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Originally Posted by Thunderball
Probably meant pepper spray... give him a break... Canadian police acted like total rookies and now the world has something else to make fun of Canada for regarding this tournament.
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Outside of Chile no one cared, it was a non issue 2 days later in any soccer nation that would have even heard of the story.
Not to mention no matter how badly that ref ruined that game, the behavior of the young Chileans was aggressive and the police treated them the same as any crowd of angry people.
Police are trained to be aggressive early on when signs of a full out brawl show up, its to avoid it getting worse and out of hand.
Its not pretty, but its effective.
Not to mention the Fifa officials who watched this incident from the start reported back to FIFA president that the players for Chile were at fault and that the TO police reacted as to be expected in that situation.
Now as for todays game, it was a good quality game. The diving wasn't as bad as I feared.. A glowing difference with Czech who rarely dramaticize falls/fouls vs the Argentine's who react with a lot of dramatic flare.
But Argentina is one very talented team that fully and completely deserved to win this tournament.
Thats what people will remember about this tournament, unless you live in Chile
