# World Champions who were not the best. **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [November 6, 2011, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-champions-who-were-not-the-best/602062 "2011-11-06T15:39:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![RedFury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ec9cab/32.png) [@RedFury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedFury)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2011, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-champions-who-were-not-the-best/602062/81 "2011-11-13T17:06:14Z")
> [@Snarky\_Kong](#): > > Just watched the linked video. While it does show diving by the Italians, it also shows Korea get away with an elbow to the face that should have been a straight red and multi-game ban, a PK that resulted in the Italian player being sent off, a kick to the back of the head that was possibly unintentional, but still should have resulted in a yellow at least, and a horribly blown offside call that would have resulted in an Italian goal. > > So, from that video, which isn’t even very good we have Korea basically being gifted two goals and a 2 man advantage (11v10 instead of 10v11). Yeah… And then you have a perfectly legal goal disallowed vs Spain (balled ruled out of play when it clearly wasn’t even close), and yet another outrageous offside call that would have resulted in yet another Spanish goal… ---
**Author:** ![amarone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@amarone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarone)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2011, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-champions-who-were-not-the-best/602062/82 "2011-11-17T10:23:33Z")
> [@kurtisokc](#): > > I’m surprised no one has mentioned the 1980 olympic hockey tournament. Post 41. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-champions-who-were-not-the-best/602062.md?page=4)