The Official 2018 Russia World Cup natter

[TCEvo]

em177 said:

Shambles, that was way to long. Ruined the moment, football is all about the moment and emotion and that was bks. Didn’t even look offside. How did that take ages when the England VAR game took half a second?

Like waiting for a call on a Try.

Surely there was some handball in that Iranian defensive scramble.

[jcremonini]

em177 said:

Shambles, that was way to long. Ruined the moment, football is all about the moment and emotion and that was bks. Didn’t even look offside. How did that take ages when the England VAR game took half a second?

It wasn't a goal because he was offside. Of course it ruined the moment.

The way I see VAR is simple - your team are leading 2-1 in the 90th minute of the WC final. The opposition score that goal and it is allowed. Wouldn't you want VAR so the wrong decision wasn't made ? I really don't get the fuss over it - wrong decisions are turning into correct decisions which has got to be a good thing.

[Gavia]

jcremonini said:

It wasn't a goal because he was offside. Of course it ruined the moment.

The way I see VAR is simple - your team are leading 2-1 in the 90th minute of the WC final. The opposition score that goal and it is allowed. Wouldn't you want VAR so the wrong decision wasn't made ? I really don't get the fuss over it - wrong decisions are turning into correct decisions which has got to be a good thing.

The problem is that decisions, whether right or wrong, aren’t being made. The only decision is to refer everything to VAR.

[vonuber]

Iran must be kicking themselves for not being braver earlier.

[mickk]

Gavia said:

The problem is that decisions, whether right or wrong, aren’t being made. The only decision is to refer everything to VAR.

Exactly, why didn't the lino flag for offside that's what he's there for? It's too easy now to let VAR make the decision.

[jcremonini]

Gavia said:

jcremonini said:

It wasn't a goal because he was offside. Of course it ruined the moment.

The way I see VAR is simple - your team are leading 2-1 in the 90th minute of the WC final. The opposition score that goal and it is allowed. Wouldn't you want VAR so the wrong decision wasn't made ? I really don't get the fuss over it - wrong decisions are turning into correct decisions which has got to be a good thing.

The problem is that decisions, whether right or wrong, aren’t being made. The only decision is to refer everything to VAR.

Isn't that the whole point ? You can't set an arbitrary boundary on just when the VAR referees review a decision . You either have to always review a goal , for example, or you do away with VAR and never do it. Even if you change it so only the referee can ask for a review rather than the VAR referees being proactive he's always going to go for a review for fear of being the one who denied your team ( in my example ) a World Cup win.

[TCEvo]

Nuts!

Gotta score from that though.

[jcremonini]

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[Sam993]

It's a bit like hockey now, with video referee I mean. It doesn't hurt hockey at all so I don't know why it would hurt football aka "saaackah".

[Gavia]

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[Amirhussain]

Only 3 goals scored in today’s matches, bit disappointing, was expecting goals galore.

[Gavia]

Amirhussain said:

Only 3 goals scored in today’s matches, bit disappointing, was expecting goals galore.

Agreed. We had a goal fest in the opening round of matches. Looks like teams got cagey and played for the right result today, rather than playing to win comfortably.

[Pericoloso]

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aeropilot said:

Wrighty's comment on Southgate............

What did he say?

I was going to comment earlier but ran out of battery.

Wrighty said something about Southgate shouldn't be out in the woods when he hurt himself.
It was probably funnier at the time.
Whilst the other 4 others in the studio were cracking up laughing,Roy Keane just managed a smile,miserable sod.

[Kermit power]

I know absolutely bugger all about football (to the point where I didn't even know there was a separate sub-forum for it on here!) so could someone please explain to me how the groups for the football world cup were assembled?

How on earth can it be that Group A, for example, has - with the number in brackets the current World ranking - Russia (70), Uruguay (14), Egypt (45) and Saudi Arabia (67), whereas Group B has Portugal (4), Spain (10), Iran (37) and Morocco (41)?

Have Uruguay got photos of the board of FIFA shagging goats in a jacuzzi or something???

Also, how the hell do Belgium, of all countries, manage to be the third best in the world at a sport which wasn't invented and exclusively played in the Benelux region???