World Cup Losers

Djibril Cissé ?

You forgot Australia, who was sent home unfairly, who deserved a lot more and that penalty, so say everybody, did not exist.

I saw then play Brasil, and I bet they deserved to be there in the last 8, more than some others…

I thought Spain’s cue was usually the quarter-finals. That’s why this campaign could be considered a failure as they have gone back a notch to what they usually do.

Actually, just now looking at their history, and they seem to be getting to the quarters every other world cup (86, 94, 02), and just not getting there the rest (82, 90, 98, 06). I guess we all know what that means: quarterfinals and out in 2010…

Luis Aragones (Spain coach) – He called Thierry Henry a black s**t and refused to apologise.

Thierry Henry and France got the last laugh by knocking out Spain in the 2nd round.

Poland, Poland, Poland, Poland

I honestly believe there is corruption in this event. I congratulate the winners. I’m an Australian and saw our defeat in the 95th minute. At the same time, half the Italian local league were being investigated for corruption. The footballers are not to blame. The officials are greasing palms here. Next day Brazil scores against Ghana with goals that were clearly offside by metres. The only solution is video referees

1.POLAND( Don´t play absolutely nothing ,but think a lot of themselves)
2.SERBIA – MONTENEGRO ( rustic team …)
3.CROACIA (another ondes who are rustic…)
4.MÉXICO/JAPAN (below expectations)
5.TUNISIA/PARAGUAY( paraguay-too old, tunisia -lack of ambition)
6.IVORY COAST/IRAN(Though groups)
7 SOUTH KOREA( Has to do more than this)
8. USA(highly inflated and overrated)
9. SWEEDEN( too much old players for this competition)
10. SAUDI ARABIA(for this one i wold have toget in to politics to say what i thnk of this,never mind)
Also: the average lack of quality of referees in the knock out stage.
– Lack of performance in terms of good performances of the “known teams”
– brasil, portugal, france,england are tired.

worst of all -togo with the coach/money problems

After his last world cup performance it was surprising to see Graham Poll be among the referees in this tournament. Worse, his performance in league play has been getting worse so it was a double surprise to see him selected by FIFA. De Rossi, while deserving of the red card, was unfairly banished for 4 games by FIFA, especially since it happened during the run of play in a play in which both McBride and De Rossi went up aggressively for the ball. Yet, Figo’s head butt, which happened during a stoppage, did not result in a red or any ban. Once again, FIFA’s 2-tier (in)justice system has been employed. Of course, you can go on endlessly with all the disappointments of teams ending up losing out due to incompetent, perhaps corrupt or bias officiating, yet again.

Sorry mates but Luis Aragones did not call Thierry Henry a black s***…not only was the comment taken out of context but was BADLY translated!

It would have been easy for Spain to not finish first in their group in order to avoid France at least they showed guts and confidence…it didn’t pay off but then again we are talking about Spain!!!

France had quite some help from the Italian (!) referee but this wouldn’t have been an impediment if Spain were truely a good team…young, INEXPERIENCED blood..give them time…I predict a good European Cup in 2008 for Spain!

yes… we need video replay! only on controversial goals and red cards so the game still flows but 4 years of effort are not wasted because of one bad referee call.

FIFA ARE YOU LISTENING OR DID THEY PAY YOU OFF TOO?

The biggest loser is FIFA, although while rolling in dough their arrogant and elitist organizers may not realize it yet. It starts with their “officiating” crews. Worst Cup ever in this regard. Didn’t Collina have any mentees? FIFA should also be ashamed for trying to make profit at the expense of American servicemembers deployed. Only Rupert Murdoch’s intervention kept these money-grubbers from realizing their goal. FIFA”s “partnership” with German retail outlets also was disgusting. It took me FOREVER to find ONE Angola tricot!

Cameroon is a loser for not qualifying, but again FIFA partially messed this up with their African groups. Cameroon beat Ivory Coast, in the same group, twice but lost the bid to represent the group by a single point, and as a result, the world and FIFA was denied seeing the finest striker on the planet (Eto’o) in his prime.

The thugs (see C. Ronaldo & De Rossi muggings, for example) sent in by certain coaches, even with full knowledge the officials were throwing cards for even looking at someone the wrong way.

Borghetti, who was victimized by injury and an own goal en route to being a total non-factor.

Arena — check the want ads for a new job, baby. And send Twellman a letter of apology!

Ali Daei — NO business playing at this level right now.

