yeah, he's lost it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bremsstrahlung
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yeah, he's lost it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bremsstrahlung
England are trash.
columbians have lost it too.
zero chance columbia finish this game with 11.
i wish we would police attacking fouls in the box as harshly as we do defensive fouls. the first foul in the sequence that lead to the penalty was kane shoving the defender out of the way, but apparently that isn't worth pulling up.
also during the post penalty award shenanigans, ref should have pointed at one player from each team that was on a yellow card and held up 5 fingers and said "i'm counting down from 5, if they are down before all of your players are out of my face, you're getting a second yellow"
On the pen. I think Kanes push was usual corner antics. When old mate jumped on his back (you can see the moment the ref turns to watch Kane, and it’s as the guy jumps on him) that’s going a little too far.
After he gave it. I reckon there was a good 3-5 minutes of arguing. Henderson gets a stupid yellow. Same thing he went down like a sack of shit over.
Is it McGuire or Stones that keeps doing the VAR signal for everything?
This game is somewhat painful to watch. Moments of brilliance and then there’s 3 moments of stupidity.
It’s mcguire.
ways to speed up the game:
- immediately advance any free kick by 5m if an opposition player doesn't immediately retreat 5m on award of a free kick. this gives the wronged team the chance to take a quick one if they want. ref can still set the 10m if they don't want to take it quick.
- free kicks can be taken anywhere on the pitch provided it isn't in front of the where the foul happened
- free kicks must be taken within 30s of the foul or ball becomes live
- substitutes have 15 seconds to get off the field. after the 15s is up, the game restarts whether he is on or off the field, but he must still go off without interfering with play.
i'm sure there's problems with my suggestions, but i'm sick of seeing 20 minute conferences with the ref after free kicks are awarded, 20 minute conferences between attacking players about which restaurant they are going to after the game while they pretend to work out who is taking the free kick and John Farnham-esque departures from the field for guys that have been anonymous all game.
anything less than 8 min extra time and the fix is in.
deadset, 5 minutes in arguing about the penalty alone. then add all the subs. then add all yellows.
boo-yah!!!!!
wonder if Henderson will cop the same amount of stick that Neymar gets.
Because hes just as embarrassing.
Wowwwww
in other news: suck it England.
(they'll prob still win tho)
Gordon Bennett.
trippier couldn't get to that because he forgot to rip the top bit of the neck of his shirt like he had in the first half.
another game-speeding initiative - 30s to restart the game after a goal. team can kick-off anytime after 30s, irrespective of where opposition players are. if you are in the wrong half of the field, you can't touch the ball until you get to your defensive half.
I agree Henderson and England in general tonight have been a bunch of whingers.
Colombians aren’t much better, they are being spoilt babies too.
Just really turns me off watching it.
England have played well in the tournament so far. They could stick to their usual game and they’d have had it won by now.
They’ve resorted to a stop start game due to persistent fouling and play acting.
Think England deserve the win here. Don’t think Colombia have offfered much.
just read that was the 19th 'added time' goal so far this World Cup.
Pretty amazing.
Caaarrrnnnn Colombia.
agree re colombia, amazed they still have a full complement of players.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bremsstrahlung
i don't think england have really offerred anything either though.
i did notice this cracker in the guardian commentary
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So England’s first 11 were rested for the last game, the weather ideal and the opponents are without their best player so I only have one question. Who will wear their home kit: Colombia or Sweden?
i know, but its only ever the brown folk that get the criticism for those kind of antics.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bremsstrahlung
i swear back in the EPL 'Man United charging the ref' era, they were going to introduce a rule that if anyone charged the ref then the ref could card the captain (whether he was doing it or not). It was then the captains responsibility to keep his players under control.
AFL have got the FKs absolutely spot on. If the opposition player doesn’t give the ball directly back to the player who gets the FK, or the player doesn’t immediately retreat, it’s a 50m advance up the field. If they even loop the ball high into the air it’s a 50m. If the guy taking the free doesn’t do anything with it after about 10 secs it’s play on.Quote:
Originally Posted by belchardo
brilliant idea. implement it, but make it "must" card the captain. they'd all learn pretty quickly.Quote:
Originally Posted by plague
Don’t know what’s worse vuvuzelas or the incessant whistling.
does anybody else think colombia are playing for penalties?
ref doesn't seem willing to give a card for time wasting.
nah, they know england cant do anything with the ball now. Subs have screwed their team up.Quote:
Originally Posted by belchardo
they are confident they will be the only team to score.
If i was colombia, I'd put my most annoying forward onto stones and man-mark him. Stones has been losing his rag all game and looks the most likely to really blow a gasket.
Everybody happy to settle on Dier as the scapegoat if England don't get through?
Any Colombians gonna hit bottom left? Pickfords waiting.
Nice to see 3 Colombians console their man.
England just stood and flared at Henderson.
Didn’t get the memo.Quote:
Originally Posted by belchardo
Great save from Pickford. Strong hand.
well now I've seen everything
I have to say the 3 man city players, stones, walker and sterling were rubbish and could have cost englend....no wonder city need to spend big to carry that rubbish.
I woke up this morning and checked the scores... Saw Colombia 3-2 on penalties so chuckled that England were out on penalties again before going back to sleep. Can't believe I'd checked the score during the shootout :(
I actually found myself cheering for England this morning
I think this run of success has awoken some deep ancestral Englishness in me
How both teams retained 11 players on the field is beyond me. The ref was bordering on losing control of that game.
Whenever I think about England I think it would be cool if they won.Quote:
Originally Posted by boz-monaut
Whenever I watch England I want them to lose so badly I hate them so much.
Its funny...they still havent faced a "real" team. Tunisia, Panama, Belgium B, Colombia minus their superstar.
The planets are aligning for something massive one way or another.
who cares can only beat whats in front of you. Id take another wooden spoon at the Jets to have The Socceroos in England's positionQuote:
Originally Posted by Jetmaster
You aren't bartering with much there. We are probably just as likely to win the spoon next year than a toilet seat.Quote:
Originally Posted by StannyCFCJET
But that is the best partQuote:
Originally Posted by Jetmaster
These guys are being set up for a massive downhill fall
If they dont make the Final then it will eat at them forever as they couldnt ask for a better opportunity
Sweden Croatia Russia are nothing to fear
But as you said they not played anyone yet so they havent exactly had to "Earn" a QF spot like France Brazil Uruguay Russia Sweden Croatia have had to do
I now hoping they get to the Final and get ****ed over by VAR
Even better if they have victory in their grasp and VAR steals it and they lose on pens
We can only hope as the burn will last forever
I’m sick of the carry on about getting the shootout monkey off their back. Here I was thinking they’d lost a million of them, turns out it was only 3 before this morning.
To me England are the national version of Liverpool. Absolutely insufferable and for that reason alone I don’t want them to win. We’ll never hear the end of it for as long as we’re alive.