17 Jan 07
Originally posted by knightwestThere was a world cup game where two teams needed a draw to knock out a third team. The third team would have gone through on any result other than a draw. the two tams played a goalless draw.
It all seems a bit like match fixing to me. I never resign (asked or not), always go for the win.
This kind of situation sometimes occurs in FIFA World Cup group stages, when a team has to win it's 3rd match against a team that's already knocked out. It is the duty of the team that's been knocked out to play as well as they can as the result of this ma ...[text shortened]... more than just that one game it is unsporting to forfeit, resign, or even to not go all out.