He is talking about the Swiss referee who apparently doesn't have money to buy an exact Swiss watch. He first gave the Danes a highly dubious penalty. Romania still went ahead. He then gave four minutes of injury time, but when that time was over, he didn't stop the play. The game went on and the Danes equalised in the 95th minute (the Dane played with the hand too) I refuse to hear talk of transparency, fair play coming from the merit-based nordics! This is all *@#*@#*@#*@#*@#*@#*@#*@#! That's what he's talking about!
Urs Mayer has stolen the dreams of 23 000 000 romanians. Why Romania isn't wanted at the final tournaments ? Yesterday we were two classes over Denmark, but we had the referee against us. Shame on you , Mr. Mayer...you filthy pig !
you fool I agree on the pen, but about the added time: Did you see the match. The Romanians made a substitution in the added time, which gives an extra half minut of playing time. Besides that there were romanians players faking injuries etc aswell, which makes it completely legal for the ref to add a further minut.
players faking injuries- i dont believe you revenge for 89 where their *@#*@#*@#-cking army threatened our players! Only one thing to add: ciao ciao Ceausescu!
Mefisto , I don't understand ...what is the matter with Ceausescu ? are you crazy ? Gud2002...what is your opinion about penalty ? I dindn't see anything wrong. I am not upset on Danemark. I wish them good luck at Euro 2004. I will continue to drink carlsberg beer as before.
Yes i am crazy- im danish does that answer your question? 1989 the last world cup qualifier- The Romanian army sabotaged the danish training including having an army helicoptor flying 15 meters over the players during their training session-
Yes you are right Moreover mig aircrafts flying low altitude throwing bombs and a full batallion of infantry equiped with the legendary machine guns akm (russian made) where shotting repeaditly in poor danish players training quietly on the field which was also heavy minned . luckly they missed laudrup by an inch Mefisto when you tell a joke ,tell it da capo al fine order all of us to laugh . ok my friend?
Nice try, Gud2002, but still pulled by the ears! Here's what WorldSoccer has to say about the match: In Group 2 a late and controversial equaliser by Martin Laursen earned Denmark a 2-2 draw against Romania and kept them top of Group Two. The result also meant the Danes are guaranteed at least a place in the play-offs, although Morten Olsen's team, who had home advantage, will be confident of winning the group still. When Jon Dahl Tomasson put them ahead from the penalty spot in the 34th minute, all seemed to be going to plan for Denmark. The Parken stadium in Copenhagen was bouncing, and yet there were sullen faces when Adrian Mutu and Daniel Pancu put Romania 2-1 up midway through the second half. The Danish crowd willed their players forward and they were rewarded for vocal encouragement in the last minute. A cross from the left found its way to Laursen, eight yards out from goal, and although he looked to control the ball with his right arm, his prodded shot found the left corner of the net and saved the day. Anyway, good luck in the finals, Denmark!
Nice try, Gud2002, but still pulled by the ears! Here's what WorldSoccer has to say about the match: In Group 2 a late and controversial equaliser by Martin Laursen earned Denmark a 2-2 draw against Romania and kept them top of Group Two. The result also meant the Danes are guaranteed at least a place in the play-offs, although Morten Olsen's team, who had home advantage, will be confident of winning the group still. When Jon Dahl Tomasson put them ahead from the penalty spot in the 34th minute, all seemed to be going to plan for Denmark. The Parken stadium in Copenhagen was bouncing, and yet there were sullen faces when Adrian Mutu and Daniel Pancu put Romania 2-1 up midway through the second half. The Danish crowd willed their players forward and they were rewarded for vocal encouragement in the last minute. A cross from the left found its way to Laursen, eight yards out from goal, and although he looked to control the ball with his right arm, his prodded shot found the left corner of the net and saved the day. Anyway, good luck in the finals, Denmark!
What i meant was, that i agreed that the ref shouldnt have awarded a penalty. That was a wrong decision.
