Nothing casual about it regardless of the teams involved. IMNSHO, that was a good call by the referee for the collision with the 'keeper (IIRC). As far as calls pro/con, I dearly loved Dagny Mellgren as a Boston Breaker, but I still wouldn't have trusted myself around her with a sharp object.
I agree. I think that if the goal was called back by the game officials it couldn't have been a good goal.
And China is still lamenting the fact that Scurry jumped the line on the PK in 99... Handball by Norway in 95... Hand of God goal... Reffs miss all the time, sometimes bigger than others... It did not cost you the championship, Canada was never getting that far.
And as if things weren't bad enough, the fart-sniffers were at it again, turning down an opportunity to host the Olympic qualifiers. I smell foul play/conspiracy/something behind the scenes, because I don't think the people up top would have lost their minds long enough to pass up an opportunity like that. "Who, me?" indeed... p.s. Go the Matildas...and the WNT...
It has happened to us On the women's side, the Mellgren armball that led to Norway winning the gold in Sydney 2000. I don't think she played it that way intentionally, but the ref would have called it had she seen it. Still, I focus on the fact it was a poor clearance by Fawcett and that Mullinix should have stopped the shot anyway. On the men's side, the Frings handball on the line that cost the US a goal and a man advantage in the 2002 WC quarterfinal. While it's definitely still a talking point of the game, US fans also know we missed numerous other wide open chances that day. In both cases, the non-calls clearly affected the US's chances of advancing more than the disallowed goal against Norway affected Canada's. It's really not worth focusing on.