Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Gol!

I went to the same soccer game as JB describes here, and also thought it was great - I’ve never seen Olympic Stadium more packed, even for the Expos last game.

One thing I thought was strange was that no replays of fouls were shown on the screen inside the stadium - so we had no idea if the controversial first Chilean goal should actually have been called offside or not. Apparently this isn’t unique to soccer games either - it seems weirdly paternalistic, as if they’re worried we’d storm the field or something after a bad call.

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