Every Costa Rican penalty taker, he was waiting at the penalty spot, totally in their faces, practically shouting in their faces, gesturing, doing everything he could to put them off, but in a nasty cynical totally OTT way_fortunes_ wrote:I missed this game..so what the hell did Krul do? What was he doing that was unsportsmanlike?
Sure, we all expect a bit of mind games in a penalty shoot out, but that went a country mile further than anything I've ever seen. Completely against the spirit of the game, imo
Seemed totally disrespectful of the opposition. And completely unnecessary
This sort of shyte:-
I'm still surprised no one from Costa Rica made more of it. I guess they were trying to keep their focus on the spot kick they were about to take, but even so, I'm still surprised no one reacted, not even their 'keeper. If that was me, I'd have made a point of grabbing him by the collar and forcibly marching him backwards to his goal line
Sums up a lot of what is wrong with the game, imo. The Dutch were favourites, both in the match, and in the shoot out, but still had to stoop to "gamesmanship" to give themselves the edge