Most ridiculous thing about the 2010 World Cup

no de jong or van bommel no credibility

Argentina opting to play with no defence.

France, no question about it.

(ridicule heightened by replays of the goal being shown v quickly afterwards on the

screens inside the stadium that should finish

Most ridiculous is France; most memorable is the Suarez handball.

The Tevez incident, because everything else has an explanation that makes it less ridiculous, not more.

Anyway, this poll rather clears up whether it was a vintage world cup or not, thanks!

BBC coverage, punditry etc being worse than ITV's sometimes

are you sure?

it's france. though i'll admit just the other day the england - algeria game crossed my mind and i felt a bit offended. and i'm not even british ffs

this is france in a walk

nice poll though

couldn't even be bothered to include Italy

Special SPL-tastic write-in vote for "Edson Braafheid getting on as a sub in the final"

lampard goal was honest reffing mistake (exacerbated by blatter no doubt), the tevez offside thing + stadium replay was worse officiating though (not necessarily by people on the pitch).

but yeah, france.

what was the kaka red?

Ivorean feigned an elbow to the face or something?

after craftily backing into Kaka's path as he walked past

NEW ZEALAND UNBEATEN

Who needs wins when you can have DRAWS?

Also: Joachim Löw's fashion decisions.

and nose picking decisions

will prob be the only person that voted for Lampard's non-goal but I honestly think it was a more absurd and collectively incompetent decision than anything else on here, although I doubt it'll be remembered as such

also, write-in vote for "if you find the sound of vuvuzelas annoying you are a racist iirc" type blogpieces

Alan Shearer Explains Apartheid should be separate from the generic BBC/ITV divide.

I think the winner has to be one of those three 'decision' ones. I've gone for the Lampard one, but I think the USA and Mexico decisions were equally outrageous.

voted Decision against USA for the amt of screaming I did, but Suarez is probably more memorable overall

1. France
2. Decision against USA because it deprived me £££
3. New Zealand

I had to vote France. Bad calls are one thing but the sustained and inexplicable idiocy of the French team was too weird not to vote for.

I was thrilled for NZ, tbh.

and it's not just the handball, it's the following pk miss too obv

I think if Alan Shearer, social commentator got its own spot I'd pick it. But instead I'll go for New Zealand, to further cement it in my mind for that inevitable 2023 pub quiz question.

no question for me that sustained ridiculousnessosity of france has it

BIG OMISSION FROM THIS POLL = the miracle US goal against slovenia to send them through

i might've voted for the de jong goal (fuck voting an other) because that was O_O and i still use the term "absolute firecracker" whenever i can

no referee decisions in soccer ever surprise me -- i feel like it's p much a miracle if there isn't at least two beyond egregious decisions in every match, so i've crossed those off the list

that leaves me w/ the suarez deliberate handball just because that whole sequence of events was so insane

yeah, those five minutes were pretty real

I didn't wanna vote for France because that storm had been brewing for a good long while before the Finals. The Suarez thing was hella dramatic but nothing I'd necessarily call "ridiculous". The most ridiculous thing I remember might've been 1 absolutely disastrous refereeing performance - I think it was Chile vs Switzerland - where the ref was an absolute joke who was carding players seemingly at random until it got to the point where you really felt like the game was about to collapse into anarchy.

not a winner, but JT's mutiny and subsequent slapdown was a lovely moment

where the ref was an absolute joke who was carding players seemingly at random until it got to the point where you really felt like the game was about to collapse into anarchy.

Hardly shocking, that happens at least once in every World Cup.

i might've voted for the de jong goal (fuck voting an other) because that was O_O and i still use the term "absolute firecracker" whenever i can

i'm not sure i remember this?

wrong about de Jong - 'twas van Bronckhorst iirc - but right about 'absolute firecracker'

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ah yes van bronckhorst, that was insane. i love how you can hear the crowd react to the replay here, realizing exactly what he'd done
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVQmWZoNHG4

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