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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Olaf the Stout" data-source="post: 2912425" data-attributes="member: 13703">What a crappy way to go out.  I would have preferred that the Italian player had scored from direct play rather that it being called a penalty.  At least that way we wouldn't have been left thinking what if.  I can deal with being beaten by a better team.  We were robbed of a chance to win the game in extra time by another bad referee decision.   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f621.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":mad:" title="Mad    :mad:"  data-smilie="4"data-shortname=":mad:" /> There is no way that it should have been a penalty.  Yes, Lucas Neill slid way too early but he was down on the ground.  The Italian player decided to go through Lucas Neill and somehow managed to "trip".  The real shame was that he (Lucas Neill) had been our best player during the World Cup and was one of the defenders of the tournament so far.Having said that I also think that the red card given to Italy should have only been a yellow.  And we should have been able to score when we had a 1 man advantage for most of the second half.  Either way it doesn't really matter now though.The fact that the penalty came in the last 15 seconds off the game just makes it even harder to take.  We were only seconds away from 30 minutes of extra time.  We had only made 1 sub to Italy's 3 so we would have been able to add extra runners into the game.Now we can only think of what might have been.    <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /> Olaf the Stout</blockquote>

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