The Portugal Match: First Early Reactions

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA

Poor England, what happened?

Didn’t they realize they had to actually score to win the game?

I’m actually SHOCKED that Croutch or Rooney couldn’t score? Such a formidible attack.

Gerrard deserved better, Lampard was nonexistent in the match.

Beckam feigning injury to get off was a classic way to end his england career!

Oh well, there is always next time English fans!

Just hope carragher the “PK specialist” is still around, you might need him!

YEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

WHAT A WONDERFUL DAY FOR GERMANY!!!

THERE MUST BE A GOOD!!!
AND NOT ONLY THE POPE IS GERMAN, GOD IS TOO!!!

GERMANY IN THE SECOND ROUND CHEATING AND BY PENALTY KICK

ENGLAND OUT CHEATED BY THE REFEREE AND BY PENALTY KICK

YEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

GERMANY WORLD CHAMPION!!!!!!
GERMANY WORLD CHAMPION!!!!!!

HUAHUAHUAHUAHUAHUAHUAHUAHUAHUA

CRY LIL TERRY CRY

HUAHUAHUAHUAHUAHUAHUAHUAHUAHUA

hahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!

CRY LIKE THE BABIES YOU ARE. THATS ALL THE DIRTY BRITS KNOW HOW TO DO IS CRY. THE BRITISH MEDIA ALWAYS COMPLAING AND CRITICISING ITS OWN PLAYERS.

SO OVERATED!!!!

NOT ONE GOOD PERFORMANCE THE WHOLE CUP!!!!!

ROONEY IS A DISGRACE TO SOCCER, REACTING AND COMPOSING HIMSELF LIKE A 15 YEAR OLD LITTLE GIRL THAT HE IS!!!!!

HAHAHHAHAHA!!!

YOU WILL NEVER GET LUCKY AND WIN THE CUP OF GOD AGAIN!!!

WHY?

BECAUSE YOU DONT KNOW HOW TO PLAY SOCCER THE WAY IT WAS MEANT TO BE PLAYED!!!

YOU ARE JUST A BUNCH OF ANIMALS THAT RUN!!!!

Thanks god Sven Erickson is being sent off. 2 world cups of lack lustre performace from a team filled with super stars. He cannot motivate the team.
bekham looks better on billboards than on the field.

QUOTE: It was an awful loss, and yet one to be proud of./QUOTE

WHAT ELSE DO YOU HAVE THAT YOU CAN BE PROUD OF? ONE CHEATED WIN IN 1866 OR SO…

GERMANY WORLD CHAMPION!!!!

CRY LIL TERRY CRY

Well, in the end, Portugal won (thanks to the goalkeeper), but if Rooney wasn’t so short tempered, maybe the score would have been different in the end.
That thing he did to Carvalho, was just harsh!
By the way, congratulations to England, because even with a man down, they “fought” fiercely, and in the end, they played a great match

Too bad England… that was tough for me to watch in Canada.

Hope you remember that a Canadian was your best guy on the field today.

Nice move Rooney?! A real tough guy!

NO MORE BORING OVERHYPED FOOTBALL!! LETS CELEBRATE PEOPLE, EVERYONE SHOPULD BE HAPPY.

I feel saddened that it has to end without their two best players.

http://fifaworldcup.sporati.com/drama-on-beckham-and-rooney.page

Yay, nice call nicolaricola, where did your nation finish? Awesome. Well it’s hard for Rooney to score when he gets sent off. And disallowing penalties. Damn Argie ref’s.

With 10 more (Canadian) Owen Hargreaves, England would be through.

Hats off to the gutsy Hargreaves!

wow – such nice people all over the place here and on the liveblog.

so – Rooney getting sent off – watch the replays carefully – the ref should have called two portuguese players for yellows before he blew the whistle. But maybe he was playing advatnage since Rooney still controlled the ball while two portuguese tried to wrestle him to the ground. Rooney kept playing the ball and in the middle of that accidentally (very clearly accidentally) stepped on a portuguesse players thigh (NOT his crotch). Finally the ref steps in and who knows what he is thinking. Then C. Ronaldo who clearly wants out of Man Utd as fast as possible, says something nasty to Rooney who pushes him. The ref gives the red card for the PUSH (which is ridiculous) and then Ronaldo winks at Rooney – clearly proving he provoked him on purpose. Along with many others, this is one of the worst calls of the world cup.

As for the rest, Portugal looked the worse side with eleven men to ten but lots of credit to Ricardo – clearly the man of the match – not just for the penalty saves but also for saves during the game.

Hargreaves won a consistent starting spot for England. I would have put Walcott in for the extra time I have to say. Lennon was already wreaking havoc and Walcott is even faster. The two of them would have carved up the Portugues defence like butter. Which in fact either Brazil or France will do easily.

Lastly – I thought that the refs were asked to give yellow cards straight out for simulation – in which case a third of the portuguese team would have been off for two yellows in the first half alone. Ronaldo wouldn’t have made it ten minutes.

And the US commentators – raving about Ronaldo and his great control and stepovers. They did that three times while he stpovered his way down the left and then hit a cross that travelled all of two feet each time into an England defender.

Even though Beckham played a realy poor game for him and was only on the pitch for half the time that Ronaldo was he still put in more real crosses than Ronaldo did.

I’m not saying England would have won it (which they would have had to do in regular time) – it was a pretty even game – but the ref certainly made sure that they didn’t have much chance.

