Rivaldo you lowlife B-class acting degenerative piece of shit! How can you possibly muster the nerve to act like that ball hit you in the head when everyone, yes even the blind woman up at row 7245, saw it hit you on the leg. You waste of carbon cat-puke smelling immoral retard! The very fact that you have more talent than 99% of the players just makes your slime ball manure stinking pathetic cheating fake all that much worse.
You are sooooo lucky I wasn’t the Turkish player you got send off because after that I would have kicked you where it really hurts, consequences be damned. For justice I’d stomp your testicles into the ground where they would lie together with my admiration for Brazilian soccer, never shall it see the sun again.
Harsh but probably fair. And the Referee should have had the balls to book him. This sort of thing is the result, in part, of gutless refereeing. IMHO.
The whole incident marred an otherwise great game.
It was said before the tournament that players would be fined for diving. Would this count and are they allowed to do it to players who weren’t booked at the time?
I thought there was a big fanfare over the new crackdown on hceating and diving. Good to see it counted for nowt. Yes, it was naughty to kick the ball at the player. Naughty naughty Unsal, no baklava for you. But the deception on cheating in falling to the floor, clutching one’s face when the ball has hit one in the leg?
Oi, Rivaldo - NO!
But what gets me is that the fucking assistant ref was arms length from the whole thing. Surely he could see Rivaldo blatently dissembling?
And it’s not like that’s the only bad decision that went against the Turkish team. The foul on Luziao was outside the area, as the ref would have seen if he’d been paying the slightest bit of attention. So, no penalty needed there.
Then, in the last minute, the ref feels he ought to give a possibly dubious free kick to Turkey to make up for the dodgy penalty… (when will refs learn that no wrong decisions would be better than two) … but can’t be bothered to make the Brazilians stand 10 yards back from it.
We must clone Pierluigi Collina. It’s the only way.
Uh…yeah, I probably should have explained what happened. A Turkish player booted a ball towards Rivaldo while the play was dead. The Turk probably deserved a second yellow card (the same as a red). The ball hit Rivaldo in the knee with a tiny bump and Rivaldo collapsed and held his hand to his face like he had been hit in the head by a freight train. Pissed me off to no end. He should have been sent off as well (after getting his testicles stomped into the ground, naturally).
Damit I hate this kind of behaviour in Soccer, kills the sport in the long run.
Two things struck me as I watched the match, and Tansu has mentioned them both. Firstly,
And,
However, I disagree with this:
Hey, guy makes two shitty decisions. Why not let the third be for Turkey?
It pees me off as I was really rooting for the Turks. I sooooooooooooo would like one of these “nobody-knows-it” teams to whup “I-am-so-great-and-I-know-it” booty.
No, no, what I mean is that it’d be nice if the ref hadn’t made ANY shitty decisions, rather than one poor decision against you, then one against the opposition, etc. But it’d also be nice if I had a million quid. Heigh ho.
Something that pisses me off is the way that the studio of BBC summarisers seem to worship Brazil, regardless of their actual performances. Turkey were fucking good in that game, and the goal was brilliant, pure class. Yet all Hansen et al could say is how godlike Brazil were. This Brazilian team isn’t as good as the great Brazil teams of the 1970s, and I wish they wouldn’t pretend that they are.
Here here. Tough shit that it wasn’t you in the commentary box. I would’ve enjoyed the conclusion far better. Oh well, let’s hope they (Turkey) keep things cool for the next two.
Apparently, FIFA has fined Rivaldo $7,000 for his ridiculous theatrics He admitted to the farce in a quote at the bottom. Frankly, they should have suspended him. Nonsense like this damages the integrity of the game.
Only in soccer do players, in an attempt to draw a foul, writhe around on the ground as if they’ve been shot, then pop up, obviously unhurt, to continue play.
I agree. Players won’t stop diving until it really hurts.
The other thing that pissed me off about the Turkish player being sent off is that his first yellow card was bullshit, too. He got a yellow card for asking the ref to give a yellow for diving. The Brazilian (I can’t remember who) dove, but the Turkish guy gets a yellow for dissent when all he really did was give the diving sign.
I’m still waiting for thesmokinggun.com to post the memo FIFA must have circulated setting the ground rules for Brazil’s cakewalk into at least the Semifinals.
I second the idea that he should have been suspended. Until stuff like that is severly penalized we’ll probably see it again and again…
“Only in soccer”. Heh, that got me thinking about how funny it would be if a player did that in the NHL. His own team mates would beat him up fer crying out loud…
Coldfire, it’s true that players in other sports take dives, Basketball definitely and Football to some extent, but (at least in the big 4 American sports) they don’t roll around on the ground clutching a body part in agony in the hopes of drawing a foul. Falling down when you could have stayed on your feet, or exaggerating the effect of contact is one thing, acting like your leg has been shattered into a million pieces is quite another.
TV makes it way worse because they always focus in on the guy who’s grabbing his shin and crying to the referee. It’s embarassing.
Cheesesteak, fair enough. The theatrical component in football is indeed something that separates it from the other examples.
Let’s hope this world cup can set a precedent at stopping this bullshit once and for all. It’s way overdue. Using a high profile player as an example is more than justified.
Fucking spoiled primadonna that thinks he can get away with everything. And if you give him a lousy $7K fine, he apparenly CAN, Fifa idiots.
Having contemplated this situation for many a day now, I believe suspension is a little too much for the guy. At first I wanted him out cause I thought, “bastard stole our game!”… but I dunno… suspension? No… too harsh, man.
However, there are a coupla things that could be done to him to make him stop.
Maybe pouring honey all over his testicles and shoving him in a nest of bees. In Hawaii. Sunshine, girls… nuts are stingin’ - nothing like having a boner with two fried and swallowed meatballs.
I believe I have a case for FIFA. I shall write to them tommorow.