Quote Originally Posted by Mr1470 View Post

Back to the real thing and, as evidence of all these "new" supporters talking sh1te, all football talk today seems to be dominated by that nasty referee giving Brazil a penalty they didn't deserve. Now, if you're a proper football fan, who understands the game and watched and played it from being a wee boy, your gripe with last night's game is not so much the awarding of the penalty (he did have hands on him) but the diabolical decision to disallow the perfectly good Croatia goal minutes later, for who knows what.
Not sure about that… it was a never a penalty. Yes he did lay a hand on him, but come on, that happens every time the ball is in the box, there was minimal contact.

Refs and FIFA need to sort this out, they sporadically award penalties for holding, yet allow it 99% of the time, Vidic was awful for it, it works so they do it, then randomly they award penalties for it.

But that was so minimal it was incredible. Remember the Korean games, dodgy decisions, FIFA are just a horrid organisation...