That’s a Wrap

Good work Shawn!

Pity this guy can’t be like you Shawn

http://speed-air-man.livejournal.com/

vitriolic to say the least

Thanks Shawn, you have done a great job. I for one appreciate your comments and knowledge learnt as lot. Have a good life Cheers you deserve a beer now.

You did great (from a Portugal Supporter) best of luck to you and to England in your future.

Great job on what had to be a signifficant amount of work.

Ha ha ha. England lost to Portugal. Cumon what do you expect. Your Roo or Gooney the King of the Goons has been over rated. I cried with joy that you are out of the World Cup now.

hahaha
portugal portugal portugal
the plane is flying, dont lose it
hahahahaha
go home
hhahahahahaha
rooney rooney thank´s anyway
hahahahaha
home with england
FORCA PORTUGAL

Shaun tell me please, if as suggested by the Portugal fans Rooney stamped on their players private part/groin, wouldn’t it hurt. I thought he would have been feeling physically sick, and just wanted to sit on a cushion of ice for a while and been in agony. However as soon as Rooney was shown the red card their player was up and running around. I personally think it was a ploy set in the dressing room to rile rooney to any extent to get him sent off. Rinaldo just made matters worse an instigated the red card I think Rooney would have gotten a yellow. I have watched it 8 times and I honestly can’t see any intention and if it had happened (according to the men in my life) he would have been in horrific pain. Unless the portugese have none lol. Rooney should have had more self control and not bitten the bullet but hey he had two players attacking him, It just didn’t happen I think he was trying to balance himself, he actually looked back as he steps back and tries to avoid contact.

Blame your lost on Sven. England really had a good squad, but no strikers. How come the best English scorer in EPL was left out?
Defoe should be in too, because Owen had a poor season and Rooney was injured. Were Sven thinking that lampard would score?
Sven did do his homework, because he forgot that at chelsea there two great players: Makele and Drogba, feeding lampard. Hope to see this squad in South Africa, this time with strikers.
I supported England.

Beaf with bread…beaf with bread…beaf com pão…
Até vos COMEMOS RAÇA ASQUEROSA QUE SE AUTO INTITULA “SUPERIOR”
We won!!!…You self supposed superior race…that never has the humbleness to recognize that sometimes we can loose only because the other team was better!!
Remember, when you were fighting each other like in “Braveheart” movie…WE WERE DISCOVERING THE WORLD…
BEAFS??? We love “beafs”lol, lol ,lol
Porugal rules!!
100.000 are going home…going home…going home 100.000(…)

http://pharmagossip.blogspot.com/2006/07/portugal.html

Rooney ruined it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=layq78uxuig&search=lampardfan

Shawn,

Great job. I always enjoyed reading your comments.

Let’s hope that euro2008blog.org is up and running – with you back in charge of the England section.

Insider, Rooney didn’t ruin it we were had, read my blog above, if it had happened the way Portugal portayed it the the guy would have been off in agony looking for the first bucket of ice. Get real, I think this was all st up in the dressing room to rile Rooney to the point he was sent off. England and Rooney are being made scapegoats for the Portugese. Just my opinion

HEHEHEHEHEHEH….BECK IS OUT…AND LENNON CAME IN BUT.. WITHOUT MCCARTNEY IS NOTHINGGG¡¡¡¡¡¡

Alguno tiene un camara de sacar fotos?..si??..entonces acompañenme a ver el espectaculo de 100.000 ingleses cruzando a nado el canal para llegar a su casa jajajajajajjajajajajajaja

Hope to see you in South Africa 2010.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2002390000-2006300480_2,00.html

Nice photo… Ronney is a victim ! … well is he ?

Portugal will go home right after next match!

I think Horacio Elizondo is never qualified to be a referee because he hated England at day 1.

PMSL

Just read some of the more deranged comments from the earlier posts, ha ha, they’re funny as hell because they are so ridiculous – to the point of surrealism.

Good blog, and I wouldn’t worry about abuse aimed at the Queen etc, coz she wouldn’t be (God bless her).

EURO 2008: ENGLAND BEAT FRANCE 6 – 0 IN THE FINAL

BTW Dia you are completely correct, and I was slightly shocked Shawn didn’t pick up on this.

Or Ronaldo’s headbutt on Rooney at the start of the match, along with his knowing wink at the bench after getting Rooney sent off. Oh well…

Newspapers and news selling corps. cannot change the results of the reality we live on. So they generate expectations.
The surprising news – those that don’t go along the expectations – are the ones that sell better.
That’s why, in the news, everything is very great or completely wrong.