It is pretty clear at this point that Germany will win – they are playing the best of the teams left and they deserve it more than the rest.

Okay I can understand you are gutted, but why would you wish for Portugal to be trounced in the next match? Is it because they are like a bad dream that just won’t go away?
this is the only team out of the 5 still in with a chance that have never won it.
This was not a great performance by both teams but then England did not have any good peformance in the whole of the World Cup. It’s not as if they lit up the competition! They were dour and dull a sad image of an overpaid, overhyped and outdated manager.
Also I feel very strongly that both the BBC and the ITV broadcast commentators should review their lack of fairness and one sidedness in the many comments they make or especially fail to make, during England’s games.

When you can’t win/score, blame the ref!

I am surprised you won 66. And you should appreciate it, because frankly that might have been the only cup you will ever see.

It was a fair result, England team does not know how to play football, it is all marketing and hype. It is good to see them out of the game.

Argentine fan,

After comparing your comments to most of the other decent comments, i’v come to the conclusion that u’r obviously a guy who wud have a lot of trouble finding your arse with both hands!!
Oh and we’re just a “bunch of animals!” are we? From wot i’v gathered, the German and Argentinian players certainly put on an animal show for the fans for 90 minutes after the match!
Why don’t u come back to this blog once u’v grown a pair of balls of ur own!

Ronaldo will never play in england again, excellent diving, poor refereeing england should have been better but still did not deserve to lose.Argue if you will but your wrong !!!

so all these people from united states are commenting on how bad england are. and how far did usa get?

Gutted!

Well done Portugal and thanks for what was an intense 58 minutes.

I haven’t bothered to read the posts, as I’m sure that the detritus, pond life from around the world have already been in here to gloat and abuse.

Firstly, the game wasn’t won by Portugal, it was partially given to them by Rooney; secondly, the game was saved by Ricardo. All of Englands penalties were on target for a change, and the woodwork played its part. Two Portugal spot kicks missed; and lastly, I’m not going to blame the referee, though he did make a few inspired decisions that went for, and against England.

What can I say about the 62nd minute onwards. Exciting, intoxicating, exhilarating, thrilling, dramatic, rousing, moving, enthralling, electrifying, breathtaking, sensational, inspiring, nail-biting, action-packed. Pity the boys couldn’t find the back of the net. 58 minutes, one man down, and Portugal couldn’t break down our defence.

So world! Gloat if that’s how you need to get your thrills. I’m proud of the boys and the way that they played.

2010 …

man of the match for Portugal??? Ronaldo (for the penalty kick), R. Carvalho, Miguel and YES your worst nightmare, the one and only RICARDO (that has the same name tha I have HA HA HA), you bloody tea drinking fuckers should all die and burn in hell, with the agony to know that you lose one euro cup and another world cup at the ands of a man named RICARDO, I hate all the english wankers that can’t behave when they’re whatching football, in Euro 2004 we received all the english idiots with open hearts and all you stupid fucks did was the behave like animals and destroy all around you, GO TO HELL, YOU DONT deserv to win anything at all, not even a war, if it wasn’t for USA you would burn in world war 2 at the hands of Germany HA HA HA HA.

You know, the Rooney thing is just a classic case of immaturity. He’s 20, and let his testosterone get the best of him. Hopefully he’ll grow up in time for South Africa 2010.

Chalk it up to “more balls than brains”, I suppose.

Yeah, because the Third Reich WANTED us. They wouldn’t have TOUCHED your grotty corner of Europe.

*cackles*

argentine fan | July 1st, 2006 at 8:34 pm

hahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!

CRY LIKE THE BABIES YOU ARE. THATS ALL THE DIRTY BRITS KNOW HOW TO DO IS CRY. THE BRITISH MEDIA ALWAYS COMPLAING AND CRITICISING ITS OWN PLAYERS.

SO OVERATED!!!!

NOT ONE GOOD PERFORMANCE THE WHOLE CUP!!!!!

ROONEY IS A DISGRACE TO SOCCER, REACTING AND COMPOSING HIMSELF LIKE A 15 YEAR OLD LITTLE GIRL THAT HE IS!!!!!

HAHAHHAHAHA!!!

YOU WILL NEVER GET LUCKY AND WIN THE CUP OF GOD AGAIN!!!

WHY?

BECAUSE YOU DONT KNOW HOW TO PLAY SOCCER THE WAY IT WAS MEANT TO BE PLAYED!!!

YOU ARE JUST A BUNCH OF ANIMALS THAT RUN!!!!

Posted from United States

ARGENTINE FAN

How can you call ENGLAND Animals .. when your team behaved like ANIMALS yesterday.. you lost on penalties just like England but the difference is how ARGENTINA started to fight because they are so arrogant.. thats just what Uncivilised animals do

Sorry, England!!!!

Well done Portugal. You have won. But without honour.

England should be proud and so should the fans.

Look at the hatred against England who just played fair and tried hard.

A day without honour…..which is of course the reason we are hated by other fans, its not like looking into a mirror at all is it. There is only one England ans we make you see what you are.

