Yup, I read all about the Euro 2008 qualifiers
Yes, I read all about how France beat the shit out of Italy in the highly anticipated Euro 2008 qualifiers. I mean, WOW, the score, 1-3. Sad.
I feel sorry for the Italians. Now, all because of a trivial match, silly, biased football fans and sports writers are going to say: The Italians did not deserve to win the World Cup, France (Zinedine headbutter Zidane) deserved it. Look at them now.
I mean, Oh, puh-lease! Just come off it already Francophiles. The WC was long over, you can't change the past. The fact remains is that your beloved Frenchmen chose the wrong time to totally fluff things (or rather, Zidane chose to throw a tantrum and get sent off, and Trezeguet's foot subsequently obeyed the rules of probability). Whatever their mistake was, France is not going to get the 2006 World Cup title back although they've won this match. Life's like that.
Also, I feel that the way in which football fans (France fans rather) treat this as a rematch and will go on to discount Italy's now long forgotten win is just plain stupid. If one were to treat it that way, and say that France would have won had Materrazzi had not provoked Zidane, then that opens up many more factors as to why a team would win or lose (besides the theoretically correct "The best man wins" thing). Say, wouldn't Spain have won over France if Thierry henry hadn't done his diving act, awarding his team a penalty and seriously, seriously demoralizing the Spaniards? wouldn't Portugal have won over France if the referee had not awarded France that penalty (and instead, had done as Carvalho later suggested, "play the advantage")?
If people are going to pick at things they should have let go of long ago (as a kind of excuse as to why they failed), then competition of any sort will inevitably lose what little meaning it ever had as it no longer proves who the better man is.
There, I've done my bit in offering some proper fan support.
Tuh, what a bunch of sore losers!
I feel sorry for the Italians. Now, all because of a trivial match, silly, biased football fans and sports writers are going to say: The Italians did not deserve to win the World Cup, France (Zinedine headbutter Zidane) deserved it. Look at them now.
I mean, Oh, puh-lease! Just come off it already Francophiles. The WC was long over, you can't change the past. The fact remains is that your beloved Frenchmen chose the wrong time to totally fluff things (or rather, Zidane chose to throw a tantrum and get sent off, and Trezeguet's foot subsequently obeyed the rules of probability). Whatever their mistake was, France is not going to get the 2006 World Cup title back although they've won this match. Life's like that.
Also, I feel that the way in which football fans (France fans rather) treat this as a rematch and will go on to discount Italy's now long forgotten win is just plain stupid. If one were to treat it that way, and say that France would have won had Materrazzi had not provoked Zidane, then that opens up many more factors as to why a team would win or lose (besides the theoretically correct "The best man wins" thing). Say, wouldn't Spain have won over France if Thierry henry hadn't done his diving act, awarding his team a penalty and seriously, seriously demoralizing the Spaniards? wouldn't Portugal have won over France if the referee had not awarded France that penalty (and instead, had done as Carvalho later suggested, "play the advantage")?
If people are going to pick at things they should have let go of long ago (as a kind of excuse as to why they failed), then competition of any sort will inevitably lose what little meaning it ever had as it no longer proves who the better man is.
There, I've done my bit in offering some proper fan support.
Tuh, what a bunch of sore losers!
posted by fairypenguin at 6:59 PM
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