England was great – now is wrong..

England never was a favourite to win this world cup.

Get a grip.

Chung Chung, where did you read or hear that Elizondo hated England? Has he made any comment about it? Aren’t you influenced by the tabloids?

With that concept a german, italian or japanese ref would be biased for WWII, a russian ref could be biased over the cold war, a US ref could be biased over the war for independence, a french ref could be biased over Wateloo and a spanish ref could be biased over the Invincible Armada defeat.

I think your post is unfair to an Int’l ref who could have done mistakes like all of them, but is highly regarded in all Shout America.

Pls, don’t post BullSh*t. Grow up!

Wassup bunnies? couldn t win Portugal??

D: ” Euro 2008 final England 6 – 0 France”

Are you kidding me??? Or do u especialy enjoy posting ridiculous comments?

Euro 2004: France 2 – 1 England
Zidane scored twice and taught you football

REMEMBER??

Rooney – you “accidentally” stepped on our guys’ crotch. then Cristiano Ronaldo also “accidentally” got your Crotch and ur ASS out of the GAME.
You should come to Canada and PLAY hockey. You can push other people around and lose all your teeth if you want.

Beckham – now this guy is the only guy in your guys’ team who is NOT over-rated. I saw him congratulate Figo when we won. They might call him MR. Spice Girl but without him. You guys are nothing.

Rooney – you “accidentally” stepped on our guys’ willy. then Cristiano Ronaldo also “accidentally” got your willy out of the GAME.
You should come to Canada and PLAY hockey. You can push other people around and lose all your teeth if you want.

Beckham – now this guy is the only guy in your guys’ team who is NOT over-rated. I saw him congratulate Figo when we won. They might call him MR. Spice Girl but without him. You guys are nothing.

Figo is Beckham’s bum-chum, big deal.

I like Beckham. He is classy..

Lets hope Ronaldo doesn’t ‘accidentally’ loose several teeth (and suffer a broken jaw, cheekbone and nose) when Rooney flying-headbutts him when next they meet.

Although, tbh, any rearrangement of his facial structure could only be an improvement on his current appearance.

(JOKE Shawn before you get upset)

Referee Horacio Elizondo insists Portugal winger Cristiano Ronaldo did not influence his decision to send off England striker Wayne Rooney in Saturday’s World Cup quarter-final.

Manchester United forward Rooney appeared to stamp on Ricardo Carvalho after an hour of the match, which England went on to lose after a penalty shoot-out.

Ronaldo infuriated his United club colleague by calling for referee Elizondo to punish Rooney and the Liverpudlian pushed his Red Devils team-mate in anger.

But Argentinian Elizondo has confirmed the fiery Rooney was dismissed for the original foul.

He told The Times: “It was violent play andtherefore he got a red card.

“People can say what they want (about Ronaldo) but this had absolutely no influence.

“In general I don’t pay much attention to that sort of thing because I don’t care about the pressure on my shoulders during a match.

“For me it was a clear red card, so I didn’t react to the Portuguese players. There was pushing and shoving on both sides but for me it wasn’t a reason to caution anybody.”

Go home golden-balls and don’t come back!

WE HAVE TO BLAME CRISTIANO RONALDO.

HE planned this ALL ALONG.

He told CARAVALHO to go in between Rooney’s Legs and to make sure that ROONEY steps on his CROTCH.

And then he made sure he RAN to the referee to demand a FOUL.

He also told Rooney to push him right in front of the referee so that the ref would give him a red card.

Ronaldo also Paid the REFEREE because he is SOOOOOOOO RICH!!!

Cristiano is a GOD.

D thanks you are the only one to come back after several postings, maybe the guys don’t want a woman to point out what is obvious. Having a son who is a soccer player and discussing it with him I am appalled that Rooney is being made a scapegoat along with the England team. Lets face it we were had they knew they couldn’t get through the English defence (even with 10 men) they had to do something and Rinaldo with ‘the cat got the cream expression’ proves my point I think it was a setup and decided in the dressing room. Just my opinion, but guys go get somebody to stamp on your private bits and tell me it doesn’t hurt and you can run around again after the red card has been conveniently displayed. I’m absolutely disgusted with Portugal, Rinaldo and the English fans if they make Rooney a scapegoat.

Please discuss more about racist spain here:
http://racistspain.blogspot.com/
Please dont let the spaniards bring hate in our beautiful game.

The only thing the English fans are doing is hoping that Ronaldo gets a kicking. It just goes to show why England are hated the world over as their fans are f**king scumbags!

