Top 10 World Cup shameful moments

[OwlsFan]

According to the Daily Telegraph:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/world-cup-2010/7869927/World-Cup-2010-Top-10-shameful-moments.html

Henry comes in 2nd behind the Hand of God.

Wasn't there a game though where the teams played for a draw (not us and Holland) from the first minute?

I can't really find it in my heart to blame the Uruguayan defender who handled the ball on the line. At least the referee spotted this, sent him off and awarded a penalty to Ghana. Somehow or other I can distinguish between something that is seen and punished (even though Ghana missed the penalty) and a sneaky handball which is not seen. Perhaps there is no logic in that distinction but I would not call the Uruguayian player a "cheat".:confused:

[jbyrne]

can't really find it in my heart to blame the Uruguayan defender who handled the ball on the line. At least the referee spotted this, sent him off and awarded a penalty to Ghana. Somehow or other I can distinguish between something that is seen and punished (even though Ghana missed the penalty) and a sneaky handball which is not seen. Perhaps there is no logic in that distinction but I would not call the Uruguayian player a "cheat".:confused:

he is a cheat and his lack of remorse after was a poor showing, in fact he spoke about himself as being a hero. in rugby it would have been a penalty goal (try) as thats the only fair decision when cheating denys the other team a score. the fair play is slowly but surely seeping out of football i am afraid

[superfrank]

I think the game you're thinking of is West Germany and Austria in 1982. It's actually number nine on that list.

I would consider three, four, six, seven and ten a lot more shameful than the other things listed. The others seem to be taking opportunities as they came to them. Maradona doing drugs and scoring the own goal (unless the shameful reference is at the guy who shot Escobar) are hardly shameful.

[osarusan]

Number 9 is, in my opinion, by far the most shameful thing on the list.


9. Best result for both teams: West Germany v Austria, group game - 1982

Both sides knew before the match that if West Germany won by a goal it would see both sides go through to the next round at the expense of Algeria. Lo and behold after Horst Hrubesch scored an early goal to give West Germany the lead the sides tamely passed the ball around to the anger of the African side.

[Den Perry]

No 1 for me would be Slaven Bilic's disgraceful antics to get Laurent Blanc sent off in the semi-final in 1998, thus depriving Blanc of his one chance f playing in the final. I lost all respect for Bilic after that.

[gaiscíoch]

he is a cheat and his lack of remorse after was a poor showing, in fact he spoke about himself as being a hero. in rugby it would have been a penalty goal (try) as thats the only fair decision when cheating denys the other team a score. the fair play is slowly but surely seeping out of football i am afraid


Maradonna was a cheat, Henry is a cheat,(gaining a unfair advantage for his team in an incident that went unpunished by the officials) but to say Suarez (gaining a advantage for his team while the incident was punished and he was also punished in accordance with the rules of the game that is a straight red card and a penalty) is a cheat is imo total rubbish.

He will serve his punishment by missing the Semi Final of the World Cup.
Gyan had a chance to score the penalty.
The fact he bottled it has nothing to do with Suarez.
If he scores the penalty then Uruguay are going home.
The fact he missed it is his problem and not Suarez.

Regarding your rugby analogy.
The simple fact that the difference is a potential 7 points as opposed the normal three for a penalty means they need that rule while in football we only need one goal (hoping the penalty taker doesn't bottle ala Gyan) and the offending team down to ten men.
I think those rules are fair enough for their respective sports.

[jbyrne]

Maradonna was a cheat, Henry is a cheat,(gaining a unfair advantage for his team in an incident that went unpunished by the officials) but to say Suarez (gaining a advantage for his team while the incident was punished and he was also punished in accordance with the rules of the game that is a straight red card and a penalty) is a cheat is imo total rubbish.

He will serve his punishment by missing the Semi Final of the World Cup.
Gyan had a chance to score the penalty.
The fact he bottled it has nothing to do with Suarez.
If he scores the penalty then Uruguay are going home.
The fact he missed it is his problem and not Suarez.



so you are only a cheat if you dont get caught? laughable

[gaiscíoch]

so you are only a cheat if you dont get caught? laughable

The way I see it is it's no different to being the last man back and pulling down the attacking player.
Or a goalkeeper hauling down an attacker who is clean through on goal.
Do you call those players cheats?

As Johnny Giles often says-"It was a good foul."

