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Originally Posted by Kurushio
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Do you realise that Test matches can go for 5 days? The only way the winner could be decided in that fashion is if it happened on the afternoon of the fifth day and the match wasn't over before then.
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And, oh yeah, as if there's only 1 bad LBW decision...more like a good few per game.
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Originally Posted by mog
There's a total of 40 wickets to be taken in a game of cricket. The bad LBW decisions almost always balance out, and they hardly ever change the outcome of a game.
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Cricket isn't a "complete" game. It's a bore fest, a bad excuse for fans to get hammered sipping on beer for 5 hours while you watch men wearing jumpers (for God's sake) supposedly participating in a "sport". In cashmere sweaters.  Please mummy, will you hold my jumper while I play with my friends..so he hands it to the umpire.
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It's absurd that you are deriding the wearing of jumpers when it's cold, when in soccer players wear tiny shorts and fall to the ground crying like little girls whenever they are touched. If only soccer players had a quarter of the sportsmanship of cricketers. And most absurd is you implying that there is such a thing as a 'bad excuse' to get hammered for 5 hours.
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Bad decisions in football also balance out, usually. For example, no way should the Italian defender have been sent off for a harmless tackle. So Australia played unfairly with 1 extra man for near enough the entire match, and the penalty at the end equaled it out. There you go. 
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After a send off you can flood the defence to keep the opposition out. There's not much you can do to stop a penalty spot-kick. One of those penalties gave away a goal, and the other didn't. In cricket a wicket is a wicket. What's more, cricket umpires aren't scared to make decisions against the big teams, which can't be said about international soccer referees.
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By the way, Australia played for penalties, seeing it was the only way they'd get through...and it didn't work. Tough luck. That's football.
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No we didn't. Bugger all of our goals could be put down to penalties. If you are seriously disputing that, then I suspect you didn't watch any Australia games.