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Phillips was quite upset, and in the ensuing shoving match with Aguirre and other members of the Mexican team both he and Senor Crotchmasher were ejected with red cards from the match. The largely pro-Mexican crowd rendered their verdict by getting into fights and throwing beer at Phillips, who left the game in a protective amoeba of policemen. Then, in the three words that make any story both believable and more entertaining, it got worse. Panamanian striker Blas Perez, the scorer of Panama's lone goal, went down in the 90th minute.
A moment of applause for Chris Duncan of the Associated Press, because sometimes the funniest things require no embellishment whatsoever.
Perez was injured on the field in the 90th minute and medical staff brought out a stretcher. As Perez was carried off the field, Mexican fans unleashed another barrage of cups and beer bottles and Perez fell off the stretcher.
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And now go have the rest of what has started out as a fantastic Friday just because you have seen this first.
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First: absolutely no credit to Javier Aguirre or his team. They completely lost emotional control, and allowed Panamanian aggro to completely take them out of their game. Mexico is in serious trouble broadly right now, and the entire mood of the FMF camp is PANIC. Even less credit to the thugs in Reliant Stadium who were looking at anyone possible in white to throw things at. Absolutely disgraceful scenes.But even less credit still to Sr. Perez, who is not the wide-eyed innocent this piece portrays him as. His stretchering off was after a CLEAR time-wasting dive during the ELEVEN minutes of stoppage time the Phillips/Aguirre fracas resulted in. I mean, this was of the head-in-hands sobbing, then sitting bolt upright to take water ten seconds later (while the stretcher crew surrounded him) variety. Never mind the fact that fifteen minutes in the game, Perez simply tried to take out the Mexican ‘keeper Ochoa with a cheap shot after a cross was clearly going out of bounds. Perez is far, far more of a thug and bully than ANY Mexican player showed himself to be last night. And that’s saying something.Simply put, if both teams were kicked out of the Gold Cup after that train wreck of a match I wouldn’t shed a tear. And the incompetent referees, too, while you’re at it. Perez wasn’t even carded for his hatchet job on Ochoa, and that started things spiraling downhill.
by ShorterPearson on Jul 10, 2009 11:04 AM EDT reply actions
In the pic at the bottom, the look on that cop’s face is priceless. Getting pelted with Mexican trash? Not my problem.
by CBass3 on Jul 10, 2009 2:37 PM EDT reply actions
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