[jbyrne]

The way I see it is it's no different to being the last man back and pulling down the attacking player.
Or a goalkeeper hauling down an attacker who is clean through on goal.
Do you call those players cheats?

As Johnny Giles often says-"It was a good foul."

yes. cheats

never heard giles say that even once and if he did who cares

[ArdeeBhoy]

Schumacher's foul on Battiston wins for me, by about a million kilometres.

[Schumi]

Number 9 is, in my opinion, by far the most shameful thing on the list.

I don't agree. If a team is a goal up, that's enough for them to qualify and they play defensively to keep the game scoreless, I don't see anything wrong with that. If a team's 1-0 down and that's enough for them, the same applies IMO. It's bad planning from FIFA to not have the games kicking off together but I don't blame either team for not jeopardising their qualification.

[shakermaker1982]

Frank & Voller's spitting fight would make my top 10!

[seand]

Crazy cobbled together piece of rubbish. I shouldn't take any notice, but I'm going to.

No Klinsmann dive in the 1990 final?!!! No Voller spit? If we're including qualifiers (Henry) and off the field stuff (Escobar) then what about the Soccer War? And indeed what about Jack Warner etc etc? What about Musollini's interference in 38!

Regarding number 9, didn't Ireland do something similar v Holland in 1990? I'm just amazed that Uruguay and Mexico played it for real this year when a draw would do for both.

10 is only there because the English made an absolute meal of it. Rattin spent the time trying to get a translator to explain his side of the story!

[Dodge]

Regarding number 9, didn't Ireland do something similar v Holland in 1990?

They definitely played the last 15 minutes that way (as did Spain v Chile in this year's tourament). I think the difference with Number 9 is that both teams knew going into the game what they needed, as opposed to knowing as the game progressed.

Agree with your overall sentiment though

[Junior]

Frank & Voller's spitting fight would make my top 10!


No Voller spit?

I was going to post this incident - Did Voller actually do any spitting though? I thought it was all Rijkaard.

[Den Perry]

Maradonna was a cheat, Henry is a cheat,(gaining a unfair advantage for his team in an incident that went unpunished by the officials) but to say Suarez (gaining a advantage for his team while the incident was punished and he was also punished in accordance with the rules of the game that is a straight red card and a penalty) is a cheat is imo total rubbish.

He will serve his punishment by missing the Semi Final of the World Cup.
Gyan had a chance to score the penalty.
The fact he bottled it has nothing to do with Suarez.
If he scores the penalty then Uruguay are going home.
The fact he missed it is his problem and not Suarez.

Regarding your rugby analogy.
The simple fact that the difference is a potential 7 points as opposed the normal three for a penalty means they need that rule while in football we only need one goal (hoping the penalty taker doesn't bottle ala Gyan) and the offending team down to ten men.
I think those rules are fair enough for their respective sports.

I agree.If that had been me on the line I'd have handled it. So is Tevez a cheat for being offside for the Argies first goal against Mexico? Or David Villa for slapping the Honduran player in the face and not telling the ref he did this? Same with Henry(though in the heat of the moment I called him a cheat!!). What upset me most about Henry was the way he acted afterwards. Anyway I hate the arrogant clown

However, If I was a team mate of Suarez and he didn't handle that ball I'd have been very upset with him. People are going too far with this issue of "fair play " now. Ghana had their chance and bottled it.In fact I'm glad they are out. Don't see what the great love-in is with the African teams. Totally biased crowds when their playing, scandalous tackles and play-acting to rival anybody. Suarez was punished accordingly

[Dodge]

Totally biased crowds when their playing

Crowds should be biased. Nothing wrong with that.


And no, Voeller didn't do any spitting

[Den Perry]

Crowds should be biased. Nothing wrong with that.


And no, Voeller didn't do any spitting

Nothing wrong with the crowd being biased if its their team that's playing.However, South Africa were gone from the first round. Never heard the crowd at a European World Cup as biased when the home country wasn't playing.....

[pineapple stu]

They definitely played the last 15 minutes that way (as did Spain v Chile in this year's tourament). I think the difference with Number 9 is that both teams knew going into the game what they needed, as opposed to knowing as the game progressed.
Just as an extension, the result put Algeria out, whereas Egypt were going home anyway I think (two points wouldn't have qualified them as a best third-placed team), so there wasn't the element of screwing a third party over.

