Aussies playin five defenders and five forwards. not winning first balls and no one to compete for the second one so it's just wave after wave of Argentina counters
Ferdinand and Richards amplify this. Far too concerned with being everyone's mate to offer critical analysis. In contrast people love Roy Keane because he doesn't give af and just tells it like he sees it
I think only Qatar and Canada were knocked out after two rounds and only France, Brazil and Portugal were through. so plenty of teams had a chance of making the knockout stage with the right results
Honestley no idea. The only non british ref names that came to mind were Daniele orsato(who isn't the guy I thought he was*) and cuneyt cakir (I had to Google Turkish referee to find out his surname and turns out he's no longer a ref anyway)
I don't know if not knowing the names of referees is because I watch less football than I used to or because they're better at not being the centre of attention when they make mistakes (although people blaming var rather than refs directly might also be a factor)
*I thought Roberto rosetti was orsato. Rosetti is also no longer an active referee
Admittedly outside international tournaments I didn't see much of him. His goal record for Germany and werder Bremen was brilliant, fairly good at Lazio too but for some reason couldn't do it at bayern
Its weird that since klinsmann and beirhoff Germany have only had two good strikers in klose and Gomez and even then neither was world class.
They haven't had a good RB since lahm retired