Crouching Fouler, Hidden Grabber?

“England ain’t going and win no world cup”

so that double negative shows ur firmly rooting for an England win then Car?

As for Crouch fouling some guy?

So what? LMFAO.

Winning games when ur bad is what it’s all about.

Oh little T&T boohoo… so how come half your team is English then?

Posted from  United Kingdom

Jacon this is an English blog!

Posted from  Australia

Crouchs tactics were underhanded. However we know how the game is played. The Referee had to ensure victory for the English against their former colony. That’s why they didn’t show the Crouch foul replay during the game. They only replayed angles from the front right and front center which blocks out his foul. I have the game on DVD and I’ve seen it many times. If you don’t understand why the foul wasn’t called even though it was obvious, check

http://www.omnitv.ca/ontario/worldcup2006/editorial_videoreplay.shtml

We all know that tiny little TnT were playing defense and were doing a damn good job. It would have been the most embarrassing match for England to lose/draw to Trinidad simply because of their respective world rankings. The referee is not perfect and will have biases. The article condemns Americans for being so high tech about their sports, using video replays for most calls in sports, (letting technology replace the referee) however I believe that for a game played at the international level, and where the world is watching, where entire nations hold their breath, they should favor justice and fair calls rather than controversy to inflame passion. Yes the referee trains hard for his job, but he is not without fault. This has to be understood.

Regardless of the score line, those who saw the match got the thrill of a lifetime watching the classic DAVID VS GOLIATH match, and witnessing the smallest nation to EVER participate at this level hold off the mighty England’s relentless attacks for 83 mins. Way to go Soca Warriors!

However, Fans of the Soca Warriors shouldn’t downplay England for their dirty move.

Players fake injuries for someone to get a red or yellow card, then they get up and they are fine again.
It’s JUST TACTICS!
Replays show a lot of fakers even in this world cup.
So yes they played dirty in order to win but don’t hate on the team because of it. I know that soca warrior fans are hurt by the fact that they resorted to this move to defeat them, but what can you do? It’s in the past and you cannot change the scoreline. A team will do whatever it takes to win. That means fouling sometimes. Yes the Game result may have been different had this goal been disallowed, simply because the follow up would be different, and Lampart may not have gotten a chance to score the 2nd goal. But dont be sore about it. In Fact most Trinidadians still celebrated after the loss. Trinidadians usually support England and it was a stroke of Irony that they would be pitted against each other on the world biggest stage.
Even the Trinidad football team supports england. Dont believe me? All their players play in English leagues or scottish leagues. Most play in english Leagues. Want more? Birchill is and Englishman. He said before the game that he wont celebrate if he scores a goal against them. The English players inspires many of the Trinidadians players because they play in higher leagues. Playing against England for the players themselves was nothing short of bitter-sweet. It took alot of courage, love, and respect for them to face the very team that inspires them.

It doesn’t matter how you win, just that you do. - This is true whether you are a Trinidadian or a Englishman.

England is already getting thrashed by almost every football journalist after the game. They showed their fear and respect for the Trinidadian team by bringing out Rooney early in the 2nd half. The England coach said he didn’t want to use Rooney until the round of 16 nations, giving him more time to recover from his injury. However, just the fact that England was desperate enough to bring out their star striker, showed that they were having Major difficulties breaking the Trinidadians defense. All credit to the Trinidadian Team on a terrific performance. Now I know what ‘Warrior Spirit’ truly is. They considered the inclusion of Rooney as an ‘honor’ rather than a cheap escape. The Trinidadian Team clearly has alot of honor in themselves and alot of respect for the English team. Can you name one other team that plays like Trinidad?

Even after their loss against England, the people of Trinidad still celebrated the honor of playing against the football Giant. I’ve never seen a country with such honor, respect and discipline for the game and its players. The Prime minister of Trinidad called the team to congratulate them on a great performance. Did the queen or anyone of high ranking even congratulate the English team? No. In addition to that, the British press is full of nothing but insults to their team following the game.

The English got their biggest compliments from the Trinidadian coach and players, Regardless of the foul. Simply because they know that this is how the game is played.