Akwa — with a valiant defensive effort against all odds by the Black Antelopes, where was the leading scorer when needed?

Togo — making threats to not show after coming to the World Cup is beyond bush league. FIFA will have to institute clear legal safeguards against this. They should have booted them at the first whimper and brought in Cameroon as a substitute team.

Saudi Arabia — they stink and always will, no matter how much money Fahd throws at them. You CANNOT compete at this level with players almost exclusively from Saudi leagues. Al-Hilal is a joke compared to even second-league European sides.

Zico — instead of weird formations, the Brasilian needs to get back to the basics.

South Korea — no reason to whine. they were beaten, even with a gift from another incompetent — or blind? — official against France.

The English press — for helping perpetuate, as always, an inflated view of their team’s worth. Such a shame so many knowledegable people cannot get a shot of reality even when it is staring them in their faces.

Van Basten — for not being any better than Advocaat when it comes to final results. Go buy Davids a beer and apologize, dude.

Rosicky and Poborsky — for proving as I always say, they are INCONSISTENT!

Serbia & Montenegro — for being Serbia & Montenegro.

All of the thumb-sucking goal scorers — surely you can do better than that! Try “rocking the baby” rather than shouting out to dwarves.

Sven — for proving once again what a lousy coach he really is! Put LENNON in the game!!!

Dutch fans — for wearing those Nazi-style Orange plastic helmets in the Frankfurt main train station. VERY distasteful!

The Kaiser (Beckenbauer) — for showing how egotistical he is by appearing everywhere, even in commercials and deciding to get married during the Cup. This guy needs medical help. Did he ever actually kick a goal in his life?

Corporate sponsors — for being BIG BABIES about what fans wear and what is shown during the Cup. What good will your money be after you die, buttwipes?

Beckham — for not being a real man and swallowing his barf like Terry does when he gets drunk.

All fans — who were forced to drink horse piss..er, Budweiser..in a land renowned for its fine beers. Notice there was no enforcement in the VIP skyboxes or lounges!!!

Ballack — for his whining nature when he cannot score a goal.

Cristiano Ronaldo — for bawling like a baby. MAN UP, son. Real men don’t cry on and on like that!

Scolari — for not slapping van Basten after the match!

Dave hamildav@yahoo.com

How could you forget Valentin “I will teach those wily portuguese not to beat Russia 7-1 and thereby eliminate my daddys team from qualiflying for the Cup” Ivanov.
This is the opinion of russians polled in a russian newspaper (the other main opinion registered in the poll was that Ivanov wanted to leave Russia’s mark in the Cup). he sure did!
How ironic that the portuguese are the ones being portrayed as “cheaters” when they’re one of the most fouled teams in the Cup.
Referees with an axe to grind should NEVER be allowed near any world cup match, it just ruins the game for billions of fans.

IVANOV reef, (with no comments);

FIFA, for one more world cup with decisive refereeing ‘mistakes’;

SERBIA & MONTENEGRO, for not being a team;

VAN BASTEN, for promoting the exit of Ronaldo, and for making is players discharge the fair-play – the future will show (again) his training technics, note my words.

Video refereeing is never gonna happen….or the Italian bookies and their FIFA cohorts will be out of business.

How about the sensational Chinese commentator who may lose his job after the outburst in the Italy v Australia match?

Video clip and links to related blog posts:
http://voyage.typepad.com/china/2006/06/the_passion_of_.html

Graham Poll: three yellow cards for the same player – all i can say is lol

Portugal and Netherlands: everybody is blaming the referee but the players actually played like total morons and most of the cards were well deserved. Also Figo should have gotten a red card for his head butt. I guess Portugal is gonna get eliminated by England, because they´ll miss their key players

I’ll go out on a limb and say, as a whole, the biggest losers of this World Cup there are 2.

First are the fans. We want to watch a game with 22 players on the field. We don’t want to watch referees make bad calls and hand out unwarranted cautions and ejections. In many games the refs became the center of the attention.

2nd is the game itself. What could have been such a wonderful event has been clouded by poor coaching, poor player performance and terrible officiating.

On a side note, hold your heads up high Socceroos. It was a terrible call but a judgement call.

The fact the IUT-AUS call could have been judgmental I won’t argue, but do do THAT when it was not clear, AND WITH VIRTUALLY NO TIME REMAINING, is something I will remember as blatantly wrong the rest of my life. Let the game be CLEARLY decided on the field. I do not pay to see refs, I pay to see players.