It MUST be time for new refereeing systems. It is certainly tiem for a detailed analysis of decisions to detect any bias. Let the scientific study results be published, by honest old FIFA

Maybe the Italians could coduct the study?

dear argentine fan

1. “SOCCER” .. its football!
2. your team showed in defeat that they have no CLASS… no civilisation.. no clue about how SPORTSMAN behave.. they are a disgrace to the game.. they are true animals… not england.. your team and england both lost on penalties but the difference was that argentina couldnt take the lose and the only thing ANIMALS can do in defeat is fight

@ Mike Coulten

Maybe they all need to read this and take note:-

“The England team which reached the semi-finals of the 1990 World Cup, under Bobby Robson, was awarded the FIFA Fair Play Award for the tournament. At Euro 96, England were again semi-finalists and Fair Play trophy winners, this time from UEFA. Most recently, at France 98, England were joint winners of the FIFA Fair Play Award (with France). English clubs also have a proud Fair Play record in European competitions, regularly securing one of the top places in the UEFA Fair Play table.”

First of all, England has rode their luck well thus far.
In fact, they are the worst performer through the Group stages of all the teams that made it to the quaterfinal.
Still, I believe that they will be lucky enough to go all the way to the final. How wrong was I.
What is it with penalty that the English can’t get right.
Losing all their big tournament matches by isn’t a pretty sight.
Maybe they can learn a thing or two from the German.
Well, I just hope that Brazil will be beaten by France. They have another 45minutes to do the job.
Ciao

Kaiser Sousa:

There are two schools of thought here. 1) I want the team that beat my team to win it all so that at least my team will have lost to the best in the world; and 2) I want the bastards who beat us to feel what I’m feeling now.

In this case, as I truly don’t believe that Portugal played significantly prettier football than England throughout the tournament, and as it’s possible that the person I most would like to see cry in the world is Cristiano Ronaldo, I have opted for #2.

Also, I deeply want Germany to lose, and I believe that France or Brazil will present them a greater challenge in the final (should they beat Italy) than Portugal.

As it stands, Portugal won the day, and hats off.

But you’ll forgive me if I don’t feel like saying that again in four days’ time.

Best,

Shawn

The thing is, Portugal is moving on and England goes home. Most of the press showed a lot of interest in putting Portugal down (for example Ronaldo’s crying) and now I see Beckham doing the same thing. Of course England did a great game and Portugal should have scored during the normal game time. Instead, it was decided in penalty kicks.

Maybe it was just luck but Ricardo did defend 3 penalty kicks.

I guess the “Cozido à Portuguesa” was eaten with Bacon and eggs…..

England go home!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i am soooooooo sorry for england
i had hoped that they could take the cup
anyway good luck next time
don’t be angry beckham
what happened today was not fair england deserve more
they played well but………???

Watched the England/Portugal match. Seems to me that the England Team are: overpaid – overated and were made to look like part-timers. As a Geordie living in Scotland I was embarrased at England’s standard of play in front of the Scots watching with me. Needless to say they were supporting Portugal!

Marcelo. The reason that England constantly lose on penalties is that they are not practiced that much. To practice penalty kick, after penalty kick entrenches a defeatist, we’ll win it by the penalty shoot-out, mentality in the players.

At the end of the day it’s 50/50 and luck. One of the worst ways to end the game, bring back the ‘Golden Goal’ in extra-time, and play until someone scores, not 15 mins each way.

well i’ve noticed 1 thing by reading all the comments here is dat how rude sum people are..FANS OF EACH PARTICULAR COUNTRY TRYING TO PROVE THAT THEIR COUNRTY PLAYS THE BEST SOCCER AND THE PLAYERS OF OTHER COUNTRIES ARE JUST ANIMALS AND FULL OF SHIT..gawd plzz act like grown ups..ITS VERY EASY TO COME HERE AND WRITE DUMB COMMENTS..YOU ALL PROBABLY FORGET THAT ON THE PITCH ITS A TOTALLY DIFFERENT WORLD..EVERY PLAYER AND COACH IS UNDER SO MUCH PRESSURE AND ON THE PITCH THEY HAVE SO LITTLE TIME TO MAKE CRUCIAL DESCISIONS..SO PLZZ STOP WRIRING THESE RUDE COMMENTS..CUZ DA PLAYERS ALWAYS GIVE THEIR 100%….

Tell your story walking England – once again the world has witnessed your big fat sporting choke..

good riddance, next the Ashes and to regain what is rightfully ours..

Australia once again laughs at you….

And Rooney and what a JOKE.

Posted from Belgium

Big deal for England, Just in London city alone you have more people than in all of Portugal. I respect Portugal because they have great players plus they are the baby country playing against giants. Look how far they have come.Portugal Played some games with 9 against and have won. against all odds they have manged this far.Sometimes I think The media is paid to comment against Portugal

It’s quite sad really to see that alot of you get so much pleasure from seeing us get knocked out in such a devastating way.

@ teswin. I’d like to shake you by the hand. FIFA moto for WC 2006, “Say no to racism.” Every captain at the beginning of every game before each countries nation anthem is played has read out the same statement by FIFA in their national language. I haven’t read all the posts, nor am I going to, they prove that what we are dealing with here are not fans, but mindless, gloating, rascist bigots with nothing better to do.

Dear Michael,

Since moving to Germany, i’v met quite a lot of people who have been laughing at Australia after visiting there!

