I can't believe it. One bad result and low and behold everyone is a critic. For those who didn't watch the game please do so because what I saw differ in So many ways to what the rest of the nay Sayers saw. For starters Haiti played a very nasty game with a pound of desperation, sort of reminded me of people in midevial times who were playing for their lives in front of a maniacal king who don't accept anything sort of a winning result.
They pushed grabbed snatched scraped ploughed bulldozed clobbered and flattened our players left and right at every turn, it was 1973 all over again because it was the worst officiating I've ever seen since mark Geiger at the copa america, and a few of the Haitian players should have been given double yellow before they eventually scored.
As a result of all this I have lost any kind of respect for the Haitian team, they wasn't playing football, they were playing rugby, and a classless brand at that, doing anything to win. I am also ashamed and somewhat sickened by the refs in this region for their lack of care for the game. I think concacaf referees are the absolute worst.
I understand the Haitians desire to win, represent and make their nation proud I really do, but when you have to venture out of the code of ethics and protocol of the game and do anything to win even if it means ending a players career, then where do you draw the line? While the people who are paid extremely well to keep the game in order has failed to do so over and over again, so how then could football grow in the region as a force to recon with?
And allow me to throw this out there in case it's brought up as a rebuttal, let me save you some time, yes Abu baker was also supposed to be red carded for that vicious attack on the Haitian attacker. Join questions asked.
I also believe in my heart of hearts that someone in the football world paid a nasty brute to shoot Cummings, call me crazy, but just by the way those Haitians pulled and tugged our players to death, I wouldn't put anything passed them at this point. I truly lost any respect I had for them after watching the game a day later on cable tv, it was nothing short of atrocious, and that referee should never be allowed to officiate such an important game.
Some may disagree and believe what they saw from the Haitians was spirit and heart, claiming that they wanted it more, and I get that, our players do lack urgency so I could see how some may view this as a welcomed trait, but I saw something totally different. What i saw was the same methods the Latin Americans implore when they cheat by faining injury and doing whatever it takes to get the edge ala saurez, and that there is not what I call spirit, in reality it's cheating and its ruining the game. this is why i make no effort to watch laliga and seri A. Give me a conference game over that side show they call football any day.