A hard-fought game for both sides that ended with a controversial penalty kick...was it or wasn't it?
Whatever one might think...that Italians are "fakers" as an eloquent columnist for the San Diego Union Tribune put it in his column...or that they are cheaters...it was the ref who made the call. Are the Italians the only ones who fall in an attempt to get a penalty? Are they the only one who fall and writhe around after a foul? No, of course not! The penalty shot France got to beat Portugal and go into the finals vs. Italy came after a nice dive as well...watch the replay and see if the dive doesn't seem like an afterthought...but it doesn't really matter...the ref made the call...Zidaine took the shot...and France is in and Portugal is out. Should football use replays to review decisions? Maybe, maybe not...football is exciting and unpredictable because it is what it is...slow it down, replay it, review it, put two or three refs in to cover the whole field and you change the game...it's all like opera and drama and melodrama and acting and rhetoric and faking and crying and laughing and everyone gets the short end of the stick some time or other...don't forget the ref in the Italy Korea game a few years back...there are toilets named after him in Italy, and justly so! Anyway...the game goes on!
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