west_ham
19 Nov 2007, 04:24 AM
Not the way to see the country you follow be knocked out of the competition, after doing so well and leading the group for so long.
Normally I tend to defend bad refereeing decisions where possible but lately I am starting to despise some refs for making such calls.
When a decision doesn't go the way you want in most cases you can at least see a counter argument or just put it down to a 50/50 incident, some you win some you lose. But in this case I just cannot understand where the decision has come from. There is no angle a ref can see this that would make it look like an Italy free kick. The linesman doesn't even have that excuse. He is right by it and flags it for Italy.
Even the Italy player makes no attempt to retrieve the ball and runs off not expecting the decision to go his way. He knows it was a deliberate foul.
It's too late now and decisions like this ruin games and tournaments. Like I said I normally try to defend refereeing where I can but this is impossible to. To think that they don't want technology brought into the game because they don't want their decisions undermined. Looking at this I think it's about time we started undermining their decisions!!
Normally I tend to defend bad refereeing decisions where possible but lately I am starting to despise some refs for making such calls.
When a decision doesn't go the way you want in most cases you can at least see a counter argument or just put it down to a 50/50 incident, some you win some you lose. But in this case I just cannot understand where the decision has come from. There is no angle a ref can see this that would make it look like an Italy free kick. The linesman doesn't even have that excuse. He is right by it and flags it for Italy.
Even the Italy player makes no attempt to retrieve the ball and runs off not expecting the decision to go his way. He knows it was a deliberate foul.
It's too late now and decisions like this ruin games and tournaments. Like I said I normally try to defend refereeing where I can but this is impossible to. To think that they don't want technology brought into the game because they don't want their decisions undermined. Looking at this I think it's about time we started undermining their decisions!!