And on the rare occasions that they do behave FIFA have to come out and comment on it which just goes to show what a bunch of animals you are as you have to get complimented on something that any decent human being would be expected to do!

Though if FIFA had been at one of the fan parks after the Germany-Sweden game when England fans were taunting the German fans by doing Bomber impressions and throwing bottles at them they might not have been so complimetary!

At least you’re out now and you can take you’re boring long ball football and you’re hooligan fans back to England where it and they belong!

Scotland the Brave, you are completely off track. Face facts, if Rooney had stood on the guys private parts the portugese player would have been in agony, physically sick and being carried off on a stretcher, get real it never happened. Stand on your bits and see if you could get up after 30 secs and run around a soccer field. It was a complete setup cause they couldn’t get through the English defence, they had to do something to avoid us scoring, so they riled Rooney. All proven with the ‘cat got the cream’ antics of Rinaldo afterwards to his bench and players. So go easy on the scumbags language etc, we have a right to be angry we have been used as Portugals scapegoats. Sad really that it came to this. Please remember (as I said to my Scottish husband and I am assuming you come from there) that Scotland didn’t have a team in the WC, that is not meant to be offensive but it is true. All english fans should not be tarred with the same brush as those out to cause trouble. There has in the past been lots of trouble after scottish games but we won’t go into that because it is not relevant.

WHATEVER SCOTLAND THE BRAVE SAID.

HE’s NOT ONLY BRAVE

HE’s RIGHT. RIGHT. RIGHT.

GO BACK HOME WHERE YOU GUYS CAME FROM.

STOP BLAMING RONALDO. He’s NOT THAT POWERFUL.
Blaming him makes it sound like your FIFA CAREER REVOLVES AROUND HIM you lil losers.

GET A LIFE.

Guys, the English soccer fans are not as bad as you make out. There may be a small minority who are shouting their mouths off about Rinaldo but I don’t think for one minute anyone would do him physical harm. Yes he will have a hard time when he gets back to Man U he will be jeered and shout at but physically hurt no, don’t believe it. This is something that needs to be sorted out between Rooney and Rinaldo and I am sure Sir Alex will see to it that it is done in a civilised manner.

Hey and before all you lovely people in Scotland start having a go at me, there was no offence intended, I was just trying to make a point in my debate. My husband and children are Scottish, heck I live there when I am home, so apologies beforehand.

I didn’t know that England has such a bunch of loosers among its fans. In Portugal, weak teams are the ones that usually try to find excuses and blame the other team or the referee for their “misfortunes”!!!

Please stop sobbing about the game and prepare for the next competition!!

And for you Chung Chung: we’ll have two more games, so we may loose next match but we’ll not return home after it. Moreover, even if we loose the two matches, that will not change the fact that we won England AGAIN, and it will only be a bigger shame that you could not score a goal and almost no penalties against a weaker, rather than stronger, team! Lol! Pathetic!!!!

Just read the newspaper online apparently Sir Alex has stepped in to try and solve this problem between Rooney and Rinaldo. Rooney apparently under Alex’s instruction send Rinaldo a short text. The surprise surprise Ronaldo went on Portugese web site and said they were the best of friends etc and that Rooney had wished him the best of luck to the finals! as if Apparently Rooney is spitting. Don’t blame him.

Dear English friends,

We have to join our efforts and kick Portugal out in Euro 2008. Against us, the game was awful, and I believe that if it had been a more peaceful game, we had won.

Against England, I must say that both teams were playing very bad. It was a shame that you tried to go to penalties… Then it is almost a lottery. Nevertheless, you missed too many penalties and, so, I don’t think you can complaint a lot with the referee or players. You have, however, a pretty good team. Like us!! Van Basten will kick Portugal next time and if we meet you in the way… we’ll see!

Cheers!

M.

Till I hear something about that *directly* from Rooneys mouth, I won´t let myself be spoonfed by the likes of Sun, Mirror, etc.

Ronaldo also said that Rooney told him not to believe anything that came out in the English press. The press (of course) left that out.

Wait till you see a press conference. The press are always out to get a scapegoat when something goes south for England. As a Portuguese supporter I can say that, whithout a doubt, if it had been the other way around, I wouldn´t even dream that an English player would be to blame for a red card. It´s silly really.

PS.: About the infamous “wink”: I might be very naive, but during the incident I kept shouting at the TV: “Get the f**k out of there kid!” – you know why? In the 2 preparation matches before the WC Ronaldo had 2 red card offenses for losing his temper in situations like this. There was talk before the competition started that he might be too hot-headed and immature to play at this level. I understood the wink as someone telling him: “Take a chill pill”. The wink would mean “Ok”. That was my reading. Of course, we weren´t there. The (English) Newspapers “deduce” that Ronaldo asked for a card – I can´t see that in any image. I can only guess that they “deduce” that Rooney is mad at Ronaldo. As they “deduced” that Pauleta spoke ill of Robbo (already a confirmed lie).