Oh and Ricardo Rodriques…

Ur no better than the Nazi scum who took over this country in the thirties!
Go to hell urself Fascist Boy ‘cos ur humiliating the more mature bloggers from ur country

In reply to Roberto Rodriguez: I think you should be a little more gracious in victory. For me that sneaky little weasel Ronaldo summs your sleazy little country up. And as for WW2, what was your country doing? Oh yes, it was a shitty little fascist dictatorship busy running an oppressive empire in Africa.
Learn some manners and study some history greaseball

bye bye hooligans, dont cry too much.. you didnt play well enough to cry hahaha.

Great minds Libra, great minds

HEY LONDON GIRL, SHUT UP AND LEARN SOCCER!!!

THE FIGHT COMMENCED BECAUSE OF THE TAUNTING THE THE GERMAN ASSISTANT COACH WAS DOING. THAT IS JUST RIDICULOUS THAT A COACH WOULD GO SO LOW.

ENGLAND DOES NOT EVEN KNOW HOW TO PLAY SOCCER!!! THEY ARE JUST BIG AND FAST. THEY HAVE NO TECHNICAL SKILL AND ARE THE MOST OVERRATED TEAM IN THE WORLD.

ENGLAND WILL NEVER EVER NEVER WIN ANOTHER CUP BECAUSE THEY DONT KNOW HOW TO PLAY.

ROONEY IS A DISGRACE TO THE GAME WITH HIS CHILDISH SHANANIGANS. HE IS AN ANIMAL THAT SHOULD BE CAGED UP!!!!!

HAHAHAHA!!!!!!!

That was no loss for England. Once again we have an Argentine referee who has no clue how to call a game. I want to know how such a ref is once again called on to referee an England game when four years ago he made such a idiotic and contraversial call. I think the powers that be created an atmosphere for England to be knocked out because they were afraid that there would be riots in the streets of Germany. This World Cup has been perverted because of some realy poor referees. How do they find these people ? Regarding Rooney the ref should have clearly called the Portugese player for a foul. Rooney had the ball and position and then when the ref did call something he was clearly just signaling a foul for Portugal and if he sent Ronney off for that little shove on Ronaldo then he shouldn’t even referee a backyard game. The history appears that England is doomed before they even start. We clearly should have won the game in regulation and if Ronney remained in the game they probably would have. I think they put in a gutsy performance and were unlucky. Lampard was lousy he normally would scored in the situations he was put in. Hargreaves was the man of the match for England. Balboa as a commentator is an idiot.

P.Mabey:

this referee is the best in the world.. why do u have to blame the referee when it was very fair game compared to the game of Arg vs Germ yesterday.
Go cry somewhere else u hooligan

well am a argentinean fan…but still i feel for england..they deserved to win..i watched da game and saw how unlucky england were..first the red card shown to rooney..how on earth was that a red card..the refree is a disgrace to human race..that turned the whole game actually took the game away from england..honestly speaking england were robbed..and portugal..wut can i say..even with the numerical advantage they failed to dominate the game..whenever they went close to the goal they ran out of ideas..and england defended very very well..they really stuck to their task..but in the end as we all know the penalty kicks are just like a lottery..many a times the inferior teams win and the superior teams loose..cuz its just luck..and england were unlucky..and their swedish coach is such an asshole..just like pekerman of argentina..once again argentina were unlucy losing in the penalty kicks..but all the blame goes to pekerman cuz he took off riquelme and crespo and brought on cruz instead of aimar or MESSI..

if only you’d had rooney and beckham…..you would have won………and hargreaves is canadian(!!!!!)

I want to apologize to Owen and all english fans…

Because Portugal constantly humiliates England…

IN YOUR ROYAL AND POSH ASS!!!!

ONCE AGAIN ))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))

“itsfootball not soccer”

Actually you ignorant brit, it is futbol!!!! Call us animals but, we are the animals that grace this game (along with the brazilians) with the most elegant and beautiful displays that it will show.

England will NEVER have the capacity to play the true futbol becuase they are savage beasts that have the touch of rapists. All you know how to do is run like horses.

Dont worry my friend, just be happy you did not tie Trinidad and Tobago or better yet that you did not loose to Ecuador because who knows what would have happened.

You know why else the brits are animals aside from their hedonistic behaviour demonstrated by hooligans??? BECAUSE they have no loyalty for their country. The first to turn and criticize the english team is your media. You are all savage blood sucking beasts that have no love for your fellow countrymen. Fostered in an egotistical and humainly ignorant society, you will always fail to produce even the most minutely civilized individual.

Cheers and have fun crying as I urinate on the Queens rug.

how did David Beckham get injured, anyway?

Hope Rooney gives that little pork chop a few good head shots when the weasley little F*&^ shows up for the season. And HOW could FIFA ever let an Agry ref an English game.. It would be like letting the Germans ref an Israel team… What was FIFA thinking they hate eachother…

Argentine fan are you really an Argie or are you just living out some kinky fantasy and are just really some studid Irish gimp as likely to wank over an Argy flag as piss on the Queen’s rug??? God i hate gimps like you

Argenetan fan.. you’re real tough behind those keys.. bet you couldn’t even stand you fast f(**& .. you should get out of your parents basement you troll.

one more thing. how can you all brits even have the balls to blame the referee.

You cannot tell me that either of those flops in the box were penalties. For the love of god please do not be bias for one second.

And how can you call that red card unwarranted???? HONESTLY!!!

He stepped on a player (automatic red).

THEN, he retaliated by pushing (automatic red) and cursing at an opposing player (automatic yellow).

Learn the rules of the game and just admit that your golden boy has serious anger management problems that stem from the same roots of your animalistic-behaving society.

