*cracks knuckles*
Right on the Sol Campbell 'goal' issue, the rule was up earlier, Terry would have had to been deliberatly blocking the keeper in order for it to have been a foul. Eyes on ball at all times + Keeper jumping in him and NOT the other way round = perfectly good goal. That ref was shit all night long, any 50/50 desision went to Portugal, even when a defender jumped on Vassell's head the ref claimed Vassell fouled the defender.
And on the issue of goalies being too protected by ref's, it's true, you go anywhere near a goalkeeper now and it goes off like a car alarm in the middle of the night. I mean I'm a goalie and it pisses me off when I'm getting that much protection from a ref.
I like a proper game of football, it's about passion and pride in your team, not about falling over and rolling 10 yards everytime someone breaths in your direction. When I play in defence I find it funny when the little wingers runs up with all the skills, the step-over and all that and I just calmly boot the ball away. When I am in defence I play hard and fair, but with the new generation of skillful little divers who whenever I get anywhere near them go down like I've shot them, then as soon as they get the free kick they almost do a HBK flip up so they can take it. This may explain my 6 sendings off in footballing life, but seeing who can do the most convinsing dive in front of the ref isn't football.
England were robbed plain and simple, just look at the decisions that went our way today, we had to have a player hacked down to get a free kick, while whenever we brushed past a Portugal player today there was a free kick and a yellow card to the English player.
For the rest of the tournament GO CZECH! It's good to see them doing well, and I think Latvia have done very well during this tournament, only just lost to the Czech and drew with Germany even though Latvia had two clear penalties turned down. So GO CZECH!!