2010 FIFA World Cup

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I cannot believe that Uruguayan handball. Honestly, does that man have a conscience? I read in my paper that people have defended him by saying that 'he didn't know Ghana would miss the penalty', and that 'he acted instinctively'. That's not what it is. It's a blatant disregard for rules, and unsportsperson-like behaviour. Sure, it may have been accidental in the sense that if your primary focus in the heat of the moment was to keep the ball from travelling over that line, and your hand was the last line of defence. But boasting about it, and seeing it as a legitimate victory is gob-smacking. If it were me, I would have demanded that Ghana be awarded a goal.

Here's to Uruguay getting thrashed in their next game.

[Zargabaath]

I'll have to defend Suarez a bit. Yes he committed a foul and the proper compensation for Ghana was a penalty kick which they were rewarded. There are no automatic goals given in soccer; Gyan took the PK and it was blocked. Let's be honest as well, while Suarez's handball wound up saving Uruguay, at the time the penalty kick was called, rewarding a PK to Ghana, most Uruguayans had thought the match lost. What makes matters a bit worse for Ghana is that Gyan successfully made is shootout kick which begs to ask why he couldn't make the goal during the PK at the end of OT?

It was a smart play by Suarez because that would have been a goal, but with the handball it gave Uruguay a chance, though slim since PK have a great success rate. Ghana still had the chance to win the shoot-out, however Mensah who is a veteran took a horrible shot; both blocked shots were on the ground and I guess Mensah & Adiyiah weren't comfortable putting the ball higher in the air. Adiyiah could have kept Ghana alive since Pereira launched his ball way over the net which I felt shifted momentum back to Ghana a bit.