What a shame.
Yet another game result destroyed by poor refereeing. Australia loses in the last five seconds of regulation because the ref gives an undeserved penalty to Italy.
Yes, my Italian best friend Luigi will say that they deserved it after the way they were abused in the loss to Korea in 2002 and the undeserved red card given to Materrazzi at the end of the first half. In some sense he would be right.
But he would also be wrong. After all, two wrongs don't make a right. This was a terribly unfair result to an underdog Australian team that was playing without their best player against a World Cup favorite.
It would be one thing if the penalty was deserved but it wasn't. How many more games are we going to see spoiled by poor work by refs?
I'm praying that England v. Portgual is at least well referreed so that both sides can feel that the game was decided by the players and not the officials. Sad, isn't it?
Posted by artandscience at June 27, 2006 06:22 AM