Russian fans protest at U.S. embassy

[joeybee12]

MOSCOW -- After a heated U.S.-Russia hockey match at the Sochi Olympics on Saturday, many Russian spectators have decided the cold war is back -- and not just on the ice.

Demonstrators gathered in Moscow on Monday to protest a official's call disallowing a goal by Russia late in regulation of a game ultimately won by the U.S. in a penalty shootout.

The protesters, organized by a Kremlin party youth group, donned Russian hockey jerseys and shouted, "Make soap out of the ref!" -- a common expression among Russian soccer fans.

Wielding a banner with a photograph of the American official, Brad Meier, many of the protesters used cheese graters to grate soap into buckets.

http://espn.go.com/olympics/winter/2014/icehockey/story/_/id/10471083/russian-hockey-fans-protest-disallowed-goal-united-states

[marble falls]

1. Tov Schidtsky.

[GoCubsGo]

2. Now they should have a small inkling of how the 1972 USA baseketball team felt.

And, those guys had a legitimate reason to be upset. If the Russians don't like their goal being called back, they should be upset with they guys who wrote the rule, not the guy who just enforced it.