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If the ref deemed it dangerous play then he should have shown a card regardless of the whistle. But as the player was off-side there is no sending off for being the last man.

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Actually, I can't remember - was he even booked?

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I don't think anyone is saying he should have been sent off for taking down the last man. We're saying the tackle itself was worth sending off.

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Nope...

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No he got away with it

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It was, but the rules are the rules :shrug:

Ta muchly :)

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Again. it's not a case of 'getting away with it' - no rule was broken.

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I'm not so sure, the laws of the game, when discussing fouls and serious foul play, dont make any reference to the ball being in play.

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As John Motson said ' justice was served in the end' as it was the same two players involved in the second goal

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Well, as I understand it, it wasn't a case of the ball not being in play, it was more that play had actually stopped.

I could be wrong of course, but that's just how I see it :)

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see, when you are my age, avoiding all this stress can only be good :)

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Commentators...you are supposed to be in Germany to work. Please, instead of sunbathing between games, try and learn how to pronounce the names of players.

It's PIRLO not PEARLO!
ROSICKY only has ONE S!

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Oh and another thing. We all know how you like to talk about the Africans and their "naive" defending. But I don't really think it applies to a player who now plays in Italy, after spending 10 years at Bayern Munich where he won the European Cup.

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It could be worse apparently the American commentators think we are Germany and spend a lot of their time discussing 'Martin Rooney' :confused:

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If you have the red and white face paint, and England get knocked out..

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Up there with whoever was doing the Czech Republic - USA game.

He said something along the lines of "USA have never beaten european opponents in the World Cup." Then the next thing he said was "they will be hoping to get off to a good start as they did in 2002 where they beat Portugal 3-2"

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I see France are ready to surrender...

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well technically it was a "lunging tackle" from behind - a sending off offense, and happened after the whistle was blown - which is also a red card

the refs have been very poor so far

not forgetting pearce constantly changing how he said mahdavikia's name.

to me, the worst one is how they say gabriel heinze's surname, especially considering it's a german name(his father is german)

we don't say "hainz' baked beans" do we?

but i agree, commentator's being unable to say a player's name winds me up far more than it should :D