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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: gao seng who wrote (266391)6/24/2002 1:10:39 PM
From: Thomas A Watson  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
well gao, show all where I said the outcome of a soccer match can not be predetermined. It's very funny for you to say you are not reading what I post and then say in error what I have said. I'd call that idiotic. And Linux allows me to post voulumes with ease.

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You are quite stupid if you proffer on my understanding of the game I know and you do not. It's quite simple, show me some facts some data that builds a reasonable case. I've viewed several games of the cup and I know you or anyone cannot build a case.

You actually think you make some point by making a comparison between an individual sport like Ice Skating where only judges opinions make the decision and a game of 90 minutes where 11 players are beat for a goal to be scored. And now you reach for Linux... LOL Linux is just another area I know and you demonstrate you are are ignorant.

Show me a systematic analysis of the hundreds, thousands of calls made or ommitted that show for any of the World cup games that favored one team or the other. Taking single or a couple of data points out of the context of thousands and foaming at the mouth is making really stupid proffers. You seemed to have embraced the smear logic and methods of the vacant liberal minded lefty loons that post here.

So I see you cannot address this.. In soccer only one bad call can decide a game. But to predetermine a game the calls would have to be very one sided. I have not seen that in any of the games I've watched. I've seen bad calls detected on replay in almost every game. None absolutely decided the game.

The refs are fallible and watching 11 vs 11 with charges, tackles and in a heartbeat changes of possession not seeing everything is a real possibility. I would also expect the errors to occur towards the end of the game. This is because the ref has also been running for 70,80 ... minutes. With fatigue errors of attention and judgement will increase. This is not a conspiracy, it's just the nature of sports and being human. Something you seem to have little knowledge of.

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