For Angered England Fans

[GameOverRob]

He deserves to die

[tiagosilva29]

i bet you are only saying that becasue your Portuguese?

Or maybe because some of you don't know the rules of the game...

As per The Neowin's Official Euro 2004 Thread:

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@Frankenchrist: Again with the "diving" story? <g> You seem like a broken record. Always saying the same thing. Whatever. The referee was right to disallow Sol Campbell's header. Terry clearly put his arm across the goalie to impede him and the rules state that the goalkeeper cannot be touched inside the box. You can't prevent the goalkeeper from jumping. Rules are rules.

It's always the same story, same old excuses. Blame the ref, the penalty spot, Portugal had an extra day to prepare, etc. It's always the same with english supporters. What a bad loosers! No elses whines so much! Once again, everything conspired against England... LOL!

England was simply beaten by a better team. Portugal made a great match. You sucked on penalties. We didn't. Period. Better luck next time.

Enough.

For those who still think that England was robbed

Sorry if they were posted earlier  :blush:

Now, STFU with the conspiracy talking, K?

KTHX.

[jdb264c]

Ursmeier is in the running for the final too.

True, but I think that if we (Sweden) don?t beat Holland or loses against forthcoming Portugal, Anders Frisk will be the referee in the final, he?s supposed to be the next "big-guy" when Collina quits after this tournament.

[Steven P. Administrators]

Fair enough about the disallowed goal, so why wasnt the goal keeper carded for challenging Becks before his penalty. Not only is it poor sportsmanship but also against the rules of the game.

The referee was poor, on both sides but England had to bear the weight of most of his poor decisions.

Portugal are a good team and England clearly were in trouble after Rooney AND Scholes had to come off, that took away our chances because we had a team that would of beaten Portugal had they stayed.

[Schmoove]

Fair enough about the disallowed goal, so why wasnt the goal keeper carded for challenging Becks before his penalty. Not only is it poor sportsmanship but also against the rules of the game.

The referee was poor, on both sides but England had to bear the weight of most of his poor decisions.

Portugal are a good team and England clearly were in trouble after Rooney AND Scholes had to come off, that took away our chances because we had a team that would of beaten Portugal had they stayed.

Ricardo never touched Beckham (at least not that I know off), it was just verbal intimidation........ it's a part of the game.

If you can't handle that you shouldn't take a penalty in the first place.

[kioria]

Stupid english.

[Steven P. Administrators]

Ricardo never touched Beckham (at least not that I know off), it was just verbal intimidation........ it's a part of the game.

If you can't handle that you shouldn't take a penalty in the first place.

Whats done is done, Becks should of seen the penalty spot but was too busy concentrating on the moment and ignoring the verbal intimidation from the goalkeeper.

I guess David James gets the thumbs up for at least showing the Portugese footballers a little respect because he didn't get all upset at them taking their time to correct the penalty spot did he?

[Steven P. Administrators]

Stupid english.

from our (very fair) forum rules...

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or this stupid Englishman might have to impose our ruleset on you ;)

[dpanda]

i believe it was fair as both sides got pretty bad judgement on alot of things.

[RadishTM Veteran]

LOL!, I was just reading Teletext on BBC1 and they reported that the referee got in excess of 30,000 death threat e-mails because a newspaper printed his addy :rofl:

Radish?

[jdb264c]

LOL!, I was just reading Teletext on BBC1 and they reported that the referee got in excess of 30,000 death threat e-mails because a newspaper printed his add:rofl:l:

LOL, isn?t sport just too cute!

[theyarecomingforyou]

I guess David James gets the thumbs up for at least showing the Portugese footballers a little respect because he didn't get all upset at them taking their time to correct the penalty spot did he?

Agreed. He was a true sportsman, unlike Ricardo who was trying to push his luck and was generally an unpleasant character.

[tiagosilva29]

Agreed. He was a true sportsman, unlike Ricardo who was trying to push his luck and was generally an unpleasant character.

:huh:

[ad345zAdZ0d9_]

Stupid english.

Convict

[Slimy]

england was the better team

portugal was the home team

result, obvious

[digitalslacker]

go ireland!

[tiagosilva29]

england was the better team

portugal was the home team

result, obvious

the better team?

uhm, uhm... :shifty:

[h00nta]

the game of football needs dodgy decisions, it's what gives us all somat to moan about and/or wind up our m8's with - what the game dose't need are players who fall over like somat outta swan lake every time an opponent even looks like going past them, from what i could see the england team couldn' t stay on the ball and the portugese couldn't stay on their feet.