The Football (Soccer) Thread - Season 2017/2018

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Number of deaths is close to ZERO??? What newspaper/news channel have you been reading/watching… People die, or get severly hurt in Colombia, Argentina, brazil, Germany, Enland etc…etc… Some ref’s are petrified to even ref certain games! There was a big spread not to long ago about soccer fanatics in England and Colombia getting killed in the stands and ref’s just scarred of making certain calls! Seriously!

You’re talking out of your arse. The Premiership is the world’s most exclusive football league, there’s no way that would be tolerated here, and there’s no way any ref or “soccer fanatics” killed wouldn’t be martyred in the tabloid press.

There was some shit around Leeds a few years back, but I think that was outside the stands. Worst that ever happened was Hillsborough disaster and that was a looong time ago.

Wouldn’t adding some sort of replay resolve this issue?

I don’t understand why yellow cards, fouls and other shit aren’t reviewable, at least by a booth so it doesn’t hold up the game. With all the technology we have today, leaving it up to human error is just ASKING for trouble. Ref’s wouldn’t have to fear for their lives on making a bad call, if they could reverse it with a second look.

This sport needs to get with the times, imo. (Also, start pausing the goddamn clock when bitches act like they are hurt, or are making substitutions. Get rid of this stupid stoppage shit and just pause the clock when appropriate.)

I don’t know shit about soccer, obviously. There MUST be reasons why my ideas are ‘fucking terrible’ and therefore havn’t been done already.

so was that another win for usa? (lol)

another win like those last two and you will be walking out of the wordl cup

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i think anybody with half a brain thinks there should be some sort of video ref going on during matches but ‘officially’ it is deemed that it would break up the flow of the game too much.

cup tournaments and playoffs - i dunno, fifa, uefa etc. dont want to disturb the flow of the game - they’ve tried introducing more refs at the back line to make sure there are less mistakes but they won’t push into video technology - this is not football, the game isn’t supposed to be stopped and halted every 10 - 20 seconds, so it makes it harder

leagues - the mistakes balance themselves out throughout a season

So if England loses, (unlikely) USA will have a better bracket?

OMFG, another wasted goal…

If Algeria somehow beats England, all the US has to focus on is beating Algeria. Nothing that happens in the England/Slovenia game is of any consequence to America advancing if England loses here and America beats Algeria. That’s the best case scenario, and the least likely to happen.

A more likely scenario is England beating Algeria and then beating Slovenia, which would also put the US into the second round if we beat Algeria.

There’s a number of other scenarios such as how much England wins/loses by, and how they do in the last game vs Slovenia, and how many goals we score vs Algeria, but it all boils down to the US absolutely HAS to beat Algeria, and they will probably have to score more goals than England did.

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Ah, thank you, sir. Algeria’s goalkeeper is stepping it up! He’s prevented a few pretty good kicks from going in.

On that note, the spanish announcers cannot stop ripping on Green, haha. I noticed he isnt in todays game either o_^^>~@

England are playing shit, Ronney looks like he’d rather be else where. Wonder if this dismal performace is because Robert Green got dropped :wonder:

Wonder if Green will even get used in the tourney again. His confidence, or lack thereof, might cause him to flop more than Ronaldo.

NOOOOOOOoo…

Nope, it wasn’t another “win”. But how do you guys like your 0-0 “loss”? :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

BTW, you guys might want to fly Rooney over to South Africa soon. I know you guys thought you could coast into the second round using Rooney’s second-rate clone, but it looks like you might actually need him to show up in order to win. That corpse I saw on the field the past two games was not the awesome player I watched during league play. Someone drug his water or something?

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One of the worst performances. I can’t remember the last time they played this badly, can’t remember the last time Rooney played this badly.

If USA beat Algeria they’re through.

I reckon England will only get a draw at best against Slovenia and will bow out of the tournament in the first round.

England have been a disgrace.
Granted, the US got very lucky in the first game but they shouldn’t have even been given the chance.
This game England were absolutely appalling. They need to win big in the next one but looking at the last two performances they neither will, nor deserve to, win at all.

England and Usa can still advance together, which is what I would like to see happen.

Was rooting against England this match, but I’ll root for them vs Slovenia. Hope Rooney shows up and puts on display what he’s really capable of.

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And the england muppet show is well and truley underway.

The british media really are fucking idiots, i’m so tired of there “we invented the pro game therefore we must be able to crush everybody else” attitude

The commantator says “we can draw with algeria and still be top of the group”

While that might be a fact, we have not beaten the usa looks like we might draw with algeria what the fuck makes them think we can beat slovina.

How many times are we going to be made a laughing stock?
How many times are we going to have exit from a tourney revaluate the way we play football bring through youngster and our coaching, and nothing gets done.

To much to young, no drive no grit, summed up by rooney at the end moaning about fans booing them.

Grow some fucking bollocks son

Yeah somebody email interpoll and find out if lampard is even on the african continent

Wtf England?

smh…