Time to hit the mute button
France v Portugal wasn't as good a semi-final as the night before, but that would have been difficult. Should be a good final on Sunday.
Got to say I was a little bit uncomfortable with the commentary & analysis from the BBC.
Some of the comments after the game on Saturday were slightly over the top. Alan Shearer suggesting that Rooney should "chin" Ronaldo back in training, a good example. But these could be excused in the heat of the moment.
However, in the cold light of 4 days later, surely we can't keep blaming the Portuguese for our short-comings. John Motson especially couldn't hide his bias, every Frenchmen fouled deserved a free-kick, every Portuguese a cheat. "Oh the irony" he chuckled as Ricardo Carvalho got booked out of the final, ironic as he was the player 'involved in the incident' with Wayne Rooney.
It's like saying that John F Kennedy was partly to blame for being 'involved in the incident' with Lee Harvey Oswald.
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On a separate note, a man in India is drawing the crowds by being able to hold his head in his hands. They should have come to the pub I was in on Saturday afternoon, there were dozens of us doing likewise.
Got to say I was a little bit uncomfortable with the commentary & analysis from the BBC.
Some of the comments after the game on Saturday were slightly over the top. Alan Shearer suggesting that Rooney should "chin" Ronaldo back in training, a good example. But these could be excused in the heat of the moment.
However, in the cold light of 4 days later, surely we can't keep blaming the Portuguese for our short-comings. John Motson especially couldn't hide his bias, every Frenchmen fouled deserved a free-kick, every Portuguese a cheat. "Oh the irony" he chuckled as Ricardo Carvalho got booked out of the final, ironic as he was the player 'involved in the incident' with Wayne Rooney.
It's like saying that John F Kennedy was partly to blame for being 'involved in the incident' with Lee Harvey Oswald.
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On a separate note, a man in India is drawing the crowds by being able to hold his head in his hands. They should have come to the pub I was in on Saturday afternoon, there were dozens of us doing likewise.
posted by Lucky Col at
9:58 AM
1 Comments:
To be fair to Motson, Carvallho was involved in Rooney's sending off - there was a fair amount of pulling at Rooney and he obviously got frustrated. It doesn't excuse the stamp though (intended or not).
And I've realised I've just said "to be fair to Motson". So ignore all of that please.
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Baz, at 11:41 AM
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