Soccer

Well for the first time, (I think ever), I watched an entire game of soccer. Late last night I went to a friends house with a few others and we watched the World Cup match between Australia and Italy.

Australia had most of the possession, around 59%. Italy had a player red carded with 40 minutes left in the second half. So from then on Australia had the extra player. I don't know alot about the rules of soccer, but have a minor understanding.

There were several tense moments when the ball was close to the goals at each end. Italy's defense was amazing, several times the aussie players had the ball near the box, but were forced to be facing the other way.

After the 90 minutes had come up on the clock, they decided to have another 3 minutes due to injury time. I reckon that is a stupid rule, they should just stop once the 90 minutes are up. Anyway, with about 1 or 2 seconds before the clock reached 93 minutes, Italy had the ball in the box, and about to take a shot at goals, when one of the aussies went to take the ball, and the Italy player decided to trip over the aussie guy. I'm sure he could have avoided it, but as everyone knows Soccer players act up alot, they take dives. As a result of this a penalty was called, so it was just the Italy player versus the Goal keeper. In that situation the pressure on the keeper would have been worse than Bush taking on Terror.

So the penalty shot made the easy goal in the 95th minute. So Italy won 1-nil and eliminated Australia. I don't know if I'll ever watch another game of soccer. Stupid damn referee, I reckon he'd get a big payout from Italy. I don't think anyone liked the decision of awarding the penalty.