As I said earlier – till I hear something direct from Rooneys mouth (some sort of press conference or something) I´ll have to “deduce” that Sun, Mirror, Telegraph, etc. – are full of s**t.

PS.: England played a great game. This sort of scapegoat finding belittles the effort of all those players.

Peace out – see you in 08

Great interview with Rooney himself in The Mail, read it online.

Couldn´t find it. Can you give me a link?

However, I´ll be sceptical of anything the English press prints.

The only official writings on it are the official press release, which the tabloids choose to try and read between the lines.

PS.: Just to make it clear – I think that the red card was bogus, because I really don´t think there was intent on Rooneys part behind the movement. But I find it a leap of faith to claim that Ronaldo is involved in the red card. It´s also a leap of faith to say that the red card cost the English team the match. After the red card, the Portuguese Team came forward and the English buttoned up but had some space to create some chances, which they did. Before the red card, no team had a clear goal oppurtunity. I was saddened by the red card. I like it when teams have the oppurtunity to play level, and it eliminates this scapegoating in the end of the match. You just have to think after that red card: “There´s England´s excuse now.”

Rooney may have been set up. But he took the bait! The idiot!!

As bad as Beckham vs Argentina.

No self control.

If he had stayed on we would have won by the final whistle.

what’s the name of an Englishman in a final? referee

Toast just go the internet and ask for daily mail uk, it is there under WC2006.

I don’t think England need any excuse, if this had been a league game it would have ended 0-0 which England would have achieved with 10 men however as we all know it doesn;t work that way in WC. I truly believe had 11 men remained on the pitch we would have won. It is so sad really because we will never know.

Toast for info only.

Rooney’s statement in full

OBVIOUSLY I’m bitterly disappointed to have been sent off in a World Cup finals match for England.
I remember the incident clearly and have seen it several times since on TV. I am of the same opinion now as I was at the time — that what happened didn’t warrant a red card.

If anything, I feel we should have had a free-kick for the fouls committed on me during the same incident.

I want to say absolutely categorically that I did not intentionally put my foot down on Ricardo Carvalho.

He slid in from behind me and unfortunately ended up in a positioning where my foot was inevitably going to end up as I kept my balance. That’s all there was to it.

If you ask any player — and indeed almost any fan — they will tell you that I am straight and honest in the way I play.

From what I’ve seen in the World Cup, most players would have gone to ground at the slightest contact, but my only thought then was to keep possession for England.

When the referee produced the red card I was amazed — gobsmacked. I bear no ill feeling to Cristiano but am disappointed that he chose to get involved.

I suppose I do, though, have to remember that on that particular occasion we were not team-mates.

I thought the England lads were awesome after I went off and the effort they put in was amazing.

Truly, if there was any justice England would now be preparing for a World Cup semi-final. Sadly, however, that is not to be in 2006.

I want again to thank my team-mates for the unbelievable effort they put into the game and for all the support and encouragement they gave me after it.

I will also always be indebted to everyone who, after my injury, helped make it possible for me to begin to fulfil a boyhood dream by representing my country in the finals of a World Cup.

Finally, I want to say how sorry I am to see Sven go and to see David step down as captain.

I will always be grateful to Sven for his guidance and the faith he showed in me, and to David for being a great captain and great friend.

Dia:

If you were referring to the “I´m the victim” piece, I already read it.

It isn´t really an interview, it´s more an assortment of quotes with commentary in between.

I basically sum it up as:
. Rooney doesn´t have hard feeling regarding Ronaldo, but was surprised that he got involved.
. Rooney states that he stepped on Carvalho accidentaly (which I believe he did) – and so, the red card was unfair – with which I agree wholeheartdly.
. Rooney shares your oppinion that the red card caused the English team to be unable to solve the game without going to a (dreaded by the English) PK Shootout.

You´re right Dia, we will never know what would have happened if the red card hadn´t happened.

For my part, I think that there is no substitute for Deco in the Portuguese NT, and that we had no chance to score once England was reduced to 10 and would play defense and hit us on the counter. Maybe a Maniche long ball or a Simão free-kick, but nothing really “flairy” (Ronaldo is clearly hurt, as is Figo – and Pauleta never stood a chance with Rio and Terry).

