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Old Jun 23rd, 2002, 09:46 AM   #17
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I would be a liar not telling that I'm more than worried for my country (Germany) after what I've seen happening to the previous ones. Germany haven't played a brilliant football, that was instead played by many other teams that now are at home (like first of all England or Senegal), but I don't want them to be beaten because of stupid linesmen or referees not able to officiate a fair game! tokim, I'd be happy to see my country win as well, but I wouldn't like to see it win not for real superiority, but for the help of not experienced men to officiate the match. Not only the countries involved in this "scandal" are telling the stuff that BH posted in his posts, but also the ones who are not involved, so what's the interest for them? The fact is that so many bad coincidences happened that is impossible now to not be suspicious about it.
tokim, don't you think bad referees are ruining your pride of having a good team, always acting like that and making other think you can't win without their help? That would be annoying. I'd rather win because of my skills than being told I'm cheating, and if I cannot reach the Cup, at least I'd feel really proud for the achieved results. It'll be difficult for others to trust football anymore now, to trust that the best team in the end is the winner. FIFA must be aware of the problem, and choose more carefully everything next time.

And BTW, yeah, I remember what happened in the Olympic games in 1988 and the situation was really similar to the one of this WC.
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