Off Topic World Cup Thread

You missed another don’t pick Sterling and another don’t pick Young and completely missed don’t pick Jones

 

Yes me. I can see why it was awarded but it's very unlucky. See it in real time because slo mo changes your perception. He could just as easily been trying to get his arm out of the way. Not a penalty for me.

 

Late in the game a similar incident happened with Vida, but he was clearly trying to pull his arm out of the way and tuck it behind his body - Perisic didn't do anything like that.

 

I thought initially that it was harsh, but after seeing it a couple of times I can see why it was given, my argument would be that VAR should not have been involved as it was not a clear and obvious error, which was born out by the time the ref took to make the decision. The free kick for the first goal was a poor decision.

 

I am not surprised...............Love you.

 

It's all about opinions and that's why for me it is unlucky. I saiid earlier VAR should not be used where opinions make the call.

 

I completely missed him to be fair. Was he playing??

 

The one thing I will always remember about this World Cup was the awful standard of refereeing. Cards given when they shouldn’t, cards not given when the should have been, especially when players have been pulled back by.their shirt or arms and particularly the acceptance of timewasting and fake head injuries

 

Maybe in the most important football match for 4 years, he was just making sure. I bloody would if I was him..

As soon as they repeated it, at normal speed, I thought it was a nailed on penalty and still think the same. I can understand your and Spurf's doubt but Shearer, Ferdinand, Lineker all saying it clearly wasn't, is just transparently bullshit.

I swear Klinsmann was laughing at them.

 

The best team won.
They didn't always play the best.
But when they did turn it on, they were unstoppable.

 

Good to see that Sterling didn’t miss the flight ....... unlike most everything else for the past 4 weeks!

 

Did Jordan Henderson get to wear the pilot's hat and call himself "Captain Henderson"?

 

Team of the tournament (my selection)

Courtois; Trippier, Varane, Godin, Laxalt ; deBruyne, Pogba, Modric, Perisic; Mbappe, Ronaldo

 

Hugo,

Toby, Big Dav, Super Jan

Frodo, Eric Dier, The Moose, DoF

Sonny, Christian Eriksen, Dele

Golden Boots

 

So with the Next WC being held in November and December in Qatar because it is too hot in June and July, if we send 8 or 9 first teamers to the tournament we might as well write off the 20-21 season, and having a 'one' in the year that would be a disaster. Does anyone know what the Premier league are planning?

Teams like Citeh, Manure and Chavski can just not send the youngsters out on loan, and still have a decent team. We will be fekked, 4 weeks playing and then giving them 3-4 weeks to recover will totally screw us. FIFA screwing Spurs again.

 

Don't worry, mate - that's 4.5 years away.
By then we will have won 2 or 3 PL titles, a couple of CL's and be the richest grossing club in the world!
We'll be dictating terms to FIFA let alone the FA.


However..



If I'm wrong, then we are totally scewed!!

 

Yeah, I forgot,

Spurs win CL v Tel Aviv (Abramovic's new toy)
Chavs just manage to stay in the bottom tier of the football league on the last day of the season by drawing at the Emirates.
The goons appoint Big Sam Allashite, their 12th Manager in 4 seasons.
Citeh relegated due to FFP.
Fergie returns to manage Manure in an attempt to keep them in the Prem.

If only Carlsberg did football.

 

What the Twitterati don't realise was that Hugo's clanger in the final was an act of generosity - because with COurtois receiving the Golden Glove, the Chavs might receive a few million quid more when Los Ladrones come knocking at their door.

 

Things I learned from the world cup:

Pogba scores in the world cup final but is still a ****er.
Hazard scored in the 3rd/4th place play off but is still a ****er.
Ronaldo does a few things but of course is still a ****er.
Neymar, if possible, is now more of a ****er than he was before.