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To: X Y Zebra who wrote (1737)	6/21/2002 2:14:24 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 5130

The British players and press are treating the Ronaldinho goal as a fluke, saying it was intended to be a cross and drifted deep into the net by accident. I didn't read it that way at all. It looked to me like they were all lined up for a cross, but Ronaldinho spotted Seaman off the line and went for it. That's one thing the Brazilians have going for them: if they can't beat you with teamwork they can always pull out that moment of outrageous individual brilliance. Now Marcos... What the hell was he thinking ? He threw himself to the opposite side even before reaching the spot where Owens was... I think Owen faked him, probably very subtly, sent him low and left then held the ball and went right. The great scorers can do that. I remember the goal Raul scored in the Champions League final... he rolled it right past the keeper on the keeper's left, so close that you couldn't believe the keeper didn't stop it - until you watched the replay very carefully and saw the keeper leaning right, weight on the right foot, and realized that Raul had made some tiny fake with the eye, the foot, or the body that had the keeper leaning the wrong way. If you see a high caliber goalie caught flat-footed like that it's pretty likely that he's been toasted by a good striker. The card on Ronaldinho might have been justified if the game was ugly and in danger of going out of control, and if the player involved had been involved in a number of nasty incidents. None of those conditions applied; it was an extremely clean game and the player sent off was doing nothing but playing outstanding football. Under the circumstances I think it would be wonderful if FIFA would step in, acknowledge the error, and lift the suspension, but I don't think that will happen.