26.6.06

How Cruel & Unjust!

I just finished watching the Australia-Italy match in the second round of the ongoing world cup. What a match it was! It was full of contest, yellow cards, red cards for full 90 minutes! Each team was better than the other, the score was nil-nil till the 95th minute! Then something most bizarre happened in my Football experience. In the last minute of play, the referee gave a free kick to Italy, for a mistake that Australia did not do!! The Italian (Francesco Totti) fell down, actually jumped over the Aussie player (Lucas Neill) completely knowing (& smiling about it!!) that he is gonna be awarded with a free kick!!

And the referee Medina Cantalejo Luis turned out to be a big assh*le!! Doing the grossest act of his life, he awarded Italy a free kick in the 95th minute!! Can anything else be more cruel or harsh than this? That too when there was no foul at all! Anyone who watched the match would agree that this was anybody's game & the mistake for which the referee gave the yellow card and a free kick to Italy was not a foul at all! But the referee just gave the match away to Italy!!

Now I am 100% sure that there are kick backs in Football World Cup too. Cricket is not just the only game which has corruption!!

The world cup is mostly knock out & this is the worst way of getting knocked out for Australia.

And for Italy, it was not at all sportsmen spirit with which they won this match!! I wish that they loose their quarter final very badly. May their match be just given away to their opponent!!

3 comments:

El Bambi said...

I agree with you. I would like to see Italy's defeat in quarters, but they are still lucky: their rival is the weakest they could have in front.

Let's hope Argentina will give them a lesson of fair play. And if not, Germany...

Regards from Buenos Aires.

Prasant said...

Right, Italy is the luckiest team so far in this competition.

Prasant said...

Contrary to my beliefs Italy improved with each match & here they are; with the cup!!