Cheers

The Italians undoubtably have tremendous skill on both the national and international level. The behavior of many italian players and fans however leaves a lot to be desired. Italy and italian football has a well deserved reputation for bad spormanship, corruption, and racism.

The elbow to the face of the american team captain was disgraceful, the excessive diving undignified, and the targeting for fouls and baiting of key players from the opposing team should be considered intolerable to all reasonable fans of the game.

Materazzi should be suspended for his involvment in the “headbutt” debacle, and should the allegation of corruption in serie A prove true italy should be stripped of the world cup title.

Fifa needs to crack down hard on the kind of dity unsportsman-like conduct that has sadly become the hallmark of the italians among others.

Italy rules!

I’ve come back from the dead to tell all you anti-Italian that your points are well taken. How on earth can Italy be given any credit when after all, they only bet the high-flying Ghanese 2-0, the 2nd-ranked Checkoslovakia 2-0, Ukraine 3-0, and the mighty Germans 2-0, not to mention that they never conceded a goal except for the one they scored on their own net.

I even wonder how on earth do people all over the world love Italy’s food, fashion and sports cars – I made some pretty shitty sports cars when I was alive, don’t you think?

Oh, and how can these history books even dare to suggest that Rome and Italy civilized half of an entire planet with their western laws, architecture, roads and wealth. How on earth did half of the English dictionary come to be based on Latin … hmmmm … quite strange. Who cares about the likes of Leonardo Da Vinci and Galileo Galilei?

And Christopher Columbus, Amerigo Vespucci (for whom North and South America was named after), and Giovanni Cabotto (John Cabott to you English patsies) might have been Italian, but who cares that they discovered America.

As for the world cup, Italy hasn’t proven a thing by making it all the way to the final. Hopefully they don’t win on Sunday, so that all you anti-Italian can say, “I told you so”.

I agree with you guys – Italy, what a waste of a country.

Forza Italia!

-Against Croatia one goal wrongly disallowed
-Against Korea Totti wrongly dismissed, when it should have been a penalty. Another penalty denied, a penalty called against (which buffon saved), a goal dissallowed.

That you can call cheating!
Here we got an unfair red card, and then were favored with a penalty. Balanced. And none of that ‘last minute’ crap. A bad call is a bad call anytime! Add drama to it by saying it was last minute, and then complain about italians being dramatic…