Haha very true, the ref is probably a police officer a la Naked Gun at the baseball...

Honduras would just get waved away. It's a shame that the refs never understand that there is a rule book to totally back them up when they get the decision right.

I've got a feeling Cameroon-Mexico will be a cracker as it's a must win. Looking forward to it.

What a shame.

well time to get ready for work :(

Mornin' folks

To show complete and utter contempt to sepp blatter and fifa, I just got up just then to watch the tail end of this game

There will be no staying up or getting up like the old days

Edited by condemned666: 13/6/2014 07:48:43 AM

Dat anarchy.

-PB

Geez that was late by the keeper.

Good toe poke.

-PB

cheating referee, the croat player was barged off the ball before oscar was released

Was that not a free kick in the lead up to that goal?

Fred what a diverrrrrr

japanese refs :D thats all I have to say

croatia finding out what a league teams are up against in the acl each year

Croatia robbed

yea that was fucked

Not a pen but Lovren was stupid to put his arm across Fred.

No foul for the third goal, was a good challenge from Ramires.

Olic didnt foul cesar that should of made it 2-2 at least this ref should be told to pack his bags. F*** asian refers are a joke!

You can't go up and make contact with the keeper before the ball :/

Looked like a foul to me.

The penalty call though ](*,) . So shit to see the first game of the cup decided with a dive.

:lol: To think the Croatians thought they had a chance.

ahhh now our croatian mates know how we feel after the italian game......;)

Only one match in and there's already strong suspicions of corruption/home town favouritism.

Well done FIFA. :lol:

I thought so, but then to have so many defenders and not stop Oscar from getting a toe poke off is a bit deplorable.

-PB

I thought the referee was very ordinary he allowed players to barge in from the back all the time.
Players are not going to be able to play possesion football with such a referee.
The two good decisions the ref did make was the penalty and the foul against the goal keeper by Olic.
It was a stupid reach in when the Croatian defender had players around him to help block the shot,
it wasn;t Simunic on Viduka like with a rugby tackle in the area but because the player was trying to turn at the same time the hand on shoulder was enough to make him go down.
The third goal by Brazil had a clear foul by Ramirez on Modric.

Man of match - Yuichi Nishimura, =d> =d> =d> =d>

Yeah - although the penalty was definitely at the softer end of the scale, the striker was being held back with a hand on the shoulder.

Now that I've seen the replay, it's not as completely wrong as the comments on the forum led me to think.

Definite exaggeration for the penalty. Even at full speed looked soft.

Still, good to see the Brazilians get a decent win. And yet all that was on Channel 7 was "Violence has marred the opening ceremony"

Ironically in the AFL the penalty would have been a free kick for over the shoulder contact ...

I personally think the ref should have booked Fred for diving, no where else on the field would this have been a free kick. This would have set the standard for the world cup.

Secondly, after giving the penalty the ref should have warned the Croatian players to back off or start handing out yellow cards. Again set the standard.

FIFA failed on both these fronts!

I didn't watch the full game but from the replay it looked like a fair penalty. The croatian player had a fair grip on the brazilian with both hands and sure he milked it but that's the risk you take when you've got your hands on the player in the penalty box, especially in a world cup fixture in front of his home crowd, and a FIFA assigned ref.:lol:

Agree a lot, so many times both teams ganged up on the ref looking to lynch him, scolari made Kovac look pretty tame on the sideline too :lol:

On the pen, it looked like he was facing the contest directly in front so would've seen a hand over the shoulder and Fred flop from a sniper shot, a little more to the side he would've seen there was no real grab
Really hope Fred wasn't planning on using this world cup to get a big fat contract somewhere, but to be fair the one thing he did the whole game he did well

Diving c#nts.

As usual the big teams are protected. What a joke.

As someone else said would not have been a foul anywhere else on the pitch.