Thank you for your fair-play , Mr Gud ! check this : http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/889450719
Mefisto, did your grandfather told you fairytales with communist and the Cold War? At least have the decency to admit that Romania was better than Denmark in 1989, and deserved to win this week as well... You were lucky with that @*#^ing refree... If I was Danish I would thank God we qualified and simply shut my mouth... I wish you not to pass the groups in Portugal...
Haven't there been complaints about Urs Maier before? I'm thinking Holland-Belgium in Miami at Wold Cup 94. Does that ring a bell or am I full of crap?
Urs Mayer did it again!!! After he "helped" Romania not to qualify at EURO 2004 and after he showed his "class" in the Champion's League semifinal Monaco - Chelsea by eliminating a player for nothing, his next victim is England. This refree must have influent friends in UEFA, otherwise I cannot explain why he still continues to refree important matches. This man is simply not doing his job, are those UEFA sqareheads blind? It isn't fair to mock millions of fans so easily. As a Romanian, I'm angry to see that a weak team as Germany was qualified, and us, who, by the way, won a freindly match with them by 5-1, didn't. After their matches in Portugal everyone could see that our victory wasn't an accident. Perhaps a richer Federation, as the English one, will be able to make Urs Mayerr pay, because after "the Romanain incident", after a lot of petitions (official and non-official) and press scandals, nothing haappened. This is the disadvantage of beeing seen as a "poor African country who still live in the trees".
...................................................................................... Witness this!! if you didn;t see the game,if you don;t follow european football close, if you don't know that MR.Maier got 2 miilion hits on his webiside after the game, calling him a thief, a tool of ..Johannsen,to let a scandinavian team qualify over a 'unimportant' country from eastern europe!, then say,,nothing, don;t take cheap shots ! And most of those hits were not from romanian fans,they were also from many fair,football loving fans from many counntries! This is not the first time Maier did this to Romania, remeber The penalty for England In 2000,that was only in his imagination?? How could you!! The romanian federation 'begged' Fifa not to delegate this Ref. and Kim Miltom Nielson from denmark, to Romanias games!! Guess what Fifa and Uefa kept doing after the request?? Yes,you guessed , They keep putting them in Romaina's matches!! You draw the conclussion, but i don;t think you can,because you're 12 years old and learning about 'soccer' here on this board!! You should not get invloved in things you don;t know crap about!! And as you read here, this jerk of a ref. is doing it to a lot of other teams!! I don;t know if in purpose or he is just a lousy ref. You should read many posts and threads before you take a cheap shot at a poor ,frustrated romanian! You want to see what it means to be fair and have knowledge about 'soccer'?? Read:: 'Although denmark came here with the help of the ref. ,I actually liked the way they played and i wish them luck tomorrow!! And to that idiot that said that in 89 the danish were 'bothered' by the army and helicopters, get off the drugs! now!! If anyhthig, that was the year of the revolution, so denmark had bad timming for playing there!! the whole country was in chaos! And at least we got rid of that crazy dictator!! So not all bad!! lol Listen danish fans, I like your country, one of my favourite players was ..Brian laudrup. But is not about you,its about a bad or crooked ref.!! And also F......g Mutu and pancu had 5 other goals in their feet, they missed from ..5 feet away! But Romania played beautifful and deserved to be in Portugal!! I assure you that they would've done much better than most of those overrated 'powers' , with pure football,not force and defence tacticts!! but whats done is done!
Surely a supporter of Italian football cannot accuse someone of blaming the ref for your premature exit from a major tournament. How are the Byron Moreno toilets coming along?
I've heard about the helicopter and other similar incidents from several sources, as well as from the players and their staff. Like you said, many eastern countries were in chaos at the time, so it could easily just be a coincident, but I don't doubt that it happened. About the second game against Denmark: I remember the penalty, and I think it was very harsh, but not worse than what has happened in several other matches - refs aren't perfect. About the extra time, it was the right decision to add an extra 30 seconds or so, since there was a lot of time waste by the romanian players. Anyway, I don't believe any of the conspiracy theories at all - noone wants to exclude Romania.