[Dodge]

Nothing wrong with the crowd being biased if its their team that's playing.However, South Africa were gone from the first round. Never heard the crowd at a European World Cup as biased when the home country wasn't playing.....

So what? You think if it was in Ireland, people would be nuetral at England games or in Holland for Germany games?

Can't see why you'd be annoyed about this

[osarusan]

Just as an extension, the result put Algeria out, whereas Egypt were going home anyway I think (two points wouldn't have qualified them as a best third-placed team), so there wasn't the element of screwing a third party over.

Yes, the difference was that with the Irish vs. the Dutch, both games were on at the same time so if the Egyptians had scored, everybody would have been exactly level on all counts and lots would have been drawn (as they were to decide that Ireland finished second ahead of the Dutch - which saw us play Romania and them play West Germany). The decision to stop competing had the potential to hurt the teams who made the decision.

With the game in 1982, as the Algerian game had already finished, there was no petential danger in coming to a prearranged (explicitly or implicitly) result. It was orchestrated cheating by two teams over 90 minutes.

[Den Perry]

I'm going to ask the question to all involved in this debate

If you had been in Suarez' position on that goal line, would you have handled.

My answer is a resounding YES

[passinginterest]

Definitely.

My reaction in the instant was, brilliant, well worth the red, he could be a hero. Will anyone in Uruguay care if they win the world cup? Or think he did the wrong thing? Hell no.

He might have been a bit more humble about it afterwards though and accepted that it wasn't the best way of winning a game.

[Schumi]

Just as an extension, the result put Algeria out, whereas Egypt were going home anyway I think (two points wouldn't have qualified them as a best third-placed team), so there wasn't the element of screwing a third party over.

Presumably someone in another group lost out of qualification though.

[EAFC_rdfl]

I'm going to ask the question to all involved in this debate

If you had been in Suarez' position on that goal line, would you have handled.

My answer is a resounding YES
Yes

Definitely.

My reaction in the instant was, brilliant, well worth the red, he could be a hero. Will anyone in Uruguay care if they win the world cup? Or think he did the wrong thing? Hell no.

He might have been a bit more humble about it afterwards though and accepted that it wasn't the best way of winning a game.
agreed

[jbyrne]

Maradonna was a cheat, Henry is a cheat,(gaining a unfair advantage for his team in an incident that went unpunished by the officials) but to say Suarez (gaining a advantage for his team while the incident was punished and he was also punished in accordance with the rules of the game that is a straight red card and a penalty) is a cheat is imo total rubbish.




I'm going to ask the question to all involved in this debate

If you had been in Suarez' position on that goal line, would you have handled.

My answer is a resounding YES

so, you are not a cheat when:

- you dont get away with it
- others would do it

any other exemptions??

[pineapple stu]

Presumably someone in another group lost out of qualification though.
Never thought of that.

Had it ended 2-1 to either team, us/Holland would have been exactly level with Austria and Scotland for the last knock-out spot (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990_FIFA_World_Cup#Ranking_of_third-placed_teams).

[gaiscíoch]

so, you are not a cheat when:

- you dont get away with it
- others would do it

any other exemptions??

If Suarez is intelligent enough to calculate in that the whole world is watching and the full consequences of his actions should he stop the ball with his hands remembering he was going to be sent off and concede a penalty, which by the looks of it as he as lead way, Ghana should score to win the game.
Then his brilliant mind is wasted on football.

I think it was a natural/instinctive reaction IMO.
From playing myself I would do everything I could to keep the ball out of the net then worry about the consequences afterwards.
I can only presume he is of the same opinion.
But for you with cheating in mind you should probably give up watching football or else go watch some Vatican city football or something because I don't think watching professional football is for you.

Obviously a game riddled with cheating would be too much for you.

Cheating in football:
Player stealing a yard or three from free kicks or throw ins.
Players diving with no contact involved
Players faking injury
Managers taking players off from the opposite side of the field to waste time.
Defenders running the ball out of play having never touched the ball
Players pulling shirts in any area of the field
Players intentionally standing off-side
Players waving an imaginary card at the ref to get another player sent off or booked.
Players trying to intimidate the referee by shouting in their faces.

This probably gave you a hernia reading it with that sheltered life your living.
But sure Ah-Well.....

