General World Cup Chat

[Deeg67]

The Balogun thing is very unfortunate. He absolutely never should have gotten a red. There absolutely should be an appeal system for red cards. And he absolutely shouldn't have had it rescinded. There's no mechanism within the rules for that. It was an injustice that should have been allowed to stand (and used as an argument for an appeal system for future world cups).

 

The problem is, Diaper Don poisons everything he touches. He's a vile pestilence. The Americans were having a great tournament - it's easily the best we've ever looked in a World Cup, even when we made the quarters. But now no matter what we do, it's tarnished. People will use this as a pretext to dismiss a genuinely strong side as only succeeding because of political interference. Poch should say "We're going to choose to abide by the rules and defeat Belgium without Balogun". But of course he's not going to do that.

[Aus Fox]

1 hour ago, Deeg67 said:

The Balogun thing is very unfortunate. He absolutely never should have gotten a red. There absolutely should be an appeal system for red cards. And he absolutely shouldn't have had it rescinded. There's no mechanism within the rules for that. It was an injustice that should have been allowed to stand (and used as an argument for an appeal system for future world cups).

 

The problem is, Diaper Don poisons everything he touches. He's a vile pestilence. The Americans were having a great tournament - it's easily the best we've ever looked in a World Cup, even when we made the quarters. But now no matter what we do, it's tarnished. People will use this as a pretext to dismiss a genuinely strong side as only succeeding because of political interference. Poch should say "We're going to choose to abide by the rules and defeat Belgium without Balogun". But of course he's not going to do that.

It was a red card, but regardless of that fact. There’s no appeals process in world cups. There never has been and really shouldn’t be, especially in the days of VAR.

This is the worst incident of corruption I’ve heard of in any sport - and by FIFA who are littered with incidents of corruption.

The fact that Nepal were suspended from FIFA last week for political interference, then this week the US president is calling and directly interfering in the biggest competition in the world is an absolute disgrace. 
The US should be kicked out of the competition. But they won’t because $$$$

[Deeg67]

1 minute ago, Aus Fox said:

It was a red card, but regardless of that fact. There’s no appeals process in world cups. There never has been and really shouldn’t be, especially in the days of VAR.

This is the worst incident of corruption I’ve heard of in any sport - and by FIFA who are littered with incidents of corruption.

The fact that Nepal were suspended from FIFA last week for political interference, then this week the US president is calling and directly interfering in the biggest competition in the world is an absolute disgrace. 
The US should be kicked out of the competition. But they won’t because $$$$

Sure, whatever.

 

I mean, Ronaldo had a (two-match) ban suspended for this WC outside the rules because of politics. So did Otamendi and Caicedo. I don't see anybody arguing Argentina or Portugal should be kicked out of the tournament. That's just idiotic on the face of it.

 

None of that makes it right, in any of the above cases. FIFA is hilariously corrupt and everyone knows it. But no impartial observer could look at that Balogun red and say it was justified in the first place. Messi did far worse and got nothing for it. Why? Corruption and politics. Or, as FIFA calls it, business as usual.