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Ivory Coast were robbed.

Controversial penalty sends Greece through | Irish Examiner

You can see the defender lining up to play the ball and then Samaras strikes him whilst running for the ball from behind him.

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Was a terrible decision. Just another example of the sub par refereeing at this tournament.

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First in Holland, then in England, now in Brazil

Intergnashional


(Borrowed from the guardian blog)

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Hopefully someone in the Prem will knock a few of those teeth out next season!

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I have a TV and at first I thought it was a penally, largely because the ref was very well placed to make the call. But on the replay he wash't even touched by the defender.

Bring on Instant Replays on penalty calls (at least) for the next Cup.

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I thought the final England game was the number one most boring game of the tournament to date. I ended up watching the Italian game instead after 60 mins

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As Novo stated, the Greek player deliberately dragged his foot down the side of the Ivory Coast players leg to draw a penalty and when that didn't work he tripped over his own foot.

Disgraceful and game changing. Plays like that just fuel the fire amongst the non-fans that the game is full of diving and cheating (and biting).

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Looks a foul to me.
https://vine.co/v/Mtnxa6HXg7p

He's been tripped in a situation where it was bound to happen.

"21" sticks out his leg. It's not a natural running stride and he's not even trying to play the ball. There's only one outcome from that and it's impeding his opponent.

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Spot on!

Someone had the audacity to call me with 10 minutes to go during the England-Uruguay game.

What a *****ing arseh*le!!! Who does that??? Oh wait a cradle!

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What was the result of that game? I missed it.

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Ann Coulter - Official Home Page

So this lady (who ever she is) has caused quite the storm in the US with her latest article:

America's Favorite National Past Time: Hating Soccer

It's making quite the waves on social media.

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Haha....very funny.

I'm surprised you don't know of her.

The woman who said the 9/11 widows enjoyed their husbands' deaths. After calling them "witches who acted as if the terrorist attacks happened only to them" she told Reuters news that they were "professional victims."