Dont be angry, be like most Trinidadians instead. Yes you guys would have been through, had you beaten England, but you cant beat them with a defensive strategy. You can only draw. Then the pressure would have been on England to beat sweden to advance. Now YOU NEED England to beat Sweden and YOU NEED to beat Paraguay by 2-0 to advance. What happened is in the past, get over it because right now you need them to win in order for you guys to advance.

I truly hope that this team that plays with much more heart than any other team I’ve seen so far makes into the next round. I’d love to see them play against Germany.

Posted from  Canada

Money was all

FIFA Vice President Jack Warner, an adviser to the Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation, said Peter Crouch’s goal against the Soca Warriors in Thursday’s heartbreaking 2-0 loss should not have been allowed by the referee.

Warner said yesterday that Japanese referee Toru Kamikawa will be under investigation by the FIFA Referee’s Committee.

He also suggested that an England win was a more attractive result than a draw.

“I do not know what will happen to him, if anything will happen to him, but what I do know is that he had decided what the result would be,” Warner said in a telephone conversation yesterday afternoon.

Warner revealed yesterday that FIFA— the world governing body for football — normally reviews the performances of its officials after each match.

A disappointed Warner said he is sure that the Japanese official will be made “to pay” for his poor performance during the Trinidad and Tobago and England encounter.

For 82 minutes, Trinidad and Tobago held the 1966 World Cup winners to a goalless draw — until Crouch appeared to “piggy back” defender Brent Sancho to head home a David Beckham’s right side cross. The goal gave England a 1-0 lead. Video and photographic evidence appear to indicate that Crouch pulled Sancho down by his dreadlocks while climbing for the ball. A writer in the Miami Herald said that Crouch used Sancho as a stepladder.

According to Warner, the team’s morale was broken by that goal and England sealed the issue later when Steven Gerrard’s blistering drive to the top left corner made the score 2-0.

“The referee, in my view, was more concerned with the cash value of the England team which included Beckham, Wayne Rooney and so on…which was well over £50 million, rather than doing a proper match,” Warner said.

He described it as a case of a little country like Trinidad and Tobago up against a big nation like England — where TT must always lose. He said it was a very similar situation when Trinidad and Tobago played against Bahrain to qualify for the competition. He pointed out that before he left home, he predicted that the team would have gone on to the second round.

“And we would have done so had we had a proper referee for Thursday’s game,” he said.

The regional football boss also said that he still believed that Trinidad and Tobago would advance to the round of 16 teams, but he said it means that we have got to win against Paraguay on Tuesday.

Mathematically, Trinidad and Tobago’s chance of a quarter-final berth in the World Cup depends on their ability to defeat the South Americans by at least two clear goals in Kaiserslautern — as well as the result of the England/Sweden encounter — from which it is hoped, will finish in a goalless draw.

With the top two teams advancing to the next round, the English are already through to the next stage with six points from two matches. The Swedes got their first win against the Paraguayans and have four points.

Trinidad and Tobago can only reach four points with a win over Paraguay — with goal difference being the only other factor to secure the second place position in group B. Warner was high in praise for the performance of the players — saying they have made him proud. Quizzed as to whether anything special is going to be done for the team, Warner said he had already delivered on all his promises.

He claimed further that it is now up to the Sport Minister and the government of Trinidad and Tobago to present the players with something worthy.

Posted from  Canada

FIFA to Blow Whistle on Referee.

Can The English Continue to Deny?

TT/UK match might be referee’s last

JAPANESE referee Toru Kamikawa may have officiated in his last World Cup match…ever.

This prospect loomed large after his performance in Thursday’s Group B World Cup match between Trinidad and Tobago and England came under increasing fire from football pundits throughout Germany.

So FIFA, the world governing body for football and the organisers of the World Cup Finals have placed Kamikawa on a list of referees whose performance will be reviewed.

This is a clear signal that FIFA is unhappy at the way the Japanese official conducted his duties at the Franken Stadion in Nuremberg as the Soca Warriors conceded two goals in the last seven minutes to lose the match.

His situation was not helped by German television, which mere hours after picked up the foul by lanky England striker Peter Crouch who leapt over the until then impenetrable Trinidad and Tobago defence to break the deadlock in the 83rd minute.

Television replays which were magnified showed Crouch pulling at the dreadlocks of defender Brent Sancho as he jumped to head in the David Beckham cross and despite the protestations of Sancho, referee Kamikawa pointed to the kick-off spot indicating the goal was good.

