EliteHorse

Maniche should have recieved a 2nd yellow card for leaving the pitch in his goal celebration. Figo should have been given a red card, not a yellow for head butting van Bommel. *claps* Class act.

Classless performance by Portugal. I was never fond of them to begin with, so I hope England treat them to a nice thrashing.

At the end of the whole thing I was laughing so hard I wasn't sad about Holland losing the match.

EliteHorse

Blatter says ref could have yellow card himself

Birgerhar

I didn't watch the game so I know it was controversial, but I am happy Portugal won. Almost no team has won a match without some attacks on the ref, so I don't know how fair the match was.

Teemu

Great. I didn't see a minute of that match because I slept too long First match I missed.. I guess I just have to find it somewhere..

ElectronicWorm

I might be on one side, cuz im from holland, but you have to see the match to judge. This NEVER happend. And like Mike said, even the boss of the Fifa said he should have given himelf a yellowcard. This game was hilarious. 14 yellows and 4 red cards. NEVER HAPPEND BEFORE.

ForeverInLoveWithJus

I must say in my opinion, the ref did a great job. He missed Figo because it happened behind his back. What else could he do.

DrTagnian

Emma - seriously, tell me you're joking and you forgot to post a smilie in your post, 'cause ...

For the first time ever I agree with something Blatter says!

Last night was an aweful match, all the Dutch people are down this Monday morning. Radiostations back to Holland, tv-stations back to Holland, people go normally back to work (with a headache ), and Ivanov will lead another Champions League match in the upcoming CL season, wanna bet?

It was aweful to see Cocu's shot hit the bar, Kuijt should have scored as well. Van Nistelrooy would have ...

Positive sidenote: I gained some points with this result in the PL.

ForeverInLoveWithJus

Well I will rephrase it and clarify it..

For all the red cards.. I agree. Figo wasnt his fault. Some of the cards could possibly have been free kicks. But like I say.. when there is that much violence, you have to be strict.

DrTagnian

I agree on the fact that many yellow cards were deserved, despite the large amount.

Costinha's red card was deserved. Deco's & Bouhlarouz's red cards weren't. And the one that Van Bronkhorst got was deserved, but it never would have gotten that far if Ivanov had kept control over the match. It was total chaos then.

And six minutes injury time?! It should have been at least 10 minutes, 'cause I haven't seen much Football during the 2nd Half.

ForeverInLoveWithJus

What about the tackle that Boulahrouz did on Ronaldo? That could have put him out off the tournament. It was blatent, targeted and should have been a straight red. Disgusting challenge.