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Tuesday, June 18, 2002 |
Italy vs. Moreno
Moreno the referee of today's game against Korea is only 32 years old, is not the experienced referee that you expect in this match, but probably the cheapest sub human FIFA could bought. Here are, in the original italian the declarations of italian players. Try as you may you will not find similar declarations in other World Cups...
Fabio Cannavaro: Ci hanno tolto la qualificazione. Noi abbiamo tanta passione per questo sport, ma quello che abbiamo visto oggi non è calcio.
Alessandro Nesta: io di politica calcistica ne capisco poco, ma ci dobbiamo far sentire assolutamente. Questa è una delusione più grande dell'Europeo perché in Francia almeno abbiamo perso sul campo.
Francesco Toldo: Abbiamo fatto la nostra onesta partita, ma c'era un complotto per mandarci fuori fin dall'inizio dei Mondiali. E' ridicolo che in una competizione così importante si vedano arbitri di questo genere
Angelo Di Livio: C'è tanta rabbia, fa davvero male andare a casa in questo modo. È uno scandalo, gente come l'ecuadoriano Moreno non merita di arbitrare. Noi abbiamo sbagliato: dovevamo farci sentire prima e invece siamo stati zitti.
Alessandro Del Piero: In dieci anni di carriera non mi sono mai lamentato degli arbitri, ma stavolta ci sono state cose veramente fastidiose. A parte questo, però, dobbiamo farci un esame di coscienza e valutare i nostri errori.
Damiano Tommasi: Gli arbitri possono sbagliare e indubbiamente questo direttore di gara ha fatto qualche errore di troppo, ma noi non dovevamo prendere gol a due minuti dalla fine. L'espulsione di Totti? Immeritata
6:52:02 PM 
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Forbes. Patent Nonsense. Gary Reback.
>>>An awkward silence ensued. The blue suits did not even confer among themselves. They just sat there, stonelike. Finally, the chief suit responded. "OK," he said, "maybe you don't infringe these seven patents. But we have 10,000 U.S. patents. Do you really want us to go back to Armonk [IBM headquarters in New York] and find seven patents you do infringe? Or do you want to make this easy and just pay us $20 million?"
After a modest bit of negotiation, Sun cut IBM a check, and the blue suits went to the next company on their hit list. <<<
[John Robb's Radio Weblog]
Amazing.
1:07:35 PM
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Nigeria Hoax Spawns Copycats. The Nigerian bank account scam, one of the best-known e-mail frauds, is taking on new forms. Recent versions involve a U.S. commando and a World Trade Center survivor, among others. By Joanna Glasner. [Wired News]
This scam most work really well, because it keeps going on. I receive two letters per week. I used to receive faxes and postal letters, ten years ago. Maybe the perpetrators could put a web site, where one could swear that one will never fall for the scam and be removed from their database?
11:55:29 AM
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A friend asks and I answer: I would rather lose like Italy did today than winning like Brazil and Korea have done... It's the truth.
11:06:29 AM
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The United Nations World Food Summit
convened in Rome; delegates dined on lobster, goose stuffed with
olives, and foie gras on toast with kiwifruit.
[From Harper's Weekly]
11:00:17 AM
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Don't Cry Italy
Italy is the fourth industrial power of the world, is the center of design and fashion, has the highest art per capita in the world, has the best football league, makes the cars that everybody wants to drive, has one of the highest standards of living. No amount of cheating will take any of these things from them. Italy will go again to the World Cup, they will win it again. Korea won't, this is the only way they could reach this far.
But don't cry for Korea either, they are also an industrial country and are having a good time now. Doesn't matter to them how they got there, doesn't matter they'll never make it again. World Cups are full of one time wonders.
Cry instead for Venezuela, a poor, sad country that rejoiced in Korea's triumph ignoring, because they are stupid as hell, how much of this country was built by Italian immigrants. The little industry we have was built by them (together with the spaniards, the portuguese, the jews, the libanese, and others), but we cheered against them, because we cheer against ourselves.
Venezuelans deserves everything that is happening to them, and more. Because ingratitude and stupidity are bigger crimes than cheating for money...
10:28:18 AM Google It!
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I'm writing this before the end of the game. Moreno (the referee) has clearly gone against Italy, a poor, sad man without honor. A man that can be bought, probably cheap. But cheating triumphs this time. In a unbelievable match. The Italians were physically beaten, cheated out of penalties, red carded...
Blatter and FIFA have won. Money is put above and beyond the game. Korea wins by cheating whether showing or betraying their national character, I don't know. Italy was heroic and won the game. Now cheaters laugh without understanding what they are doing. Murdering football. The smile is often found in the face of the ignorant.
It's the end for now, but the thieves will pay at the real end. Either they will lose money as people lose interest in a farce set up of a game or they will lose their powerful positions as other powerful people realize this can't continue much longer.
This World Cup is a farce, the champion is Brazil the unbelievable story a triumph of fixing games and cheating.
A friend tells me that asking Blatter to stop the cheating is like asking the river to stop flowing...
The memory of Korea-Japan 2002 is going to be one of cheating and the memories of Brazil and Korea is going to be that of very sad, morally corrupt people. Probably undeserved, but if you don't denounced the cheating you end up being part of it.
What sad people all of them... What a sad day....
9:53:02 AM
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