Italy vs Australia
Here it comes again all the nagging about Italy ... Everybody is talking about the controversial penalty kick.
Is anybody talking about the controversial red card that Materazzi got? Of course not.
Now if you ask the Italy haters or the Aussi fans, they will tell you it was obviously a bad call. In reality it's a tough decision. Neill claimed to "fall" in the penalty box and everybody believed him, but nobody believes that Grosso tripped over him. Well, there is only two possibilities:
1) there was a big lag of time, enough for Grosso to stop. In this case Neill should have had the time to stand up again, instead of taking his sweet time laying on the ground. Or
2) there wasn't enough time and thus Grosso wasn't acting when he tripped.
So please people, either stick with one story or just bug off!
On a side note: can somebody please tell the commentator at ESPN that the US are out of the tournament? In every single game he has to mention some similar foul in one of the 3 games US played.
The US team went back home, so please get over it!
As for ABC, it's a hopeless case; I guess a mute botton would be the best thing to do.