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Here it is...

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well he's not going to admit to deliberately doing it. if he did that then the ban is much longer

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http://www.ihateronaldo.com/

if it has not been posted.....just for the people who hate/escape goat :D

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lc53gTIpa8A

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Looks like Ronaldo could get the best young player of the world cup award... voting ends today, Valencia is just behind him ;)

http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com/06/en/.../eligible.html

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Was the happiest moment of my life. Still, cheering on France was a little odd!

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Looks like the tactical voting might work - Valencia is now 100K votes ahead of Ronaldo :D

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Would have been funnier if they all voted for Walcott.

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Excellent! For a while there I was thinking it wasn't going to work.

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It's not going to work. FIFA decide who win, the voting is just for a shortlist.

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I disagree - it has worked, Ronaldo is no longer in top place.

If FIFA even remotely consider giving the award to Ronaldo they'll do even more damage to the bad reputation of the game than they have already done throughout this World Cup.

At this rate it won't be a matter of who qualifies so much as who can be bothered to participate...

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Top place doesn't matter, read the rules, the top three from the vote and then 3 other players chosen by FIFA form a short list from which a winner is selected. So just cause Ronaldo isn't top any more doesn't mean he won't win.

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Pretty blatant - a public vote, but no matter what FIFA still get to select the top 3!

Laughable, because it only goes to confirm that FIFA is corrupt to the core, and that the 'right' result is entirely in their gift, and hence can be paid for - like everything else about this World Cup, it is quite plain to see that FIFA's decisions (even those pertaining to the rules and refereeing guidelines) are all about making money an very little to do with football.

It's a shame, but it was high time that (international) football was relegated compared to sports where sportsmanship, rather than gamesmanship, is considered the norm.

FIFA is becoming just like the monster that is FIA...

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that's odd, ever since fifa put in those guidelines the football has been much better

i'm not sure what the problem is, FIFA have a better idea as to who was the best youngster than all the biased fans.

look at it this way:
118733 voted for leo messi - who didn't do much all tournament
46031 voted for rooney - who didn't do much all tournament and left in disgrace
19575 voted for some iranian player
4239 voted for guillermo ochoa - did he even play?
1838 voted for jansen for germany - did he even play?
1727 voted for the most overrated forward to ever play(ryan babel)
1588 voted for ustari - he didn't even play
464 voted for hedwig and the angry inch - he was crap

now would you say the fans had a better idea as to who was best?

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You've obviously watching a different World Cup to me then.
In which case, why the pretence of a 'public vote'?

As it happens, I know this 'vote' is badly flawed, because people's predilection for voting for their 'favourite' rather than 'the best'.

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yep, clearly i (and a lot of others) have