Most Classless Act of the World Cup...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0Rc8fnS_rw&feature=Views&page=2&t=t&f=b

 

You should get your eyes checked.
He was hit on the chest and neck and almost lost consciousness.
They were putting ice on his face and on the back of his neck to bring him back.
Then they gave him something to sniff.
Come back when you can see.

 

1. Grosso's dive against Australia, cheating a team out of their first world cup in 30 years.
2. The entire Portugal team.
3. The entire Holland team.

 

Once again, remark on the incident when you can see, he was not faking it, it's pretty damn hard to fake being out of sorts and dazed...he never motioned for a card or any of the bollocks you claim. He needed smelling salts for ********s sake. And he WAS fouled against Portugal, clearly. Even if he was able to stay on his feet, the referee still should have made a call, because a foul took place. You must have some sort of hatred towards Henry, but he is not a cheat. Calm down and STFU

 

We've a better world cup pedigree than Portugal darling, you've never even made it to a final, for starters, and have qualified only four times.

I'm not trying to find excuses. On that note: I'll more than happily admit to Robben being a bit of a diver, and to Bouhlarouz's tackle deserving a red card. See this is where the Dutch and the Portuguese are different; when one of ours dives we're embarrassed about it. The Portuguese meanwhile applaud their own players diving. Spot the difference? In Portugal diving is integral to the game of football. In Holland it is not.

And again while Robben is a bit of a diver, it gets him nowhere. He had the grand total of three free kicks awarded in his favour in four world cup games. Compare to Figo and Ronaldo: see this is what you deserve a compliment for, your lot are much, much better at diving than ours. Congratulations.

 

1- Hey, great in admiting that, now i would like other Dutch fans doing the same and some English doing it aswell but i guess its a impossible mission...

2- You started well but the second bolded sentence... no one applaud our players when we see them diving, its just stupid and shamefull, be it CRonaldo, Figo, Deco or stupid Postiga like he did against France, diving is a problem in the world football but isn´t different then terrible hacking, career ending tackles, nutt kicking... spits, verbal insults, headbutting and so on...

3- Not really we didn´t earned nothing with our dives and after the Holland and England game, even when our players were fouled, they got nothing because of the reputation and exposure international press(especially English...) gave to the subject.

 

1. Portugal and their fans and especially Crybaby Ronaldo


Zidanes headbut was stupid but hardly classless depending on what Matterazzi said to him.

 

With all due respect you are the first Portuguese poster on here to actually express dislike of the Portuguese diving. So good for you.

 

Maniche dived against England in the most blatant way possible. Lost all my respect for him, I thought he was one of the better ones on that team on the subject of diving.

 

The pinheads and ponces in the media who branded ZZ a disgrace...it's only a poxy game and a Man has the right to defend his dignity regardless of circumstances.

 

But Boulharouz's tackle injured the most creative player on the field.
That is SO negative. While De Rossi's elbow was disgraceful, I see from
reading the USMNT boards that it looked worse than it was because
McBride's face is sensitive from past injuries. Well - perhaps we should
say these two fouls were about on par. Zidane took fouling to a level
I had never seen last night. What madness.

 

you're so biased it makes me ill.
or rather, it would make me ill, if i expected an italian fan to have any kind of moral compass.

 

He said it was disgraceful, what more do you want? Although it was really bad, we've seen elbows flying all World Cup, just this time damage was done.

 

I thought I made it clear De Rossi's elbow was a disgrace? He got
the red he deserved and McBride came back on the field. Contrast
that with the Boulharouz foul - Ronaldo went off hurt while the
offender stayed on (and continued fouling ........)

 

Definitely true that De Rossi meant to elbow McBride. But the same
goes for Boulharouz: he knew exactly what he wanted to do when
he went in like that on Ronaldo - and he got the result he wanted.

 

At the risk of sounding like I'm defending Bouhlarouz, he did try and go for the ball. He was too late to get to the ball so he tackled his opponent – this is something that happens in virtually every single football game played all over the world. Again I do think he deserved a red card for it mostly because it was incredibly stupid and underscoring his lack of technical ability, but let's not pretend that this was an exceptionally dirty tackle, one the world rarely sees.

 

1) BigSoccer posters finding .0000000000000000000001% jusitifcation for Zdane's action yesterday. An action that would land you in jail 30-60 days on any American street, regardless of what was said to you. Thank you for showing your complete stupidity and ignorance.

 

Eh? No he did not. He went for the ball and was too late. Ask the Germans, Bouhlarouz is not the type anyway to deliberately try and injure players, and Dutch football is not about deliberately injuring opponents. Bouhla's your typical defender in that he makes stupid tackles occassionally.

 

French have been diving throughout. No doubt. Zidane not new to headbutting players. Look at his reaction after his header was saved by Buffon in ot. Great header. Even better save. His reaction was an agry yell...roid rage kicking in? Utter frustration? Pirlo's free kick just misses, he drops head. Toni hits crossbar, he makes that, "Poor me" face. Guys have their own reactions to missed opportunities, Zidane's failed header showed anger, he almost yelled at Buffon, like, "How dare you stop that?!" Header was by far, away from the play, the worst play.

Curious, though, how 1 of the top 5 getting votes so far was a team not playing the ball back to the opponent after an injury, yet Germany not giving ball back to Italia after Pirlo played it out for injury didn't even make the list. Obviously, they were a clean team until semi's, but while their fans whistled during Italian national anthem, this made the semi-final turn bitter, though it made for a great game. From that point, there was no more helping players off the ground, no more hand shaking. Needless to say, they also took part in the Argentina post-pk party. Frings got a nice punch in, where a winning team, home team, should walk away.

Argentina also a spoiled team of arrogance who left with shame for playing ************ and being sore about it.

Screw Zidane. He's the consummate player who thinks he's bigger than the sport. I love watching him play, but the temper is more akin to Mike Tyson or Ray Lewis of American football, or a defender or defensive midfielder, not a "Fantasia" like himself. He's been carrying yellows and reds forever, but the American tv talks about his final World Cup since day 1...giving no coverage to the others who walked away from Cup this year for final time...from Kahn, Figo, Totti, R Carlos, Beckham, etc...

Media creates some of these monsters.

 

Agreed. Except I include Maniche