Mascherano being the Argentinian answer to the Chuck Norris’s memes.
Really, shouldn’t Lorenzo Lamas be Argentina’s answer to Chuck Norris?
Or the Dos Equis commercials.
It was… I remember Voller smashing his elbow into Maradona’s face in the first half and the Mexican referee Codesal did nothing and then, shortly after Matteus had tripped Burrachaga(?) in the box Voller took a dive in the other penalty area to get what turned out to be the winning penalty.
Absolutely disgraceful refereeing.
The last time Germany and Argentina met in the World Cup was in 2010. Though I’m sure you know that, so I’m having some trouble following your point.
That was by universal acclaim the worst final ever, and Argentina did its part by hacking and slashing its way through the tournament while hunkering down in front of its goal. Awful.
He’s talking about the last time that Germany and Argentina met in a World Cup final, 1990. It was before my time, but West Germany apparently got some extremely favorable calls.
My mistake, took it to mean the last time they met in a final.
Ah. Ok. Yes, I do expect the Argentinian team to have changed since 1990 
I have vivid memories of that final and of mr Codesal and his mother, his grandmother and all his feminine ancestors…
From my memory it was Argentina that were subjected to hacking (not sure about the slashing).
Two Cameroonians sent off for fouling Cannegia in the opening match.
A Russian sent off for a rugby tackle on Cannegia.
A Yugoslav sent off for a foul on…
Cannegia.
I don’t recall a lot of dirty play from Argentina in that particular World Cup, perhaps you can enlighten me.
Is this a reference to his day job as a gynaecologist?
I once got told off on here for saying he was an ideal ref for the match because he was used to dealing with [insert word that rhymes with ‘punts’ here].
Empirical evidence!
Caniggia.
More of a reference to his mother’s day job (with al due respect to his mother, who I do not doubt was a saint and not in the least responsible for his son being a…)
It was team composed of old fading stars, injured players, and new untested players that mostly didn’t quite make the cut for a World Cup, led by a coach past his prime.
They got as far as they could, doing whatever they could, fouls and all . For anybody not rooting for Argentina they must have been absolutely odious.
But from here, it’s hard not to love them, one by one they defeated their opponents, with Maradona playing with an injured ankle the size of a tennis ball, with all the northern and richer parts of Itally against us, whistling derisively when our national anthem was played, from here it was epic. And I was 12.
Do while I can rationally understand why you think the way you think I still think that Germany should have won that game with better weapons that Mr Codesal.
You can’t just leave it like that… What’s the story?
Oh, let’s be clear: neither country should have won in my opinion. If you can’t beat that old, hobbled team without flopping like a dying fish, screw it.
It’s just a roundabout way of calling him an hijo de puta.
The quick Italian bloke with a hairband is what I should have said…
I hope you don’t turn up in the cricket threads when we’re playing Sri Lanka…