Dave hamildav@yahoo.com

Pedro….

“…POLAND (Don´t play absolutely nothing ,but think a lot of themselves)…”

I would like to see how you came up with that one.

Poland left the cup paying dearly for not putting on the same show in the first game as they did against Germany. The game of Poland – Germany was the lowest scoring game for Germany who didn’t score until the 91st minute. The possible new World Champion was really pressed and desperate to win in that game.

Poland left with dignity and aspirations to perform well in 2008 and 2010, and what’s better they showed a great level of sportsmanship unlike some of other teams that advance.

So what’s your rebuttal?

IT’S PLAIN AND SIMPLE.
THE WAY YOU TALK ABOUT POLAND.
it’s like you guys are the BEST.

PEDRO’s POINT EXACTLY.
“but think a lot of themselves”

when really you guys are a bunch of LOSERS.

Oh and
“they showed a great level of sportsmanship unlike some of other teams that advance.”

I really can’t tell ya mate. that’s probably because I never saw one Poland game. it’s because you guys suck and everybody knows it. I don’t even know a single person who knew you guys made it to Germany. They just laugh at you guys. The media don’t give a sh** about you. the PEOPLE don’t give a sh** about you either.

LOSERS GO HOME.

I’d add the entire Dutch team to the list. It’s not just Van Nistelroy. As good as a player Van Basten was, his team played awful uninspiring futbol. I always look forward to seeing Dutch play, so I was sorely disappointed by their play and their loss of composure.

P.S. All those putting Ivanov on the list – you’re way off base.

Yes, he did lose control of the game. But the vast majority of responsibility for that lies on the players thelmselves. They played in a way that made one want to show red to both teams and send them both home.

On the other hand, I would add Zepp Blatter to the list of BIG losers. I do think Ivanov shares some responsibility for the loss of control of the game. But it is totally inappropriate to single out a single ref for a failure, which fairly lies with the players. Ivanov’s refereeing was no worse than that of the ref for the Italy v. U.S. game.

To pf: Poland are “big closets with legs” who run around looking like headless chickens. They just run a lot, in front, always playing direct balls tothe front, with minimum technicall skills in the majoraty of the players.
And the supporters think that poland are a tremendous team team. i saw the game against germany. they started to defend around minute 55, in a game in which they had to go for the victory. Whem a team wants a tie, looses. And in terms of game playing they are not top quality. They run a lot, a always do things with force ratHer THAN softness and talent.
As to perform weel in 2008, i suggst that you see the qualification group in which they were placed. 5 candidates for 2 places. and other 3 teams who don´t want to be the jokes of the group.
Poland qualifies? serious doubts there.

To: PortugalRocKKssss

I don’t even know a single person who knew you guys made it to Germany

Heehehe! Doesn’t say much about you and the people you surround yourself with. The joke’s on you bud!

To: Pedro Silva

As to perform weel in 2008, i suggst that you see the qualification group in which they were placed

Well, that’s the future and we shall see. The ball is very round and the Future is yet to come.

As to world cup history, Poland has accomplished more than Portugal. We’re no Brazil (and never well be), but we’ve done better than Portugal historically.

As to the present, Felipao is the best thing that could happen to Portugal — one thing that still plagues Poland — they still hasn’t found the right coach to get the talent arranged and applied.

Best of luck!

HAHAHA.

“Poland are “big closets with legs” who run around looking like headless chickens.”

That is HILARIOUS. Well said Pedro.

Oh PF? is it? Poland LOST. just ACCEPT it. I’m English so I shouldn’t be taking Portugal’s side but its quite obvious that Portugal is way better than POLAND. Even I think that Portugal will KICK OUR ASS THIS SATURDAY.
After watching the game with the Netherlands. They showed how great they are playing against those dirty dutches.
the Polish will never reach the same status that us English and Portuguese have. NOT EVEN CLOSE.

You guys can keep trying and will keep failing.

TO PF:

Yes. I am surrounded by people who are rooting for those worth rooting for.

Mostly the ones who made it to the TOP 8. ITALIA. FRANCE. ESPANA. PORTUGAL!!!!

I even know some who were rooting for GHANA and KOREA.

I’m sorry for saying that I didn’t know anyone who knew that the POLISH made it to Germany. I shouldn’t be so mean. Especially because I actually feel sorry for you guys. No one cares about y’all. pathetic losers.

