The beautiful game turns ugly; TimesOnline Rob Hughes http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,28749-2231368,00.html Read Quotes from the Article. This guy has it out for the U.S. I'd like to know what color his blinders are. The U.S. was robbed Today!! "After 10 days of sport that convinced some of us the Beautiful Game had a chance to breathe again at this World Cup, the Italians and the Americans bludgeoned the theory by fighting out, too often literally, a drawn contest. There were 34 fouls, some of them disgraceful. There were three red cards, all of them justified" Justified??? WHAT??
Re: The beautiful game turns ugly; TimesOnline Rob Hughes Taking the refs word, Yeah, I thought of that during the game, THREE RED CARDS, does that mean that can one draw conclusions from that?? It wasn't a hockey game; man, at least a little over half of the EPL games breaks down into pushing and shoving, didn't really have that in the game today. Not even dirty looks or arguments. Just drumming up a news article; if there is anything to what the author says, other articles will come out saying the same. Things are on the line, ugly? I don't know, I'd say, W. Germany-Holland '90 or some others. The author primarily goes by the Card count.
Re: The beautiful game turns ugly; TimesOnline Rob Hughes What a W*anker. That is why I prefer the Guardian. A much more neutral report. http://football.guardian.co.uk/worldcup2006/matchreport/0,,1800462,00.html
Re: The beautiful game turns ugly; TimesOnline Rob Hughes he can't really believe that either of Eddie's two yellow cards were deserved, can he? ridiculous!
Re: The beautiful game turns ugly; TimesOnline Rob Hughes Check this quote from the BBC: "A point was the least USA deserved after a display full of spirit and determination in Kaiserslautern." - http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/world_cup_2006/4853182.stm
Re: The beautiful game turns ugly; TimesOnline Rob Hughes The red cards weren't clear cut, but they weren't totally out of order, either.
Re: The beautiful game turns ugly; TimesOnline Rob Hughes The speed with which the two sides exchanged kits post-match excoricates Hughes' take that this was some kind of cynical hackfest. Shocking that the Times is looking for the blood angle, while the Guardian gives Lando MoM. -bs
Re: The beautiful game turns ugly; TimesOnline Rob Hughes Ironic twist. Although I have never sensed any real any anti-U.S. sentiment in the sport section. In the world or comment section, then I guess it depends on your political point of view.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,28749-2231336,00.html i thought this one was pretty interesting. certainly no anti-american bias anyone have others?
US v Italy: Scotsman & Telegraph articles http://sport.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=894142006 http://wc2006a.telegraph.co.uk/Document.aspx?id=EA6D4F27-19D9-4319-A838-5E6C281CABE2
At least the author watched the match closely, "The match was to finish with just nine men on either side" so it must be an honest opinion at least.
Fink the English. Eye for an eye. We would be done with this group today if we didn't play like bunch ************** on Monday.
Perhaps, but the Times reporter called this one wrong: "When Claudio Reyna took another free kick, there was the Italian defender mistiming his intended clearance and steering the ball over his own goalline." 2 other non-US articles (und Der Spiegel Fotografs): http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,422002,00.html http://worldcup.reuters.com/home/news/usnL17421919.html http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/0,5538,PB64-SUQ9MTQ0NDUmbnI9Nw_3_3,00.html Note the smirk on the mug of Italian thug De Rossi. FIFA ought to send him for a mug shot.
Re: The beautiful game turns ugly; TimesOnline Rob Hughes You know you've gone off the deep end when you make The Guardian look like a neutral, unbiased observer of anything American.
Obviously, but the London Times reporter incorrectly credited Reyna with Convey's free kick leading to our goal. Thanks for playing.
Re: The beautiful game turns ugly; TimesOnline Rob Hughes Ah, nothing so beautiful as an English pansy in full bloom...
Re: The beautiful game turns ugly; TimesOnline Rob Hughes And I'm SURE he's just HORrified by the sight of <gasp> BLOOD!
Re: The beautiful game turns ugly; TimesOnline Rob Hughes The Swedish tabloid "Expressen" called the game a "Bloody Spaghetti Western" http://expressen.se/expressen/jsp/polopoly.jsp?a=612988 The article is favorable of the US effort in the gaming, and the dominating performance of the team in the first half (except for the Italian goal).
Every article I've read by every neutral press observer has said ALL the cards were justified. Take off the blinders fellas.
I did a double-take on my first read of that too. I decided that he's referring to the injured Italian, who had to play b/c Lippi had used all the subs. It was essentially 9 v 9--dude could walk, but couldn't really run. ~OGx3
Pope's first yellow was a joke. Forget about the cards though. The ref ruined the match in the early minutes when he called like 10 fouls on the USA and none on Italy. Out of the 10 or so fouls called I would guess that no more than three of them were deserved.