was the goal for liverpool correct?or was an error by the REF?
444387
Cisse was definitely offside! The goal should have been disallowed.
511351
Of course it was clearly a cheat. And what do you thinkin about the sending-off???? Cheat again.\nArsenal should have won that
760254
I also did not understand it. I mean I thought that the ref felt embarrassed about the confusion with A. Cole's yellow card to he gave Messi a card to distract the attention away from him. We all  know that Messi is pure...I could never imagine him being nasty on purpose.\n\nBut lets be honest...the ref was CRAZY!!! He missed two red card offences and would not even allow the medical staff on the field when Drogba was bleeding...\n\nThe man was evidently deranged...I mean who adds 6 min of extra time??? I don't think the ref was impartial enough. He was obviously having a bad night...please don't let it bother you!
1083124
1. Referee was wrong, it wasn't a foul.\n2. Grosso had passed 2 opponents in the box. I can't remember he had done anything as this in many years. Passing the second opponent he got 2 chances: jump over the prone man and shoot at the net from an excellent spot (not easy for a forward, really difficult for a defender as him); take a contact with the prone opponents, who can't avoid to block him with an obstruction foul. Instinctively he choose the second chance. I think he was right. If he really can pass opponents as Ronaldinho, the right choose had been the first.\n3. Referee don't want to do mistake or to hurt Australians. Simply, he was wrong (and this really was a difficult judgment, watching the match I thought referee was right) \n4. If really referee want to give a special help to Italy, he simply could avoid to sanction a crazy red card against Materazzi, who deserve a yellow. Before the red Italy has got many scoring chance and was playing so far better than Australia. Italy miss to score in the first half, Australia definitively failed to create scoring opportunities in the second half. So, between two great mistakes, red and penalty, the last was the ultimate.
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Im a fellow Spurs fan and i agree. The game was overshadowed completely by the media going on about Poll's decisions. Fact of the matter is, Drogba would not have had the free header he did to make it 2-0 because Michael Dawson played to the whistle and would certainly have got to the ball first, Drogba did not play to the whistle (as usual). I have to say that John Terry's sending off was really quite harsh on him but his reaction (or lack of it) to his dismissal, just made him stand out more to me as the consumate professional he is. Would JT's sending off meant that Spurs could hold on for the last 19 mins and win or would Chelsea with 11 men come back to level or win it?.... We'll never know. But i wish that people in the press and football show panels gave more time to talking about the great football on show, than the poor ref on show.
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I stayed up late to watch the rerun of the match to see why Lehmann was sent off.  The announcers were crabbing about the call, but I didn't see any problem with it.  There's an argument to be made about swallowing the whistle and letting Barcelona capitalize on its advantage, but the contact and the game situation merited, I think, the red.  I don't buy their part of the argument that it "ruined" the UEFA final; football is football, and rules are rules, and Lehmann made a major miscalculation.
882639
yes. i also think they cheated at the match against aston villa\n\n(mainly because im a villa fan!)
577903
i'm a fan of england, and yet i can't blame the guy for scoring....so you honestly believe that he should of kicked that out of bounds?\n\notherwise whenever any player makes a bad pass they would just fall down claiming to be hurt so the other team kicks it out...\n\nor maybe he tried to kick it out but he is crap and missed!!!
869332
The refs are stymied by the rules, i.e. last defender or stopping a definite goal scoring opportunity he's off.... Personally I don’t think this, as with many others, merits a red card.
650707
Didn't sway the game, but his impulsiveness definitely altered its complexion... the match looked like it would have been amazing 11 v 11, but the sending off (which was fair, although a goal and a yellow would have been too) didn't allow the game to flourish. I think Lehman would have saved the 2nd Barca goal. IMO Arsenal deserved to win (played better) and probably would have if it weren't for the rain which made them use more energy and made the ball move faster (suited Barca). Always next year.
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1. My prevision was Holland66%-Portugal33%. It was a mistake, the teams (in the *played* part of the match) were equivalent. Both goalkeeper had an extra-work and only Portuguese had scored, so they deserve victory.\n2. Really strange to keep V.N. in bench! From the replacement with Van Der Vaarts going in, Holland showed a better playing... Maybe V.N. was injured? or in bad fitness? Only Van Basten knows... it seems its mistake. Scolari was wrong too: he need to remove Costinha before the red, he's got a yellow (wich need to be a red), and had done another critical foul wich deserved almost another yellow...\nI would place a point 3:\nReferee was amazing, isn't he? The worst referee i've seen in the tournament
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Wasn't it the Netherlands vs. Portugal???\n\nI personally thought that the players' conduct was far beyond the control of the referee and that he did the absolute best job that he could have.  I know that he missed some calls, but all the bookings he made were all correct.  I think the players just lost their heads. If he tried to discipline absolutely everything, there probably would have been 10 sendings-off.
327852
I'm a Saints supporter and had them in the footy tipping, so I'd have to say no. I watched it and didn't hear any siren.\nNeither team played well, so the draw was probably a good result. Accept the umpires' decision and get over it, Freo. Just be grateful Baker didn't kick a goal with his second attempt. Then you'd really be frothing at the mouth.\n\nUpdate 4 May: Oh well, its only a game. It's a strange enough game already without giving the attacking team 2 shots at goal after the siren, I suppose.
1124934
The goalkeeper cannot move FORWARD until the ball is touched by the player taking the kick.  He can, however, move laterally.  I know Lehman didnt move forward on his first save, but I too suspected he might have on the second one.  I taped the game, and as soon as Ukraine-Italy is over (I am taping that one as well), I plan on watching Lehman's second save again.  However, he must move FORWARD to make it illegal, moving laterally is ok.
345285
He was born and raised in Liverpool. Is further clarification really necessary?
587955
Blame Henry not the Ref.  Thanks for the missed opportunities.\n\nThere sure are a lot of whining going on here from the Arsenal fans.  I am not a Barca fan I just think that the game changing decision was a good one.  What did Lehman think was going to happen?  A high five from the ref.  Come on he could have given the goal that would have been worse.  Stop whining your in the Champions League next year but I guess without the choking Henry you'll get know where.\n\nHenry must already be on Barca's payroll.  Hero to zero, Blame Henry not the ref.
628762
of course they did .underdogs that went 2-0 up .then a wonder goal by Steven Gerrard from 30 yards out 3 minutes into injury time.robbed the hammers of a win.even then they had a great chance to win the game.in the final minute of extra time.then to lose on the lottery of penalties.which i hate.must have been heartbreaking for them.