Tim Cahill (Aus) who plays his league football in the English Premier League was dismissed tonight for serious foul play when Australia played Germany and the general consensus (and I agree) was that it was a harsh decision.
In truth the game was already lost by the time he got his marching orders. Two Polish born players, Podolski and Klose opened the scoring and made it 2-0 by half time. In the second half Brazilian born Cacau added a third before Muller added a fourth.
The tv commentator made much of the previous disciplinary action taken by Marco Rodriguez of Mexico who issued 2 red cards on three occasions in his domestic season. He also noted that the German team were young (by comparison to previous German tournament teams) and relatively untried. It seems that doesn't matter and the worrying thing for England is that they will meet the winners of this group.
On this showing, it will be Germany who win Group D and that the winners of England's Group (hopefully England) will be happier to meet Ghana, if they manage to progress as Group winners and Ghana finish runners up to Germany.
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