The Schadenfreude is strong here.

England, go back to the “premier” league and play with all the special players who make your teams so great.

Too bad they all come from other countries other than england.

English football = Kick and run

NO TALENT, ZERO! NO HEART.

Their captain faked an injury just to be spared the ridicule of having Miguel own him all match.

Ah well, don’t worry 2 more years till you get your asses handed to you again in the euros and 4 more until another early exit in the WC.

Be proud of your loss england, no other team could have done so little in a world cup and gotten so far.

That Rooney guy looks (physically) as testosterone incarnate; he looks more like a rugby player or a hooligan; he looks exactly the opposite of Crouch (tall and wobbly).

i couldnt stand?

sorry, it hard for me to read your illiterate writing.

please, do not hate the messenger. I am only telling the truth, you appaul me because you know i am honest.

but, if you truly desire, not only can i stand but i could show you how the game was meant to be played “andrew”

aregentine fag.. you full well that if it were a WOP or an ARGY failing in the box.. they would have flopped around like a fish on dry land.. or a Brailian/ Portugal/Spainish player

Yes England didn’t covert any of their chances and it was a shitty way to lose….

“Animalistic behaving” doesn’t make sense. But with your head stuck up some Argantine’s culo how are you possibly to know? You are a spanner.

Oi argentine fan…

After reading some of ur comments and of course after having met sum of ur people i don’t know u have the nerve to call our society ‘animalistic-behaving’…
‘Touch of rapist?’…i reckon u shud stop there as i happen to have quite a bit of experience with sum of the ‘cavemen’ u call people directly from ur primitive society!

Really unfortunate game, but as posted above, at least Sven will get the hell away from the team. Only he would stay with the 4-5-1 after failing to present an effective offense.

I would have thought that England would have improved on PK’s. I too was amazed that Gerrard couldn’t convert. The last time I can remember them winning an important game was v Spain in Euro ‘96.

A great team, but completely restrained by Sven’s unimaginative and uneffective tactics/motivation strategies. He, along with Bruce Arena, should be regarded as what they are… Hacks that cannot coach teams.

HEY ARGENTINE FAN..RELAXX..STOP WRITING ALL THOSE RUDE COMMENTS..EVEN AM A ARGENTINE FAN BUT I DONT HATE ENGLAND AND WHY SHOULD I..COME ON ITS SOCCER NOT A BLOODY WAR WHERE SOMEONE DIED..TAKE IT AS A SPORT..HEY BTW EVEN AM FROM INDIA..WHICH STATE ARE U FROM..

Lucky for you, Nico, you don’t have to worry about Canada getting beaten in large competitions because they are too pathetic to qualify, (even in concacaf).

Sorry to bring myself down to the level of Nico and Argentine fanboy, but I expected to see a relatively intelligent discussion of soccer/football, but instead have to view their drivel.

Hey English er… fans,

I think you guys ought to be really proud.

A victory over Paraguay because of a self goal.

No goals against Trinidad for 80 minutes.

A draw against Sweden.

A narrow fluke of a victory over Ecuador.

You guys should be proud that such a talentless, boring, insipid team like yours even made it to the quarter finals.

And as expected, wilted at the first sign of serious opposition.

How’s the Indian football team getting on? Oh yes: you’re shite. And it’s not like you don’t have enough smellies to choose from.

Goodbye to England the most boring, overated team in the entire tournament. Don’t let the door hit you in the a s s! LOL!!! LOL!!! LOL!!! LOL!!! LOL!!! LOL!!! LOL!!! LOL!!! LOL!!! LOL!!! LOL!!! LOL!!! LOL!!! LOL!!!

YES JOHNNY OUR TEAM IS SHIT…OK BE HAPPY..AND WRITE SOMETHING INTELLIGENT..AND I GUESS IRELAND IS WHERE U FROM ..AND U GUYS HAVE DA BEST TEAM..RIGHT??…BUT WHERE IS UR TEAM..DID THEY MISS DA FLIGHT TO GERMANY HA LOL..

Ok we get it England lost overall…but they hardly were ‘beaten’. Portugal couldn’t even score when we were a man down.
I’m kinda shocked by all the comments on the board..half of which come from countries that were long knocked out…USA don’t see you anywhere?!…shouldn’t you be of bombing another country..to think we helped you in your war against ‘terror’.

These comments aren’t coming from Americans primarily, but angry Argentinians and other sad sacks. Glad your country isn’t as fickle as you though, thanks for the help.

Somewhere.. Out there.. there is a voodoo doll that has a disquieting resemblance to Frank Lampard and has a whole host of pins up its foot!

Heh, wouldn’t surprise me Bobbio. I just couldn’t figure out why Sven didn’t try adjusting his strategy, other than revolving different strikers in.

Lampard’s shots were not great through the cup, but at least he took some. The way the offense was set up, shots were few. Lampy did look as if he were being forced to shoot a puppy before taking that shot though.

What the hell? Why are you non-English fans so bloody mean? We lost. Leave us alone and go celebrate instead of rubbing it into our faces. How pathetic is that?

Congratulations ENGLAND, you have played very well! Very well!
But the only way you whore gone win this game was through PK and specialy in that fase you whore not the better ones – unfair – yah, maybe.

Good game!
Hope Portugal and England meet again soon.