PEACE.

“Revenge is a dish best served cold”. Poland will be serving a big plate of it in 2010!

why is it that everyone expects to see good quality football from the dutch only? i agree this year was far below their usual par but as for quality nobody batters an eyelid when italy game after game play tedious boring football winning the usual penaly.
i think its time for video refs as all teams are becoming accostommed to cheat now.
as for the por ned game it was a 50/50 game with por winning as they took their chances.
and what about that karate style tackle on robben? of course that’s no penalty since it wasn’t one of the fav teams.
portugal have a great team and i wish them well ( i support the dutch) and yes heitinga should have thrown the ball out.
it seems everyone expects a lot from holland while other teams its forgranted they play at a mediocre level ( with some little help)
one last thing.. congratulations brave australia but you come across a reality that some teams profess…to win at all costs no mattewr how.
interesting to note news on italian state tv RAI2 about game, teletext, it said Grosso had ‘abilmente procurat un rigore’ translating meand grosso had ably procured a penalty.

TO PF: what i was trying t say about polland is that they need to change something in the way they play – the technical quality of their players,ifo they want to do well in the future.
One thing is to qualify from a group in which only england was a strong side.
Another is to qualify from a group with at least 5 contenders who are strong,and sdoing so ,playing the way polland does.
And the polish supporters are completely infaated about the real value of the team. And they do play like headless chicken. They dont think when they play. it is not just the coach.
It´s the style of play.
I expected better from polland. And the glorious achievements of polland were way back in the past. In 1982 and 1972. 24 years ago. Does not count for the present time.

Experience is the Stats to beat win.

Brazil are the big winners. Not yet at their best and are so experienced and strong.

France, Germany and Argentina..so attractive.

Experience will win over all the statistics.

1. Landon Donovan (US) for not showing up against Ghana in a “win or go home” game. I defended him mightily after the Italy game, where he played himself to total exhaustion at both ends of the field as the US gained its only point of the Cup, playing a man down almost the entire 2nd half. Never again will I defend him. If you can’t at least play your heart out when it’s do or die (Ghana game), screw you.

2. De Rossi (Italy) for blatantly throwing an elbow into the McBride’s face. He’s lucky not to get banned from the Cup entirely, and if I was the Italy coach, his butt would have been on the next plane or train home. Period. If Italy makes it to the finals and he plays, I’ll have lost all respect for Italian football (such as it is).

3. Peter Crouch (England) for yanking the hair of a Trinidad player on a header. Not only is that blatant cheating, it’s very dangerous. NO excuse. Sven should have sent him packing as soon as he saw the replay. I’ve lost my respect for English football, especially since some of their players have claimed that they play fair and don’t like all the diving and cheating. Hypocrites!

4. Not using video replays on close calls around the goal. France deserved a goal against South Korea, but it was understandable that the ref didn’t see it clearly. That kind of play cries out for replay evidence. And it fits the game because play stops for a few seconds when the goalie catches the ball anyway. No reason not to have playback on the sideline for the ref to quickly scan. It’s fair and it would not significantly slow the game down. Doesn’t happen that often, but is obviously incredibly important to the outcome of close games.

5. Ridiculously inconsistent reffing, especially on slide tackles. Mastroeni (US) got a straight red card against Italy for a cleats up slide that was no more than a millisecond late (he is so close to hitting the ball first that it’s virtually a tie). Only slow motion made it clear the Italian touched the ball just before he did. The very next day, Puyol (Spain) committed the same cleats up foul on a guy who had kicked the ball about 6 feet in front of himself before Puyol got there. The ref called the foul, but didn’t even book him! FIFA must make changes on this, because as it is now, it’s all over the map. Total inconsistency.

Togo: bad attitude and no class blackmailing the Organizers (threat not to play).

Spain: Choke job again and now due to the comments made by the coach and staff during the game vs France may be excluded from the WC 2010!

Czech team: #2 and thats all you got??

Swiss team: for being the most boring team on the planet and for subjecting us to a horrid game vs Urkaine that ended with possibly the worst shootout perfomance in the history of football…keep aiming for goalie guys!

Italy: dive! dive! Gust of wind…a mammamia..my knee..err..ankle..err..neck…

Refs: Some bad work out there fellas….

Japan: 3 goals let in in the last 6 minutes vs Australia!

B. Arena: Go away…let someone competent coach the US team.

Croatia: Keep shoving the ref..it always works out for a team.

