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06-30-2004 | 02:33 PM
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Sorry guys, but I can't help myself, I have to say it. If my next car will have half the performance of my nacional team, then I will drive the best european car for the next 4 years. Viva Portugal!!!
06-30-2004 | 02:36 PM
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Well done to the lads they played well tonight. Still a bit upset that you knocked us out in the quarter finals, but you deserved to win that game as you did tonight.
Best of luck in the final.
Mark
Best of luck in the final.
Mark
06-30-2004 | 11:15 PM
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Portugal was definately better than holland. Although I am not happy we are kicked out of the tournament it was deserved for portugal to win. 
07-01-2004 | 05:49 AM
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Urs Meier, the Swiss referee who disallowed the goal that would have sent England into the semi-finals of Euro 2004, has been given police protection and advised to go into hiding after receiving more than 16,000 emails - some containing death threats - from outraged England fans.
Meier, who denied Sol Campbell a 90th-minute winner in England's hard-fought quarter-final against Portugal, insisted his decision was "100% correct". He said he was shocked by the English reaction, particularly that of the Sun, which printed his email address.
"I had a wonderful Euro with three fantastic games," Meier told Swiss national radio. "But on the other hand the problem with the English newspapers, especially with the Sun, is a big shock for me here in Switzerland. This is not the right way to handle referees' decisions, whether they're right or wrong."
The 45-year-old referee said police were with him as he was talking and that he was taking the threats "very seriously". He added: "I've been advised to go somewhere where no one knows me. I hope the whole reaction is against me and not against other people in my family. And I hope that after the Euro everything will return to normal, that people will forget and that I will get my private life back."
Meier said he believed his decision was right and that he had been vindicated by video evidence. He was backed up by Uefa's referees' committee.
"I'm absolutely shocked by what's gone on and the attacks from the Sun, supporters and other newspapers," he said. "I'm really shocked because the decision was 100% correct and the whole world saw this decision was correct. I was always of the opinion that the spirit of fair play in England was really important, with respect for officials."
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The referee said the quarter final had been "one of the best matches I have ever refereed" and "the best match of Euro 2004". Its aftermath had not lessened his affection for England, where he spent a month last year, or for English football, but it had taught him a lesson about British tabloids.
"In general, I very much like the football and the people in England," he said.
"But some supporters are now really overheated, and it's not right that a newspaper like the Sun should invade the private life of a person in this way. I have also been quoted as saying that the decision was not correct. I never said anything like this to a newspaper. That was also a new experience for me - that they should write something that wasn't true."
Swiss media have leapt to Meier's defence. A radio DJ, Roman Kilschperger, gave listeners the Sun's telephone number and urged them to launch a counterattack, while the free daily newspaper 20 Minutes printed two Sun telephone numbers and an email address.
They may now be regretting their fervour. Since the Sun published telephone numbers and an email address for Mr Kilschperger, the DJ has had "hundreds of emails and at least a thousand phone calls" from England fans, he told the Swiss newspaper Blick. As well as the f-word, "they usually also mention cuckoo clocks and cheese", he complained.
? A Sun spokeswoman declined to comment.
Meier, who denied Sol Campbell a 90th-minute winner in England's hard-fought quarter-final against Portugal, insisted his decision was "100% correct". He said he was shocked by the English reaction, particularly that of the Sun, which printed his email address.
"I had a wonderful Euro with three fantastic games," Meier told Swiss national radio. "But on the other hand the problem with the English newspapers, especially with the Sun, is a big shock for me here in Switzerland. This is not the right way to handle referees' decisions, whether they're right or wrong."
The 45-year-old referee said police were with him as he was talking and that he was taking the threats "very seriously". He added: "I've been advised to go somewhere where no one knows me. I hope the whole reaction is against me and not against other people in my family. And I hope that after the Euro everything will return to normal, that people will forget and that I will get my private life back."
Meier said he believed his decision was right and that he had been vindicated by video evidence. He was backed up by Uefa's referees' committee.
"I'm absolutely shocked by what's gone on and the attacks from the Sun, supporters and other newspapers," he said. "I'm really shocked because the decision was 100% correct and the whole world saw this decision was correct. I was always of the opinion that the spirit of fair play in England was really important, with respect for officials."
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The referee said the quarter final had been "one of the best matches I have ever refereed" and "the best match of Euro 2004". Its aftermath had not lessened his affection for England, where he spent a month last year, or for English football, but it had taught him a lesson about British tabloids.
"In general, I very much like the football and the people in England," he said.
"But some supporters are now really overheated, and it's not right that a newspaper like the Sun should invade the private life of a person in this way. I have also been quoted as saying that the decision was not correct. I never said anything like this to a newspaper. That was also a new experience for me - that they should write something that wasn't true."
Swiss media have leapt to Meier's defence. A radio DJ, Roman Kilschperger, gave listeners the Sun's telephone number and urged them to launch a counterattack, while the free daily newspaper 20 Minutes printed two Sun telephone numbers and an email address.
They may now be regretting their fervour. Since the Sun published telephone numbers and an email address for Mr Kilschperger, the DJ has had "hundreds of emails and at least a thousand phone calls" from England fans, he told the Swiss newspaper Blick. As well as the f-word, "they usually also mention cuckoo clocks and cheese", he complained.
? A Sun spokeswoman declined to comment.
07-01-2004 | 02:08 PM
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Originally Posted by Flowerfred' date='Jul 1 2004, 03:21 PM
[quote name='Iceman' date='Jun 30 2004, 11:39 PM']
I'm so happy you kicked the Dutch out of the tournament?
I'm so happy you kicked the Dutch out of the tournament?
Why? [/quote]
I was just trying to make a little fun about the archrivalry between the Dutch and the German soccer fans.
I really don't care. I am an American Football guy.
