yeah, i saw that, but you can see the ref looking at, or referring to hope, not that other girl encroaching, or at least from what i saw... either way, GREAT GAME! fascinating ending and that game made a new fan of this womens world cup out of my gf. win win win!
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 11:32 AM, morgan l <greyk...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 10:19 AM, Ras Tafari <rastaf...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> the whole game was amazing for the team and our country... capped off >> @ the end with the great pass/header. >> >> the officiating was horrific, the re-kick of the penalty goal was a >> joke, she never left the line, > > > No, she didn't, but a replay from another angle clearly showed a defensive > player encroached the penalty area prior to the kick. After seeing that > replay, I no longer consider the call-back a wrong call--a zealous > interpretation of the laws of the game, but technically a correct one. > > The awarding of the penalty in the first place is highly debatable, and IMO > was unwarranted. > > > And in the resulting shootout, the Brazil keeper was called for leaving the > line on the very first shot. Had she stopped any of the others, I believe > she'd have been called for the same thing on all of them. Even > very blatantly leaving the line early, she could only stop one shot. > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:340240 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm