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A bit of all 4, really.
They have been called the success story of the World Cup, and have knocked out Italy, and now Spain. But what are these freak victories down to? Let's see...
Skill:
Both South Korea and Japan have famously put a lot of training into the tournament, with their foreign manager's organising many friendly matches since no qualification to the World Cup was required. There have definitely been matches where they deserved to win, and matches where they have certainly played well, proving the huge amount of training was worth it.
Luck:
There definitely were times when it wasn't them who got the goals scored, and that other teams just made mistakes. I can't think of much else to say on htis one...
Fix:
Call me paranoiac (sp), but in the Spain and Italy games there did as though something fishy was going on...
In both games, the losing teams had two goals each disallowed from "bad officiating", and they definitely should have been counted.
The referees acted hostile towards the opponents, and were cheerful to the Koreans.
The two refs were Egyptian, a nationality not strong in FIFA therefore easily bribed.
Totti's sending off was ridiculous.
Something else:
The evidence behind this: I don't know much about footie :-D
They have been called the success story of the World Cup, and have knocked out Italy, and now Spain. But what are these freak victories down to? Let's see...
Skill:
Both South Korea and Japan have famously put a lot of training into the tournament, with their foreign manager's organising many friendly matches since no qualification to the World Cup was required. There have definitely been matches where they deserved to win, and matches where they have certainly played well, proving the huge amount of training was worth it.
Luck:
There definitely were times when it wasn't them who got the goals scored, and that other teams just made mistakes. I can't think of much else to say on htis one...
Fix:
Call me paranoiac (sp), but in the Spain and Italy games there did as though something fishy was going on...
In both games, the losing teams had two goals each disallowed from "bad officiating", and they definitely should have been counted.
The referees acted hostile towards the opponents, and were cheerful to the Koreans.
The two refs were Egyptian, a nationality not strong in FIFA therefore easily bribed.
Totti's sending off was ridiculous.
Something else:
The evidence behind this: I don't know much about footie :-D
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WòókieeMøn§†€® wrote:
> As for the penalties - I don't really understand the fuss. Okay, so
> the keeper isn't supposed to come off his line or even move before the
> ball is struck - fair enough. But, as has been discussed on here
> before, keepers do that 95% of the time and are very rarely penalised
> for it. To suddenly make a big deal out of it is silly, in my
> opinion.
I'm not making a big deal of it but people in Spain will be furious at it. The goalie coming forward at you has to put you off and it showed. I just think it was a blatantly bad mistake even with the linesman looking straight at the goalie.
> As for the penalties - I don't really understand the fuss. Okay, so
> the keeper isn't supposed to come off his line or even move before the
> ball is struck - fair enough. But, as has been discussed on here
> before, keepers do that 95% of the time and are very rarely penalised
> for it. To suddenly make a big deal out of it is silly, in my
> opinion.
I'm not making a big deal of it but people in Spain will be furious at it. The goalie coming forward at you has to put you off and it showed. I just think it was a blatantly bad mistake even with the linesman looking straight at the goalie.
Yeah, it was a bit dodgey that Spain had those goals dissallowed. I wonder if it was a fix, or a dodgey ref that should not be in the World Cup.
I didn't see the game (had a lie in!) but I saw the highlights.
I think disallowing the first goal was the correct decision, although it was for the wrong reason. I believe it was given for a SPanish player pushing into a Korean player from the free kick. That didn't seem to be a foul. However, there were two Spanish players in offside positions, so the end result was the correct one.
For the second goal, though, it was simply a terrible decision. The ball wasn't even close to being out of play, and Spain should have won one-nil.
As for the penalties - I don't really understand the fuss. Okay, so the keeper isn't supposed to come off his line or even move before the ball is struck - fair enough. But, as has been discussed on here before, keepers do that 95% of the time and are very rarely penalised for it. To suddenly make a big deal out of it is silly, in my opinion.
Having said all that... as a neutral, I'm glad Korea are through. I think they deserve it for all their efforts, and I also think it will make for a far more interesting game than Germany vs. Spain would have!
I think disallowing the first goal was the correct decision, although it was for the wrong reason. I believe it was given for a SPanish player pushing into a Korean player from the free kick. That didn't seem to be a foul. However, there were two Spanish players in offside positions, so the end result was the correct one.
For the second goal, though, it was simply a terrible decision. The ball wasn't even close to being out of play, and Spain should have won one-nil.
As for the penalties - I don't really understand the fuss. Okay, so the keeper isn't supposed to come off his line or even move before the ball is struck - fair enough. But, as has been discussed on here before, keepers do that 95% of the time and are very rarely penalised for it. To suddenly make a big deal out of it is silly, in my opinion.
Having said all that... as a neutral, I'm glad Korea are through. I think they deserve it for all their efforts, and I also think it will make for a far more interesting game than Germany vs. Spain would have!
It had to be a fix.
Two perfectly fine golden goals for Spain dissallowed and the penalty was saved as the goalkeeper had moved miles off his line even with the linesman and ref watching.
Two perfectly fine golden goals for Spain dissallowed and the penalty was saved as the goalkeeper had moved miles off his line even with the linesman and ref watching.
korea do have a lot of skill, im glad they won.
South Korea are now an impressive side and it wasn't until their friendly with England that I noticed how really solid they are as a team.
I don't think it's much of a fix like the France '98 controvarsy, but more skill and moral support from fans. They have been lucky at times like that fluky header they scored against Italy at extra time, and seeing that Italy were such sore losers, you could say that Korea deserved to win.
I don't think it's much of a fix like the France '98 controvarsy, but more skill and moral support from fans. They have been lucky at times like that fluky header they scored against Italy at extra time, and seeing that Italy were such sore losers, you could say that Korea deserved to win.
Only takes one dodgy deceison to change a result... some mentalists could say it's a fix... I wanted Spain to win but i like under-dog doing well.
The Fans!
Thier fans are great. Hopefully they will win it for thier great fans.
You need a bit of luck to win the world cup and it seems as though they have quite a bit of it! Hopefully it will carry on to take them all the way...
Although they have got through both their games via penalties and only beat Portugal becasue they had two players sent off...
Its understanable how a lot of conspiracy theories could come out of this...
Thier fans are great. Hopefully they will win it for thier great fans.
You need a bit of luck to win the world cup and it seems as though they have quite a bit of it! Hopefully it will carry on to take them all the way...
Although they have got through both their games via penalties and only beat Portugal becasue they had two players sent off...
Its understanable how a lot of conspiracy theories could come out of this...
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