In 1972, the referee at the US/Russia basketball match had his mind made up that Russia was going to beat the US.
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We had a repeat yesterday in women’s soccer – with the referee determined to see the US beat Canada.
Canada took the lead three separate times through three Christine Sinclair goals of exponentially expanding skill. It was a triptych that ought to be hanging over a Flemish altar.
“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.”
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I watched that game in it’s entirety. As a biased Canadian I though Christine Sinclair produced the gritiest performance of give it your all and never give up that I have ever seen. And to think a woman has the biggest heart that sport has ever seen. The American team was superb but Christine is right, Canada was robbed. What a shame. But shame, it seems, is much a part of soccer.
She played well enough to star on a top flight men’s team.
The US team should have just turned the ball over to Canada instead of taking the free kick. Their win was hollow.
Lets hope the Canadians aren’t dehydrated in their next match from all that crying.
The US team plays the whistle. It’s the ref’s fault. Turning the ball over would be nice but sports is about winning. Plus who can make that decision in a fast moving game.
Hollow victory. In soccer, people usually turn the ball over.
Hansen is all about winning, which makes a total DB.
There were never any hollow victories in the 15 years that I coached soccer. I got screwed as often as I got favorable calls from officials, it’s the nature of the sport. I also gained new perspective when I coached the son of the regional coordinator for soccer officials in Northern Illinois. I would visit him after the games and ask him if he saw what I saw as far as calls in the game. He would explain things that I missed as a coach that he understood as a referee and including getting screened being in bad position and just plain blowing the call as a fallible human being.
Tell this young lady she wasn’t amazing.
Here’s her Olympic twitter account if you want to tell her. 🙂
http://www.nbcolympics.com/athletes/athlete=alex-morgan/index.html
That wasn’t a missed call. It was premeditated and malicious.
I hate it when refs rather than players decide any sports match. Even if my team beneftis, I get a hollow feeling about it.
What about the stomping by a Canadian player that was never caught by the ref?
Missed calls happen all the time. What the ref did to Canada was not a missed call. It was a premeditated act which occurred at a time when there was no action.
Hmmm. I think it was a very iffy call – like many others I have seen in London this week – but to say it was premeditated is not really warranted without proof.
A once every ten years call like that isn’t made without planning in advance.
By premeditated I guess the sore losers mean that both the goalie and the coaches had been warned twice each that she was holding the ball too long? Maybe she could have just changed her behavior? Nahh, lets blame the evil Americans instead . . .
http://news.ca.msn.com/top-stories/canada-us-soccer-ref-defended-by-father
I agree Sinclair played a wonderful game and deserved better, but blaming the Americans, or the referee (who could have made the call twice earlier) is just sour grapes. I would have expected a little more class on this site, especially from the moderator.
Huzzahs all around . . .
I mean making a harsh unnecessary Olympics gold medal changing call which is never made under any circumstances despite the fact that it is violated many times every single soccer match. It was absurd, premeditated and unwarranted
Yeeahhhhh . . . . that’s it. . . . . It was a SETUP!. That’s the ticket . . . A SETUP I tell you . . .
A setup in soccer? Unheard of. ROFLMAO
Ya know for someone who loves the sport and want’s integrity in it, has a right to express his or her disgust in it. But fer Me, it’s mind over matter, I don’t mind because it really doesn’t matter to Me. It’s all another money racket now, and who gains from it, it’s not the people that loves the sport and wants integrity in it. Because if it was we wouldn’t see allot of so called sports in the Olympics being determined by a bunch of judges opinions and I’m not talking about Soccer with the judges opinion thinggy. It’s all Bull Shit, watch WWE wrastling, at least ya know that is fixed, you’d be retarded if ya didn’t know that, but enjoy it fer the entertainment value that’s no different that watching a soap opera, or some Sci-Fi flick or watching an Inconvenient Truth fer a good laugh every now and again.