are all the Italians made of paper?

[x5x3]

watching the Italy v USA match, it seems like all the Italians are made of paper - any slight gust of wind and they fall over?

[Andy Mac]

It's the extra large grass on the footy fields in germany. Very easy to trip up on them...

[x5x3]

they really are a bunch of whingers...

[andyadh]

This ref needs to punish people for diving.

A few yellows would sort it out.

It reminds me of C Ronaldo in Euro 04

[Andy Mac]

x5x3 said:

they really are a bunch of whingers...

Not all of them... there are mhidfielders, shtrikers, and dhefenders to name a few...

[simpo two]

Bloody good work USA: had the Eyetie whinger not fallen over they'd have won 2:1.

Edited by simpo two on Saturday 17th June 22:08

[Andy Mac]

Could this have been the same USA we saw against the Czechs?? Methinks Mr Arena put something in their pepsi/coke/other drink attached to a sponsorship tie in...

[killer2005]

andyadh said:

This ref needs to punish people for diving.

A few yellows would sort it out.

It reminds me of C Ronaldo in Euro 04

[Andy Mac]

killer2005 said:

Is that a replay from the earlier Portugal game??

[gbbird]

The Italians really wind me up with their theatrical antics. it's why i so like to see them get beat by anyone. I was cheerign the USA yesterday, and i thought thye were the better team.

What also wound me up was the sheer bias of teh commentator - everytime Italy strung two passed together, words such as 'beautiful', 'exquisite' or 'phenomenal' poured forth from teh commentators mouth, but whenever USA did some good moves (and there were plenty) they said absolutely nothing. Really put me off ITV commentary - may listen to it with the Radio in future