Come on Ivory Coast.

[Tricky_Trev]

It was one of the worst moments of "football" i've ever seen, on so many levels. Keita runs into Kaka. Kaka holds his arm out to cushion the blow. Keita simulataneously gets taken out by a sniper in the croud, and rolls around holding his face, which is presumably where the bullet penetrated him. In the meantime, the ref is looking in the opposite direction. He did not see it, and neither did any of the other officials. Keita is rolling around like mad. The blood from his gun shot wound must be pouring out all over the place. Other players see that Keita is dying and decide to have a bit of a kerfuffle. None of the players saw it either and are simply pushing each other around for the sake of it. The ref then sees a player dead on the ground, and all the other players scuffling. He then assumes Kaka was the one with the sniper rifle hidden in his socks, and sends him off simply because of the reaction of the players. What a joke of a ref, joke of a human being in Keita, and joke of a reaction by the other players. If this is what football has become, a game of deceit, lies and play-acting akin to what you would expect to see in WWF, then i want out right now. This is not football.

 

[Dubai Blue]

It was one of the worst moments of "football" i've ever seen, on so many levels. Keita runs into Kaka. Kaka holds his arm out to cushion the blow. Keita simulataneously gets taken out by a sniper in the croud, and rolls around holding his face, which is presumably where the bullet penetrated him. In the meantime, the ref is looking in the opposite direction. He did not see it, and neither did any of the other officials. Keita is rolling around like mad. The blood from his gun shot wound must be pouring out all over the place. Other players see that Keita is dying and decide to have a bit of a kerfuffle. None of the players saw it either and are simply pushing each other around for the sake of it. The ref then sees a player dead on the ground, and all the other players scuffling. He then assumes Kaka was the one with the sniper rifle hidden in his socks, and sends him off simply because of the reaction of the players. What a joke of a ref, joke of a human being in Keita, and joke of a reaction by the other players. If this is what football has become, a game of deceit, lies and play-acting akin to what you would expect to see in WWF, then i want out right now. This is not football.

Summed up perfectly.

 

[JoeMercer'sWay]

It was one of the worst moments of "football" i've ever seen, on so many levels. Keita runs into Kaka. Kaka holds his arm out to cushion the blow. Keita simulataneously gets taken out by a sniper in the croud, and rolls around holding his face, which is presumably where the bullet penetrated him. In the meantime, the ref is looking in the opposite direction. He did not see it, and neither did any of the other officials. Keita is rolling around like mad. The blood from his gun shot wound must be pouring out all over the place. Other players see that Keita is dying and decide to have a bit of a kerfuffle. None of the players saw it either and are simply pushing each other around for the sake of it. The ref then sees a player dead on the ground, and all the other players scuffling. He then assumes Kaka was the one with the sniper rifle hidden in his socks, and sends him off simply because of the reaction of the players. What a joke of a ref, joke of a human being in Keita, and joke of a reaction by the other players. If this is what football has become, a game of deceit, lies and play-acting akin to what you would expect to see in WWF, then i want out right now. This is not football.

Wonderfully put.

 

[Joycee Banercheck]

kaka has been wronged, the player openly cheated to get him sent off, he actually ran over to the stationary kaka to cause the trouble.

That might have been so, Bill.

But, in football, if you're attacked, you fall over. You don't mete out your own punishment of a 'protective' elbow. That's like kicking back in self defence, in footballing terms.

Kaká is not stupid, he knows the rules.

He realised his mistake and pleaded innocence, even when the replay showed he 'reacted'.

Right decision when we look at what the current law says.

Kaka did NOTHING wrong at all. He was cheated.

 

[JoeMercer'sWay]

the irony is Brazil have already qualified and now Ivory Coast have got a Kaka a ban for the final game which is against...Portugal, so basically they've given their rivals for qualification an easier time of it!

 

[Dubai Blue]

Kaka did NOTHING wrong at all. He was cheated.

It often amazes me how football fans can come to entirely opposite conclusions after having watched the exact same thing. I'm in full agreement with Joycee on this one and simply can't believe anyone saw anything in that incident whatsoever that warranted a yellow card. But then Bigga is probably reading this and shaking his head in disbelief that we DIDN'T see anything in it.

As they say, it's a funny old game.

 

[bluemoon32]

It was one of the worst moments of "football" i've ever seen, on so many levels. Keita runs into Kaka. Kaka holds his arm out to cushion the blow. Keita simulataneously gets taken out by a sniper in the croud, and rolls around holding his face, which is presumably where the bullet penetrated him. In the meantime, the ref is looking in the opposite direction. He did not see it, and neither did any of the other officials. Keita is rolling around like mad. The blood from his gun shot wound must be pouring out all over the place. Other players see that Keita is dying and decide to have a bit of a kerfuffle. None of the players saw it either and are simply pushing each other around for the sake of it. The ref then sees a player dead on the ground, and all the other players scuffling. He then assumes Kaka was the one with the sniper rifle hidden in his socks, and sends him off simply because of the reaction of the players. What a joke of a ref, joke of a human being in Keita, and joke of a reaction by the other players. If this is what football has become, a game of deceit, lies and play-acting akin to what you would expect to see in WWF, then i want out right now. This is not football.

Well said, alas, i think it's too late to save our game, it's well and truly f**ked.

 

[RobinHood]

Kaka did NOTHING wrong at all. He was cheated.

It often amazes me how football fans can come to entirely opposite conclusions after having watched the exact same thing. I'm in full agreement with Joycee on this one and simply can't believe anyone saw anything in that incident whatsoever that warranted a yellow card. But then Bigga is probably reading this and shaking his head in disbelief that we DIDN'T see anything in it.

As they say, it's a funny old game.

Agree with the fact that we all saw it and have differing views. Imagine if the ref did see it - he couldn't win (i.e. give the 'correct' decision) as some fans would agree and some would not.

This does not alter the fact, however, that he didn't see it.

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

It was one of the worst moments of "football" i've ever seen, on so many levels. Keita runs into Kaka. Kaka holds his arm out to cushion the blow. Keita simulataneously gets taken out by a sniper in the croud, and rolls around holding his face, which is presumably where the bullet penetrated him. In the meantime, the ref is looking in the opposite direction. He did not see it, and neither did any of the other officials. Keita is rolling around like mad. The blood from his gun shot wound must be pouring out all over the place. Other players see that Keita is dying and decide to have a bit of a kerfuffle. None of the players saw it either and are simply pushing each other around for the sake of it. The ref then sees a player dead on the ground, and all the other players scuffling. He then assumes Kaka was the one with the sniper rifle hidden in his socks, and sends him off simply because of the reaction of the players. What a joke of a ref, joke of a human being in Keita, and joke of a reaction by the other players. If this is what football has become, a game of deceit, lies and play-acting akin to what you would expect to see in WWF, then i want out right now. This is not football.

Yer right TT. It ain't football, it's FIFA's World Cup!

 

[Citytillidie69]

"What goes around, come around"

"things usually balance themselves out over a season"

etc., etc. etc.

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