Russia World Cup 2018
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- Wolfboy0
"Well we want to win football matches, so of course we’re not happy to be beaten" lied Gareth Southgate.
Job well done, bring on Columbia!
- Columbia, South Carolina?soundofreason
- Columbia, Washington silly!hotroddy
- Fax_Benson0
Brilliant mindgames from Southgate, pretending that we wanted to win the group. Belgians fell for it lol.
- From the amount of yellow cards the belgiums got it looked like they didn't want to go top either.Chimp
- It'll definitely be less embarrassing losing to Colombia than Japan.Fax_Benson
- https://www.qbn.com/…Krassy
- ernexbcn0
- ergo, don't win it, it's not worth it.Fax_Benson
- Psychology is everything. Even in football. This why England and its mentality never win anything, despite always having a world class team..set
- Wow.garbage
- World class team, set?Ianbolton
- England, world class team?valentim
- I'd say so.robthelad
- On paper, sure.set
- nudes1
that apple ad is hideous
downtempo retarded
- nudes0
i say it again. best world cup in years!!!!
- Gardener1
in Ladbroke's today they would not take my wife's £1 bet
on 5:2 to England as it wasn't on their sheets, I kicked up
a stink demanding they phone head office which they did
and they gave me 200/1 too bloody right!
- chukkaphob2
- Jesus, what a disgusting dudemaquito
- Nastypinkfloyd
- hahahdocpoz
- LOL. I can totally relate, and so can you.set
- Yea, no.
That's psychotically disgusting hahafuturefood - is it some kind of a nervous tick condition?? this is just nastychukkaphob
- He looks like the "King of the Swingers". Ya just put your keys in the bowl, you naughty boy...Yaaaaaa.mrAtor
- Found Limmygarbage
- holy crap, that's nastaaay!Krassy
- Maaku4
- Son plays for Korea.
Confusing message here ;-)Hayzilla - lol_niko
- lolMaaku
- lolKrassy
- well, I'm over the Moon Seon-MinFax_Benson
- hehed_gitale
- XDriskunlogic
- Son plays for Korea.
- renderedred0
Thoughts on VAR?
- for points of objective fact - was it over the line? - it's good. For subjective decisions like was it a foul?, it simply moved the decision from one fallibleFax_Benson
- human to another. The drama that's created has been fun though.Fax_Benson
- too many penalties for my taste. it seems like an attempt to make football a "higher scoring" game.renderedred
- the main problem with it is that the super-slo-mo replays distort the action so as to not really resemble the original incident.Fax_Benson
- and for all the other imponderables like intent, premeditation...VAR is no real improvement on 1 referee on a pitch.Fax_Benson
- I'm torn like everyone TBH. I actually think that each team should get 4 VAR decisions per game. Like Tennis or cricket.Hayzilla
- If a team feels strongly that they were hard done by in a decision they can use one of their appeals. Would stop the constant crowding of the ref too.Hayzilla
- yah, it puts great pressure on defense players.renderedred
- Until VAR can be seen and integrated with the on-field referee more seamlessly I think it's current form breaks up the flow of the game too muchIanbolton
- And I watch football for the beautiful flow and skill of individual players and teamsIanbolton
- love it, also negates corrupt referees to a degree...which in this Russian world cup is a must lol_niko
- I think that's probably a good way to go with it, Hayzillaset
- Agreed, Hayzilla. Once a team uses up their VAR requests, that's it. Then they have to trust the referee.Continuity
- niko, refs don't have anything to do with Russia, they're assigned by FIFA. Currupt/biased refs such as Felix Brych can still choose to ignore VAR altogetherMilan
- I know but there's nothing stopping the Russians from getting to the refs while they're there. Oh and didn't know it was their call to check it or not_niko
- I like Hayzilla’s idea. But it’s an extension of the ref; you like/dislike its decision depending on your loyalties.MrT
- CALLES15
Germany could never get into russia
- maquito-1
Ok. About VAR...
- I think it's easy to buy over.
- Takes away a bit of the sport substance: the doubt, the uncertainty.
- Some may say "VAR is more just, and makes soccer incorruptible", and my answer is: WRONG!
- VAR is not used in every fault or touch. It is certainly not used unless the referee decides to.
- Therefore, VAR gives the corrupt a big chance to buy over, choose to use, or to deny a request for it.
- I would rather have it eliminated after Russia.- i am not feeling VAR either, agreed.renderedred
- it kills the flow of the game as someone mentioned earlier, it's people after all watching the VAR and referees have the last word, so basically confusion...renderedred
- Continuity4
If Löw keeps his job after this, I'd be very surprised.
And frankly, Özil, Werner, Khedira, and Müller should never be called up for the national team again.
- he has to resignd_gitale
- werner has potential and deserves another chance. the others are way over their peakd_gitale
- I reserve special contempt for Özil. He's useless. He could double as a standing lamp in the corner of your living room.Continuity
- The only time he wakes up is when someone knocks off his boot.Continuity
- yes he was awfuld_gitale
- Fax_Benson3
Megalols
- Hayzilla0
Oooph GERMANY!
- sea_sea1
I need Germany and Korea to tie this game please. Kthxbye
- Continuity0
Right. Here's hoping Germany don't fuck the dog. It's against South Fucking Korea, FFS.
- OMG, Özil is fucking useless. He's a piece of furniture.Continuity
- very poor performance by Germany so fard_gitale
- It's awful. There's nothing to suggest here that we're actually watching world champions.Continuity
- Krassy1
wow! Argentina advance!
- this World Cup is really great!Krassy
- It certainly isMrT
- yeah, compared to previous ones this one is really good. don't like the number of penalties and the var stuff.renderedred
- sofakingback3
Argentina doesn't deserve it, lets be real.
- shapesalad-7
From this moment onwards I will refer to football as 'hoofsphere'.
I'll be campaigning with FIFA (should be FIHA) to change the name of the game that uses a sphere and hoofs.
- Would be fair if "egghand", "stickball" and "bouncityhoop" stayed as well.maquito
- Just invent a new game with that name, and no one else will play that either.MrT
- we used to play a game that was a combo of all the hand / foot ballsports. There were no fixed rules as such but any particular move had to be justifiedFax_Benson
- stylistically. I think it was called Simod or Nodder.Fax_Benson