Sunday 27 June 2010

World cup, again.

I thought i was overreacting.

Germany did score 4 goals, after all. They're a good side. But they had an extra player on the pitch. One with a whistle, and the inability to see.

Now i'm watching Argentina play Mexico. I like argentina, really i do. Every world cup, after England go out, i switch over to argentina. But this time i'm cheering for mexico.

Why?

Because argentina are playin with an extra man too.

Maybe these linesman arent sure what OFFSIDE means. Its ok, alot of people dont know.

I can see the headlines now.

"Germany and Argentina go through to the quarter finals; two goals from referee sends England and Mexico packing!"

We should just ask FIFA to stop the competition now; just randomly pick a referee, blindfold him and ask him to pick a country out of a hat. It'd be fairer than the current fiasco.

World Cup

I wasnt really gonna do this. I thought it was just me, feelings of resentment left over from what was a bad english season of refereeing. But no. Its official. This world cup has been the worst one in my memory.

Granted, i've only watched practically every match in only two other world cups (thats 2002 and 2006), and there have been a few good games of football thus far (especially from the US, i thought, its so sad they lost last night to ghana). But what has really screwed this up is the referees.

Do they all have mental disabilities? Or some sort of physiological blindness? I really cant remember moaning how poor the referee was after EVERY SINGLE GAME like now. But i wasnt even gonna mention it in my blog. I was gonna give them the benefit of the doubt. I thought, boy, you're just overreacting, they're not that bad.

Breaking news: They suck balls.

I just watched an awesome goal from frankie disallowed, because the the linesman got distracted by that bright flag he was holding and forgot to WATCH THE FUCKING GAME. The ball was atleast two feet over the line. Really.

Can these people be fired? Sued? This is no joke, this is the THE biggest competition of THE biggest sport in - wait for it - the whole fucking world. And the people in charge are just idiots. If you've been watching the games, you know. The referees seem to have forgotten how to do their jobs.

I'll be joined by a lot of people in my disappointment if England lose this game because of this. I love the sport so much, but things like this make you want to tear your hair out in despair. And its not an isolated incident, almost every game has had an incident. This case isnt even arguable. The English football team has been robbed a goal. A perfectly valid, frankly quite awesome goal. They might as well have started the game 1 - 0 to Germany.

Fifa needs to fire these people.

I hope rooney can score a hattrick and save the linesman by making his momentary blindness negligible. Cause alot of people dont like him at the moment.