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[lobelia321]

I can't be for Italy. I can't be, I can't be, not since Grosso's rolling around in the grass in the 89th minute of the Australia game and the penalty that kicked Australia out of the World Cup.

The first World Cup I ever watched was 1978. I lived in Australia and got up in the middle of the night to watch it, with the sound turned down. I had put the TV in my bedroom and huddled in a blanket (June is winter in Sydney, as sophrosyne31 well knows. The game I remember had Italy in it and the players had the same hairdos they have now: long and lanky. I loved them! I was heterosexual even then, you see, at the tender age of 15. I think this was about the time I played soccer at school.

So it's not as if I've always been agin them. But this time round, when Australia qualified?

It breaks my fucking heart.

*too annoyed and depleted even to use a football icon because football icons make me feel happy but at the moment I am stinksauer* Was ist das auch mit den deutschen Bubis? Warum konnten die denn um Gotteswillen keinen Ball in dieses Tor reinbugsieren???!!! Immer auf den Mond schiessen! Und diese Schwalben, links, rechts und in der Mitte. At least, the ref wasn't affected. One guy fell down and decided to clutch his leg literally seconds later. Another one simulated an epileptic attack and then hopped up seconds later, miraculously healed, when no free kick was given.

I mean, the English are upset about diving. They should try playing Italy!!! I have to say, even back in 1978, when I loved them and found them hot, they had a dismaying propensity for the am dram histrionics.

*stomps off to bed*

Note my Australia icon. Go socceroos. :-(

Comments

[yanks02.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I didn't want them to win either after the awful game against the US. That was a damn good game today though.

I kind of didn't want Germany to win either, because they cheated in 2002. LOL.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

It was a damn good game but ARCK. I am still so pissed off about it, and it's been 16 hours!! I can't remember the Italy/US game. Was that the one where the US played better than anybody had expected and people were actually coming round to them? It's all starting to blur, especially the first round.

What' s this about cheating in 2002? I have a memory like a sieve. Or, as t'h puts it, 'like a
hoop.'

[yanks02.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it was just a rough game against us. It was more the refs that were awful than the Italian team, but I am bitter.

And in 2002, we scored against Germany but it wasn't called. The guy was standing inside the goal and we kicked it in, it hit off his hand and completely went past the line before Kahn gathered it up. SO it was either a. a handball, and thus a PK or b. a goal, since it crossed the line....but instead it was neither. Again, it's the refs that did it, but I can hold that against the German team because I can. :P

[seraphitta.livejournal.com]

They cheated? How?

[wanderlost.livejournal.com]

I understand your frustration about the Australia game and the diving, but in a way, the diving only matters if the ref allows it.

In this game, the ref was in top form and it seemed that after a while, the Italian players started to realize that it wasn't going to work, and they'd have to actually play to win. Both teams played very well, I think, and both deserved to win.

Tomorrow will be better. Ronnie will be on our t.v.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

I understand your frustration about the Australia game and the diving, but in a way, the diving only matters if the ref allows it.

Oh, exactly! Which is why the Wayne Rooney/Cristiano hate fest of English pundits and punters pisses me off so much. And the best man on the pitch yesterday was the Mexican ref; he was brilliant. After all the card horrors we've had. He was not impressed with the am drams of the absurdly rolling Italians.

Today will not be better! I am in a complete mess! I don't know who to be for; who is most likely to beat the Italians on Sunday.

At least, if Portugal lose we will get to see them on Saturday. And it will be fun and nobody will weep because third-place games are a lark.

[lhuneldaiel.livejournal.com]

Italy has an awesome defense there with Cannavaro, and Buffon is a great goalie. Germany had some very good counters but all in all I think Italy were more cunning in the end. I didn't really care who won, because both teams do things that really put me off...the schwalbes and the thumbs up for the ref when he cards someone piss me off.

What happened with Australia was sickening, and totally undeserved.

Am looking forward to two more matches with Cristiano *grin* but will have to contain my fangirly squeeing at work ( I work in a bar) because the Dutch are so against Portugal after being kicked out of a Tournament twice in a row by the Portugese...hahaha.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Lehmann was also a great goalie!! The only problem was that often there was only Lehmann between goal and ball -- where was the bloody German defense???? *is extremely annoyed* But the refs was unimpressed with all the falling over so I thought he was excellent. I hope we'll see him again on Sunday.

Ah, so it was you who said that the Dutch are in an anti-Portugal frame of mind! I just mentioned that to someone and I couldn't remember where I'd read it. That NL/P match was such a massacre and disaster. After that, I also was in a bad mood. (This World Cup is not good for my health!) It did give us weeping!Cristiano, though...