Hand of Crouch

I’m going to throw up.

Posted from  United States

This is total madness going on in this worldcup.Is it that everyone fears the Trinidad and Tobago(underdogs)so much that they had to cheat to win.It is so obvious that Peter Crouch pulled on the locks of Brent Sancho to get extra leverage to make that first goal for England.My respect for the “LIONS” has been lost.
I am so proud of the warriors for going there with all this pessure placed upon them and yet they were honest,dedicated,hardworking and sucessful for this whole world.CONGRATULATIONS TO THE SOCA WARRIORS.

Posted from  Trinidad And Tobago

The Soca Warriors held England out and that scared the shi* out of them…so they had to find some “underdog” way to score… AND they callin the Warriors underdog…..!!!!!!!!
GO WARRIORS!!!!!!!!

Posted from  Trinidad And Tobago

The hand of Crouch should be a National Monument in England,because that is what it took to win the “underdogs”.Please FIFA Look into this.Your motto is FAIR PLAY.Peter Crouch grabbed on the hair of Brent Sancho when he made that first goal.

Posted from  Trinidad And Tobago

CONGRATULATIONS to the SOCA WARRIORS.You have done us proud.I was always proud ot say I’m a Trini.Now I am beyond proud.I am blessed to be a Trini.
Please England work on a better strategy next time.Don’t cheat to win.And FIFA be fair!!!!!!Anyhow GOD IS GOOD.BLESS!!!!!!

Posted from  Trinidad And Tobago

Trinidad and Tobago feels good today. Continue to strive for excellence. Don’t allow Crouch to get the better of you. You may have lost the battle but the War has just begun. Don’t give up Soca Warriors…..

Posted from  Trinidad And Tobago

No one beats ah Trini. #1 one in D world fuh SOCA, STEELPAN, MAS AND off course FOOTBALL. Win or loose we still happy, that’s what makes up true, true, Trinidadian. You cyah keep we down. You cyah keep ah true Trini down. We are still winners, cause we flying we flag hi, in Germany, Spreading our National Pride with what makes us happy, soca, lime and doh forget ah beer is ah Carib… (hahaha) all over Germany today. No one beats ah Trini.

Posted from  Trinidad And Tobago

what de hell? go trinidad we play realllllll good yesterday
damn Brits!

Crouch … a tall, gangly cheater.

Knowing how gutted we were after Maradona put us out through unfair means it is totally unbelievable that one of our own did that to a team deserving of a point and a fair chance for qualification.

With all the pressure and expectation that has been piled upon the England players it was bound to need a release, but this should not have been it.

“England Expects…”
“When the going gets tough…”
“He who dares wins…”

I’m at a loss for words, as to why he stooped so low.

I don’t think that I will be following the England quest for “glory and honour” any more - they have failed before they have even started!

And how come this hand of crouch news footage is completely omitted from every english newspaper that I have seen???

Soca Warriors … you can beat Sweden. It won’t be easy, but it’s possible.

Don’t ever stop reaching

Posted from  United Kingdom

Dickon Springate…yuh de man, much respect for telling it like it is.

And, thats Paraguay TnT hopes to beat. Hopefully, England will do its part and whip Sweden by at least two goals in turn for the atrocious “hand of crouch”

Posted from  United States

Stinky Crouch!, Boooooo! last minute dirty move by him (hair pulling), he should not paly in the next few games and should be embarrassed to show his face in england. Refs should be allowed to see replay to make goal official if appeal is made, what can be done about this in football? Win with pride not with a dirty move like that, he is already so tall, why Crouch? You will get what is comming to you……
a kick to the nuts!!!!!

Posted from  Canada

like american football if a offesive player soccer illegally the other team has the right to RED FLAG and play by play replay is fairly looked at if the worlds expect soccer to win american heart keep up with tech age so ages are lost and won fairly at post games replay down show the true calls that was miss by stupit unfair official even kricett has replay hahaha keep up with the jones soccore world its 2006 not 1806 sorry officials make bad calls that mess up good games

Posted from  United States

Wow,

I’ve been searching the web for English commentary on “the hand of Crouch”, and so far all I’ve found is on this site. I suppose they got the points and that’s all that matters - why bring up the underhand way in which it was done?. I hope warriors let this make them even stronger for the next game. As much as it hurts, if we want to make it to the second round by any slim chance, we have to cheer England on (cr) ouch!
That’s my new line by the way, if I get hurt for some reason, I no longer say ouch, it’s crouch!
And just for that, Lara will make sure they lose real bad in cricket too! (fairly!)
We are soca warriors and we are so proud of our team! Go Warriors!

