Crissy on the eBay Transfer List
Cristiano Ronaldo, known to fans as "Crissy" has been placed on the transfer list via eBay. This should be relatively unsurprising to folks who have been paying attention to the English backlash against ManYoo's talented winger.
This comes hot on the heels of the following staggering comments:
"We played well and did our best but the referee didn't help us,' the 21-year-old Manchester United forward said. 'Everyone who saw the match could see that the referee wasn't fair." You are correct, Crissy - the referee wasn't fair. What he should have done was card half of your freaking team for diving, which would have included dismissing you twice over. Instead he left his cards in his pocket, allowing your players to stay on the field, a dubious but mostly fair decision. Like, diving is one thing and deserves to be punished, but bitching about not getting calls for diving after the fact is positively retarded. Here's to hoping that Crissy interacts closely with a grease fire sometime in the near future.
As for me, assuming I can get internet tonight, I will have a couple of updates late tonight/early tomorrow morning about the Finals and various and sundry thoughts I've had in the last couple of weeks. In the meantime, if you have any questions for me or topics you want my thoughts on, leave them in the comments and I'll answer them as soon as I can.
posted by footballknuts @ 2:51 PM
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While I've played soccer for over 30 years, this was my first foray into active spectatorship. I have to say I'm disappointed. I actually got more excited _thinking_ about watching the games than actually watching them. There is just not enough happening.
Games with an early goal were bad. It's not that the leading team would sit back on D; they were usually surprisingly agressive a second goal. Were there more than 1-2 games in the entire WC where the trailing team came back to tie? Were there any where someone came back to win. It didn't matter if the team I wanted to win was winning, I wanted the other team to score just to make _my_ team work to score again. Someone score. Make it interesting, dammit! I'm too lazy to look it up, but the staggering record of teams that score first is something that has to change.
The late game ties were always frustrating as well. They rarely seemed to produce any late game surges, with the combatants willing to let the game go to OT or PKs where fitness is the factor instead of talent, drive ,and team play.
Occasionally I accidentally tuned in for Minute 60+ instead of restarting the DVR. I guess I'm just a wuss, but I'm not quite man enough to rewind 60 minutes to watch a scoreless game. I can understand if it's your national team, but were all the DVRs in Brasil (where I'm told they are passionate about the game) humming to rewind all those 0-0 games in the first round? Is there a queue for these games on Netflix?
Finally, while the reffing was abominable, I blame a large portion of the outrage on the game itself. If the game was slightly higher scoring, the impact of a poor call, a dive, or a grab, would be lessened. It doesn't have to change much. Scores like 4-2 or something would clearly define the better team, instead of the the rather arbitrary 1-0. Would players dive so much if a lucky call their way didn't almost automatically win the game for them?
I'm NOT saying low-scoring games are boring. They have plenty of action. I am saying they don't allow for enough possibility to give the game drama.
I thought the Simpsons take on soccer was a bit over the top, but this World Cup proved it to be rather accurate.
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I started hating Portugal after thier bitching about thier two losses to Greece in Euro2004. They always complain they are a small/poor country and refs dont like them. Maybe its because they dive and cheat that refs dont like them. Team is full of assholes, I feel bad for the one good guy who is likely on the team, prolly Deco by my guess. Miguel is of note because he actually hurt himself diving, which was great.
Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy or a nicer country. Ronaldo crying on the pitch after the France game is the best moment of the world cup for me.
Cheating is one thing but cheating and still lossing then complaining the ref. screwed you is even worse.
Not sure what FIFA told refs but seems like every foul resulted in a yelllow card but can't remember seeing someone booked for diving in the whole competition.
Best example of this was in the England vs. Portugal game when I think Maniche went down holding his face after no contact, the ref. rightly decided no foul but the Portugal player stayed down pretending to be hurt until England kicked the ball out then got straight up again, still no yellow card.
Why won't FIFA ban people after matches where obvious diving occured. Its like they don't see it as a prolbem in the game.
At the start of the tournament Portugal was one of the teams I thought I wouldn't mind seeing do well. I tried to keep an open mind after reading your take on them, as well as Michael Davies', but good grief! You couldn't have summed it up any better. How could that little doink feel justified in complaining? It was beginning to seem like Scolari had a remote control with a "Collapse" button and any time the ball would roll into the penalty box he would push it and every Portuguese player would drop.
By the way, thanks for the response about Dish. I was the anonymous poster you replied to. I work for Dish actually, but it still helped. I thought GOLTV probably covered some games, but I had no idea what. I also wasn't sure how extensive the FSC coverage of the Premiere was. Definitely think I will start with FSC and go from there. No way I can get HD right now.
My brother is getting FSC on cable.
There were definitely some yellows for diving in the tournament. I can't remember the exact instances. I think a Ghana player got one.
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