The Football (Soccer) Thread - Season 2017/2018

OW tiger knee!!! to the face!

FIFA.com - President: FIFA will consider refereeing questions

If there were any doubts that Blatter is an idiot and FIFA is a joke, let said doubts be banished to the nether.

Contrary to popular and Stan Lee’s belief, Galactus was repelled when Dr. B punched him in the balls.

japan can make a surprise :smiley:

another terrible yellow card ref call. Why do people watch this garbage ass sport?

:wtf: at that yellow. Silly ref.

So the sport as a whole is garbage because of the terrible referees?

Yes. 100% yes. Why even watch something that ends up being so arbitrary? It’s like playing a fighting game and the computer randomly takes off chunks of your life throughout the round. You would quickly stop playing that game.

ā€œSeeing you in action is a joke.ā€
-Brazil’s soccer team.

Or playing a fighting game that stops while it tries to work out the correct damage every 5 minutes and even when you should get it right you still get it wrong.

Football is not perfect and yes refs are really fucking up the world cup and yes something has to be done but does american sports get it right every time?
NO even with replays they still fuck up calls which to me is 100 times more ridiculous than any ref making a blunder.

they dont fuck up replay calls in games where 3-1 score is a bloodbath. I am a layman. I have no axe to grind. I want to enjoy this. But every single game I have watched has been marred by the worst most inexplicable calls I have seen in my sports-watching life.

Hell, yellow cards are so fucking stupid in the first place. So kobe picks up his second foul in the nba finals and that means he has to sit out the entire next game? yeah that would be exciting.

yessss PK!! first pk of the tournament!

I have to say this world cup has been really really bad i dont remember a world cup as bad, and i will say this, fifa really needs to choose there refs better, i don’t like south American refs if you look at all the really bad calls i’d love to know which ref was officiating or which country the ref was from.

It’s a shame your enjoyment has been ruined i blame the players diving around faking injury just cheating in general, it really is a cancer on the sport but fifa/ uefa have pretty much giving cheating the green light in not punishing these cunts, i belive somebody from uefa called it gamesmanship.

I dont like defending refs but i do think they have a really hard job and there not helped by footballs governing body

Yes pk’s love them or hate them THE DRAMA!!!

On a side note a yellow card is not an auto suspension for the next match if you pick up 2 over two seperate games then you’ll miss the next game ie the 3rd one, but once you progress futher in the tourney any yellow cards you get are taken away and your reset back to normal, it’s another thing fifa have fucked up this world cup,but there when refs are handing out cards like nobodys business it just makes the system a joke

I both love and hate penelties. Japanese goal keeper is guessing the direction correctly!

OH SHIT Crossbar! :sad:

Over!!!

lol honda

fuck me could the japanese keeper be any futher off the line?

Props to the japanese though they play decent football and really defended well, hondalooks a really good player as does i cant remember his name the number 8 i think matsui or something, the whole team worked really hard but they had abilty to.

well done to paraguay they’ll be a tough nut to crack, they dont have much going fowardthough

awh Japan are out! Damnit it’s going to be a South American final for sure now.

Sucks for Japan.

Now, I want to Portugal to lose…badly. The yummy yummy tears of Ronaldo.

Yeah, I think the last kicker for paraguay baited him with that long run; kawashima looked edgy.

Shame really - I wanted Japan to go through. Both teams looked roughed up though. Japan’s defense was really nice - tough loss for them. However, I think either team would have a tough time against Portugal/Spain in the next round anyway. What an ending though.

I am much disappoint that they subbed in the WRONG Nakamura. I wanted the #10 Shunsuke Nakamura. You know, the ace? Oh well…good fight all tournament.

So FIFA has finally apologised for the referee’s gafs during the World Cup. Fifa will be holding a meeting in July to review video technology.

BBC News - Blatter sorry for disallowed Lampard ā€˜goal’

what is all this ā€œfootball is a game that never stopsā€ crap? There are more injury stoppages in it than any sport