As much as I make fun of Canada, I really am quite fond of America’s hat. Those crazy Canucks gave us Kids in the Hall, and that’s probably my all-time favorite TV show, so I can’t really bash those hosers for that. But it’s just so hard to continue my appreciation of those moose-loving maniacs when they have people like Melissa Tancredi giving Ndamukong Suh a run for his money in the d*ckhead department.
To be fair, Team Canada had quite a few poor sports after Team USA pulled off a miraculous 4-3 victory in the semifinals on Monday. Christine Sinclair accused the refs of giving the victory to the U.S. before the match even started. Canada’s coach, John “Flappy” Herdman, called on Team USA to just admit that they were fortunate for being favored. But regardless of whether or not the refs were in Uncle Sam’s pockets, Tancredi really went the extra kilometer to come off as a total C-word.
Tancredi received a yellow card in the match, after committing at least 7 fouls, and despite that she still blamed the refs and not her team’s cheap tactics for the loss.
When asked what she said to Pederson after the call [that led to the penalty], she said: “I hope you can sleep tonight and put on your American jersey because that’s who you played for today. I was honest.”
Oh, and to wrap her piss poor day up and throw a big, ol’ bow on it, Tancredi stomped on Carli Lloyd’s head, as you can see in the video after the jump. And you can bet your maple leafed ass if it was Alex Morgan, I’d be knocking on Canada’s door with a Challenger 2 tank right now.
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Looks like she’s trying to keep her balance to me and not fall over. But good attempt to distract from the blatantly horrible officiating which handed the US the game.
Yeah, she was totally falling. *moose fart noise*
So, you’re just going to ignore the fact that the reffing was so atrocious, and so widely accepted as being attrocious, that the Norwegian ref in question was removed from officiating either the gold or bronze medal games? Tancredi was a poor sport, for sure, but she was in the heat of the moment. A moment where her team just lost a heart-breaking game that would have given them a guaranteed medal.
atrocious*
So you’re going to ignore sarcasm? I’ve been told Canadians have good senses of humour.
We do. If, you know, it’s actually funny.
But to your point, should we just allow people to act like assholes if they’re upset about something? Damn, Canada lost because the officials sucked. Let’s stomp on everyone’s heads. It’s Carli’s fault, after all.
Damn, you showed me.
Sure, to avoid falling over to the right, she kicked her leg out wildly to the left. That’s totally what happened.
Do the laws of physics work differently north of the 45th parallel?
I also like how, after stepping on her head, she didn’t even look down.
Because that is exactly what an innocent person would do.
She didn’t look down, because she was watching the ball. I can’t say for sure that it wasn’t deliberate, since I’m not her. But it looks like she just wasn’t paying attention to the American girl. You see what you want to see. Just like I see what I want to see. Perspectives, yo.
Yeah, the Canadian players acting like it was a hockey game and body-checking the US players all game without fouls being called was totally indicative of the ref favoring the US.
You had the same 30 minutes to score a game-winner that we did. It’s not our fault that no one other than Sinclair brought their A game. Get over it.
I’m rooting for France in the bronze medal match.
BTW, consider this revenge for Vancouver. Fuck your hockey team and that ponce Sidney Crosby too.
Not much of a revenge, considering this is women’s soccer. Sure, it’s upsetting it went down like it did, but it’ll be gone in a few days. But our sweet, sweet victory over the Americans (or 2… since, you know, 2002 as well) lives on forever.
Also, what is with this “we” and “you” business? Neither of us are on the team.
Canada had twice as many fouls called in its favor as the US did in overtime. Those refs sure were sneaky about how they threw the match to the US.
Never trust a Norwegian.
The Canadians got pretty much every call fall their way in the first half. The game was pretty evenly reffed.
It’s good enough for me until we send Sidney home crying with a silver in Sochi.
Again with the “we”. Are you Patrick Kane? Please tell me you’re Patrick Kane. I loved your Discover Card commercial, Mr. Kane.
guys, guys, I think I can settle this. She’s a bitch.