[PistolPeteNZ]

I'm actually going to go with a recent one, I think Uruguay's handball against Ghana was atrocious after seeing that game and against the Dutch I have decided I hate Uruguay they are bitchy, unprofessional, cheating and mean spirited...

Having said that, seriously Thierry????? Seriously mate????? How can you feel anything but ashamed for what you did, at least people are taking the **** out of him for it.

Love this awesome animated clip of Thierry Henry having to face up to his crimes at the Pearly Gates ha ha ha ;) Wish this happened to all of them!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxprvrFQpiE

[jbyrne]

If Suarez is intelligent enough to calculate in that the whole world is watching and the full consequences of his actions should he stop the ball with his hands remembering he was going to be sent off and concede a penalty, which by the looks of it as he as lead way, Ghana should score to win the game.
Then his brilliant mind is wasted on football.

I think it was a natural/instinctive reaction IMO.
From playing myself I would do everything I could to keep the ball out of the net then worry about the consequences afterwards.
I can only presume he is of the same opinion.
But for you with cheating in mind you should probably give up watching football or else go watch some Vatican city football or something because I don't think watching professional football is for you.

Obviously a game riddled with cheating would be too much for you.

Cheating in football:
Player stealing a yard or three from free kicks or throw ins.
Players diving with no contact involved
Players faking injury
Managers taking players off from the opposite side of the field to waste time.
Defenders running the ball out of play having never touched the ball
Players pulling shirts in any area of the field
Players intentionally standing off-side
Players waving an imaginary card at the ref to get another player sent off or booked.
Players trying to intimidate the referee by shouting in their faces.

This probably gave you a hernia reading it with that sheltered life your living.
But sure Ah-Well.....

actually you are right. we should all just accept cheating is part of the game. actually, we should insist that its written into the rule book.

personalising your response does nil for your case. pretty poor posting really

[PistolPeteNZ]

well look at Rugby, how come they manage to eliminate most of the cheating??? A few good reasons.

1. If a player commits a BIG offence as per Thierry Henry, he can get penalized and cut off from play AFTER the match has played since teams can appeal to a panel.
2. ONLY the team captain is allowed to approach the Referee, the ref can ask to talk to an offending player but they cannot go up to him without the ref allowing it (not only does this mean that you dont waste time with an entire team crowding the ref, it means that the team captains are responsible for more vigorous monitoring of their team since they dont want to have to go and get yelled at by the ref all the time).
3. They have harsher penalties for clear offenses, like in the Uruguay case, the penalty should not have been a penalty kick, it should have been a goal awarded. If the Uruguay player had not handballed it, it would have gone in, clear case, give them the goal, just like a penalty try.

Also even though refs know that 60% of all close quarter encounters are bull****, they still blow free kicks all the time, get more real, dont blow your whistle and after a few games the guys will miraculously start getting up quicker after a tackle cos they realise they wont get free kicks...

I hope the moderators dont kill me but I wanted to embed my link before so you can at least see the opening frames but I dont know how, I am going to try to do it now so hopefully this works cos I think you guys would really have a laugh at this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxprvrFQpiE

[Den Perry]

I'm actually going to go with a recent one, I think Uruguay's handball against Ghana was atrocious after seeing that game and against the Dutch I have decided I hate Uruguay they are bitchy, unprofessional, cheating and mean spirited...

Having said that, seriously Thierry????? Seriously mate????? How can you feel anything but ashamed for what you did, at least people are taking the **** out of him for it.

Love this awesome animated clip of Thierry Henry having to face up to his crimes at the Pearly Gates ha ha ha ;) Wish this happened to all of them!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxprvrFQpiE

Think Robben is as bitchy and mean spirited as any player I've seen. A real cheat if you ask me

What was the furore when the Uruguayan attempted the bicycle kick and caught the dutch guy?I know it hurt, but it was totally accidental. I've always liked Holland, but would hate to see this shower win it

[PistolPeteNZ]

Think Robben is as bitchy and mean spirited as any player I've seen. A real cheat if you ask me

What was the furore when the Uruguayan attempted the bicycle kick and caught the dutch guy?I know it hurt, but it was totally accidental. I've always liked Holland, but would hate to see this shower win it

I dont disagree with the assessment of Robben ,but Urugay shouldnt even have got to play them after the ghana game. Ghana won as far as I am concerned but fifa doesnt reward fairplay they just want the biggest bucks and protect their jobs....

