OT: Euro04

gravey101 · #1 June 25th, 2004, 02:43 PM

I think this pictures sums the situation up nicely :-)

primitive · #2 June 25th, 2004, 02:59 PM

LOL Gravey. That�s funny

But for the record., here is another picture of the incident (not done in photoshop

)

This one is taken about 2 tenths of a second before the previous one and clearly shows:
- The stiff arm.
- The goalie in position to reach the ball (or at least challenge for it) if he was allowed to jump straight up.
- The ref just outside the box and with a clear view of the arm/incident.

gravey101 · #3 June 25th, 2004, 03:07 PM

I see the pictures, and understand your point, but they don't show what the live footage shows IMO. I don't think the goalie has a chance of challenging Campbell. He was out of position and Terry was in the way. We will probably never agree on this one but there you go. With Rooney out for the tournament it probably saved England the pain of losing to Sweden (or the Dutch) in the semi-final... we really weren't good enough, espcially in central midfield where we just kept giving up posession time after time. Anyways, hope springs eternal, and on to the 2006 WC.

[ June 25, 2004, 14:09: Message edited by: gravey101 ]

PeterD · #4 June 25th, 2004, 08:13 PM

Last post was dead right. We had no midfield
worth talking about. The defence did ok but with
no connection to the forwards we were never going
to win.

Beckham was awful, you simply cannot miss 2
penalties at this level and win. He may take a
good freekick but he's not a good captain.

Football is a tough game and you have to have a
tough captain, one you can hear all over the
pitch. We've had good captains but he isn't one
of them.

Sure we played well against Croatia and beat the
Swiss but we lack a creative spark to manufacture
goals from nothing.

oleg · #5 June 25th, 2004, 11:08 PM

I feel much better tonight. At least we lost to a team with a bunch of world class players. But French...

Now, that is a shock of the most shocking tournament ever

PeterD · #6 June 26th, 2004, 06:56 AM

We did lose to a good team but so did the French.
I would love to have seen us win euro 2004 but I
love it even more when the big teams (with all
their megastars) go out to teams like Greece.

I hope they go on to win it, but Holland must be
a hot favorite now.

henk brouwer · #7 June 26th, 2004, 11:27 PM

A miracle just happened

!!

We actually won a penalty shout-out !!!

yay!!!