Mexico was the better team until that offside goal. And England got a goal stolen from them. I would have liked to see how the matches went if electronic aides were allowed. Many arbitrary errors in these 1/8 finals.

England lost because Germany was better, and made fewer mistakes. That said, England hit the post and the crossbar and had a goal disallowed! If the game had gone to 2-2 Germany would not have been able to sit back and play counter attacking football and England would not have attacked as much. The decision totally changed that game, and the Germany goals all came from silly mistakes. England and the ref made Germany look better than they are.

The same applies to the Mexico Argentina game. Firstly Tevez fouled the keeper and then he was offside. Mexico was playing a good system up until that point and was creating more chances. That one decision changed the way Mexico and Argentina could play the game. Argentina could relax more, commit fewer players forward and Mexico had to work much harder to try to get back into the game. In the end Argentina looked the better side, but that is because they were able to play counter attack football, as was the case with Germany.

In the end the officials stuck to the rule book. It kept them in a job but once again highlighted the unfairness of football.

Unfortunately in England and Mexico this tournament will be remembered for all the wrong reasons; an uncontrollable bouncy ball, the horrible noise, bad officiating and poor decision making by FIFA. Then there is Ireland!
Even two extra officials standing close to the goals would have spotted the Frank Lampards goal and the Tevez foul and offside. Football does not need stubborn dinosaurs at the top. It is inevitable that the Premiership in England will start to use goal mouth technology in the very near future. If UEFA do not accept this, then England will have to split. Even if it means not playing in Europe and Internationals. The public and media pressure to use cameras will overwhelm the FA.

Today we have two more good games to follow,
Holland – Slovakia, and then, Brazil - Chile.
I hope there will be no more controversial decisions to make, just good football.

Yes what a pity , also the goal´/ s stolen to Chile

Buenos Aires atmosphere, well well , just great !!

Argentina deserved to won , England{s campaign was just terrible , and that was it

Table reserved to see my Country play ,

regards

JP

Sob, instead of an Azzurri wave, there's a building orange wave of a different kind of plumage in the RSA



Go Dutch Go

Holland have won all their games. Although they have been rather ordinary, they have been at least as good as France and Italy were in the last world cup, and both got to the final!

So far Brazil have also looked rather average, by their standards. We will see soon enough what they have to offer the world cup.