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2014 After Hours World Cup oh my god i can't wait for a month of football thread.

Super-Rush

The World Cup starts in 5 days time.

Will you be watching?

Will you be giving out about the soaps not being shown at their usual times?

Is football the scourge of the English?

Are we all barstooling ****?

Who'll have the best looking supporters this time round?

Will Uncle Woy's lions not even make it from the group stages?

Will Ronaldo or Messi finally do it(durty) on the big stage?

Will Luis Suarez continue to be a rascist cannibalistic cheat?

Will Ze Germans win again.

Can Brazil win on home soil or will Spain continue to pass the ball 49485 times per game?

Will Wayne Rooney kick someone in the face?

No Roy Keane on ITV, do you care?

Who will have the best looking fans this time round?

Have you put any bets on?

Will Belgium be the dark horses?

ITV, BBC or Bill and the lads?

Who ate all the pies?

Is LizT the greatest mod ever?

This thread and all the other soccerball tournament threads are for the lighter side of the game. If you have access to the soccer forum then thats the place for discussing the offside rule.

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Call Me Jimmy

Sjneider makin it pop

Lucifer MorningStar

Absolute bullet of a goal from Sneidjer

Da Shins Kelly

Only so many times the keeper could save the Mexicans.

My name is URL

Please don't let this be another game that's decided on penalties!

Benny_Cake

My name is URL wrote: »

Please don't let this be another game that's decided on penalties!

Looks as if it may be decided on one penalty!

Lucifer MorningStar

Penalty! Unbelievable stuff

[Deleted User]

My name is URL wrote: »

Please don't let this be another game that's decided on penalties!

Not the way you thought, but it's gonna be

Oh dear

Miss miss miss miss

Dammit

Klass penalty

Well that's just heartbreaking for the Mehicans

Da Shins Kelly

Ugh. The Dutch are just such a dislikeable side.

[Deleted User]

No one to help him there ffs

martyos121

How is diving ever going to be stamped out with results like this? Robben is a disgrace to the sport. He can dive fifty times in a match and he only needs one to go his way. Shameful.

Da Shins Kelly

Robben blatently dived more than once during the match. He shouldn't have even been on the pitch for the full 90 minutes.

[Deleted User]

Does look like it was a penalty regardless though. Defo a dive, but defo a penalty.

Duckworth_Luas

Looks to me like Mr Robben was diving before the Mexican even made any contact!

Rothko

I honestly think that anyone caught diving should be given a straight red.

Da Shins Kelly

Deleted User wrote: »

Does look like it was a penalty regardless though. Defo a dive, but defo a penalty.

Barely anything in it, I thought. Robben made an absolute meal of it.

[Deleted User]

Da Shins Kelly wrote: »

Barely anything in it, I thought. Robben made an absolute meal of it.

He did, no question, I'm not defending him at all, but there was contact and the defender didn't touch the ball. I would have liked to see them miss the penalty as punishment for the dive.

Da Shins Kelly

Deleted User wrote: »

He did, no question, I'm not defending him at all, but there was contact and the defender didn't touch the ball. I would have liked to see them miss the penalty as punishment for the dive.

It's a contact sport though. Just because a player touches another and they go down and make a drama of it doesn't make it a penalty. I think it was a harsh decision.

P_1

Da Shins Kelly wrote: »

It's a contact sport though. Just because a player touches another and they go down and make a drama of it doesn't make it a penalty. I think it was a harsh decision.

Exactly, it's not basketball, oversimulation is one of the things that tends to turn me off the sport

Da Shins Kelly

P_1 wrote: »

Exactly, it's not basketball, oversimulation is one of the things that tends to turn me off the sport

And it's not being helped by the fact that serial divers like Robben can get away with it several times in a match without getting so much as a yellow card.

BrokenArrows

martyos121 wrote: »

How is diving ever going to be stamped out with results like this? Robben is a disgrace to the sport. He can dive fifty times in a match and he only needs one to go his way. Shameful.

The only way to stamp it out is to introduce retrospective punishment.
The referee can't see everything in game so I believe each game should be reviewed after using the available video evidence.

What the punishment should be? I don't know. Financial seems pointless as the majority of players wouldn't miss it. Game bans? Name and shame?

Elmer Blooker

Four years ago the Dutch reduced the World Cup final into a depressing farce, now four years on their theatrics are again making a farce of the World Cup.
I found it very depressing having to write "Holland" into the quarter final space on my wall chart. If a French player handled the ball Henry style to knock them out of the WC I would delighted!

Warper

Imagine the kicking they will give little Messi in the semi-final

Da Shins Kelly

Warper wrote: »

Imagine the kicking they will give little Messi in the semi-final

Here's hoping Costa Rica get through tonight and take them out before the semi final!

P_1

Dunphy and co giving out about being unable to play in Florida because of the heat. I wonder how the likes of the Dolphins and the Crimson Tide manage it?

donegal__road

here is clip of the goals... the penalty incident is @ 0:16. The tackle looked slightly late and unintentional, there is no way a player is going to risk conceding a penalty that late in the game.. but Robben was looking at the ref with his arms out and his mouth wide open long before his sorry ass hit the ground.

Karma for this one please universe