Putain d’Henry indeed.

I was supposed to be replying to him, but I think I have the dumb.

Except it’s not like that at all. Guardado didn’t call a bad penalty, he kicked it in grudgingly, but Henry actually cheated Ireland out of the World Cup.

That piling on is not gratuitous though. Herrera has a bad habit of reacting poorly when things don’t go his way and the media would point this out even before he became our national team’s coach. He has continued to do so, always finding an excuse whenever his team loses a match or when his lack of ideas and the…

That very last part is the narrative that they have established to sell this tournament as something somewhat relevant. It’s not. The Confederations Cup is not that big a deal, it’s like a rehearsal that sells tickets and that’s about it.

Well, yeah, you’ve also hosted how many of the last 13 editions? I mean...

Your TV must have been broken. Mexico actually handed over the game when Herrera wussed out and decided they were better off trying to hold on to a meager 1-0.

Which is exactly why they could NOT allow for a ‘dream 3rd place match’. Who would attend or tune in to a playoff between the US and Not Mexico?

Yeah... we’re not being magnanimous down here, people in general, and not only part of the media are pissed at Herrera for being a slacked, and because he’s busier making bad commercials, giving interviews and taking fucking selfies. We all know that if it had been the other way around, the other team wouldn’t have…

It’s a latino thing. In general, many of our people lack discipline and think the world owes us something for all our disadvantages in life so we get to wreck things up and cry ‘zomg oppression!!1!! #TwitterHALP’ when it bites us in the dick.

The thing is he has been on a steady decline, and whenever shit don’t go his way he blames the other team for being dirty, the refs for their bad calls, the pitch, the weather...

They’re notorious for doing that. Honduras, too.

One more thing:

Shit, even our coach agreed that it was a bullshit call. Concacaf is completely rotten on the inside. After much thought, I think it was unreasonable on my part -and everyone else’s- to expect Guardado to kick the ball out but everyone and their mother agrees that this was BS.

Yes, this is the best possible scenario for them because there WILL be a playoff match which means the stakes will be higher, and the only way to send a message is to boycott this stupid fucking tournament and especially the final match.

Yeah that too, I said so in my other comment, maybe we all have to remember what happened to Andrés Escobar.

Exactly, gotta cash in all those beautiful dollars!

I know I went full out against Guardado on twitter and on Facebook, for NOT missing that kick, but the hard truth is that’s kind of his job.

What he actually said was that he considered missing the kick but he remembered the times the opposite had happened to him in his career and also that his job is to be a professional.

It was quite clear on my broadcast. Panama went all out on the refs, understandably so, but still. They were threatening to quit the match and Orozco was encouraging them to do so, like an asshole. By the book the match probably should have ended then and there, because of how both fucking teams acted and reacted, but…