OT Referee

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Shame his legs are not as broken as his feedback form.

It's only a game

It amazes me there's no appeal process. One person's decision in the heat of the moment being final surprises me.

Has he given an account of why the goal wasn't allowed? It looked OK to me, but then I don't know as much about football as he does.

The goal wasn't allowed because it was scored by England, the country who knocked the refs country out of the tournament a game earlier.

The Editors decision is final. In the end that innefectual limp lettuce of an overpaid excuse for a Captain of a football team lost it.

Hehehehe excellent.

By being unfortnate enough to be the first person to have to kick from that sandpit of a penalty spot and thus warning all the subsequent players. Blaming Beckham for missing that penalty is like blaming an F1 driver for losing the race having started with one wheel in a pothole.

On or around Fri, 25 Jun 2004 15:53:07 +0100, "David French" enlightened us thusly:

's always been thus. They could have an off-court ref and video stuff like the cricket does with the third umpire...

I believe the official take is that one of the England players was obstructing the Portuguese goalkeeper.

this is widely discredited/disbelieved. but that's the official line.

Ooooh! Sour grapes there perchance? At least we Scots didn't go, we'd have got knocked out even sooner, probably! Badger.

I guess there's 2 good things about being a colonial person that isn't really into football.

1. I don't care.
2. I don't care.

How cool is that?! Of course...I did watch the game (on the net) and was genuinly interested in the outcome. However, it was a game. If we'd won this one, we'd probably just go and trash some pubs owned by people of another european nationality when we lost in the next round.

That part of football makes me sick.

Enjoy the game. Not the violence :(

On or around Fri, 25 Jun 2004 17:04:51 GMT, "Exit" enlightened us thusly:

thought a player of his experience might be expected to note the state of the ground beside the penalty spot, even so, being as he gets to place the ball there.

You say you're a colonial and then you say 'if we'd won' - make your mind up! :-)

Perhaps he was expecting it to conform to UEFA regulations and did not need checking. Perhaps his professional experience should've also prompted him to give the ref an impromptu eye test and measure the goal posts too. . . .

Then again, expecting sympathy for the England team from a Welshman is perhaps expecting a little too much - have you taken down the Portugal flags yet? ;-)

In message , Badger writes

You did.

E> You say you're a colonial and then you say 'if we'd won' - make your E> mind up! :-)

Your parents have to come for somewhere ;-) Mine are from Stockton-on-Tees. I'm not however ;-)

I do have a UK Passport, and two birth certificates - which is interesting....

But of course - what's the point otherwise?

Scots have a different attitude. Stand shoulder to shoulder with the English in times of war. All other times the trade in shirts of the opposing team is rife (and long may that continue, as it's rather good fun).

Neither do I,

Neither (still) do I - however, I'm not English, and however (2) I do like to follow the odd game of footie as it's a bit of a laugh. What ruins it is the injustice, the total injustice, the sodding tosser refs who should be taken out into Derbyshire and horsewhipped...

Not that I take the odd game that seriously, of course...

Nor the racism. Thankfully you identify a small and increasingly insignificant faction of the 'game'.

Eh? I thought he said he was a Colonel...

;-)

Whooooooooooooooooo!

Martyn