More world cup fiascos

Well cheating still pays in football: nothing has changed since the infamous Hand Of God incident when Maradona scored with his arm against England. If that Uruguay player hadn't stuck his arm in the way then Ghana would be in the semi-finals. I feel so sorry for Gyan, missing a penalty he should never have had to take. Surely the ref should be able to award a penalty goal in such circumstances? I hope Uruguay get well and truly stuffed in the next round! Fifa needs to sort the game out.

They are talking to use cameras to aid them, that might be quite an improvement I think.

Well this time the ref saw saw it and quite correctly awarded a penalty, and sent the Uruguay player off. Unfortunately the Ghana player missed the penalty, hitting the crossbar.

The fact remains that Uruguay got through because one of their players stopped the ball going into the net with his arm.

Sorry, but Uruguay got through because they scored more penalties than Ghana. That`s the rule.

Davex.

Well that's my last team out - in the office sweepstake

France/England/Chile/Ghana...

You should have gone for us

Yes , that is the rule, but it would never have gone to penalties if Uruguay had not cheated by blocking a goal-bound ball with an arm.

Do Holland have a team? Must be difficult to have ball control wearing those clogs!

It seems that Mr Blatter (FIFA) holds that football should be the same everywhere, so that if your village team cannot have TV replay available to the referee, then neither should anyone else......

It was a real shame. Ghana can be really proud of how they played though, on the whole.

I agree with you entirely, for such a deliberate foul, the goal should have been awarded without a shot being taken. But Ghana really were terrible with there penalty shooting, for such an important part of the game particulaly in these major tournaments you expect they would practice a bit more.

Maybe the urugayans know that theyre suck with penalty taking

You could be forgiven for thinking that, some of Ghana's attempts were woeful

Congrats too Stefan, so is that 24 in a row without defeat now for the Dutch, and I do believe it was we Aussies that last inflicted defeat on you , if only, if only, if only

All the better to kick you with!

I really don't understand the outcry about the end of this match. I also cannot see for the life of me how this is a fiasco. Someone broke the rules and they were properly penalised.

Suarez did what every other professional footballer would have done in that instance. In doing so, he has conceded a penalty, been sent off (which means he's out of the semi-final), and meant Uruguay have lost one of their penalty takers for the shoot-out. It's a huge gamble, but one that paid off, and it paid off because Ghana couldn't score a penalty.

Ghana had two chances to win the game, a last minute penalty and a shoot-out. They choked at both.

Anyone suggesting a goal should have been given hasn't got a clue. This isn't Rugby with its penalty try, this is football.

And as a last thought for all the recently emergent Ghana fans, how did the free-kick that lead to the chance and subsequent handball arise? Playacting by a Ghana player, that's how. Somewhat fitting the outcome in my eyes.

Had it been John Terry doing what Luis Suarez did, he would be held up as a hero, taking one for the team. But as always, the huge double standards come to the surface.

I for one applaud Suarez, he's shown more national pride in one second than any of our players did in four games.