Can't complain about England, would have bottled it even if Maradona goal was chalked off. Like in 2002, even with a man advantage still can't beat a decent side at the WC.
The Argies always been though ... and we saw it again in the last world cup. Clear second yellow missed on Parades blasting the ball in to the Dutch bench. Then Martinez should have got two yellows in the final shootout, not just one. Fifa got what they wanted.
Yeah the Dutch were an 11 of Princesses...jeez. it was a tough old time sort of match with both parts annoying the other one and BTW teh ones that chose that path, were the Dutchies (more Lousi than many of the players) even before the match, nothing wrong with that, mind games will always be there in football, it almost worked.
Do you realize that almost every major team that had won the thing had to deal with instances that worked against or were to the very least dubious.
Even Diego's correct sent off in the 82 Cup against Brazil does not show that his reaction was in great part due to him being kicked all over the park (Argentina kicked Zico too BTW) without any sort of fair teratment and to sum up a penalty as clear as the sun was not given too him.
That in that 82 against Italy, the Gentile one, he received a yellow for correctly protest against the constant fouling with no cards shown, that Gentile received his yellow after easily three or four fouls with a couple that were more acceptable to sent him to prison than a red and after that card continue with his task the rest of the game.
That was way he was cheated time and again on every WC, imagine if a list like yours is made of the type of treatment and the cards rivals should had receive when Argentina had fellas running through entire teams like Kempes, Maradona and Messi just to name three while being hacked as hell and therefore cheated beyond rules time and again.
Come on, it just doesn't work that way, sometimes you receive the good stuff, sometimes the bad stuff, it's part of the process, fair or not.
When it doesn't go your way, you man up and try next time, it's how it works. Every team receives silly calls against in the path of this type of huge KO tournaments, like in CLs, or Libertadores too.
Anyway like it was said here, the way the English players avoid to talk about the treatment against Maradona in that game that with a correct ref job could have let them to the very least with two players less and choose to only focus on the fecking hand of god, it's silly...just take it, admit he was cunning (the best ever English trait in my book, the intelligence, adaptabilty and cunning nature of the people of the islands) and move on.