Why are you guys from Portugal wanting Poland to be in a European group that is 5 deep? Was Portugal in a group like that? Of course not. If you dump all the strong European teams into 2 or 3 groups you will end up with a team like Malta advancing to the World Cup. Poland was in a group with England and they advanced. Give poor Poland some credit. Portugal at least Poland can hold it’s head high by playing sportsmanlike. I would think Portugal got more yellow and red cards in one game then Poland got in their three. I also didn’t see any Poland players headbutt one of their opponents. Portugal could learn a lot about fair play from Poland. Just in case you are wondering I’m not Polish and have no real love for Poland. If they gave us Danzig and Silesia back, I would like them a lot better. However, I do want to thank Poland for giving us Klose and Podolski.

Not sure what you mean about Spain being excluded from WC 2010. That’s absurd.

They’re a great team, still too young, but they’ll be back again. Then again, will Spain ever be able to reverse the curse?

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- The Spanish coach, obviously. Some Spanish fans for their behaviour during the match against France.
- Some English and Dutch fans for their moronic Nazi taunts.
- Several Portuguese and Dutch players for their display when the teams met.

For me Yugoslavia with Petkovic is the bigest looser of the turnament.

my rankings:

Biggest losers:
- USA fans. Not because they played exceptionally badly, but because they had an unrealistic view of their team.

-the Czechs. C’mmon. They were ranked # 2, and there was actualy some credibility to this ranking.

- Serbia and Montenegro — they got seriously thrashed

- Essien: not really a loser but frustrating for him to not play int he biggest match for the Ghanaian team in the WC – against the Brazilians. And worse, he had to watch his team get smoked from the stands and he could not do anything about it. That had to be tough.

USA team: again, unrealistic expectations.

Togo — they need to grow up. WC is about national pride not money!

The Asian teams — what happened?

Best team so far:
Argentina.

Most promising teams:

- Mexico

- all the african teams(except tunisia who )
- australia,
- South Korea

Most lethargic team — All the european teams (except Italy, Spain and portugal) Special mention goes to England –You can sleep through their matches.

Most intimidating team — of course Brazil

Most entertaining teams — argentina, Ghana, Australia.

Team with best looking players– the italian team — those boys are smoking!!

Best looking fans — the brazilian fans.

PortugalRocKKssss | June 29th, 2006 at 5:39 pm

IT’S PLAIN AND SIMPLE.
THE WAY YOU TALK ABOUT POLAND.
it’s like you guys are the BEST.

PEDRO’s POINT EXACTLY.
“but think a lot of themselves”

when really you guys are a bunch of LOSERS.

Oh and
“they showed a great level of sportsmanship unlike some of other teams that advance.”

I really can’t tell ya mate. that’s probably because I never saw one Poland game. it’s because you guys suck and everybody knows it. I don’t even know a single person who knew you guys made it to Germany. They just laugh at you guys. The media don’t give a sh** about you. the PEOPLE don’t give a sh** about you either.

LOSERS GO HOME.

this comin from a canadian huh if it wasnt for poland in ww2 ud all b talkin the language of the deutschland. the poles play have good players except the stupid corrupt coach was to cheap to send them to the cup. for the record im no polak and hold no loving for poland. just dun call them losers wen many countries owe them sumthin.

LFC:
Thanks for the link. And here in the US we thought Andres Cantor was passionate, he has nothing on that guy.
Why might the commentator lose his job?

I missed the Portugal vs. Holland game. Does anyone know where I can find a copy or watch it online? Thanks!

As a former referee, am wondering what FIFA’s instructions were to the World Cup referees regarding the critria for giving yellow and red cards. It’s impossible to fathom what their instructions might have been after seeing the inconsistent application of yellow and red cards. I doubt if all the referees are incompetent and shouldn’t be refereeing at this level, but I would have loved to be privy to those pre-World Cup instructions.
In the USA v Italy match, the red card to DeRossi for elbowing McBride was certainly deserved. However, later in the match the red card for a USA slide tackle from the side shouldn’t have even been a yellow card! And especially since slide tackles from the rear throughout the match went unpunished. Was dumfounded when I saw that same referee doing a subsequent game!

Slide tackles from the rear are always deserving of at least a yellow card.

