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Old 06-22-2004, 09:57 PM   #10
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Denmark did have a choice in that situation, however.

Either defend the goal as best they could, and send Sweden out and not have to possibly face them later on, or:

Allow Sweden to score a goal, send Italy out and not have to possibly face them later on.

I know Italy have been a bit shite in front of goal (especially Vieri tonight), and Del Piero etc. didn't exactly play with a lot of passion (as ECG has mentioned). But they're still pretty dangerous on their day. And Denmark already knew they could beat Sweden (well, pretty sure as they were up 2-1 in the 80somethingth minute). So they may well have chosen that they'd rather Italy be eliminated than Sweden, as they knew that it wouldn't affect them going through.

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c) Aussie fans whining "give us a free world cup place for absolutely nothing, it's not fair otherwise".
You won't be getting any complaint from me. Out of what, about 200 countries around the world that have a registered football association, only 32 of them make the World Cup finals.

As the system is, there is always going to be at least one or two Western European superpowers that miss out on the World Cup (eg Holland in 2002).

Yet we're arguing that we should have to beat such lofty opposition as Tonga and Fiji to take one of the 32 places. We should have a better chance than we currently do, but not direct qualification.

You'll find most of the Aussies that argue we should have a free world cup place call the sport "soccer" anyway, and therefore do not deserve to live.
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