Also there was much debate here in Frankfurt about the disallowed goal scored by Stern John in stoppage time.

It was a decision, many felt, that should have gone the way of the Warriors but as his decisions throughout the match proved, Kamikawa was not giving anything to the World Cup debutants.

His judgement appeared clouded by the fact that the Trinidad and Tobago team was the smallest nation ever to compete at the World Cup Finals and were rank outsiders especially against a team like England.

Evans Wise, who plays for the Third Division German side came on as a second half substitute and sprinted down the right flank and fed a piercing cross to John in the box who flicked the ball past the England ‘keeper Paul Robinson.

As the Trinidad and Tobago fans rose in delirium to celebrate the historic achievement, referee Kamikawa deflated the football atom bomb with a fierce blast of his whistle.

Trinidad and Tobago fans were also left pondering the decision of the stadium announcer to use the public address system during play.

Announcing “three minutes more” to indicate the period of extra time appeared to have startled Trinidad and Tobago goalkeeper Shaka Hislop just as England midfielder Frank Lampard curled in a left-footer to put his team two-up.

Despite the loss there was a lot of admiration for the Trinidad and Tobago footballers who with a little more luck could have already ensured their place in the round of 16 knockout stage at odds of 1,000 to one.

The results on Thursday meant that the Soca Warriors must defeat Paraguay by two clear goals in their final Group B match in Kaiserslautern and England must beat Sweden in Cologne to achieve the historic feat. Both matches are on Tuesday at the same time.

Posted from  Canada

TORU KAMIKAWA, the Japanese referee who officiated in the England vs Trinidad and Tobago World Cup Football match on Tuesday is to be assessed by the newly set up technical team, that FIFA has put in place for this year’s World Cup.

Kamikawa has been the subject of vexatious conversation among Soca Warrior local fans here and others around the world after his controversial adjudications on the field against the TT Football team on Thursday, resulting in the Warriors receiving five yellow cards in the match as opposed to just one handed to England. But the worst concern was over the reported foul against TT defender Brent Sancho whose dread locks were tugged at by England’s Peter Crouch to elevate himself to an advantage that resulted in England’s first goal in the 83rd minute of the match.

Posted from  Canada

Can ANY ENGLISH SUPPORTER COMMENT ON THE ABOVE?

Posted from  Canada

well i have to say he wanted to win this one and i play soccer myself he was trying to get a push to get the ball in the goal and win and if you think my opinion is stupid thats ok i’m fine with it.

Posted from  United States

d.beckham i agree

Posted from  United States

By any means necessary.
That’s exactly why you all killed Martin Luther King.

Posted from  Trinidad And Tobago

TRINIDAD SOCCER WARIORS IS CLEARLY A BETTER TEAM THAN ENGLAND,GO WARIORS GO, BIG SHOUT OUT TO AURTIS,SCOTLAND AND DOGMAN ANDREWS,SAN JUAN BARATARIA HOME BOYS.

Posted from  Trinidad And Tobago

I CANNOT UNDERSTAND WHY PEOPLE BUSY WONDERING IF SANCHOO HAIR IS BRAIDS OR DRED LOCKS ?

Posted from  Trinidad And Tobago

OK - as per comments on video thread…

British and Proud, English and supporting fervently. But when will FIFA and the FA show some courage?

Football is going to the dogs as more and more players worldwide cheat, scream, cry and foul their way through match after match.

There are many “professional” footballers who are paid millions of pounds to entertain us playing the beautiful game. For far too long now they’ve cheated their way through match after match. Crouch should be ashamed, he brings shame to our nation and whilst I’m chuffed that we won the match, it disappoints me that the 1st goal had to be like that.

Cheats will always be found out and FIFA should stamp on them. Since they didn’t here then the FA should fine Crouch - “We do not tolerate or condone this kind of behaviour of our players” (or something similar).
If FIFA and the FA stepped on cheating, arguing or whining with immediate Yellow and then Red cards or even post match Yellows for fouls or cheating that was missed by the Ref (with 2 in consecutive games meaning 4 match ban) then perhaps we could all get around to the business of watching talented people palying football and not over paid hooligans whining, cheating and antagonising referees for 90 minutes every weekend.

