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2012 Olympics

Madferret said:
Yeah. What horse____ officiating
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I don't know enough of the ins and outs of soccer rules to say for sure. I'm not someone who's inclined to blame officiating anyway but considering that they gave up a couple leads already and how good the US was in attacking when Canada had the lead I'm not going to ascribe this one to that. That's a legit loss.
 
Nik? said:
Madferret said:
Yeah. What horse____ officiating
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I don't know enough of the ins and outs of soccer rules to say for sure. I'm not someone who's inclined to blame officiating anyway but considering that they gave up a couple leads already and how good the US was in attacking when Canada had the lead I'm not going to ascribe this one to that. That's a legit loss.
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The pk was a blown call but yeah the fact they had them on the ropes 3 times makes it sting worse. They played their hearts out tho - on to the bronze medal game
 
Oh that hurt.  Kudos though to the Canadian women for hanging in there and to never give up.

Hope they win that bronze against France.  The U.S. plays Worls Women's champion Japan. 
 
Nice find. I found this interesting;

"Even as he said that it was the most important win of his career, he suggested that it wasn't the most important match of his career."

Like I suggested from the outset, a fantastic accomplishment for him... For him, tops.
 
Madferret said:
Yeah. What horse____ officiating
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It was pretty bad with three very suspect calls against one team and they have a Kerry Fraser type argument on how it may have altered the outcome.
 
cw said:
Madferret said:
Yeah. What horse____ officiating
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It was pretty bad with three very suspect calls against one team and they have a Kerry Fraser type argument on how it may have altered the outcome.
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Like I said earlier a) it was outside the 18 & b) it was ball to hand anyways her arms weren't out flailing about...I agree with Nik though they did blow 3 leads. Tough one to swallow
 
I have been a fairly decent level soccer referee for almost 20 years. I have reffed University soccer and amateur nationals many times. I have never made a delay of game call on a goalie and as a matter of fact until today I have never seen one called. It's a rule to threaten but never to use. The pk called just after is the same as just throwing salt on the wound. You were already a dick to make first call and now compound it by making a highly controversial pk call to boot. This ref deserves to lose her FIFA badge

It is kinda their own fault. If they want the games to be officiated by the best don't be dumb enough to take only female officials. We see that here locally all the time when a female reference is rushed into games she is not ready for because she's a girl. It rarely ends well.
 
Unreal.

Here's a brief recap of the calls:

here's undoubtedly going to be a lot of hue and cry about the officiating from Canadian fans and media, and to a degree, that's fair. Two calls in particular changed the course of this game. One was a handball against Megan Rapinoe of the U.S. that went uncalled, while the other was apparently a delay-of-game call on Canadian keeper Erin McLeod, which led to an indirect free kick in the box, which resulted in a handball, which resulted in Abby Wambach's equalizing goal that sent the game to extra time. The non-call on Rapinoe was objected to by many Canadians, and they have a point, but those sorts of plays happen in every match and some of them are invariably missed. The call against McLeod was much stranger, as it's extremely rare to see a keeper called for hanging on to the ball for six seconds or more at the international level, and it will certainly be the focus of much of the Canadian criticism.
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http://ca.sports.yahoo.com/blogs/eh-game/controversy-mars-americans-4-3-win-over-canada-220231424.html
 
Potvin29 said:
Unreal.

Here's a brief recap of the calls:

here's undoubtedly going to be a lot of hue and cry about the officiating from Canadian fans and media, and to a degree, that's fair. Two calls in particular changed the course of this game. One was a handball against Megan Rapinoe of the U.S. that went uncalled, while the other was apparently a delay-of-game call on Canadian keeper Erin McLeod, which led to an indirect free kick in the box, which resulted in a handball, which resulted in Abby Wambach's equalizing goal that sent the game to extra time. The non-call on Rapinoe was objected to by many Canadians, and they have a point, but those sorts of plays happen in every match and some of them are invariably missed. The call against McLeod was much stranger, as it's extremely rare to see a keeper called for hanging on to the ball for six seconds or more at the international level, and it will certainly be the focus of much of the Canadian criticism.
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http://ca.sports.yahoo.com/blogs/eh-game/controversy-mars-americans-4-3-win-over-canada-220231424.html
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The non-call vs. Rapinoe isn't so bad, as long as they get the call vs. Nault correct (the handball which led to the PK). They didn't. All iffy calls end up going pro-USA? Shenanigans I say.
 
donkeyy0 said:
Potvin29 said:
Unreal.

