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Posted June 06, 2018
Hoping for England to do fair, mostly down to the young team. All I really want is good football without any crowd trouble or drama. World cup fever is always cool to get caught up in!
Posted June 06, 2018
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Linko90: Hoping for England to do fair, mostly down to the young team.
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tinyE: Oh, you mean they made it this time?

*ducks*
Now hey! It's the Euros in 2008 we missed out on! Not the World Cup!
Posted June 06, 2018
Germany, Brazil, and France look strong on paper. Great squads filled with quality.

I feel like Egypt, Croatia and Denmark may surprise people.

Belgium has a great squad, but tend to be hit or miss!
Posted June 07, 2018
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Doc0075: I'm just hoping that England don't stink the place out this time.

Belgium have a very strong team on paper but they remind me of Englands so-called Golden Generation, they don't perform as well as a team as they should do.
Gerrard, Lampard and Scholes in one midfield. We didn't do anything :(
Posted June 16, 2018
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tinyE: WAIT there is a game on!?

Why the hell aren't I notified about these things!?
All you've missed is France being gifted a pen that was never pen thanks to VAR
Posted June 16, 2018
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Linko90: All you've missed is France being gifted a pen that was never pen thanks to VAR
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tinyE: i saw that, turned it on right before.

Been watching while building my base in Terraria.
The screwed up thing is that technically I'm at work right now. :P

Wait, don't you have weekends off?
I do, but I in my apartment doing the good old cleaning/ironing/washing while watching the games :P
Posted June 16, 2018
No other footballer has made it so obvious they were about to sky a penalty like the fella for Peru #ToePunts
Posted June 18, 2018
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PainOfSalvation: Brazil played great for the first 20 minutes and then they stopped. Switzerland proved to be tough opponent although Zuber did push Miranda before he scored. Also Alisson didn't even move to catch the ball.
Was barely a push, if you're a center-back in a world cup squad and can't withstand a shove, you really have to question how interested they are lol. I've seen 11 year olds battle harder defending corners :P
Posted July 01, 2018
All the big boys are falling...
Posted July 01, 2018
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wpegg: They took good penalties, and Spain were stupid to play it through to that, but how VAR can look right at Russia holding players in the box and not give it can only be described as a home decision.
Every team has gotten away with it. They rarely use VAR for shirt holding and the like. Same issue in the FA cup last season
Posted July 01, 2018
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Linko90: Every team has gotten away with it. They rarely use VAR for shirt holding and the like. Same issue in the FA cup last season
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wpegg: But they did use VAR, it was there, it was blatant, and they were still cleared by VAR.
What I'm saying is they'll rarely give the decision.
Posted July 01, 2018
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Linko90: What I'm saying is they'll rarely give the decision.
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wpegg: Which is silly - a foul's a foul. They're not there to modify or smooth over decisions they are there to correct them. Anything else, whether "what happens" or not is only an indication of a broken system. VAR hasn't been used long enough to establish precedent on what should happen regarding original decisions, and hopefully it won't go the way of cricket where we get a video replay showing it was out, but for some reason the umpires decision matters about that.

Right now it should be absolute "Judge Dredd" style "I am the law!". They've got all the tech after all (except the High Ex ammo).
A fouls a foul hasn't applied in a long time now, see any top tier match or league. Defenders are literally running out of options these days purely down to poor officials and constant pushes for players to dive (more often than not if they don't dive they don't get anything, even if it was a foul). Human factors are always gonna be there, VAR's just a tool, not the decision maker
Posted July 01, 2018
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Linko90: A fouls a foul hasn't applied in a long time now, see any top tier match or league. Defenders are literally running out of options these days purely down to poor officials and constant pushes for players to dive (more often than not if they don't dive they don't get anything, even if it was a foul). Human factors are always gonna be there, VAR's just a tool, not the decision maker
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wpegg: Once the referee invokes VAR it should be 100%. VAR was invoked, and it should give the fairest result possible. I don't subscribe to the "everyone fouls a bit" logic, it's just giving more room to players breaking the game. Right now we see shameless rugby tackles in the area because they are aware that even with VAR they are bulletproof. If the Russian player hadn't accidentally backfooted the goal, that tackle would have been ignored, that's not football.
Fouls and the dark arts have been apart of football since forever. It's never been a perfect game of rule-abiding

As for being bulletproof, i don't agree on that, most of the rugby tackle fouls are on the blind side of the officials. It's then up to the officials to use VAR to make a decision. Invoking VAR is allowing the ref to see a situation and the making a decision. The human factor is still involved, which includes mistake/interpretations. VAR was never going to be an instant fix
Post edited July 01, 2018 by Linko90
Posted July 05, 2018
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Cambrey: 101 football: learn the basics with Brasil.
Hair looks good on Iniesta and Guardiola.
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ZFR: Personally, the Brazilian generation that I liked best was the one from the 80s: Zico, Falcao, Socrates, Eder... even though they didn't win any world cup.

I'm not a huge fan of Brazil though (since they beat Italy in 94), but I liked their style of play up to Ronaldinho's generation. After that, meh...
The team's pretty nice on the eye these days but dear god Neymar needs to wind it in. Wor Bobby Firmino though, what a player
Posted July 05, 2018
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Linko90: Firmino though, what a player
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Cambrey: Yes. Firmino and Salah was a deadly combo. If you are the goal keeper, you better not forget your anxiety pills.
*don't forget Mane ;)
Post edited July 05, 2018 by Linko90
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