Group E: Belgium, Slovakia, Romania, Ukraine

[whoareyaaa]

2 minutes ago, lcfcdamo said:

The only reason she is there is because we live in a woke pathetic world take me back 20 years 

It is a bit odd how many women are now pundits in the men's game, surely there any plenty of ex pros that could fill that position.

 

But yes its agenda that's been pushed on us so nothing you can do.

[foxes_rule1978]

Just now, Nalis said:

Runner up in this group plays runner up in the France / Netherlands group. Winner plays a 3rd place team. Big difference in reward up for grabs for the group winner you'd feel.

Slovakia have a good chance of winning the group now, could do well 

[Foxes1]

Lukaku definitely offside for the first disallowed goal, referee got it right for the handball as well. I would say that I have Slovakia in the sweepstake.

[RowlattsFox]

Intentional is meaningless, whatever the rules supposedly say, when a goal is score. Nearly always ends up disallowed. 

[Bazly]

3 minutes ago, whoareyaaa said:

It is a bit odd how many women are now pundits in the men's game, surely there any plenty of ex pros that could fill that position.

 

But yes its agenda that's been pushed on us so nothing you can do.

Its a breakthrough apparently on the way to women only commentary and pundit teams. 

https://metro.co.uk/2019/06/11/a-panel-full-of-female-football-pundits-is-not-discrimination-its-a-breakthrough-9892362/

[Guest]

3 minutes ago, Nalis said:

Yeah I think she's shit but not for those reason. Peter Walton is garbage too. 

I sort of agree in that they rarely tell you anything you couldn't work out on your own, but in this case with it being a major tournament on terrestrial TV you have to imagine there are going to be people watching who will genuinely have no idea what's going on. Plus as you can see it upsets proper football blokes which in itself makes it a worthwhile endeavour I think.

[foxes_rule1978]

We have seen, with the rules, when ever your arm is out like that and the ball touches your hand, it always goes against you, whether deliberate or not. 

[leicsmac]

9 minutes ago, lcfcdamo said:

The only reason she is there is because we live in a woke pathetic world take me back 20 years 

 

5 minutes ago, whoareyaaa said:

It is a bit odd how many women are now pundits in the men's game, surely there any plenty of ex pros that could fill that position.

 

But yes its agenda that's been pushed on us so nothing you can do.

Yep.

 

"No blacks, no women, no Irish" in the beautiful game, the way it used to be, right?

 

(Well, maybe that last one is apparently acceptable.)

 

Great game though! Had it all.

[RonnieTodger]

Took just a few days for the first VAR nonsense.
 

Hopefully busts the usual myth about it working well everywhere outside of the Premier League. 

[Super_horns]

Seems like the rules have changed again just to confuse everyone.

They need to be consistent on that sort of incident then .

[foxes_rule1978]

2 minutes ago, RonnieTodger said:

Took just a few days for the first VAR nonsense.
 

Hopefully busts the usual myth about it working well everywhere outside of the Premier League. 

In this tournament it is working good for offsides, even tight decisions are getting sorted much quicker 

[leicsmac]

2 minutes ago, RonnieTodger said:

Took just a few days for the first VAR nonsense.
 

Hopefully busts the usual myth about it working well everywhere outside of the Premier League. 

And hopefully it might cause a little more clarity on the handball rule, too.

[Nalis]

8 minutes ago, Guest said:

I sort of agree in that they rarely tell you anything you couldn't work out on your own, but in this case with it being a major tournament on terrestrial TV you have to imagine there are going to be people watching who will genuinely have no idea what's going on. Plus as you can see it upsets proper football blokes which in itself makes it a worthwhile endeavour I think.

Fair comment on the explanation point 

[lcfcdamo]

6 minutes ago, leicsmac said:

 

Yep.

 

"No blacks, no women, no Irish" in the beautiful game, the way it used to be, right?

 

(Well, maybe that last one is apparently acceptable.)

 

Great game though! Had it all.

Who said anything about blacks?? Women especially American women who don't even take football seriously should not be telling us rules about the game the only reason she does is because we live in a woke world 

[leicsmac]

1 minute ago, lcfcdamo said:

Who said anything about blacks?? Women especially American women who don't even take football seriously should not be telling us rules about the game the only reason she does is because we live in a woke world 

Well, I'm paraphrasing a rather old phrase, but a bit more than twenty years ago the two sentiments did go hand in hand. Monkey chants and bananas.

 

Perhaps progress, in football as in life, isn't such a bad thing.

[leicsmac]

Anyway, this group is wide open now.

[Super_horns]

16 minutes ago, foxes_rule1978 said:

In this tournament it is working good for offsides, even tight decisions are getting sorted much quicker 

As they have a system which works well that the PL refused to use .

 

17 minutes ago, leicsmac said:

And hopefully it might cause a little more clarity on the handball rule, too.

Might as well be handball is handball soon ?

[when_you're_smiling]

26 minutes ago, lcfcdamo said:

Who said anything about blacks?? Women especially American women who don't even take football seriously should not be telling us rules about the game the only reason she does is because we live in a woke world 

Well, that and her being a qualified referee.

[StanSP]

41 minutes ago, lcfcdamo said:

Who said anything about blacks?? Women especially American women who don't even take football seriously should not be telling us rules about the game the only reason she does is because we live in a woke world 

I've come to the conclusion this is all about jealous. Jealous that a woman has more knowledge about football than you do. 

[purpleronnie]

47 minutes ago, lcfcdamo said:

Who said anything about blacks?? Women especially American women who don't even take football seriously should not be telling us rules about the game the only reason she does is because we live in a woke world 

You don't seem to realise how popular womens football is in America.

 

And whats woke about it?

[Guest Col city fan]

The problem with VAR is very clear. It was brought in to help the ref with ‘clear and obvious’ errors.

Surprise, surprise… it’s already become used for every goal that gets scored. Nothing to do with clear and obvious.

It’s simply more of the quest to make absolutely everything about info tech. 
Genuinely, it’ll be used before long, for every aspect of the game and football matches will look very different.

I say again, as football is ultimately about scoring goals, when the joy, shock, excitement is around goals being scored, how the Hell can anything that results in less goals being scored, be a good thing. 
And for a bloke who likes a flutter on goals being scored, it’s a nemesis

[foxes_rule1978]

3 minutes ago, Col city fan said:

The problem with VAR is very clear. It was brought in to help the ref with ‘clear and obvious’ errors.

Surprise, surprise… it’s already become used for every goal that gets scored. Nothing to do with clear and obvious.

It’s simply more of the quest to make absolutely everything about info tech. 
Genuinely, it’ll be used before long, for every aspect of the game and football matches will look very different.

I say again, as football is ultimately about scoring goals, when the joy, shock, excitement is around goals being scored, how the Hell can anything that results in less goals being scored, be a good thing. 
And for a bloke who likes a flutter on goals being scored, it’s a nemesis

Yeah it is clear to be that the handball decision isn’t clear and obvious. They need to stop using it wrong 

[StanSP]

4 minutes ago, Col city fan said:

Surprise, surprise… it’s already become used for every goal that gets scored

It's always been used to check every goal? 

[hackneyfox]

1 hour ago, lcfcdamo said:

The only reason she is there is because we live in a woke pathetic world take me back 20 years 

I think we all wish you were taken back 20 years.

[RumbleFox]

Woke agenda? Christ 😂