treble41;2536896 said:That might be a wee bit arrogant of him to say. I mean, Italy/France will surely be better against Netherlands if the two teams play again, they'll be more composed and play a tighter game so would you really wanna play them in the knockout stage? I think Ireland or Norn Ireland or someone and some other team 'threw a game' because they'd both be through from their group. I don't think this is illegal if it's between the players on the field, if there's no money involved, etc. If I were the Dutch, I'd let the Romanians bang a few in
I know that most people don't think like this but for me it's the smart thing to do no matter how 'stupid' it seems. They can go out and play in the 2nd half, would make a funny news story too.
And let's not get ahead of ourselves, Luis Aragones is the worse manager here, not Domenech.
If you want to become European champions you play every game like it's the finals so if we have to face Italy/France again so be it but let's not rule out the Romanian side yet because we had it pretty rough in the quals against them although I give us more chances now