Yep, today was ugly. Ukraine dominated the match and they played attractive football contrary to England who had not even one chance, no posessive football or passing one, a lucky goal coming from Ukraine's bad defensive moment and a goal that was denied to Ukraine even though the ball had wholy crossed the line, with the 5th referee 4 meters away... So Ukraine should go to the next round instead of England but in football it's usually not the best who continues... Plus France only qualified because of that denied goal... UEFA is cooking and sometimes it smells fishy... (Poland and Russia out - hooligan's riots punishment?, Greece's matches with criminaly unfair referee decisions - debt punishment?) Expecting to see more of these.
Look, England didn't play well, but this is a little...uhm...one eyed.
England didn't create a single chance? You didn't see the header in front of an open goal that Rooney managed to put wide? How about Ashley Cole's chance in the second half where the Ukrainian keeper made a great save?
That's 2 very good chances, apart from the goal...so to say they didn't create one chance is just plain wrong.
Ukraine's over-the-line goal? Watch it again, when the pass is made to Devic at the beginning of the move he is a mile offside. If the goal had been given THEN it would have been unfair. As it was, one mistake cancelled the other out.
Don't get me wrong, England have been ugly ugly ugly to watch, but they've played 3, won 2 and drawn 1. Ukraine have lost twice and won only one and only scored 2 goals (against the team that finished bottom of the group) compared with England scoring 6. And all this, despite Ukraine having the huge advantage of playing at home.
Ukraine are out, and there's nothing wrong or unfair about that. Don't blame conspiracy. Debt punishment for Greece? Seriously, wake up!