France vs Mexico

[Ark Royal]

Domenech: "Mars is moving into Jupiter as we speak, so you are all fu cked second half."

[LoyalRoyalFan]

The cheating French deserved to lose.

[Row Z Royal]

for the refereeing anoraks out there, was hernandez offside? replays show his body was a yard past the last defender but his feet were planted in line with the last defender(abidal) so what is the ruling?

I'd have said that he was offside. But it's mightily tight.

[Thaumagurist*]

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[Gus the teenage cow]

Ribery = useless, and of course ugly as sin!

What do you expect of an ugly peasant?

Revolution Spacey, revolution! But they didn't even eat bread!

[Thaumagurist*]

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[RoyalChicagoFC]

Nothing less than the most disgraceful French stand since the spring of 1940, and that's saying something

Poor show.

If one wishes to make a case for Dien Bien Phu in '54, then I won't quibble

Anyway I just got back from a two-hour hike around the boneyard, during which I had a persistent horrifying vision of stumbling out of shafts of early evening sunlight into a North Clark Street bar to the tinny strains of mariachi music blaring from a lo-fi P.A., and then whom should I spot but old Spacey* under a sombrero whooping it up and chugalugging Dos Equis as a gaggle of rotund mustachio'd Mexicans and their husbands look on in bemused admir7ion

What an absolute horror show, all of it

[Sarah Star]

Kind of ironic that France got beaten by a team wearing green

[Barry the bird boggler]

Ribery = useless, and of course ugly as sin!

What do you expect of an ugly peasant?

Why does he have duelling scar reminiscent of those WW1 comic book Germans, wonder if he wears a monocle when not playing??

[Barry the bird boggler]

for the refereeing anoraks out there, was hernandez offside? replays show his body was a yard past the last defender but his feet were planted in line with the last defender(abidal) so what is the ruling?

I'd have said that he was offside. But it's mightily tight.

Feet were in line with last defender, therefore he was onside.

[bobbybottler]

for the refereeing anoraks out there, was hernandez offside? replays show his body was a yard past the last defender but his feet were planted in line with the last defender(abidal) so what is the ruling?

I'd have said that he was offside. But it's mightily tight.

Feet were in line with last defender, therefore he was onside.

Yes - but I doubt that the linesman could have noticed that.

I think that the linesman couldn't say for certain either way and fell in favour of the attacking team.

[Barry the bird boggler]

for the refereeing anoraks out there, was hernandez offside? replays show his body was a yard past the last defender but his feet were planted in line with the last defender(abidal) so what is the ruling?

I think that the linesman couldn't say for certain either way and fell in favour of the attacking team.

Shame!

[LUX]

oh well. I bet on France to win outright (20-1). Now I know why they were at that price.

[soggy biscuit]

[Stranded]

for the refereeing anoraks out there, was hernandez offside? replays show his body was a yard past the last defender but his feet were planted in line with the last defender(abidal) so what is the ruling?

I'd have said that he was offside. But it's mightily tight.

Feet were in line with last defender, therefore he was onside.

The rule is if any part of your body that can score is beyond the last defender then you are offside. His head was beyond the last defender so technically it should have been flagged.

However, it is one of those decisions where the benefit of the doubt should be given to the attacker and the flag kept down - so good decision in my book.

[No Fixed Abode]

Lets stop knocking France. At least they knocked Ireland out of the qualifiers.

[Row Z Royal]

I'd have said that he was offside. But it's mightily tight.

Feet were in line with last defender, therefore he was onside.

The rule is if any part of your body that can score is beyond the last defender then you are offside. His head was beyond the last defender so technically it should have been flagged.

However, it is one of those decisions where the benefit of the doubt should be given to the attacker and the flag kept down - so good decision in my book.

swot I fort.

Never mind though, eh?

[Mr Optimist]

Ribery = useless, and of course ugly as sin!

What do you expect of an ugly peasant?

But he was born in Boulogne which makes him practically English.

[brendywendy]

I'd have said that he was offside. But it's mightily tight.

Feet were in line with last defender, therefore he was onside.

Yes - but I doubt that the linesman could have noticed that.

I think that the linesman couldn't say for certain either way and fell in favour of the attacking team.

if his feet are in line hes onside

[brendywendy]

oh well. I bet on France to win outright (20-1). Now I know why they were at that price.

i had a bet that theyd go out 1st round