Comments on: It’s Over

By: michaelyap

michaelyap — Wed, 07 Jul 2004 15:28:33 +0000

I wonder if Dan Rubin ever talk football? Americans never seem to like football. The whole world is watching the Euro Cup, and the coming Copa America as well. During those weeks, what were they doing? :-)

By: Ricardo Vidal

Ricardo Vidal — Sat, 03 Jul 2004 07:43:32 +0000

First of all, England vs Portugal was a fair and square win. It was a foul in the goalkeepers box, which means: NO GOAL.

Beckham said the grass wasnt good? Remember this: the portuguese also shot from the same spot!

As for Holland, like someone said before, the dutch didnt even shoot one ball at the portuguese goal, so… with or without the ref, no chance. Ah… and Figo was on fire! :)

As for Greece, never having scored a goal in a European Cup, they must feel like gods. Their soccer sucks but somehow they make it along the way. I was rooting for the chzecs, but now it’ll be a pay-back type of thing.

And like a famous brandname is spreading around: “Impossible is nothing”. Let the roteiro ball tell the story! :)

By: Jessi

Jessi — Fri, 02 Jul 2004 22:16:16 +0000

Allright, we sucked. Big time.

By: Micah Goulart

Micah Goulart — Fri, 02 Jul 2004 18:23:42 +0000

How did the mouse taste??

Greece is in the finals. Portugal gets a rematch, something they are dying for.

I’ll be rooting for Portugal. Holland didnt even score against Portugal, so there’s no way they should be complaining. Out of 5 games, they only won one game in the regular 90 mins. You have to be able to put away those games.

Brazil vs Portugal — World Cup 2006 finals. Scolari vs Parreira. A Brazilian showdown.

By: Reinier

Reinier — Fri, 02 Jul 2004 11:02:00 +0000

This tournament was all about the referees against Holland.

To be honest, they played very bad, but Greece also played very bad. So even with some luck and very bad play, you can reach the finals. And that’s where we would have been, if it wasn’t for the stupid referees…

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 01 Jul 2004 23:15:12 +0000

I didn’t watch it, but I can sympathise — as Thalwil said, there’s only one Collina (unfortunately). So damn annoying.

Oh, and any England supporters: http://www.ursmeier.ch/

By: Menc

Menc — Thu, 01 Jul 2004 18:56:23 +0000

Blaming the referee? I can agree with that as an England supporter. All Deco had to do was fall over and it was a freekick. And that’s without mentioning our disalllowed goal.

By: Didier Hilhorst

Didier Hilhorst — Thu, 01 Jul 2004 15:04:43 +0000

Ok, first, I know it’s rather cheap to blame the referee. I know we did not lose because of the referee. I also know that Frisk is usually a good referee, but in this case he really was behaving like a home referee. That said, Portigal was the stronger team.

And yes, Robben did not play his best match. He did poorly on the left side this time. Though he had two Portuguese defensers around him all the time. I also think the yellow card was justified. Dutch footballers need to learn how to make a theatrical dive. They suck at it.

If Greece beats the Czech I’m going to eat my mouse. I love the Greek but there’s no way they have to talent to beat Nedved, Barros and the like. No way. We played our best match against the Czech, heck I would even say that was the best match of the tournament so far.

By: Thalwil

Thalwil — Thu, 01 Jul 2004 14:06:03 +0000

My sympathies. Portugal have played well and deserve to be in the final — but so do Holland and England, who were both treated rather unfairly by ‘home referees’… there’s only ONE COLLINA…

Yes, i’m expecting great things of Holland in 2006… Holland-England final anyone? The only question is: who gets the honour of beating Brazil and who gets the fun of thrashing Germany… :)> (my only complaint about Holland this year is that they didn’t win against Duitsland)…

By: Aleksandar

Aleksandar — Thu, 01 Jul 2004 12:31:20 +0000

Portugal has reached its maximum. Czech are by far the best team in the Euro 04 and they will certainly win. Nedved is good as always, as well as other guys in the middle, but what is most important is that BaroÂš is playing extremly well. He never played like this in Liverpool, which probably proves the point that Liverpool need either different coach or different players in the middle.