Once again, the World Cup has taught us some valuable lessons.
1. It is OK to Cheat.
There are so many divings and play acting to win penalties and get opponents yellow or red carded. And these cheaters often are unpunished. The most famous is the Italian penalty unfairly awarded against the Australians. It is that the Italian player, Grosso, purposely tripped himself over the lying Australian playerto win a penalty. Worse still is the blind referee believes it is a foul and awarded the penalty. Even though the whole world claims Grosso cheated from the video replay, he is not punished. Not even a fine.
2. Life is Not Fair.
Good performance is not equal to progress through the World Cup. Just ask Australia, Mexico, Ghana, Czech and Ivory Coast. They are out of the World Cup even though they play better football than the others. Soon Germany or Argentina, facing each other in the quarters, will join them. All lousy teams like England and Italy can go through easily performing badly or even through cheating.
Oh may I remind you, the best team does not always win the World Cup. I hope I dun see England lifting the Cup comes 9th July. :S
3. Lady Luck Have a Bad Taste.
Luck does not like to bless the good people. England, despite playing like shit, still can progress to the quarter-finals. Their group is easy, last 16's opponent, Ecuador, easy and can't score. Now their quarter-finals oppoenent, Portugal is below strength due to suspensions and injuries.
1. It is OK to Cheat.
There are so many divings and play acting to win penalties and get opponents yellow or red carded. And these cheaters often are unpunished. The most famous is the Italian penalty unfairly awarded against the Australians. It is that the Italian player, Grosso, purposely tripped himself over the lying Australian playerto win a penalty. Worse still is the blind referee believes it is a foul and awarded the penalty. Even though the whole world claims Grosso cheated from the video replay, he is not punished. Not even a fine.
2. Life is Not Fair.
Good performance is not equal to progress through the World Cup. Just ask Australia, Mexico, Ghana, Czech and Ivory Coast. They are out of the World Cup even though they play better football than the others. Soon Germany or Argentina, facing each other in the quarters, will join them. All lousy teams like England and Italy can go through easily performing badly or even through cheating.
Oh may I remind you, the best team does not always win the World Cup. I hope I dun see England lifting the Cup comes 9th July. :S
3. Lady Luck Have a Bad Taste.
Luck does not like to bless the good people. England, despite playing like shit, still can progress to the quarter-finals. Their group is easy, last 16's opponent, Ecuador, easy and can't score. Now their quarter-finals oppoenent, Portugal is below strength due to suspensions and injuries.
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