Our teams will meet again in the future, there will be some bad-blood (I blame the press for that) but maybe it will be a nice game and we can find out who will be the better team. Last Saturday, Portugal bested an excellent English side. Next time the story might be different.

Cheers

Alex, I do hope you know what is unfair! Read again what you have critized me! I think here’s for England worldcup blog. I didn’t know England fans are not welcomed here!

Hi Winner, you have your team and I have mine. People can ask England go home, I can ask Portugal go home. There’s nothing personal.

we beat u fare n square!!hehehehehhe..portugal 2 the top..
well even tho if we loose(inshallah not) our hopes will still b held high cuz we went up 2 the semi finalz all in the blink of an eye..
England got muthin 2 proove,
cuz they lost n held home 2 snooze,portugal got it all,
the praise the style n even the goal,..POrtugal 2 the top…
heh!! u loose u snooze…mwah cristiano. u the bomm..deco..ur a hero but what can i say about rooney well i guess ur a zero!!(4 sheezo!!)
PORTUGAL to the top..^__^..yo’ll cant handle this ai??
PEACEAMOUT

one BIG UP 2 all u portugese fans

Rooney’s statement is hysterical. I’m sure he “accidentally” stepped on Carvahlo. Yeah, that’s plausible.

England was set up by a boring 4-5-1 formation with a Rooney that can’t control his temper and has no business playing as a sole striker.

That being said, England fans talk the most shit of anyone. Everytime I watch them play it is painful, the team is a bunch of muppets and hachetmen, and watching Lampard miss that penalty will be my favorite moment from this World Cup.

UK: don’t talk the talk if you can’t walk the walk.

England were down to 10 men for the best part of an hour and still denied Portugal whilst almost scoring on many occasions.

Portugal is a good team? No doubt about it. Portugal is an excellent team? Hell no…

And also some of your comments are so pathetic it’s quite worrying…

“I cried with joy that you [England] are out of the World Cup now”

“watching Lampard miss that penalty will be my favorite moment from this World Cup”

Get a life. No, seriously.

u suck great england

Would you England bashing morons show some respect for Beckham please. He is a great player. Unfortunately things did not go the way they were expected to go, meaning ENG and GER in the finals. Meanwhile I am humming my ode to England “Wish you were here”.

Don’t be downhearted. A true sport would not have its major competition decided by a penalty knockout. May as well toss a coin.

Soccer is not a sport, its a celebrity fundgathering exercise.

Hello, I am Portuguese and I want to send my greetings to all the English fans. Your team is very good and if you had won, with Brazil out, I would be supporting you.

I must confess that for us it was a blessing that Rooney was sent out and that we had more luck at the penalties.

Still, please do not overshadow our progress with that antics myth… It is really annoying and a proof of weakness!

Take a look at the words of Valentin Ivanov about the game with Holland: http://football.guardian.co.uk/worldcup2006/story/0,,1807675,00.html

And also Elizondo:
http://home.skysports.com/worldcup/article.aspx?hlid=400442&CPID=4&clid=114&lid=13&title=Elizondo+clears+Ronaldo

With four referees in the stadium (one with TV), those that believe in such rare acting skills from the Portuguese are suggesting that either the referees are really dumb or the Portuguese unusually smart!!

It is a mix of luck (which is part of the game) and bravery that takes teams to the last stages of these competitions! Some very good teams had stayed behind (see Argentina, Brasil and England, for example), but that’s sports! Cheers mates!

i hope roonie hurt that portugal balls cheating ronaldo all cheats learn to play by the rules playing by the rules is class football which portugal only have talent for diving

ronaldo ronaldo what a little winker you are wink wink play shhhhhhhhhh if it was me i would of decked him there and then

no matter what countrie your from people should respect teams and players black or white or friends it is not about the war years ago i was not born then nothing to do with me i like clean football to injoy they should work harder on the pitch also all that money they get payed to play football my 7 year old got 15 tropheys and plays his little heart out cause he loves football he won he tornament and he dont get a bean they sould play from the heart what they love not for money

i like portugal they are good but what ronaldo did is shame roonie did nothing to him (why)ronaldo has great skills,why do that, if he got great skills

NOW YOU GUYS CAN GO BACK TO YOUR CHIPS WITH VINEGAR..YUCK.!!!
ROONEY IS A HOOLIGAN..!!!..HOW DID HE GET INTO GERMANY..!!!
ENGLAND SHOULD BE ASHAMED SENDING A MAN LIKE ROONEY TO REPRESENT THEM.!!
DONT CRY FOR ME INGLATERRA..!!!!
GO SUCK AN EGG..!!