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The chances of him being paralyzed from such an innocuous hit (had it been 2.5cm above) is laughably infinitesimal.
Alexis Sanchez played better than him during the 2013/14 season and the WC, and Barcelona are selling Sanchez off to Arsenal.
Brazil winning this on heart alone and then lose the finals to holland or argelina
We will beat Brazil and have to hope we face Argentina on sunday. I have a bad feeling if we have to play Holland.
The WC Final ratings will take a dive if it's GER vs NED.
Maybe in Brazil. Not world wide.
Lol why didn't you get it
LOL. I still can't picture Robben and Muller going for a loose ball...
Brazil trying to get Silva back!
http://www.theguardian.com/football/...world-cup-2014
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Silva was dumb and deserved the yellow card. He won't play. RM tried the same with Alonso in the CL and it didn't work.
It would be utterly ridiculous if that works. Silva's yellow was the correct call. That Spanish ref made many, many mistakes but in this case he was right. Colombia's goalkeeper wanted to make the game fast, starting a counter attack. It was a tactical foul by Silva which had to be punished with a yellow card. It wasn't an accident by Silva (as he claims it was), Slive knew exactly what he was doing. Sure, as this completely incompetent ref was missing a strict line in this game that yellow seems to be sort of unfair, but according to the rulebook the booking was correct. It was a tactical foul to stop a Colombian counter-attack and such a foul has to be penalized penalized with a yellow card, no matter if the foul occurred in midfield or still in the penalty box of Colombia (as it was the case).
Additionally, the FIFA would only embarrass themselves by nullifying Silva's booking. In 2006 the FIFA banned the German Thorsten Frings after the quarterfinals against Argentina because he allegedly punched Julio Cruz in that huddle after the game. Cruz himself stated after being asked if that is true that Frings didn't do anything. The ref didn't see anything either. Nevertheless, Frings, who was playing an excellent tournament back then, got suspended for the semi-final against Italy (btw, that alleged punch was brought up by two Italian journalists). If the FIFA now decides to not ban Silva despite the ref booking him (factual decision), the FIFA could be accused to be biased and to apply double standards. I really hope the FIFA knows this and doesn't go that far. Silva's booking was only based on his own idiocy, not on a mistake by the ref. Silva though should have seen a booking before for countless times fouling James pretty hard. However, the ref didn't book him for those fouls, which is also a factual decision.
The only thing I want on Tuesday is a fair game and nothing else (as I already stated in another thread). If Brazil wins fair and square, I will be the first one on this board to congratulate.
Just hope the ref call it fair and how it is. Brazil fouled 96 times this WC i read today.
Fernandinho is a guy that does not get booked somehow for example... So they have no right to complain when their players get fouled (and the fact that Neymar rarely gets rid of the ball at the right time does not help).
True. It was really unfortunate that Neymar got fouled that badly. That Colombian player deserved a red card for that. But Neymar also had his share of fouling. Against Croatia he should have been sent off for elbowing Modric into the throat. He looked where Modric stood, turned his head and then swung his elbow. That wasn't an accident, that was on purpose.
It might in the USA. Americans are resentful towards the superior Germans
That brasil 2002 squad, I miss those days
Edit: FIFA will never remove that yellow from Silva because of the implications, but it was a bull yellow for sure lol 100% foul, that is not a yellow. Bad call
Last edited by ffadicted; 07-06-2014 at 02:10 PM.
If you hinder the opponent to launch a counter attack it's always a yellow card according to the rulebook. It's Silva's own fault that he got that one. Deal with it.
One of the most obvious Yellow Cards of the Tournament. He even tried kicking the ball into Net afterwards. Truly embarrassing
Wasn't aware of the "keeper throwing the ball up" rule (aren't there some internet clips of players doing it and getting away with it?)...obviously Silva wasn't either.
Brazil was lucky Cesar didn't get a red but this way it will be better to beat them with all his crying and weeping.
Brazil-Argentina would have better ratings than Germany-Holland anywhere in the World except Germany and Holland, tbh.
Obviously. Brazil & Argentina are the only teams on this Planet worth a beyond Europe. People know in 4 years it will probably be 4 European Semi-Final teams and 6 outta 8 Quarter-Final.
Americans are resentful towards Europe
Schweinsteiger:
He's not wrong...I am all for a healthy hardness but some of Brazil’s fouls were over the limit. Brazilians are not only football magicians, hard tackling is part of their game – we have to be careful and so does the referee
Ref is the one from Belgium-Algeria AND Italy-Uruguay!
Italy-Uruguay I remember being called tightRef is the one from Belgium-Algeria AND Italy-Uruguay!
He wasn't bad tbhRef is the one from Belgium-Algeria AND Italy-Uruguay!
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