How a referee gave three yellow cards to the same player in a match and did not know it until the match is finished, is incomprehensible! Where are the Assistant Referees, or the Fourth Official during all of this. When I worked as the Fourth Official, one of my duties was to record the yellow cards and the players getting them. How come the fourth Official isn’t doing that? I noticed that the center referees are apparently “miked” – who’s talking to him and what are they saying? Somebody should be helping him out, especially at this level One thing to say for the 2006 World Cup – the refereeing will be great fodder for the Referee Assessors for years to come!

Liliana.

I would look for a re-run. :(

Eventually I will try to convert all the recordings from this cup to a pc format, but it will take me years (yah, I know…). Otherwise if you’re in US (the flag below your post doesn’t show up) I could lend you my copy…

Fifa – For not getting their Heads out of their Asses.

The Cheqs – What.The.Hell.Happened?

U.S.A.- Boy, them Fifa Rankings dont lie , eh?

The Refs – If, in any other highly specialised profession, anyone did the kind of mistakes that 90% of the ref’s are doing, they would be out of a Job.I mean, there are 13 or so rules in the official book of referieng, How hard can it be?

and lastly, again

Fifa – Expect at the end of the tournament some announcemnts in “major changes in referieng(TM)”, to be followed by announcements on “a major discussion on football (TM)”, to a semi-convention somewhere in Bern(TM), to finally a small written note to the ref’s for “not being up to the task of a great tournament like the WC(TM)”

Oh well, excuse me but all the mexicans who are posting on these ‘worst team’ and ‘losers’ of the worldcup threads . .. don’t you think it’s stupid to criticize other teams and remark their mistakes, the mistakes of their players, the mistakes of their coaches, etcetera when the mexican team itself was, by far, the biggest loser in the worldcup? just a thought. .. I mean, didn’t the guys lose against Portugal, then lost to Angola (because face it, Angola played a good 100% better), then won Iran, purely by chance, and well. .. advanced to the second round by sheer luck only to lose again to Argentina in a game where the argentinians didn’t bother to put enough effort because the rival team wasn’t worth it?

It’s a sad fact that most mexicans tend to overrate the team, especially when the so called ‘best players’ in it are the worst second-league european players who are always in the bench, hahaha. So yes, the players suck, they have no strategy for winning a game, no attitude for that either and still make a lot of mistakes that are just a lot for making it to the ‘top 32′. I think its embarrassing that teams like this one are making it to the cup, and yeah, I’m calling FIFA losers too beacause there is absolutely no control over qualification.

I’ll put it this way so you can see my point: when I’m watching a Worldcup, I expect to watch GOOD football. I like to watch GOOD teams. I’m a football fan, not a ‘oh, my country kicks ass’-kind of fan. I have no preferences over teams, I just like watching football. And good one, period. Let the best team win. And it bothers me to no end when teams like Mexico and Saudi Arabia make it to the cup and teams like Uruguay or Romania don’t. I mean, wth! The Mexican team did SO MUCH WORSE than Romania, and Mexico qualifies nonetheless, no matter that everytime Mexico and Romania play Mexico loses. Anyway, the small team with the stinky football mexico makes it to the cup and they make football SUCK, not exactly what football fans want to watch, See my point?

Some people are 100% supporters or their countries, which is not bad, but why not just be a football fan than a country fan in a worldcup? It’s a lot more enjoyable.

Hence, I’m not a supporter of the mexican team because they stink and because the ‘best’ they can offer is a joke compared to what other countries can. Don’t get me wrong, It’s not that I don’t like this country or anything like that. No way, it’s just the fact that the players are bad, the coach is worse, their game style is bad too, and the money-thing running under the table in mexican football is just as bad, thus the team will get nowhere.

Back to the topic. The worst of the worldcup? Yes, Mexico. Why? Because not only they were terrible, but because they are loved, and glorified because of how terrible they were (‘oooooooh the team lost horribly but they made it to the round of 16, they are national heroes’). Another? Serbia and Montenegro.

A player who disappointed me is Luis Figo. His action against VanBommel demonstrated a notable lack of temper that I didn’t expect in a player of his caliber and experience.

What is with people dissing fans because they support their country’s team…each to their own…the same way the in national leagues each fan thinks their team is the best…this is exactly the same!!!

Although I was born and bred in London and I’m a Londoner at heart you will not see me supoprting England…EVER! I’m Spanish and although I knew Spain wouldn’t make it past France I still wanted, wished, hoped and prayed that they would make it to the final…maybe some day they’ll shape up and kick off their deamons and actually manage it…maybe, just maybe…”dreams can come true…” at least that’s what the song says!!!