Cheers from Portugal!

yeah right.

http://england.justgotowned.com/

Natalie,

I’d say we shud the non-english fans keep up their near fascist comments, it not only lets them humiliate their more decent bloggers, it also goes to show what type of country they come from!

Keep it up u little sacks of shit…we’ll just keep throwing it back at ya!

CSAblade, the comments from this and other blog site would suggest alot of the insults are coming suprisingly from the USA which I found surprising and alot of them pretty harsh.
Though I apologise for causing offence to those who have said nothing x

Some of these blogs,sound like it’s coming out of the mouths of immature Adults? You Just inforce the point of Holigans from your country.Does anyone know what the word RESPECT means? Good Sportsmanship? Are you all nuts? It doesn’t matter that Portugal won on Shootouts,the point they won. Had it been the other way around, would that be good?There are blogs here that have nothing to do with football.Cut it out,don’t be sore losers. Just think if Portugal wins, you played against the best

I am just saying that there are many people who reside in the US that are not Americans, (I’m not trying to start an immigration debate on this soccer/football blog). Just because their post was registered from an IP address in the US, does not mean they are Americans. If they are Americans, they are disrespectful ones, who do not understand/respect the past 200 years of our two country’s friendship.

I was hoping, if anything, the hate would be directed towards Sven. Heh. I don’t think that trying to replace Sven with an international soccer/football guru is a great idea. What’s wrong with having an English coach who posesses desirable skills and qualities?

Although, I’m not above having the US look outside it’s borders for a coach that can make our stink a little more tolerable.

Teswin relax my son. By the way we were eliminated from our qualifying group having lost only one match, and ultimately we were knocked out by the same Frenchman who knocked out Brazil…so no shame in that.

Boring, England out, Argentina out. time to watch something else. Hell is a now a world cup with the likes of germany (with their blackmailing nazi fifa connections), deciding all the shit and the sickening Portuguese Ronaldo, and other semi final with cheat Henry. Even the Iti cheats are up there in the semis. Sickening.
All the entertainers are gone, even the Netherlands. Sick Ronaldo, I hope he is sacked from Man U, and Germany lose the final to whoever. The souls of the Jews in WW2!

England, out in the Quarter-finals on penalties.

Put up your hands those who didn’t see this coming.

My advise to England, for what it is worth, is that for the next four years is to forget about friendlies, just practise taking penalties. Haven’t you learnt by now? How many times to you have to lose by penalties before your realise they are part of the game and it’s important you have players that can easily put the ball in the back of the net?

Yea i recogn huh? Seems setup anyway, i dont think england can blame anyone other than the manager. I mean what an idiot. Ericsson? I mean wat a moron, he had one of the greatest english teams ever at his disposal and he can hardly score a goal, hopeless, actually maybe its not even ericsson its the english FA that need to have a good long look at themselves and fire whomeva thought that was the best coach they could find. What an IDIOT.

English fans..please see wat hapenned today ..once more your ego shut your outh again you are NOT BETTER THEM WE ARE!!! PORTUGAL

I have to agree with that. The English players did not play poorly (with a couple of exceptions). They did as well as their system could have allowed. Sometimes the 4-5-1 works, but Sven clearly failed to get that system working. There simply wasn’t enough support for the forwards, whether it was Owen, Crouch, or Rooney.

I do think the FA has to be blamed for not sacking Erikson, but the PK thing is just devastating, like a bad deja vu.

The English always play gutsy…but, let’s face it, they played like shit the whole tournament. Oh and that Peter Crouch is just embarassing to watch. What incompetence!!!!

Jphn Petreson,

Even though i’m not German, i don’t think it’s fair to bring up the nazis and the atrocities of WW2 into this…it’s over 60 years old now and i heard enough about it when i was back in England
I do agree with ur Ronaldo statement tho

Sorry, didn’t mean to agree with the fantastically brilliant comments made in caps. Meant to agree with the Aussie above.

England,
go home to your fish-’n-chips island off of Europe and have your CUP – of tea, that is (recommendably some herbal to fight your diarrhea) – or go to some Spanish islands, brazenly challenging German towel reservations by the poolside and reading THE SUN or some other highly intellectual periodicals.

Keep your World Cup ‘66 T-shirts on, and your England-Germany 5:1 T-shirts as well because nobody gives a damn anyway. Some people here in Germany proposed to have T-shirts produced reading ” ‘54 -’74 – ‘90 ” ( not to speak of the 3 European championships or the many WC runners-up hits), but we just did not care, it has just come natural. Whereas you guys still brag about just exactly the only CUP that is widely considered the solely undeserved in WC history due to biased refereeing, proven by media and even Oxbridge scientists.
So why don’t you just shut up for, I’d say 5 years or so.

Shame… England should and could have done much better with the players they have, but in 480 minutes they have played in this world cup they never looked like a team.

For a team tiped to be favourite 2nd only to Brazil to win this WC… it was very poor to play like they did in their 5 games.

Definitely, England didnt deserve to be on the last 4(neither did Portugal i should say).

good luck in 2010

Thanks Rolf for your irrelevant blabbering about German v English football. Why don’t you go post on WhyGermansalwaysthinktheyarethebestateverything.com

It was fitting that England get knocked out of the cup. The World Cup is not the World Cup without and Argentina/England match! BTW, Argentina would have spanked your white arses!

So much hatred against the Portuguese, and why? Because you fear us, today and always. It’s all about fear and lack of confidence, you just don’t have what it takes.