Here's a brief recap of the calls:

here's undoubtedly going to be a lot of hue and cry about the officiating from Canadian fans and media, and to a degree, that's fair. Two calls in particular changed the course of this game. One was a handball against Megan Rapinoe of the U.S. that went uncalled, while the other was apparently a delay-of-game call on Canadian keeper Erin McLeod, which led to an indirect free kick in the box, which resulted in a handball, which resulted in Abby Wambach's equalizing goal that sent the game to extra time. The non-call on Rapinoe was objected to by many Canadians, and they have a point, but those sorts of plays happen in every match and some of them are invariably missed. The call against McLeod was much stranger, as it's extremely rare to see a keeper called for hanging on to the ball for six seconds or more at the international level, and it will certainly be the focus of much of the Canadian criticism.
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http://ca.sports.yahoo.com/blogs/eh-game/controversy-mars-americans-4-3-win-over-canada-220231424.html
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The non-call vs. Rapinoe isn't so bad, as long as they get the call vs. Nault correct (the handball which led to the PK). They didn't. All iffy calls end up going pro-USA? Shenanigans I say.
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Big time! Horrible officiating
 
This guy's blog post on it is pretty entertaining (note: blog post before anyone complains about grammar or quality of writing):

And the indirect free kick that led to the penalty? Certainly one of the worst calls ever. Worse then the Turk who was redcarded when a Brazilian's play acting suckered in a ref at the World Cup. Worse than myriad dives and Henry's handball against the Irish. The game happens quickly and refs are human and some are incompetent and sometimes the game happens too fast.

But to essentially give a team a free shot at the goal in a game this big at such a momentous time in the game on what is essentially bureaucracy?

Worst ever.

No verbal warning. No yellow card for the keeper to warn her. Just an arbitrary decision so bizarre that nobody in my Twitter feed, witnesses of thousands of soccer games at every level, journalists, explayers, fans around the world, had ever seen it before.
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http://www.blackdoghatesskunks.com/2012/08/gutted.html
 
From:
http://www.ctvolympics.ca/field-sports/news/article/canadian-coach-livid-after-controversial-loss.html

Herdman said "it felt like it was America and the referee against" the Canadians.

"She'll have to sleep in bed tonight after watching the replays, she's got that to live with," he said "We'll move on from this, I wonder if she'll be able to."

Canada hasn't defeated the U.S. since 2001, and Sinclair says this loss particularly stings because of the officiating.

"We feel like we didn't lose, we feel like it was taken from us," Sinclair said. "It's a shame in a game like that that was so important, the ref decided the result before it started."
 
http://m.espn.go.com/extra/olympics/story?storyId=8241637

The game featured two of the three greatest goal scorers of all time, in Wambach and Canada's Christine Sinclair, who proved an all but unstoppable force in scoring the first hat trick against the United States since Norway's Ragnhild Gulbrandsen in 2001. Sinclair scored more goals against the Americans than France, Colombia, North Korea and Great Britain combined. "She was incredible tonight," said Megan Rapinoe, who scored the first two goals of the game for the United States. "I'm sure she is heartbroken."
 
Damien Cox wrote about the women's soccer match and got ripped for it by a blogger from Yahoo.

Cox Article

Yahoo Response

I didn't think Damien's article was quite THAT bad, but it was amusing to see him get ripped in the media after some of the things he has said over the years. :)
 
Derk said:
Damien Cox wrote about the women's soccer match and got ripped for it by a blogger from Yahoo.

Cox Article

Yahoo Response

I didn't think Damien's article was quite THAT bad, but it was amusing to see him get ripped in the media after some of the things he has said over the years. :)
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Cox's article probably wasn't that bad, but, for someone who is not covering the Games, nor is anywhere near them, for someone who turned off watching the rest of the game (who barely watched it), for someone who hardly knew the facts  as they stood about this match-up (reactions of both teams/criticisms/rivalries, etc. -- mouthy Hope Solo retracting her comments about Christine Sinclair for example), --
the article is bad enough then for Cox to have presented his views under the above-mentioned circumstances pertaining to him.

That Yahoo! blogger was correct all along, and for that he deserves a gold medal!  :)

 
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