Surprised its been shortened to 2 games if I'm honest. He was sent off for violent conduct which is a 3 game ban, if it was a professional foul it would have been 1 game. If uefa/FIFA whichever dealt with it thought it was soft enough to shorten it, they should have just accepted an appeal and lifted or or made it a one game ban for pro foul. Who ever gets a 2 game ban? Silly situation.
My understanding is that with UEFA all bans are 1 match, unless they decide to add extra games in very severe cases. Though of course the severity of the case is decided by the player and his nationality rather than the actual offence.
Arjen Robben what an utter twat this guy is, still ten minutes left of the match
Did Robben actually do anything wrong? The commentator seemed determined to convince us all that it was selfish and petulant to go off the pitch on the far side, but couldn't it have just been for the sake of speed? It did get the sub on very quickly. Then they focused on him taking his shirt off and said "There's no need for that." Err why?
Germany are annoying me already, they've had two wins and as you'd expect people are getting all excited about them, the BBC pundits after the game were ****ing over them but I haven't actually see them do anything yet. They've been outplayed in two games more or less, but managed to score the vital games in both. It's a cliche but they really are efficient little bastards.