[osarusan]

Ghana won as far as I am concerned but fifa doesnt reward fairplay they just want the biggest bucks and protect their jobs....
Fifa would have been delighted if Ghana had won, as it would have kept an African team in the tournament.

[bennocelt]

Think Robben is as bitchy and mean spirited as any player I've seen. A real cheat if you ask me

What was the furore when the Uruguayan attempted the bicycle kick and caught the dutch guy?I know it hurt, but it was totally accidental. I've always liked Holland, but would hate to see this shower win it

Yeah def agree here. Lived in Holland, loved the people and the place, but I cant like this team at all. A Dutch team that has donkeys like Kuyt, Bommel, and De Jong, and divers all round the place - Persie and Robben. But more than that they actually havent played well in for any longer than 20 minutes in all of their games I have seen

[bennocelt]

I dont disagree with the assessment of Robben ,but Urugay shouldnt even have got to play them after the ghana game. Ghana won as far as I am concerned but fifa doesnt reward fairplay they just want the biggest bucks and protect their jobs....

Jeez what more do you want!!!!!! A penalty, and a man down:rolleyes:

[seand]

I dont disagree with the assessment of Robben ,but Urugay shouldnt even have got to play them after the ghana game. Ghana won as far as I am concerned but fifa doesnt reward fairplay they just want the biggest bucks and protect their jobs....

Maybe they'll played poor old Ireland in the next round.

[Den Perry]

well look at Rugby, how come they manage to eliminate most of the cheating??? A few good reasons.

1. If a player commits a BIG offence as per Thierry Henry, he can get penalized and cut off from play AFTER the match has played since teams can appeal to a panel.
2. ONLY the team captain is allowed to approach the Referee, the ref can ask to talk to an offending player but they cannot go up to him without the ref allowing it (not only does this mean that you dont waste time with an entire team crowding the ref, it means that the team captains are responsible for more vigorous monitoring of their team since they dont want to have to go and get yelled at by the ref all the time).
3. They have harsher penalties for clear offenses, like in the Uruguay case, the penalty should not have been a penalty kick, it should have been a goal awarded. If the Uruguay player had not handballed it, it would have gone in, clear case, give them the goal, just like a penalty try.

Also even though refs know that 60% of all close quarter encounters are bull****, they still blow free kicks all the time, get more real, dont blow your whistle and after a few games the guys will miraculously start getting up quicker after a tackle cos they realise they wont get free kicks...

I hope the moderators dont kill me but I wanted to embed my link before so you can at least see the opening frames but I dont know how, I am going to try to do it now so hopefully this works cos I think you guys would really have a laugh at this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxprvrFQpiE

If you think Rugby is so great, go post on the "other sports thread". Next thing you'll want lineouts instead of throw-ins

[Dodge]

Fifa would have been delighted if Ghana had won, as it would have kept an African team in the tournament.

Spot on. In no way, shape or form are Uruguay one of the "bog boys" despite their great history. Tiny country with limited appeal elsewhere. Absolutely no doubt at all that FIFA would've prefered Ghana in the semis.

And of course they could do nothing about it...

[pineapple stu]

In no way, shape or form are Uruguay one of the "bog boys" despite their great history.
I'm confused. Are you saying Suarez isn't a Gaelic footballer?

[Stuttgart88]

Yeah def agree here. Lived in Holland, loved the people and the place, but I cant like this team at all. A Dutch team that has donkeys like Kuyt, Bommel, and De Jong, and divers all round the place - Persie and Robben. But more than that they actually havent played well in for any longer than 20 minutes in all of their games I have seenI'm torn on this. I don't much like this Dutch team, but having grown up seeing them lose 2 WC finals and having had so many great players in my lifetime I think it'd be a fitting reward for their football culture.

The same could be said of Spain I suppose, and Germany's rebuilding since 2000 and the way they regulate their league is a model for anyone looking for international success. I think it'd be a real statement to the EPL and to the whole football money culture if the Dutch could win a WC after their once competitive league had been relegated to being a feeder league for bigger countries.

I think it's a real shame that half the German team seems to be linked with a move to the EPL when the German system & domestic league has been critical to their success.