Even without Deco and Costinha, the two most important midfielders, Portugal won again. More technique, more nerve, more everything.
As for England, Rooney the Bread Maker is kicking the wrong ball(s).
In 1966, after the great robery against Portugal, you won, but today, and even if you and all the majority of northen European countries are helped by FIFA, you’re out.
The way it should be.
Now go and drink bear, bunch of hooligans.
Bye Bye.

To Dame Rustie Lee, who wrote:

“Yeah, because the Third Reich WANTED us. They wouldn’t have TOUCHED your grotty corner of Europe.

*cackles*

Posted from United Kingdom”

Well, I dont suppose English Dames would have been so uncouth to release such rude and absurd rubbish into a web blog.
However I imagine Dame Rustie Lee is the single solitary English citizen who does not “visit” the Algarve region 365 days a year,,?:)) hmmm??

Or maybe dame rustie did not attend history classes at school..? Port wine? Yes- your favourite Port, teh one that your classics rave on and on about having it after dinner/supper in the most English of all English homes..????

What is it?! Selective memory? Alheimer? Or maybe Mad Cow Disease?

To put it more directly- seeing the English (quite on many occasions) who travel to Pt South is a major shock to me- I have yet to see such “class” in the most remote, God-forgotten areas in Poland yet. To find anything comparable. I felt sorry for the locals, who continuosly stay calm, gentle, helpful and with genuine consideration to their guests.

It is absolutely unfair to say all that about the Portuguese. Having been on all the continents and shared thoughts with various cultures, I have never met such kind and outreaching people as the Portuguese.

And Im damn chicken happy they have a fab team as they do, and a lovely genuine coach, who above all cares for his team as individuals, as humans. This is what the roots of sport are about and what makes it a magnet for peoples all over the World.

Go Portugal! Make your nation proud!

Have to agree with you Slash, we weren’t playing as well as we could have, but have to say that maybe the formation and coaching for the games haven’t been spot on, something to definitely improve on.

Rolf Habich – if you’re going to revert to stereotypes (tea drinking, fish&chips, the Sun)then why don’t you go and just buy a frankfurter stick it up your @ss and watch some porn – Capsice

GUAHAHA the England hooligans are finnaly out. No skill, no class, what a disgrace! Little chavs deserve to go home and sleep. You had the easiest teams to play and still lost BUAHAHA pathetic is all i can say.

Boring boring England finally plays a good match and this is what happens. Its a little unfair. I think Rooney’s reputation had him 60% off for that foul before the ref decided to red the last 40%. You guys went down fighting and should be proud of yourselves.
I couldn’t stand watching you for every game until this one.
Clearly though, as with other tournaments you guys don’t have a game turner in the team. It may well be Rooney, but trying to keep on him on the pitch for whatever reason seems like a victory.

In spite of the lack of goals I really enjoyed this very tactical game. Both England and Portugal played very concentrated, both giving everything they have.
Again we’ve won in the PK against England who go home honourably.
Whatever the result against France in the semi-finals, Portugal has already made a great campaign.
This game helped to prove that the lack of fair play of the game with holland was an incident of the game itself, the referee and early dutch harsh fouls.
Cheers to England – an excelent adversary

Thank you Tiago, well played to Portugal too!

As for Gibro, there’s hardly much ‘class’ in your blog is there..pathetic is what i also say

For all the English out there. Here’s the big tip. With Steve McClaren’s super impressive record at Middlesbrough, don’t expect much more from your national side.
Get a decent manager first

What does history and politics have to do with football?

Hey, it´s a sport to build not burn bridges. Many comments have been posted by sore losers and winners.

In POrtugal, people were dancing on the streets. But, why?

I was jumping around too, ecstatic with Portugal´s victory. But, it´s important to be objective.

Although Rooney was unquestionably given the red card fairly for his immature reaction (it´s foolish to deny it) against probably the best centre defencemen in the world – Terry and Gallas are the second and third best, Portugal was unable to dominate or create clear scoring opportunities.

Ricardo was the hero, but the English defence was absolutely superb, and Lennon wreacked havoc up front (he is really fast and dangerous).

Penalty kicks are not 50/50 or simply a question of luck – skill and ability to cope with pressure are critical.

Yeah, I too don´t like Cristiano Ronaldo, a hoggish crybaby who forgets that football is a team sport, however, for what both teams had shown prior to this match, Portugal deserves to move ahead. England did not play a single decent match through the whole WC.

Guess they were over-rated??!! I don´t know for sure because they have great players (Terry, Cole, Rooney, Lampard, Lennon, Beckham, etc… )- they should be able to do better. Strange???

ya know something – maybe England should hire Mourinho, tough that would be expensive.

It was a very even match, I´m glad Portugal got through, but England did not play worse – not at all!!

Congratulations to all for the display of courage under so much heat.

But why do some english fan bloggers want Portugal to lose so badly against FRance??

Cum on, show good sportsmanship!!

Petreson, you are pathetic.
As any Northen European who understands shit about ‘futebol’, you should be skying right now.
It is so good to see how you bunch of drunks are all so sad. You not only fear talent, you are unable to recognize it.
Dedicate yourself to the ‘cod fishing activity’, so that we can cook it here in Portugal. You don’t even know how to cook (giving cod to the dogs?). Anything that requires talent is not for you.
Sweet dreams.

