Shoot the Refs
I'm watching the US-Ghana World Cup match. The US has looked spotty, but Clint Dempsey just scored a beautiful goal off a cross from DeMarcus Beasley to tie the score at 1-1. The euphoria didn't last long. The ref has decided to intervene and give Ghana an extra goal just for the hell of it, calling a foul in the box against the US and giving Ghana an unmissable PK. As the replays clearly showed, there was no foul, not even close. You would have to be either a blind crackhead or a Bush administration official to be that clueless. This isn't the ref's first missed play. He's levied yellow cards for non-existent fouls, given Ghana free kicks on obvious dives, and generally hastled the US side. Now, maybe he's pissed off at George Bush and taking it out on our boys, which I could understand. . . but not excuse. Look at the polls. We hate Bush too. Let our boys play, you America-hating sack of crap.
posted by tenaciousmcd @ 10:51 AM
3 Comments:
One of the BBC analysts is a footballer who's from...Ghana. The main announcer asked him at halftime if the penalty was key. The first words out of his mouth. 'It was not a penalty'. There was universal agreement by all the analysts, and even from the BBC website that it wasn't a penalty.
It was a preposterous decision by a ref who had already made a series of questionable calls in the Australia match.
It's a real shame that the Americans play was such crap against the Czechs, since their last two games showed that they deserved to make it to the next round.
That was a massive, momentum shifting call. But I will say this. The US had plenty of chances to even things in the second half, and they couldn't finish. Landon Donovan did little except misplay a couple of key free kicks, and Claudio Reyna really screwed up royally to allow the first Ghanean goal. Bruce Arena fielded a way too conservative line up. The ref gave Ghana an undeserved assist, but the US could have played better too.
Yeah, that call really sucked. O well, at least the Azzurri of Italia won their match and won't have to face Brazil in the next round.
Post a Comment
<< Home