Posts by giovanni tiso
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including the perpetrator being feted as a hero, which really gets my goat
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You guys really must get over this. Not even Ghana is complaining. (Mmhh... okay, Rajevic did actually. I was misinformed.)
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The people calling for a penalty goal rule neglect to consider that the penalty try in rugby is awarded because it's hard to give e penalty in rugby whose outcome is more likely to be a try than not. In soccer you can give a penalty and send the player off, which is a major sanction and very likely to result in a goal. And it has the advantage of settling the issue with a proper play.
No-one here was calling for Fifa to change the rules then were they?
They weren't. And I'm not aware of a situation like the one that befell Ghana ever happening in a major tournament. To make a major rule change based on such an unlikely event seems an over-reaction to me. (Not that it's going to happen or anything.)
Suarez by the way got a one-game suspension, indicating that the disciplinary committee didn't think he had cheated either.
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He was all class after the loss. On the field to console his players - unlike messrs. Lippi, Dunga, Domenech - and then with his comments at the press conference. Great game Germany but my heart was with Argentina throughout.
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I've overheard conversations that seem to consist of nothing but school decile numbers.
I was asked by an Aucklander what high school we were planning for our oldest child when he was two. That puzzled me some.
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What is this, Enter the Argudrome?
Heh.
... how does this differ from hacking down an opposition player whom you're quite certain is going to score?
I'm not sure it does. Therefore, what?
If you're willing to call the hack-downer a cheater, then I don't think you're going to find a lot of people willing to talk football with you, is all. Not that that's a problem per se.
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Ah, no, sorry, I wasn't suggesting that. But it's been doing the rounds so I thought I might point to the source. It really is quite brilliant work - I basically learned English on computer adventure games so the bits where Drogba tries different prepositions to get on the field gave me powerful flashbacks.
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That was quite brilliant and surely deserves some linky love.
(I'm hoping he'll do Robinho now that the Nike 'stars' are all out.)
He did get away with it, in the sense that his actions created a situation where his team could only be better off than had he not (ie exchanging a guaranteed goal-against for a possible goal-against).
And again: how does this differ from hacking down an opposition player whom you're quite certain is going to score?
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Sorry if that seemed condescending, but it's not really much of an argument: unless you can show me why it's different from hacking somebody down, as I say. I think you'll find that nobody in the football press is going to call Suarez a cheat. And maybe that means that there's something wrong with football. But maybe it means that it's part of the code that the sport lives by.
It's not enough to say it: you must argue why fouling is the same as cheating.
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Committing a foul is not cheating. Really, guys, this is pretty basic stuff.
(Although I suppose then you'd have to explain why Henry and Maradona are deemed by many to have cheated when they scored by handling. Besides the fact that scoring in that manner, as opposed to preventing a goal, is an important nuance, I suspect it comes down to the referee not having seen those infractions. Not owning up to a foul of that nature does come pretty close to cheating. Suarez didn't attract attention to what he had done but - unlike Kewell - didn't question it when he was sent off. It was all pretty above board.)