I agree that players were getting away with too much time wasting before. But simply waiting 3 or 4 seconds for your players to get up the field so you can take a goal kick (as what happened with Robinson today) does not warrant a yellow card. Christ, if he does something like that again, he'd miss a potential semi final! How ludicrous. Goalies should be warned at least once verbally by the ref for supposed time wasting before they start flipping out the retarded cards.

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Originally posted by Dj Smitty20 I agree that players were getting away with too much time wasting before. But simply waiting 3 or 4 seconds for your players to get up the field so you can take a goal kick (as what happened with Robinson today) does not warrant a yellow card. Christ, if he does something like that again, he'd miss a potential semi final! How ludicrous. Goalies should be warned at least once verbally by the ref for supposed time wasting before they start flipping out the retarded cards.

well...the yellow card IS a warning

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Originally posted by verndogs well...the yellow card IS a warning

yes, a very SERIOUS warning for a SERIOUS offence. Cards are busted out far too often that they've lost of a lot of their impact.

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This was the best game yet for the World Cup '06 so far. You could tell both teams wanted it really bad. Also, I was impressed by the high level of 'technical feet' of the Hollanders. In the end, through all the foul turmoil, which added to the excitement, Portugal managed a beautiful goal over Holland. What an exciting game!

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Originally posted by raveed portugal made armin, ferry and tiesto cry this is TRANCEaddict and a team that does that must be condoned over here.

True, but a porkchop put this site together - it goes hand in hand

Figo was wrong for the headbutt...but I don't know how that all got so heated? From the replays the Holland player pushed him, then Figo slapped his hand away and then the headbutt came..

I lol'ed when I read this in some article:

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Worst acting: Figo gives Van Bommel a lame head-butt, which Van Bommel initially barely noticed, but seconds later he seems to realize that could mean a red card for Figo so he goes down theatrically, clutching his face as if his jaw fell off. Best acting: Boulahrouz bullies Figo for the ball and his elbow gets in Figo's face in the heat of the chase. Figo goes down as if gunned down by elite commandos. His reward: A sent-off for the best Dutch defender.

As for Ronaldo and the crying - I could understand you guys making fun of him if it was because of pain from the injury, but he was just emotional at not being able to stay in the game.

Meh, that ref was card happy...and the game could have gone either way as Holland had some good chances.

Also agree 100% that at around the 74 minute mark is where control was completely lost - said better here:

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And for a while things were end-to-end and the action was fierce. A break in the action was required, however, after Ricardo got injured making a save. The stop in action didn't occur right then, though, as perhaps it should have. Instead, Ivanov allowed the Portuguese to try to counter-attack, only blowing his whistle to stop the play when Deco seemed ready to run through the entire Dutch defense who weren't sure why the referee had continued with the man down at the other end. Now is where things take an ugly unsporting turn and I think Ivanov is complicit in the breakdown here. For as we all know, the proper restart for situation like this is a drop ball, but the unwritten rule is that the team who possessed the ball prior to the stoppage for injury should have the ball returned to them by their opponents. There even seemed to be some confusion on this right before the drop ball as Figo let his opponents have it, expecting that they would then send it deep either to Ricardo over over the end line. That did not happen, however, and Johnny Heitinga began to race up the field with ball into the Portuguese end. Had I been the man in the middle, I would've blown my whistle and insisted that the drop ball be taken again and that the Dutch players return it to the other side. Anybody above the age of twelve knows that this is just how it's done. And if they don't know that, then it's the referee's job to inform them about this bit of sportsmanship that you won't find in any rulebook. Rightfully pissed about what was an obvious injustice and disgraceful act by the Dutch player, Deco came in with a heavy, reckless, slide tackle to take out Heitinga. Normally, a player might be sent off for what Deco did, but probably because he was more-or-less justified in doing this as a result of Ivanov's incompetence, only a yellow card was issued.

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craziest game i've seen in ages... nice! i improved some kungu-fu moves watching this!

but serious, too bad holland and portugal playing that too violent game, players and referee totally out of control

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Originally posted by Swamper Figo was wrong for the headbutt...but I don't know how that all got so heated? From the replays the Holland player pushed him, then Figo slapped his hand away and then the headbutt came..

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Originally posted by Dj Smitty20 lucky nothing fool. All those porkcheese and dutch morons deserved most of those cards. I have developed a real hatred for many of these portuguese players, especially 75 year old Figo. His deliberate head butt should be enough for him to miss AT LEAST the next game. And how Kuyt played instead of VNR I will never understand. He is fucking useless. Portugal are in trouble with possibly FOUR starters out against England. Time to avenge 2004.

i can only hope that we finally kick england out of this tournament so you can finally shut the fuck up.

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Originally posted by MKII

that should've been red card right there. The ref was rediiculase

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someone kick this guy to hell or sumting?? what a noob!

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Holland out way too soon

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