Posted from  United Kingdom

OK let’s be clear - it took *hours* for *any* TV station to pick up on the fact that Crouch had grabbed the hair, and you have to look closely at the footage to see this was so. So if they’re going to kick out the referee for this alone, that’s unfair on the referee.

And let’s be blunt, this is Jack Warner whinging here - look at the distribution of T&Ts tickets to see what this man thinks of fairness.

So was it a foul? Yes. Did Crouch deliberately pull the dreadlocks? Well, he deliberately pulled something, but as he was looking up in the air at the time and not at Sancho’s hair, he may just as easily have been trying to pull his shirt (which Crouch has a habit of doing anyway). Is it likely the ref saw it and ignored it? No, because the ref wasn’t near, and it wasn’t easy to see.

So fine Crouch (and every other player who dives, pulls shirts, etc), keep the ref, and get rid of Warner.

Posted from  United Kingdom

Well what do you expect of the english? The only title they achieved was because of…you know what I mean. SHAME, SHAME, SHAME.
We are going to kick them out on our way to our 4th title.
Good night everybody

Posted from  Sweden

I notice comments stating that TnT did not play well because they only played defense. This is my take on their strategy. Leo(the coach) probably sized up the competition and came to the conclusion that Paraguay was probably the weakest team, for TnT anyway, in the group . with this in mind, we would hold off the “giants” and take our attack to them. This is a very good strategy. What is interesting, is that neither of the “giants” lived up to their grandeur, from the way that they played and I believe that Paraguay may actually be the toughest game for TnT. As for the Crouch incident, I would have thought that he of all the English players wouldn’t need to do anything to get more of a height advantage but apparently he does. as for the goal…Shit happens and though I am saddened, I applaud my Trini kinsmen for the character they showed. As for the English fans, i empathise with your team’s lackluster performance, but hope thay beat Sweden as this is the only chance we will have.

Posted from  Trinidad And Tobago

I also read somewhere that FIFA has a fourth official which presides over the game much like the “third Umpire in cricket”. I guess that is why the refs wear that headset(for communication with the 4th official). What bothers me is that that position is either a namesake or filled by incompetent persons. I think their “eagle eye” coverage would do well especially when a goal scores or something happens in the 18 yard box. At least those areas would be better watched as it seems that alot of the troubles occur there(fouls, behind the line nongiven goals).

Posted from  Trinidad And Tobago

Before the tnt match i considered the robotic geek boy a class defender, now i know he’s just another cheating geeko.

Posted from  Trinidad And Tobago

correction to my post on 20/06/06- should read CLASS FORWARD NOT CASS DEFENDER.

One who likes piggy-backing on defenders.

Posted from  Trinidad And Tobago

who pays tnt’s players wages? How many 0f them live in england? most of them i think you’ll find, so stop moaning. Gerrard scored after anyway so shut up, we were pressuring you towards the end and would have scored either way, bye bye tnt go home and stop moaning and making excuses. You lost to paragay anyway so u still would’ve gone home

Posted from  United Kingdom

crouch scored his first…and last world cup goal thanks to Rastafari hairstyles.He is a tall lanky lumpy piece of shit and a terrible striker.He would not have even made Saudi Arabia starting line up.

Posted from  Trinidad And Tobago

Oh by the way, all you english fans out theere you kno yall not ogn win the world cup deep down in your hearts.Lucky if yall get pass ecuador with that long pass shit brand of football.

Posted from  Trinidad And Tobago

Thats funny, and how good are trinidad and tobago? worse than saudi arabia, u wish u had a team like englands

Posted from  United Kingdom

God who cares, all this internet bitchin, it dont matter how good your team is or how you win,aslong as you win! i would cheat to win the bloody world cup! would’nt you?! man, TnT werent that good, all they had is a team that put everyman back to stop the other team attacking, they through themselves everywhere, but in the end all be it by a dodgy goal and an excellent rocket from stevie gerrard, england won, and now we are through to the next round. where are tnt? on the plane back home…..to ENGLAND!! lmao

Posted from  United Kingdom

I’m going to address only one part of your article. Sancho’s hair is in dreadlocks, part of the rastafarian religion, almost the farthest you can get from girliness. Please be sure you are right when being scathing.

Posted from  Canada