Part of me also thinks there are lessons from the Dutch success for Ireland. This is by no means a strong team of individuals from front to back. I can honestly say that Given, Dunne, O'Shea and maybe even Finnan or Carr would get in their starting XI and one or tywo more of our better players wouldn't be too far off. However, it's been a real triumph for the collective rather than the individual. I suppose it helps to have a wonderful player like Sneijder leading the way, and helpful OGs, goalkeeping errors and deflections along the way.

Denmark - OG set them on their way
Japan - goalkeeping mistake won the game
Brazil - goalkeeping error / OG at critical point & stupid red card
Uruguay - deflection at critical point & they were lucky it was awarded (even if it was correct).

That's a nice run of good fortune

[OwlsFan]

I think I know one which will now be added to this list !

On a separate issue, isn't today the 24th anniversary of Bonner Saves. Bonner Saves?

[peadar1987]

Was Suarez's bite really any worse than an elbow, two-footed tackle, or head-butt? Just because it shows he's a nasty, horrible little man doesn't mean it should carry any more punishment than arguably more dangerous offences. Nobody ever had their career ended from being bitten on the arm.

[OwlsFan]

Was Suarez's bite really any worse than an elbow, two-footed tackle, or head-butt? Just because it shows he's a nasty, horrible little man doesn't mean it should carry any more punishment than arguably more dangerous offences. Nobody ever had their career ended from being bitten on the arm.

I agree and said as much under the World Cup thread but we're dealing with the media here.

[centre mid]

Its his third bite though, any player can snap once and commit a really bad tackle once. In purely footballing terms his teams revelling at his hand ball cheating Ghana out of the last world cup is worse.

[peadar1987]

Its his third bite though, any player can snap once and commit a really bad tackle once. In purely footballing terms his teams revelling at his hand ball cheating Ghana out of the last world cup is worse.

Yeah, I think there should be increasing punishments for the third deliberate elbow or headbutt as well, but I think you're getting into dangerous territory when you start dealing out punishments based on the level of public outrage. If nothing else because it gives unfair influence to larger and noisier nations. Suarez is being defended passionately by many in Uruguay, I can imagine the same thing would happen if it had been a Wayne Rooney elbow, only the English media have far more international clout than the Uruguayan

[Eminence Grise]

Only in the anglophone world! I imagine that Uruguayan media reports are being picked up Spanish language media all over Latin America.

A potential leg-breaker of a tackle, a thumping elbow or a headbutt are horrific assaults on another player, but they're something we've seen many times over the years so perhaps we're all a little desensitised to them. What Suarez has done is almost unimaginable for 'civilised' people, (i.e. anybody who has acquired the social conditioning or maturity to resist the urge to bite all and sundry!) and that's why people are so shocked at it. Mrs Grise, a nurse, says that a bite that draws blood can have serious health implications as well - transmission of infectious diseases, more germs in the mouth than in a toilet bowl, that kind of thing - so maybe there's something about self-preservation buried in our genes that prevents us from going chewy on people.

The nub of the argument is this: Suarez is a recidivist. Being banned for 17 matches in total hasn't cured him of this urge to bite. He should be punished for violent conduct, and it should end his world cup, even in the unlikely case that Uruguay reach the final, so a minimum of four games. But hanging, drawing and quartering aren't the solution either. He's clearly a deeply disturbed person, and he needs proper psychological assessment, not just a sports boffin spouting on at him about goals and visualisation and channelling aggression.

[Eminence Grise]

The Beeb goes all Nigel Tufnel on WC controversies and cranks it up to up to 11...

http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/28019803

[centre mid]

This Brazil v Colombia match has been pretty shameful.

[OwlsFan]

The nub of the argument is this: Suarez is a recidivist. Being banned for 17 matches in total hasn't cured him of this urge to bite. He should be punished for violent conduct, and it should end his world cup, even in the unlikely case that Uruguay reach the final, so a minimum of four games. But hanging, drawing and quartering aren't the solution either. He's clearly a deeply disturbed person, and he needs proper psychological assessment, not just a sports boffin spouting on at him about goals and visualisation and channelling aggression.

I am only really posting this to bump the thread to get rid of the news of Blatter's resignation. I thought the urge to bite must be one of the weirdest actions which one cannot control but there are a lot of them out there http://ask.metafilter.com/29207/Urge-to-bite-rising Can you imagine getting up in the morning and saying "Right, anyone who annoys me out there is going to get the full effect of my dentures" ? There's naught strange as folk.