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Who'd have thought that Cricket's Snicko would have caught out Croatia. Shame really, a great game and 30 minutes more of that was more preferable to the dull Australia v Egypt.
 
zagatoes30 said:
France through but what was the referee up to, he should have stamped down on Paraguay's antics they were disgraceful.
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on the whole referring has been excellent during tournament but this guy has history, he refused to listen to VAR 3 times in Scotland - morocco game for 2 penalty claims and a last defender red card foul.........so guess he will not be holidaying either in France or Scotland in near future ;)
 
highlander said:
on the whole referring has been excellent during tournament but this guy has history, he refused to listen to VAR 3 times in Scotland - morocco game for 2 penalty claims and a last defender red card foul.........so guess he will not be holidaying either in France or Scotland in near future ;)
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Agreed, they've been very good at letting the game flow...then there's a hydration break.
 
midlifecrisis said:
Agreed, they've been very good at letting the game flow...then there's a hydration break.
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I think the use of VAR has been better too.
They seem to have gone back to the original brief of "clear and obvious error".
Let's prey that the new regime filters into the Premier League this year.
 
I've been avoiding the football completely. Annoyingly the matches are on late at night (generally) or at rush hour which means the roads aren't clear like other tournaments, so I can't even benefit that way.

Wife's brazilian/lived in the UK for 20 years so at least she's still got something to cheer for.
 

I'm not a football fan but I woke up to the sound of revellers outside the house early this morning so I assumed that the match was over and had a look at my phone to see the result. 3 - 2 to England! Wow! Then I realised the match was still live at 90mins, with 11mins to go and England down to 10 men. I watched the rest of it and was really impressed - massive commitment from all players, under very difficult conditions.

That contrasted with the rugby I had watched on Saturday when S.A. trounced England :(
 
midlifecrisis said:
However, the Trump/Infantino corruption prevails.

www.bbc.co.uk

World Cup 2026: Balogun decision leaves red card system in disarray

The decision to effectively overturn the red card shown to United States forward Folarin Balogun leaves many unanswered questions.
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk

I think everyone with support Belgium tomorrow. (Tuesday 01:00am)
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I'm not saying Infantino is corrupt but if Sepp Blatter, of all people writes on X that "football must never become a playground for political power". Then you know the competition is lost. The Belgian FA and UEFA have issued statements and I expect the US to withdraw Balogun at the least.
 
midlifecrisis said:
I'm not saying Infantino is corrupt but if Sepp Blatter, of all people writes on X that "football must never become a playground for political power". Then you know the competition is lost. The Belgian FA and UEFA have issued statements and I expect the US to withdraw Balogun at the least.
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I don't think Infantino is corrupt.
In the same way that I think Mother Theresa would have made a great cage fighter.
 
midlifecrisis said:
I'm not saying Infantino is corrupt but if Sepp Blatter, of all people writes on X that "football must never become a playground for political power". Then you know the competition is lost. The Belgian FA and UEFA have issued statements and I expect the US to withdraw Balogun at the least.
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unfortunately I dont see that happening. clearly trumpy wumpy has leaned on "infant" so he has nowhere to go now but stick to the decision. will be interesting to see how the ref handles the USA game now since, knowing his behaviour, I cant believe trumpy wumpy will have only asked to have the red card go away...........time will tell.
I've actually enjoyed all the games I've watched except for the scot/mor and fra/par games which had the same dodgy ref ruin them but this unbelievable nonsense from infant is leaving a bad taste in the whole competition.
 
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