Great. Then perhaps we should just fold up our tents and go home from this quaint little forum. Who cares if he cheats then? It's just a game then after all.... (re: I get it. Perhaps it was a little bit of hyperbole, but there was something more at stake for the Uruguayans.)
"Some people believe football is a matter of life and death, I am very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that."
It's much more than that at an international level. International sports are so political it's insane. Example: Didier Drogba held a press conference to ask Ivorians to stop fighting and that led to the country eventually pausing it's civil war during the World Cup - That's f*cking nuts. We in first world nations may just see it as a game but for those in poorer nations, sports may be the only thing that will ever unite the people.
Yeah, he was our one lone bright spot (well, Kelly looked good before he hobbled off and Lucas was his usual steady self). Green robbed him of a goal with a very good save and he still managed to make one for Johnson, despite looking like the only player on the field.
Eerily so. Too many passengers, today, though, and it's not even in the skill department that I'm talking about, but utter indolence and lethargy.
On the contrary, you'd of had a swarm of Uruguayans pointing out that Suarez's handball came about from a freekick that wasn't a foul, and the subsequent scramble in the box had two clear offsides the linesman should have flagged but shockingly didn't. Frankly, Uruguay were being robbed. Thankfully, Gyan's such a gentleman that he missed the penalty intentionally so we could see which team really deserved to advance. What Suarez did has been done before and will again, I'm surprised it continues to be brought up again and again. It's a tactical foul that happens all the time at club level and is nothing new at the World Cup. Hell, Uruguay themselves suffered it in Italy 90 against Spain (an almost exact copy of Suarez's handball, Villarroya stopped an on goal effort by Herrera, Ruben Sosa went on to miss the penalty) and in England 66 against Germany (Jim Finney didn't even award a penalty on Schnellinger's blatant handball), and back then the player that committed the tactical foul wasn't penalized with a sending off.
1966...I demand a FIFA investigation Time to move on folks. Nothing more to get out of this.....it's so yesterday!
There's only 1 saint in football. The rest cheat. So let's not get hung up on the fact that Suarez chose the right time to cheat.
I wasn't too keen on his signing but today he proved me wrong and now I will happily eat humble pie. 'That said, someone on here said that he had just as much technique as Kuyt: I think today he proved that he def. has at least a little bit more.
He was totally pissed off when he did Evra and Brown, leaving them for dead, but then fired wide. We have not had this type of flair for a 'coon's age (see I even know a bit of American English).
Not only his flair, but his intense competitiveness. The guy runs and runs and runs some more, then gets pissed off when he misfires, despite his team being up 3-0. Suarez has as much fire in his belly as any player I can think of.
Workrate, passion, skill, technique. What more could you ask for? He is headed down the path of cult hero ala Kuyt.
I didn't say that, but I said he has sloppy technique. Technique and skill are different things. He isn't the "cleanest" of ball masters, but he does seem to get the job done.
Yeh, Kuyt really didn't need to touch it, it was on it's way but I just couldn't imagine him standing back to watch though. Stuff it in the net then we'll talk about it.
at first, i was pissed at kuyt for touching it in because that would have been the goal of the season, but i'd rather kuyt have it than it be an evra own goal... looking at the replay, it was a straight cross to kuyt and it took a touch off of evra sending it goal-ward... dirty as hell, though... this guy is the real deal...