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I think that's better explained by those people being ignorant idiots than anything else. Germany are definitely better than England, have outperformed them in every tournament since 2004 and you only need to look at any of their competitive performances for the past few years to see that.
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grecian
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Well no doubt he'll say if Scott Parker had played we would win.
mind you he'd of said it in a bizzarre patois and ridiculous verbiage, that I would of lost the will to live half way though
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Ikki
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On paper, England have a great team. But that's only really on paper. Even though they romped through the qualifiers, they never played anything like the kind of football Germany did today. On the other hand, Germany have very talented but young players. Inexperience at this level is a big of a ?. But they were awesome, no doubt.
silentstriker
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Nah, I'd rather just watch MLS then. Everyone pretty much says it's harder to succeed in the EPL than any other league (players who've played in both).
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Haha this isn't even remotely true. English sides have been famous for having the best defences in Europe for years now.
Ikki
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You're off the mark - way off. EPL is probably the best league in the world and has been domineering in Europe for the past half decade. The thing is, there are a lot of foreign players and few English players that play together in one club. Completely opposite to Spain where most of the squad comes from 2 teams (Barca and Real).
Scaly piscine
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It's football, anything can happen in a game and the first goal or lead is always massively important. That's why the disallowed goal was so important.
Brazil are about the only side who can get away with these sorts of things going against them. Germany themselves have already lost a game in this tournament.
silentstriker
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That's three goals from teams I support that have been disallowed.
England plus USA have scored a total of eight goals, plus three disallowed. They should have scored 38% more goals than they did. When 38% of your total score is disallowed, surely that's reason enough to do something about it and bring in some technology?
England plus USA have scored a total of eight goals, plus three disallowed. They should have scored 38% more goals than they did. When 38% of your total score is disallowed, surely that's reason enough to do something about it and bring in some technology?
Pratters
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I think the opposite is true if you are talking about la liga or seria a v epl.
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The goal only would have reverted the game back to how it was when it began though, with Germany better than England and therefore more likely to progress. It's a blow for sure, but it only cost England about a 30% chance of getting through. They were still underdogs on account of being the inferior team.
Football has a lot of luck in it of course, but in launching inquests into refereeing decisions or managerial balls-ups I think it'll be forgotten that they've gone out to the second or third best team in the world.
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Jono
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No CWers really think India can win the WC either but they cop it based on outside fans.
But a team full of star who underperforms, a ****ty media who build up their team and then pummel them. A country which blames the umpires/refs and coaches from other countries. Fans who boo the team.
Similarities for sure.
silentstriker
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Seria A? Is that Italian? I'd rather punch myself in the balls than support Italy ever again - their dives were disgraceful.
Ikki
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You've kinda got a point there. A goal in football is an unbelievably important thing. It's not like Basketball where one bad call can be made up. It's a travesty and there are no excuses for the kind of thing that happened today. Why can there be no goal-line technology? Why can't they go in at half-time and say "that was a goal, it's 2-2 now"? Because of a decision like that these guys have to start over again and come back 4 years later. Ridiculous stuff here for the world's game.
silentstriker
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Haha, part of the reason why I feel kinship with the English team. Too many similarities. Rich but useless teams, massive blame game, and people on CW have to cop it for the rest of the fans.
Pratters
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Really? English teams are not really doing well in the UEFA Cup if you compare - the tournament which really tests the depth of a league.
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You'll find very few fans against technology per se. There's a few logistical difficulties- the prank-decision at the end of the Slovenia match could never really have been reversed- but with regards to the one today, something has to be done. There's nothing we can do but rant about it on interwebz forumz.