…Yeah, probably. Judging from about 80% of the girls I’ve known who play soccer at least partially competitively, yeah….
“…that the Norwegian ref in question was removed from officiating either the gold or bronze medal games?”
No that didn’t happen, she wouldn’t have done either the Final or the Bronze medal game because she did the Semi Final you idiot. She’d have either team she just did again, no tournament in the world does that, quit making shit up.
You are correct, I misread an article on the subject, which I supposed turned out to be much ado about nothing. But I appreciate that intelligent and measured response…
Woah. This is how soccer riots start.
@KevinW: YOu realize in Sochi that the gold will be between Russia, Canada, and the Swedes, right? The US is only there so their will be an even number of teams.
Gotta love how the guy who’s harping on everyone using “we” and “you” in regards to teams said “But our sweet, sweet victory” in the same post. Go get em’ tiger.
It’s fellas like Kevin W. that make all the rest of us look so good in the international spotlight. That being said, can’t we just admit that it was a bush league thing to do and that everyone else’s poor action doesn’t justify it?
Also, the idea of her doing this in reaction to losing the game is kinda moot since it happened before they ever even trailed the game.
I’m sorry, I really didn’t mean to come off as so much of a dick. That was really dumb of me.
Seriously, how does Tancredi think she can get away with this? Do they not have the ehnternet up in Canada?
niiice
+1 lol
Oh an “eh” joke! How clever! Oh well, at least our economy’s better and people around the world like us.
But yeah! Good burn, eh!
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^^^ Double Post. My bad, you guys.
But seriously, the 6 second goalie call was bullshit. And Abby Wambach counting in the ref’s ear is pretty bush league. Even the NY times thinks so:
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Not to mention the free kick that was given after it was garbage:
Under the sport’s rules, if a player has no time to move her hands out of the way, no handball foul is to be given.
Even the NY Times thinks so? That changes everything!
Especially from the writer who’s main coverage is hockey.
When it comes to sports coverage, no one is more authoritative!
The goalie was doing this all game though (a game which they had the lead or a tie for all but the final 35 seconds). Its a wonder it took that long to get called, honestly.
she was warned at half time. That she ignored the warning is her fault.
People count all the time in games. The ref turns to them and tells them to knock it off. The NY Times doesn’t know a goddamn thing about high level football so don’t listen to them.
Also it was a handling foul, the ball wasn’t played at her from 3 yards away she had ample time. Also it’s Laws not rules…and I doubt you know what the Laws say or the FIFA instructions say about handling fouls.
I’m going to try to be a little nuanced, even though I am one of those irrational little brothers from up north of the 49th parallel (Otto Man, a good chunk of the United States is above the 45th).
The call was bad. Most commentators can’t remember it being made in a high profile match since 2002, and even then it was controversial. The referee also missed a hand-ball in the American box (/immature little snicker) earlier in the game. And the penalty kick was kind of an iffy call.
With that being said, it’s a bit dickish of Americans to act like somehow, if this, or something like it, happened to team USA, they wouldn’t go apeshit. Well, I mean, in something that wasn’t women’s soccer, anyways.
Actually, we probably like our own women’s soccer more than we like the men here, because our men’s national team isn’t very good most of the time, and our men’s professional league isn’t the best in the world.
Does soccer still suck? Yes it does?
Ok. Carry on.
Honestly, Canada only has one gold medal. Lets let them have this one, whattayasay?
It’s true. Summer… isn’t really our thing. But we will fuck you up in trampoline.
Mr. Burns – top notch job inserting McKayla in the background, disapproving of Tancredi’s actions.
*SPIT TAKE!* OH MAN! I didn’t see that until you pointed it out. lol
You guys are my favorite With Leather commentary duo.
thanks!
maybe one day we can take our act on the road.
Could anything be less consequential than the Canadians are mad at us over a woman’s soccer game?
Here’s the saddest part about the whole thing:
“The ref, she’ll have to sleep in bed after watching the replays tonight. She’s got that to live with,” Canadian Coach John Herdman said. “We’ll move on from this, I wonder if she’ll be able to?