In my opinion, the biggest losers of this world cup (apart from the atrocious referees and foul play) are the Hooligans…how the f*** do they still manage to get out of their countries…!?!?!?

I strongly believe Italy should not be in the quater finals…their cheating just gets worse…

I’m sure that with video refereeing and replays we’d be able to see a much higher level of football…here’s hoping someone with power and sense (a bit of an oxymoron I know but you never know!) is listening!!!

Don’t be dissin’ no Polska here…

(attention!)

You say chicken without heads? Funny to hear that from a guy where Christiano Ronaldo is “the best”. Now that one cock(not a rooster mind you) without a head.

you say:
ones who made it to the TOP 8. ITALIA. FRANCE. ESPANA. PORTUGAL!!!!

did you get the memo? spain didn’t make it…. read some papers next time you take a craap… or is it that your daddy read you the wron bedtime story?

Dear beckham
Barf it like!
Your icon shows how we feel about your game. You’re right, we won’t reach the status you have, cause we don’t want to sink so low! Nooooboooodyyyy looovess you….

POLSKA POLSKA POLSKA

(at ease boys)

BRAZIL…Sorry guys but what happened to the Jugo Bonito everyone was going on about…I sure as heck didn’t see any…even Spain’s play was “mais bonito”!!!

With these results there’s only one thing to say…”the Old Continent” has the best football…SUPPOSEDLY ;-)!!!

All guns are out on who will win the Worst World Cup in history…My full support goes to Portugal…here’s hoping they’ll be able to retire Zidane!

And let him and his team battle for 3rd place with Italy…!

I’d say the BIGGEST losers are ENGLAND…

For demonstrating to the World, once again, that they don’t know how to lose…or even win for that matter…

For finding a Scapegoat in Cristiano Ronaldo for Rooney’s red card…HEEEELLLLOOOOOO, you step on someones testicles and expect to get away with it…come down from the clouds please!!!…

And for not facing facts that 1966 IS LOOOONG GONE…GET OVER IT!!!

Football’s not going home, football has moved out with no intention of returning…

You can keep your three lions on your shirt and Jules Rimet can keep on gleaming…your 40 years of hurt are gonna make you keep on dreaming…and England’s gone and thrown it away, gone and blown it away and they’ve proved they can’t play…

hehehehehehe, slight revamp of the 1996 lyrics to “Three Lions” by baddiel and Skinner…hehehehehehehe…sorry can’t help but laugh!!!

This world cup proves why soccer sux and will never make it!

haha okay. fyi bob, soccer has already made it. last time i checked it was the most popular sport in the world. nice try though champ. A+ for effort.

We are mad as hell and we are not going to take it anymore!!!
Once again the world cup ends up transformed in a travesty of manipulation by the monopolistic FIFA.
It’s so obvious which teams are being help by the referees under the fifa orders.
It’s just business as usual.
We cannot allow them to keep bringing down the game to a miserable spectacle!
We deserve to enjoy a straight honest game for which we have to wait 4 years.
It’s obscene to bring down the aspirations of the population of a victimized country, with such barefaced “mistakes”.
The level of Football has grown to spectacular heights that the help of instant replay is necessary to keep it honest!
I prefer to wait a couple of minutes in my life for the right call, than to be robbed of a game for ever!
But fifa doesn’t want to loose it’s grip on manipulation!

FORZA AZZURRI!!!!!!!
EVERYONE NEEDS TO GET OVA THE FACT DAT ITALY BEAT AUSTRALIA. I AM SURE ONCE THE CRICKET IS BACK YOU GUYZ WILL MOVE ON. DON’T WORRY GUYZ YOU HAVE A BETTA CHANCE OF WINNING THE RUGBY WORLD CUP……….OH WAIT BE CAREFUL CAUSE IT MIGHT BE RIGGED.

the portuguese were an absolute shambles and i aint just saying this because im english, but diving whining crying bastards.. i think they dove more than the bloody italians and thats saying something, we’ve come to expect it from those match fixing twits but from portugal who i actually rated. its a shame teams like australia and ghana are hiding in the shadows now because they were excellent, this entire world cup was poor and i for one cannot wait for real football THE PREMIERSHIP (not seria a not la liga or any other of that slow shite) because i was very dissapointed with what i saw in germany even from england.. diving out, match fixers banned, and crying to the referees is just plain fucking pathetic……. UP THE BORO