Frings will now not play against Italy after Italy complained to FIFA about Frings hitting out. I wonder how much Italy bribed FIFA to do this? Now Italy not only use their dirty tactics on the pitch they also use them off the pitch! Italy is a disgrace to football!

link?

Thank you Italy. First you dive in the Australia game, now you work together with FIFA to suspend Frings! Nice job, i already know that all your players will try to dive in the penalty zone again tomorrow.

It was just on German tv and radio give in a few mins.

Here is the German link though:

http://sport.ard.de/wm2006/wm/news200607/03/fifa_frings.jhtml

No doubt Italy will use their same old tactics...cheat to win!

Oh, like Engurland? (Gerrards dive against Hungary, Crouch's climb against T&T to score, Joe Cole's constant "simulation")

Your lack of self awareness is laughable.

Now the Germans will bloody show the italians how to get kicked out of the world cup
That's the mentality of the Italians never could loose and now before such an important
game they [beep!] their pants but with or without Frings no chance for the spagettis

Wait till they play the Italian national anthem tomorrow in Dortmund you never
felt nearer to the hell Italy

Also , remember to link where did you get aware of Italy's call for enquiriy against Frings and quote the official complain.....lol

Thats ridiculous, FIFA is a joke. The spaghettis know pretty well frings is a key player for ze germans. Blame the italian media. Corruption, again ? Gutted.

In English:

http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com/06/en/060703/1/8izd.html

See my comment in "Germany or France for 06WC"



I totally agree with you guys. You rock!

I don’t really understand your easy scandal.
- Totti spat at Poulsen’s face: he was banned.
- De Rossi hit with the elbow McBride: he was banned.
- Materazzi was (not) dangerous with a(n) (inexistent) foul: he was banned.
Frings punches Cruz: you want no disciplinary action ?!

So why don’t you read the FIFA Disciplinary Code (http://www.fifa.com/documents/static/organisation/disciplinary_code_EN.pdf) - page 33:
ARTICLE 47 – Physical injury
A player who deliberately assaults someone physically or damages his
health will be suspended for at least four matches. An official who commits
such an infringement will be suspended for at least eight matches.

Come on, let’s be honest and let’s play football honestly.

1) we dont give a watch the language - yeek if frings plays or not, please stop say that we bribed fifa, because fifa decided to suspend the krautiman for the weight of the fact, the FIGC isnt involved
2) ok, we're not the best nation over the world, but please stop, you're becoming unpleasant

Italian media affecting FIFA's behaviour....any better argument here? Yawn.....

Come on, mate. Anyone gave watch the language - yeek about the incident, except LA Republica (or whatever its called).
Even Cruz was laughing about it. They just wanted to put the pressure on FIFA.

From my point of view, both Italy and FIFA dont have balls.

No problem, we've got Borowski.
I think he's better than Frings, but we'll see.

Wouldnt it be cool if he or whoever will replace Frings would shoot a goal? I would so laugh about Italy then.

now It`s is Italy`s fault???????????'


AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahahahahahahaha shameless...


nonesense.


GO ITALY!!! GO!!!

Ok. Here's the screencap.

To me, it seems that that arm is actually not Frings' at all, but the German player right in front of him's... note the angle of the arm.

I'm still in wait for anybody linking any article with Italy requesting disqualification on Frings, ok ,except Bild and Spiegel , please talk on facts...

Italy didn't solicited any enquiry, again.
More, I believe that almost no team here can give morality lessons to anybody else.

I've already said this, so I'll just COPY and PASTE some of it again...

Why shouldn't Frings be punished? What will kids think? it's okay to punch people, as long as you don't do it hard.... It's okay to punch back... What kind of a society are we living in?

All these comments like...we're gonna smash your faces and...you're gonna be destroyed or whatever DO NOT BELONG TO FOOTBALL.

TV footage has been used in the past, so why shouldn't it now?

Imagine being in court:

- Mr Frings, Did you punch Mr Cruz?
- But he...
- Please answer my question!
- But.... Yes I did, but...
- I have no more questions.

If Cruz DID punch Frings, the HE TOO should be punished - simple as that. It's logic.

Yes, I think that would be cool. It seems so, that nobody knows who Borowski is, that's good. Everybody in Germany knows how good Owen Hargreaves is, many knows how good Frings is, but nobody seems to know how good Borowski is. He is the guy, who normaly feed Klose.
We'll see, I don't mind that Germany is weaker now.

Doesnt matter, it was the italian press who started to show the incident again. FIFA had already closed the case but had to investigate again after the stuff was shown on italian TV. So it doesnt matter which italian is responsible fact is it was some italian.

Does it matter who started it?

I mean, it DID HAPPEN, didn't it? Why pretend it didn't?

Foul conduct MUST ALWAYS BE PUNISHED,

Therefore , transitive property, you're pointing that every media is able to affect a jury decision and, moreover that sometimes what the international TV broadcasting (German, not Italian )recorded should *not* be shown again , especially in the contendent's country; what the Italian media showed you can call a scoop , not a trick, face it