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As for Ronaldo, as I said before he does imbelish his falls. Hopefully, he will be carded this time around if does go on a diving spree like he did against France in '06.
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I guess we'll have to agree to disagree with Totti as our personal bias I suppose will not let us agree on this one. I'm sure some commentators have said it was a dive, as some have said it wasn't. For instance, the English/American commentators who did that game live were disgusted that it was a penalty on Totti. Even after the replay was showed many times.
Also don't forget there were refereeing scandals in Germany and Brazil in 2005. In 1993 Marseille was accused of match-fixing after their 1993 UEFA Champions League win. They haven't won a trophy since. In 1993 Bruce Grobbelar, goalkeeper for Liverpool, was accused of taking 4000 pounds to make sure they lost to Newcastle, which they did, 3-0. Although here no verdict was reached, so I will say that. Finally, in 1963 Esmond Million of Bristol Rovers took 300 pounds to make sure they lost to Bradford Park Avenue. This was confirmed when his team ended up tying and the truth came out. So as you can see, Italy is in NO way the only league to experience problems. Unfortuantely this is a much bigger problem then even you make it out to be. This happens in a lot of countries, and I wouldn't be surprised if it happens in more and is just not uncovered. And I've probably missed some scandals.
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BTW, I wish Totti was playing, he is easily one of the creative players for Italy. It's unfortunate that he quit, I think Italy could have used him and his experience and he is not even that old! It's a bit of surprise that he quit the national team.
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Sucks...
Van Der Sar is considering/planning to retire after the UEFA Euro 2008... He was easily one of my most favorite goalkeepers, playing for one of my favorite clubs.
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Yeah, I wish Totti was playing as well. Unfortunately Italy will be missing more than just him for this tournament. Cannavaro will be out the entire thing because of recent surgery and Panucci left practice early on Friday because he hurt his knee.
Although the Dutch will be missing key players for the Italy/Dutch game on Monday as well. They won't have Robben, van Persie, or Babel. It's too bad both teams will be missing key players as both of those teams at full force would be quite the match up. Hopefully it will be still be a good game though. Oh, and Germany scored as I was typing this up !
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YES!!! Italy is losing 2-0. Just 45 more minutes...Holland hold baby hold.
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3-0 LOL what a game we're having here
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So Holand won?
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