but not that much.
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His reaction was almost certainly instinctive. I very much doubt that he knew a lot about it.


His reaction as he walked off the pitch (before the penalty was taken) was certainly one of the 'what the hell have I just done?' kind.
 
Just to throw a slightly different thought out there... If flagrantly breaking the rules to win is a tenable option at any point, then the punishment for breaking the rules is not severe enough.
 
I can't help feeling a bit sorry for Ghana, after a bit of a shaky start they looked to be the better team overall and but for the rather shocking penalty miss by Gyan (and he converted so well in the actual penalty shootout) they should have been going through. The penalties by Mensah and Adiyah were atrocious, there's rarely a good time to take a penalty that badly but the quarter-finals has to be one of the worst.

vonhelmet said:
Just to throw a slightly different thought out there... If flagrantly breaking the rules to win is a tenable option at any point, then the punishment for breaking the rules is not severe enough.
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What sort of punishment do you have in mind? You could punish the team overall but that's liable to be a bit harsh on those who have played fairly.
 
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vonhelmet said:
Just to throw a slightly different thought out there... If flagrantly breaking the rules to win is a tenable option at any point, then the punishment for breaking the rules is not severe enough.
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This. For me, Suarez didn't cheat. He knew the punishment for committing that offence and "took it like a man", as they say. The fault is with the rules of the game for making this something that, in a knockout competition, can be got away with.
 
semi-pro waster said:
What sort of punishment do you have in mind? You could punish the team overall but that's liable to be a bit harsh on those who have played fairly.
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Not sure really... This penalty goal from rugby idea sounds good, or more severe bans or something.

Or just go and ahead and punish the team - people will soon learn not to screw around when they're going to have the rest of their squad to answer to. As has been said, he probably is a bit of a hero to them, as he's got them through, and that's a fairly deplorable state of affairs.
 
Yes lets kick the country out of the world cup over a moment of unplanned madness by one of their players.


The morality brigade have been offended and the lynching must take place before sunrise.
 
People complaining he cheated because Ghana missed the subsequent penalty. If Gyan put that away this would be a none issue and that will be the end of it. So why all the complaining because he missed?

The penalty for suaraz is he was sent off foR the rest of the game (short as it had got left) and misses the next game, which is the semi final. Is missing the semi final not big enough a punishment?

Bottomline is that the referee spotted the handball, correct decision for the sending off, and correct decision for the penalty. Anything else we would be making our own rules up.

Then ghana had the chance to go through, served on a plate, what more could anyone have done?
 
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