“Go and watch the replay of that decision. They’ll be replaying that for the next 10 years in Canadian history”
THIS IS THE GREATEST TRAGEDY IN CANADIAN HISTORY SINCE THE CANCELLATION OF “CORNER GAS”!!!!1!!!1!!
Corner Gas was a great show. Thanks for re-opening old wounds jerk.
We’re not mad at you, we’re just constantly amazed by how big a bunch of jackasses you all are.
(This is also known as ‘Canada – US Foreign Policy’
Ok whether or not the refereeing was atrocious is not the point yes it was bad on both sides. The point is that Tancredi stepped on another players heads and committed at least 7 other fouls before that that weren’t called. Yes there were fouls that should have been called that weren’t but none that were as blatantly obvious as this one. If she had been seen she would have gotten a red card and not just the yellow she did receive.
Everybody chill, Nicolas Batum just stole the show.
Basketball…. we’re not so good at that either. But we have Steve Nash, so…. you’re welcome?
He was born in South Africa.
And Justin Bieber. I think this nullies any further discussion. Excuse me, I’m going to watch some Spaniards turkey baster get battered.
Baltimore is Canada’s spirit city.
Nice.
The Canadians complained about the refs before the match (!), during the match (even though they got more calls than they didn’t), and after the match (despite playing like jackasses all game).
Seriously. They tipped their hand way too much with the pre-match comments. Hell, a win would’ve probably still resulted in some complaining.
sucks that the balls punch put a end to the soccer fight going on up in here (up in here, y’all gon make me lose my mind)
AARF! AARF! AARF!
you’re the best
Canadians are so polite, when they stomp your head they say “Sore-y” afterwards.
Not all of us would, no.
Alex Morgan should have uncorked another knee on Tancredi
Textbook Shining Wizard.
Right now President Obama is drafting a strongly worded letter that will no doubt cripple the Canadian military. GSP and women soccer players have been destroying our athletes for too long damnit!
GSP’s knees have failed him, and his protege, Rory MacDonald, is out of his fight with Baby Jay Penn. The tide is turning!
I’m much more upset about our token boxer getting jobbed by the officials because he had the misfortune of coming up against a British boxer. (I think it might have been JT O’Sullivan)
And one of our Horses was DQ’ed because of some phantom hairline crack in a hoof or some such nonsense. There is a clearly an organized campaign to to fuck Canada over at the IOC. I think it was because Dick Pound exposed all those crooked IOC officials and closed the gravy tap temporarily a few years ago.
Oh, and Melissa Tancredi…
Would.
I’m just happy to know that Canada has gravy taps.
Dick Pound gave the keynote address at my graduation day. There were a LOT of snickers.
Well, if there is one thing you can say about international soccer refs, its that they favor the americans!
Apparently you missed the USA vs Brazil in the World Cup. I still don’t know how they pulled that win off this the horrific reffing
Yeah I think he’s being funny. Canada didn’t really show a lot of class when they talked shit about how refs favor the Americans and let them get away with too much physical play before the game even started. Then they put on a seriously physical game which should’ve had at least one Canadian sent off if not two for Persistent infringement.
Yeah, as Yogi said, I was being sarcastic. I’m not trying to bitch about international refs, but if someone told me there was a conspiracy, and that no other country wanted the Yanks to make the leap into the elite countries (especially the men), I wouldn’t be shocked. AND THAT is how you write a run on sentence.
That’s “kilometre” -RE muthaf*cka! Beyond that, you are sadly correct.
The obvious bullshit reffing favoring certain teams is tradition in FIFA. No big deal there. What really bothered me was that Herpe infested cunt, Hope Solo, talking trash about arguably the best soccer player in the world, Christine Sinclair, while throwing her teammates under the bus.
Fuck Hope Solo. I hope the US lose in the finals and Solo gets cut (she won’t, as she’s bashed her teammates before).
Bitching about the reffing after getting raped with terrible calls is one thing, acting like you’ve been raped with calls and lost because your team left you hanging makes you a twat. . .with herpes.
You mad?