Nice to see that when the "big guys" get screwed, Sepp steps all over himself to apologize. I guess he missed the USA vs. Slovenia and USA vs. Algeria games.
Re: Where is our apology, Sepp? there's a reason why you saw Bill Clinton sitting alone during a stretch of the Algeria game... hint: he wasn't alone, Sepp was just out of the camera's view...
Re: Where is our apology, Sepp? Yeah, I saw him there. I was just squishing my sour grapes about our great injustices!
Re: Where is our apology, Sepp? to be fair the two calls he apologized for were far more atrocious than ours But this isn't him being genuine, this is simply to appease the media firestorm the same way they promised to discuss the Ireland-France game at their little meeting. Guess what....nothing changed just like nothing will change here. They have no intention of changing anything.
Re: Where is our apology, Sepp? Sepptic Bladder calculates [probably correctly] that there is no profit in apologizing to the USA.
Re: Where is our apology, Sepp? The non-called goal was worse. But Edu's being nullified was a more grotesque [and willful] 'blunder' than the non-offside call against Argentina.
Re: Where is our apology, Sepp? FIFA can't apologize for a call we never got an explanation for. And anyways those calls didn't result in our elimination from the tournament.
FIFA apologizes to England and Mexico... for referee's error, but not the U.S and others. I guess it's because it's the first round it's not important, or because the U.S is top the group the referee's error doesn't matter anymore, or because England has more reps than other countries that could used for someone else next time? http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/30/sports/soccer/30ref.html?src=mv
Re: Where is our apology, Sepp? Really now? Had the US beaten Slovenija as it did, the US would have needed just a draw to go through in any scenario. The US wouldn't have needed to play such a high pressure, emotional game against Algeria. The US would have simply knocked the ball around with Algeria, leaving the USA fresh and fit for the match against Ghana. 50% of why we lost against Ghana was the fact that our guys were gassed from playing 270 minutes of high-intensity football. The other 50% was Bob Bradley.
Re: Where is our apology, Sepp? That's not a point, the point is to responsible for the mistake, using your logic, why would Sepp bother to apologize anyway since Mexico and England lost by 2 more goals?
Re: Where is our apology, Sepp? Earlier this morning, this was posted on the official FIFA twitter account (FIFAcom): I agree that those two non-calls, at least Lampard's goal (I personally think Tevez robbed Messi of a goal on that non-called offside), were worse than ours. However, bad referee or not, neither England or Mexico deserved or earned a win. We may have hurt ourselves against Slovenia, but we earned that win. But, really, how do we expect FIFA to fix this problem if they forget entire countries?
Re: Where is our apology, Sepp? That was posted at 11:54 am ET. The match was going into extra time at that point. Two different situations. He was right to apologize to England and Mexico. The US-Slovenia was a bad call but fouls are very hit and miss depending on the referee, offsides and the ball crossing the line aren't.
Re: Where is our apology, Sepp? I know. My point was that they apparently don't count games that include the US.
Re: Where is our apology, Sepp? I want an apology for poor scheduling. 2 days rest for World cup matches for US and Ghana. and 3 days for other countries.
Re: FIFA apologizes to England and Mexico... he has nothing to apologize for if we won that game we still would of played Ghana in round of 16 like we did. that call cost us nothing in the end
Re: FIFA apologizes to England and Mexico... FIFA owes many teams apology and if anything we deserve an apology over Mexico. First of all, we got TWO good goals called back.We almost didn't qualify for the round of 16 especially when they called back a good goal from dempsey against algeria. We should have waltzed into the round of 16 with 7 points instead our players needed a miracle in the dying minutes. This was so emotionally draining 1 could argue that this was a huge reason that the US came out flat. This also probably influenced Bob to use his stupid "fresh legs" approach and put in Ricardo Clark who gave the game to ghana in the opening minutes.
Re: FIFA apologizes to England and Mexico... FIFA has booted Koman Coulibaly from the rest of the world cup, along with the England/Germany ref Larrionda and the Mexico/Argentina ref Rosetti. http://soccernet.espn.go.com/world-...d-calls-removed-world-cup-list?cc=5901&ver=us
Re: FIFA apologizes to England and Mexico... Larrionda should have been booted out 4 years ago and then after the Confed Cup
Re: Where is our apology, Sepp? Hell, even without a Slovenia win, if the ref had given Dempsey his goal in the Algeria game, we could've saved 60 minutes of desperation.
I hate Sepp Bladder! This guy is corrupt, and know he shows that he is a straight up douche. The Mexico and England calls might have been worse than the US's but everyone knew Mexico and England had no chance before the start of the game, and the final scorelines show that. Even if they weren't screwed over by these calls, they weren't going to win.
Re: Where is our apology, Sepp? Exactly. My contention being is that if those goals were allowed, the final game against Algeria would not have been the physically draining game it was. Algeria would have a point and would need to beat the USA by 3 goals. Either Algeria would have played open, which would have went the USA's way real quickly, or played again for a draw, which we would have taken. Either way, our boys would not have been nearly so gassed against Ghana.
I'm not sure about that, but if he can get countries to field womens teams made up of models with body paint uniforms, then I'm right with you.
Re: Where is our apology, Sepp? Dempsey's goal against Algeria was waived off for an erroneous offside call where all of the action on the play occurred in a one-yard-wide visual window in front of the linesman. If anything, that was a WORSE mistake than the Tevez goal, which at least required the linesman to look in two different spots (and, because he was out of position, miss the call). At least Coulibaly can claim (or not say anything) that there was a foul. That is his judgment, even though his judgment was shown to be highly suspect. The offside call in the Algeria game was pathetic. Linesman was staring right at the ball, the last defender and Dempsey, who should have been DIRECTLY BEHIND the defender from the linesman's viewpoint when Gomez shot, and he still botched it.