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To: gao seng who wrote (266403)	6/24/2002 1:51:42 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

I see you are not going to post a link to the article and my proffer thru inference that FIFA did not admit or suggest that any games had outcomes predetermined. I have been straightforward and honest in my discussion of the issues. All my statements to your stupidity go to your presentation of proffers and shoddy dumb logic. Show me in the article where FIFA "admits to gross mistakes, and the likelihood that the outcome of many matches was predetermined, " #reply-17641645 So it would seem you have a serious reading comprehension problem or are just plain stupid in your proffers. #reply-17643830 It's not a game when the outcome is predetermined by a handful of corrupt socialist politicians who think they know what is best for the world. It is a terrible travesty. Who are corrupt socialist politicians who predetermine the outcome??? On this thread we have vacant liberal minded lefty loons who make emotional responses or allegations. In this world cup your article..... "Some of the emotional responses from both Italy and Spain included allegations that games against the co-hosting South Korean team had been fixed." And in your article ..... "Conspiracy theories crop up in all walks of life and in 99 percent of cases they are unfounded. This one is one of the 99 percent." Gee one percent of the time events play in such a was that an unfounded allegation cannot be proven unfounded. Only an idiot take this to the conclusion that the allegation is proven. Your statements and mis statements proffered corruption existed, had occured. This is why I called you an idiot. or stupid. In review. 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 or 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. tom watson tosiwme