Netherlands vs Italy - Monday 9th June [r]

[WorldCup_Fanatic]

A goal for Ruud will be nice.

I'm thinking I need to switch from ESPN. Damn.

you're welcome. hehehehe.

tomorrow, i'll be supporting russia, i think. :D

[Tetsuo]

italy will advance past those two stiffs from this morning; but they're not looking like they're going far.

really? if Italy couldn't pass Holland's defence what makes you think they could score against Romania and France? :rolleyes:

[Andy Bennett]

Correct. And to determine offside, he is considered on the goal line. If the ref felt he was seriously injured, he would stop play per Law 5.
Terrific. Maybe you'd care to find another example of a goal where a defender is lying 2-3 metres over the line and prostrate after receiving what looked a facial injury and is deemed to be playing someone onside?

Good luck :)

[unclesox]

http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080609/capt.85c51840ec9a45cc9c770883d0152644.soccer_euro_2008_netherlands_italy_xeur342.jpg

Fulltime

Netherlands 3:0 Italy
1:0 - Van Nistelrooy 26'
2:0 - Sneijder 31'
3:0 - van Bronckhorst 79'

BOOKINGS:
27' Toni (dissent) His 1st booking of tournament
35' Zambrotta (foul on Kuyt) 1st
51' Gattuso (?) 1st
58' de Jong (foul on Ambrosini) 1st

[Gandalf The Red]

well one things for sure their wont be any beeping vespa's around the streets of italy tonight

[code1390]

Terrific. Maybe you'd care to find another example of a goal where a defender is lying 2-3 metres over the line and prostrate after receiving what looked a facial injury and is deemed to be playing someone onside?

Good luck :)

If you have a problem with it, contact FIFA. But until then, it was a legit goal.

[The Natural]

The Dutch were able to shake off a little of that bitter taste from Euro 2000.

[rougou]

Even if you count the first goal offside there was Van Persie given off when he is clean through and onside.


yeh, that really balances things out... :rolleyes:

[Jasonma]

Not really!

I'll bet if you had that same position with 90 top flight refs out of 100 it would be called offside. These things are matters of judgment. If the defender had lost a leg, to give a ludicrous example, do you think it wouldn't be offside? How could the ref or AR be sure he wasn't badly injured and in no position to get back on the field.

My point was that he insulted a poster who was na official and posted the correct rule, later proven to be correct by the laws of a game. Thus the apology request.

And just because most officials are crap doesn't change the fact that the rule was applied correctly. There is no matter of judgement on this one. RVN was in front of two players, the goalkeeper and the player off the field. The only "judgement" is if the ref should stop play before that to allow treatment for the downed player (Taken down by his own goalkeeper BTW). Since he did not do that, probably didn't even have time to make that decsion the player is still considered to be active.

[!Bob]

Can you make another thread (or part II) for any post game discussions...

Thanks.

End of game, Thread Closed.

[Clan]

The best thing to do, is to close the pre game thread and start a new thread for the game and let that run.

People get p1ssed off when the game thread (with comments) is closed.