Hypocritical, anonymous silence about doping and fixed games (6 Viewers)

[Dhaliwich]

Yes 2-2 was an odd result. And yes there is some prejudice towards italians in Denmark, especially after the Totti-Poulsen incident...

But it was not a fixed game between Sweden and Denmark. What I persionally think is closer to the truth, in this matter, is that italian football fans tend to blame someone else whenever their own team fail to meet their expectations. If they had gotten 3 points from their previous games, or had a Totti that wasn't acting like a child, then they would have gone through easily, and had been able to decide their own faith.

 

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[Rami]

++ [ originally posted by Seven ] ++
Denmark - Sweden.
One of the most repulsive games ever IMO. Don't give me that "it was coincidence" shit. Everyone in the stadium was rooting for 2-2 and Sorensen just happened to make a crucial mistake in the final few minutes right?


Italy - South Corea
I don't think anyone here, bar gray, still believes that South Corea wasn't somewhat sponsered by a higher power. For me as an Azzurri fan, this was the lowest football could get.

South Corea - Spain
Pretty much the same, but what was even more disturbing in this game was that we had already had the game versus Italy. While everyone was expecting a closely monitored and fair game, we got even more "human errors".



Just wanted to let it out Erkka .

I believe it was North Korea not south that beat Italy

 

[Rami]

++ [ originally posted by Erkka ] ++


Nah, natural favouring does wonders, just watch the games of the hosts in pretty much every single major tournament, Euros and World cups. I believe that if the Koreans really fixed those games, they would have got the bronze at least.

In a talk show in Al-Jazeerah Sport, a former FIFA ref said that there was recommendations or favoring from the highest echelons of FIFA for financial purposes.:fero:

 

[Rami]

What about what happened to Cruyff in 78? Its not much of match fixing but it was still corrupt.

Cruyff got a letter treatning his family's life if he were to fly to Argentina and play....

 

[Seven]

++ [ originally posted by Rami ] ++


I believe it was North Korea not south that beat Italy

Where have you been the past 40 years?

 

[Rami]

++ [ originally posted by Seven ] ++


Where have you been the past 40 years?

Seven, drop the witty one liners, and get ur facts straight!!

http://www.worldcup.isn.pl/en/cups/1966.htm

Edit: My bad I thought you were talking about the 1966 N.Korea-Italy match.

 

[Seven]

++ [ originally posted by Rami ] ++


Seven, drop the witty one liners, and get ur facts straight!!

http://www.worldcup.isn.pl/en/cups/1966.htm

Edit: My bad I thought you were talking about the 1966 N.Korea-Italy match.

What amazes me is that you called my oneliner witty. How on earth could it have been witty for you if you didn't understand what I was joking about?

 

[Rami]

I realized my mistake and I admitted it....

Intially I thought your joke was about the Korean war....

 

[Seven]

++ [ originally posted by Rami ] ++
I realized my mistake and I admitted it....

Intially I thought your joke was about the Korean war....

I see.

 

[Seven]

++ [ originally posted by Rami ] ++
What about (4) for anyone who spells "Categorisation" instead of "Categorization"

Another one of your mistakes. You might want to stop being so pedantic towards me .

 

[Bjerknes]

The only notion in which I agree with Seven is the matches of World Cup 2002 in which South Korea really had the referees on their side...the match against Italy was certainly fishy and when the match against the Spaniards came around it was obvious something was up. Hell, even the match against the United States made me angry at the refs for favoring the home side. But to be honest, this sort of favoritism is to be expected.

 

[swag]

We'll see how well South Korea can replicate their feat four years ago without claims of home side ref bias.

They are a capable squad. But just not that capable.

 

[Rami]

++ [ originally posted by Seven ] ++


Another one of your mistakes. You might want to stop being so pedantic towards me .

Why is that aj mistake??

Anyways I have nothing against you Seven, I honestly thought you were refferring to the 66 match. anyways its silly just forget it...

 

[JCK]

++ [ originally posted by RochemBeck ] ++
The only notion in which I agree with Seven is the matches of World Cup 2002 in which South Korea really had the referees on their side...the match against Italy was certainly fishy and when the match against the Spaniards came around it was obvious something was up. Hell, even the match against the United States made me angry at the refs for favoring the home side. But to be honest, this sort of favoritism is to be expected.

Expected but not acceptable.

 

[Bozi]

++ [ originally posted by RochemBeck ] ++
The only notion in which I agree with Seven is the matches of World Cup 2002 in which South Korea really had the referees on their side...the match against Italy was certainly fishy and when the match against the Spaniards came around it was obvious something was up. Hell, even the match against the United States made me angry at the refs for favoring the home side. But to be honest, this sort of favoritism is to be expected.

you think that was bad how would the ref feel when spain won the only thing they will ever win, in spain in front of general franco and his troops. now if ever a team was gonna win a trophy due to home advantage.........

 

[Lawnchair Bes]

shit happens

 

[Desmond]

++ [ originally posted by RochemBeck ] ++
But to be honest, this sort of favoritism is to be expected.

It's no wonder of course that hosting countries often perform very well(not just in terms of eventual winners either, overall performance and placing), 'home advantage' extends beyond familiarity of setting and strong crowd support.

 

[Erkka]

nah, let's forget these controversies at World Cups and other national tournaments, let's rather concentrate on doping cases and fixed games. As I wrote on the first post, how many of you even knew about the comments made my little Mazzola? Or howcome noone comment here about Peruzzi's recent talks about pills he took at roma?! People are sore because of Juve's own scandal or what?