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But the winking indicates he's pleased about the sending off, which isn't very sportsmanlike. (Well of course all the Portuguese were happy about it but it's not in good taste to go celebrating :p:

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Featherflare

---------------------Lehmann------------------
Zambrotta----Cannavaro--Marquez----Grosso/Lahm
--------------------Mascherano----------------
---------Rodriguez-----------------Zidane------
--------------------Riquelme-------------------
--------------Tevez----------------------------
---------------------------Klose----------------

Subs
---------------------Ricardo----------------
Lahm-------Ferdinand------Ooijer--------Boka
Robben------Rosicky------Fabregas--------J.Cole
--------------Totti----------------------------
---------------------------Torres----------------

Reply 4447

lovelee-jublee

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#2(Laika)

can we just move on now?.......

Tell that to justfarhan, I think the majority of people have been trying to say that through a large portion of this thread!

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dh00001

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so does all this can we move on talk mean we're not going to lynch him anymore? :frown:

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mermania

Ronaldo for Brazil scored 3, and he was pretty damn ****.

He's a striker, no? Makes quite a difference.

mermania

you shouldn't be praising them just for being brave to DO it, someone HAS to. It takes bottle to slam a penalty into the top corner when it's so easy that you could miss completely. It doesn't take nearly as much to go for the hopeful "at least it was on target" tame shots of Lampard and Gerrard.

They were brave enough to say they wanted to take the pens.

mermania

so you admit the stamping was appalling and deserved a red then? But you're just annoyed that Ronaldo thought so too and told the ref? A bit of a trivial complaint???!?!

I wouldn't go as far as calling an accident 'appaling', and accidents don't deserve red cards. Furthermore, Rooney was fouled around 3 times in the space of 5 seconds before his team mate got him sent off.

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ba_ba1

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calderstonesLFC

Zidane,Maniche hasnt been bad,Totti,Hargreaves

Totti??

Reply 4451

lovelee-jublee

Why does this bother you so much??? I never thought I'd say this but... 'It's just a game!' - are you at any way personally involved in the match? I don't think so, so why are you so adamant you are correct? There is no element of betrayal whatsoever - players will be loyal to the team they are playing for - in Portugal v England, Ronaldo is representing his country not his club, something I would hold far dearer to me than wanting to stay on the side of my club team mate.

Meh, it bothers me because my country lost and it was because of Ronaldo. That's why, end of.

Otherwise I couldn't give a **** what Rooney and Ronaldo do to eachother, they could go kill eachother for all I care.

Why was that 'betrayal' so significant to me? Because it doesn't happen much (as far as I know - it never has before) and because it did happen, it cost us the game.

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justfarhan

They were brave enough to say they wanted to take the pens.

They missed every single one except for Hargreaves, which Ricardo even got a touch to. I think mermania meant they didn't 'have the bottle' to score the penalty, not just simply take the penalty.

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forkwise

They missed every single one except for Hargreaves, which Ricardo even got a touch to. I think mermania meant they didn't 'have the bottle' to score the penalty, not just simply take the penalty.

I don't see the difference? You opt to take a penalty because you're confident and want to score.

No? Sorry if I'm wrong.

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Scoring a penalty involves a lot of confidence, not just power, accuracy... And I think the list of penalty takers is one already made so some of the players were probably nervous at the moment.

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789654123

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LH

If we're talking World Cup form rather than general ability, Ronaldinho should be no where near the team. By anyone's standards he was poor, but by his own standards he was ****e.

I don't agree that Ronaldinho played poor this world cup. He played really good during their France defeat match but I admit he didn't play as good as he could usually he is on a higher standard but we can't just note him off like that.

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789654123

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ba_ba1

exactly, and why is rooney in his team aswell!

I know Rooney didn't score goals for us but I think he gave us more momentum and higher expectancy in the games.

Reply 4457

Yes, he plays loads better for Barca, but this is a world cup team, not team of players that were in this world cup :p:

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