Well,lets just say lil Ronaldo won’t be having much of party at Old Trafford from now on. I have some Man U friends and they weren’t very happy with his lil act against Rooney. I’m sure Rooney isn’t too happy either and it hasn’t gone unnoticed with Alex Ferguson as well, Now he can actually chuck a boot at someone who actually deserves it

Wayne Rooney is an embarrassment. His left foot to the groin was clearly INTENTIONAL, (Owen).
He should be banned from his National Team.
Guys like him will never mature to a respectable level. Sorry to see England go home. PK’s are no way to win a match. Glad to see France advance to the semi’s. One icon down (Beckham), one still alive (Zidane). 2010 just won’t be the same.

Congratulations England, you have a great team!

FORÇA PORTUGAL!!!

English team are bunch of cry-babies.You English fans are bunch of hippocrates! You love to point out how others cry when they lose but when it’s your s o r r y a s s team then you find all sorts of excuses!

Jphn Petreson – Got shrink?

Has anyone noticed or is it just me. England plays a very boring style of soccer.

Anyone who is saying that England sucks etc.. does not know soccer (football). All the teams in the final 8 deserved to be there. And in this game, England lost their best players (Beckham & Rooney) and still were in the game right to the end. If it wasn’t for stupid penalty kicks they probably would have won (sorry but penalty kicks is NO WAY to decide a team game!!). If I had to pick one reason why England lost is was COACHING. Sven did not know how to use the players he had other than Beckham and Rooney and that is why they were so worn out (injured) and in Rooney’s case so frustrated to the point he was kicked out of the game. Throughout the tournament England did not use their scoring potential and to me that means it is the fault of the coaching style. If England is ever going to win a World Cup again they need a coach who will have a more exciting style of play that does not rely on winning games only 1-0 (like today and every other game they have ever played under Sven) or playing some sort of prevent-defense style which NEVER wins championships. I am not really an England fan but that said I feel sorry for players like Beckham who might never play again in the World Cup You can say whatever you want about them but Beckham played hard in every game he was in. And Hargreaves (from Canada ) played hard too and did not deserve to lose. Good luck next time to England (and good luck to find a better coach!) and I sincerely hope that whoever wins the championship this year, it is because they proved to have the best players and best style of play and hopefully there won’t be anymore games decided by penalty kick

Rolf, von Dir haette ich mehr erwartet!!! Hoerst Dich gewoehnlich recht intelligent an. Was sollen denn die Beleidungen.

Amen to that, Sven will not be missed, and shame on the english FA for sticking with him.

ive read half the comments on this page but got a bit bored of argentine fan’s stupid comments so i thought id set him straight on a couple of things, altho judging by what hes written so far hes too ignorant/slow to do so

firstly, the mass brawl at the end of thegame was started by cufre kicking mertesacker in the balls. this was after the match and cufre received a red card for it so u can go to hell with ur savages. rooney’s step on carvalho wasnt even intentional but cufre knew exactly what he was doing cos he wasnt a gracious loser.

did anyone see maxi rodriguez’s flying punch as well? savage…

as for being savage and uncivilised, ur the lame tard whos come on this site trying to laugh at english fans for getting knocked out on penalties, the irony!

and another thing, its not called futbol its called football, u didnt invent the game, u just invented different ways to cheat in it.

and last time we played it was 3-2, to england just in case u cant remember so that suggests our football’s better than urs.

and our players showed more passion for england than urs did for argentina.

congratulations on portugal, devastating for england but it had to happen to someone.

non-english fans, if u have some crap to say go spout it elsewhere, i dont think anyone here really wants to know

I think 7 teams including England and Portugal deserved to be there but not Italy, not by a long shot.

HA HA HA HA HA EVEN NORTHERN IERLAND BEAT STUPID CRY-BABY ENGLAND TEAM!!!

ROONY WHO????? ENGLAND WHO??????

GO HOME YOU DIRTY FOOTBALL PLAYERS!!!

England finally played what i thought was a great game and what irony… they lose.
Hats off to the English team. Fighters, one and all. What an absolutely awful way to lose a match; penalties, that goes for any team. The Args were devastated as well. As far as some of the comments on this blog are concerned, let’s all try to be civil. The great beauty of the game, especially this cup is the fact that it can bring us all a little closer together as we are seing millions of people do in Germany.
Portugal managed to hold on and are blessed with an incredible goal keeper. The only negative thing i would add concerns Mr. Rooney.
He performed an incredible diservice for his team today and i believe the memory of it will remain with him for quite some time.
G*d bless the UK and the same goes for Portugal.

England never gave up. And they did not attack the Portugese after the game. Good sportsmenship.

We didn’t stand a chance with an Argentinian ref.. it is like Osama bin laden reffing a USA match! Plus Aaron Lennon was definately brought down in the box for a penalty. I don’t think the French will let the porteguese dive thru to the finals though.

PORTUGAL WON…TOO BAD…..you dam English people don’t know how to win nor lose.

The ref was just fine…..boy when someone loses you always look for excuses….too bad….

The world wanted England to lose….your too violent and you always think you are superior in soccer…please…..never!

The English media was cruel to Portugal…and now looks who is laugthing.

Haha! So much for rooney…not even one goal….too overated.

He did nothing and deserbed to be red carded.

I remember here in Bermuda, english fan were saying the Portuguese will have to remove their flags….Guess Again.

Listen I know it’s hard, it’s bitter..but one team had to lose…and that was you….sorry …

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