Canadian Kara Lang from the kickoff in the 2nd half against Mexico, I believe. I’m old and my memory is a sad husk, but I think the Mexican keeper somehow managed to get back in time to tip it over the bar. This was a light touch to the side for her to boot, so almost a dead ball, right on the line, and she was still…

The defender was not going to get there first, and she initiated the foul to keep the German (jeez, I’m watching the Japanese/English game and had to pause to remember which game we’re talking about) player from getting past her. In the end, though, the referee is deemed correct and is allowed leeway in her…

It’s funny because the same joke could be made with the dollar.

The 2nd defender not being in line between the goal and the ball negates that, unfortunately, and, in this case, the ref isn’t supposed to decide whether or not the player is going to secure control, just that she has the opportunity to do so. These are not decisions the ref is supposed to make.

I didn’t record the game so can’t go back and check, but I think she made Sasic wait something like 80 seconds before coming to the net to allow the PK to be taken, and had walked off over the goal line. She was playing mind games - playing them well, as it turns out - but the delay could realistically have resulted…

In the game that was actually played, there was not a second defender between the German player and the goal. Poor reffing, and it should have been a red card, which, missed PK or not, would have changed the nature of the game.

So far I remain unripped. But I don’t doubt this error will crop up again and again.

I had just yesterday vented about this on my Facebook page (this is where I show just how old a man I am) after the local polic service did the same thing. I’m seeing it more and more these days, and it makes my teeth hurt.

Can I take a moment to be pedantic here? It seems like everyone at Gawker Media (and in other places, obviously) thinks that because there is a metal called “lead” that “plead” and “lead” should rhyme with that, even when they are in the past tense. This is wrong, dammit. In the piece above, the word is “pled,” if you…

I was super fucking disappointed we lost, but that, my friend, is a real apology, and 3am and being on the Right Side of the scoreline (for you) means it’s All Good. Cheers, and good luck against Japan.

I was about to write an abject apology in which I sincerely debased myself when I thought, No, go have a look. Sure enough, TSN.ca in Canada has the play from Sinclair (sorry, not from Schmidt) and she nutmegged TWO players.

Best play of the game didn’t result in a goal. Schmidt doing a meg to Sinclair, who megged another player to herself and then came up with a brilliant cross field pass to Tancredi, who unfortunately rushed it when she didn’t have to. But Canada, as has been the case all through this World Cup, are prone to mediocre…

Brilliant, and I’m sharing it with all my fellow LFC fans. Christ, I was crying I was laughing so hard!

Early when this started (I think even before all the nitrous oxide BS), he was being touted as possibly going for as much as £50 million, and Stan Collymore tweeted if Liverpool are offered that much for him Brendan should throw him in the car and drive him to Sterling’s new stadium himself. LFC are my club, I know…

Well, the hand ball call in the area right after was pretty weak, too. And lemme tell you, the count created one of my favorite moments of the opening game for the Canadian women, when we were all counting every time the Chinese keeper held the ball. Counting ridiculously fast, of course, but it was a big party.

Sounds like he’d be a normal contestant on The Amazing Race. Throw in a fear of heights and of water and he’d be perfect.

It disappoints me it took this long in the thread to get to some stiff word play.

I know two guys who’ve survived avalanches. One rode one down the mountain on his butt, rather stupidly wearing a white snowsuit. The other got pitched over the edge of a cliff and popped up out of the snow, spitting chiclets and with tears in various muscles and breaks in various bones. I will of course be forwarding…

Not enough poop on the highway.

He went out and bought a new suit right after finding out. “If I’m gonna be im-potent, I gotta look im-potent.”