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Originally Posted by wolfenburg
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I don't get this at all. The official missed a call that cost us the game, so we'll yell "Waaaaah! Let's replay the whole game."
I understand you're disappointed, but that's part of the luck involved in sports: sometimes the call goes for you, sometimes it goes against you. And, really, that's what you get for pinning your entire World-Cup hopes on single goal in the last possible game and for playing such a low-scoring game.
It is unfair. I understand that. But nobody ever said life—or sports—were completely fair. It's unfair when your leading scorer breaks his leg. It's unfair when an official misses a call. It's unfair when half your team has the flu right before a big game.
Sports don't build character, they reveal it, and when you lose a game for unfair reasons and whine about it instead of saying something like, "This sort of thing happens in sports, and—while we're disappointed—we understand that and wish our opponents the best of luck in the World Cup," that's revealing your character.
I wish we lived in a world where it would have been outlandish for the player to knowingly score a goal off a handball and not self-report to the official to have the goal annulled.
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-LaxRef
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