Posted from  Trinidad And Tobago

Money was all

FIFA Vice President Jack Warner said Peter Crouch’s goal against the Soca Warriors in Thursday’s heartbreaking 2-0 loss should not have been allowed by the referee.

Warner said yesterday that Japanese referee Toru Kamikawa will be under investigation by the FIFA Referee’s Committee.

He also suggested that an England win was a more attractive result than a draw.

“I do not know what will happen to him, if anything will happen to him, but what I do know is that he had decided what the result would be,” Warner said in a telephone conversation yesterday afternoon.

Warner revealed yesterday that FIFA— the world governing body for football — normally reviews the performances of its officials after each match.

A disappointed Warner said he is sure that the Japanese official will be made “to pay” for his poor performance during the Trinidad and Tobago and England encounter.

For 82 minutes, Trinidad and Tobago held the 1966 World Cup winners to a goalless draw — until Crouch appeared to “piggy back” defender Brent Sancho to head home a David Beckham’s right side cross. The goal gave England a 1-0 lead. Video and photographic evidence appear to indicate that Crouch pulled Sancho down by his dreadlocks while climbing for the ball. A writer in the Miami Herald said that Crouch used Sancho as a stepladder.

According to Warner, the team’s morale was broken by that goal and England sealed the issue later when Steven Gerrard’s blistering drive to the top left corner made the score 2-0.

“The referee, in my view, was more concerned with the cash value of the England team which included Beckham, Wayne Rooney and so on…which was well over £50 million, rather than doing a proper match,” Warner said.

He described it as a case of a little country like Trinidad and Tobago up against a big nation like England — where TT must always lose. He said it was a very similar situation when Trinidad and Tobago played against Bahrain to qualify for the competition. He pointed out that before he left home, he predicted that the team would have gone on to the second round.

“And we would have done so had we had a proper referee for Thursday’s game,” he said.

The regional football boss also said that he still believed that Trinidad and Tobago would advance to the round of 16 teams, but he said it means that we have got to win against Paraguay on Tuesday.

Mathematically, Trinidad and Tobago’s chance of a quarter-final berth in the World Cup depends on their ability to defeat the South Americans by at least two clear goals in Kaiserslautern — as well as the result of the England/Sweden encounter — from which it is hoped, will finish in a goalless draw.

With the top two teams advancing to the next round, the English are already through to the next stage with six points from two matches. The Swedes got their first win against the Paraguayans and have four points.

Trinidad and Tobago can only reach four points with a win over Paraguay — with goal difference being the only other factor to secure the second place position in group B. Warner was high in praise for the performance of the players — saying they have made him proud. Quizzed as to whether anything special is going to be done for the team, Warner said he had already delivered on all his promises.

He claimed further that it is now up to the Sport Minister and the government of Trinidad and Tobago to present the players with something worthy.

Posted from  Canada

We all know the referee played for ENGLAND so why DID CROUCH have to CHEAT? I guess the referee wasn’t doing his job properly and the minutes were ticking away so somebody else had to take matters into their own hands to secure a goal. This referee saw every foul Trinidad and Tobago did, let’s see….14 fouls 5 yellow cards. FIFA please make it harder for referees so they can help swing a game one way or the other.

Crouch, as the saying goes, Cheaters never win!

GO SOCA WARRIORS!!!! THE ENTIRE NATION SUPPORTS YOU!!!!!!

Posted from  Trinidad And Tobago

They won the game. But we WON repect from the world.

Posted from  Trinidad And Tobago

The move by Crouch was bad… but this is football. Do you think anyone out on the pitch is not doing whatever it takes to win? These guys know the more they win the more that they make and what they can make has the rest of us looking pretty silly. Ever read a comic called Andy Capp? The exploits and fouls on the pitch of that cartoon character are infamous and accurately depict a helluva alot going on in the game. Not to say it is right but just reality.

Posted from  United States

Crouch to a new low. I wish this goal gets a lot more exposure than it is getting right now. It was the worst play for the world cup so far, and it went unpenalised, more so, unmentioned. Plays like this should strike a player from the rest of the world cup.

in a split second crouch made a bad call, you cant rag on him for cheating, many other footballers would have done the same without thinking. i agree, that goal shouldn’t have counted but i think this entire ordeal should be blamed on the ref, HE’S the cheater in this situation… shame on him….

Posted from  Canada

crouch lucky i wuzent in that game.swear to god i woulda through anything i had at he. crouch like he dont know trini people dont take nutting from no body .whoeva iz still 4 crouch i have sumting to tell uh u could never bring ah trini down fyah bun crouch. BLESS UP

Posted from  United States