His first yellow came after he was fouled when about to cross into the Bayern box. If the ref had been doing his job, Raphael wouldn't have flicked out, but he did and a yellow is the only choice. But it should really've been a yellow for both players and our freekick.
His second was very, very soft considering how freely the ref had let the game run. He put his hand briefly on Ribery's shoulder, a soft foul at worst. The ref had no intention of pulling out another yellow until the Bayern team starting bullying him. After the lesson Raphael had dished out to Ribery in the first half you can understand his desperation to get the poor lad off the pitch.
Yeah, Fergie should probably know better than to speak his mind these days, but fucking hell, German and Italian FOOTBALL TEAMS are cunts, we all know that. If they're not rolling around on the floor they're signalling the 'card him' sign to the referee every chance they get.
That has nothing to do with German/Italian PEOPLE though, at least not to me. English players/league play at best - fast and direct football, at worst - dull and unskillfull football. I wouldn't take offence if the France manager said in an interview when questioned about the fact we'd played route one for an entire half, 'typical English', I'd laugh, it's football...and it's true.
When the World Cup rolls around, we're always reminded that there are national football teams who whine, fake, protest a lot more than we're used to seeing.
I for one will be generalizing at literally every chance I get - I might even paint my nose purple.Statistics: Posted by He Who Hears Horses — Fri Apr 09, 2010 3:59 am
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