The More I Watch This WC The More I Hate Football

[sylofox]

The holding pushing shoving and shirt pulling. The refs are doing nothing about it. Might as well be watching wrestling. Had we had premier League var I'd have turned it off.

 

The game is becoming a joke.

[RowlattsFox]

Dont think its been too bad in this world cup so far. No surprise to see more grabbling tonight with Arsenal players 

[sylofox]

Just now, RowlattsFox said:

Dont think its been too bad in this world cup so far. No surprise to see more grabbling tonight with Arsenal players 

But it all a card offence and none have been shown for it. After this it won't improve.

[sylofox]

Also the goal celebrations with everyone on the bench on the pitch. All wrong.

[StanSP]

Referees in general seem to be letting a lot go. At least it's consistent. 

 

The worst thing is the hydration breaks for ad money. Fvck off.

[Super_horns]

Didn't think we had seen much of it but probably be worse now when we see two teams hardly wanting to give an edge from anything.

 

1 minute ago, sylofox said:

Also the goal celebrations with everyone on the bench on the pitch. All wrong.

Yes should all those players be booked?

[sylofox]

4 minutes ago, Super_horns said:

 

 

Yes should all those players be booked?

YES Encroaching the field of play.

 

 

The French just didn't do it

Edited Tuesday at 21:50 by sylofox

[fox_up_north]

Go to bed mate

[sylofox]

3 minutes ago, fox_up_north said:

Go to bed mate

Lol I'm from an age before Steve Walsh do you really think he would have put up with it like this is. NO you would have got an elbow or a punch.

 

It's just ruining games.

[21st Century Fox]

A conspiracy theorist might suggest that they're letting more go so as not to add astronmical stoppage time to the end of matches, as they've already got the 3 minutes added on for hydration breaks. It'll be the U.S. TV network cabals.

[RowlattsFox]

Not a fan of the hydration breaks obviously - but I do think there has been less delays and stoppages either side of them. I'd be interested to see any 'ball in play' stats compared to the Premier League. 

[Samilktray]

Don't watch it then? Lmao

[Fox92]

Amazing how many people don't want to watch football anymore yet will still be watching it, and posting on the internet about it, in a years time.

[VinceNoir]

I thought I'd not care for it but I'm absolutely loving it. All the brilliant scenes from Mexico, Paraguay, Norway. All the fans seemingly having the time of their lives. Scotland in Boston, the Dutch with all the Links Rechts stuff. For me, international tournament football is peak football.

 

And then in between all the memes and good vibes you come across tweets from Romano and that lot.. Spurs paying 85 million for Fernandes, Man City paying 115 million for Anderson. Makes me realise how little I miss club football. 

[StanSP]

1 hour ago, Samilktray said:

Don't watch it then? Lmao

I MUST WATCH MORE TO HATE IT MORE! 

[Lionator]

This will age like milk but the refereeing at this tournament has been mainly excellent so far. It’s consistent, VAR use has mainly been good, I can only recall one bad decision (Ecuador not getting a penalty for being kicked in the head). 

[Super_horns]

3 hours ago, Lionator said:

This will age like milk but the refereeing at this tournament has been mainly excellent so far. It’s consistent, VAR use has mainly been good, I can only recall one bad decision (Ecuador not getting a penalty for being kicked in the head). 

No that was when Germany scored but yes was a foul either way not given.

 

I agree generally has been used well and infrequently.

[spacemunky]

I had actually planned on boycotting this WC, until someone pointed out that I was letting Trump take away something that I would normally watch and enjoy.

 

And for the most part, I have enjoyed this WC.

 

That could all change shortly though 

[whoareyaaa]

Just shows how the Prem use VAR to how they see fit and bend it probably through back handers or gambling corruption, it's not consistent at all in the Prem.

 

In this World cup it has been used how it should be tbh (rarely).

[fazzyfox]

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Edited yesterday at 16:25 by fazzyfox
Wrong thread.

[fazzyfox]

Really welcomed the idea that the wrestling and grabbing at set pieces would stop, not seen many instances of punishment but maybe just maybe the deterrent has been there resulting in less of it in some games, sometimes it’s what you don’t notice anymore that is the end result of a change . 

Edited yesterday at 16:41 by fazzyfox

[Staff]

No one closing him down 

[The Doctor]

while some of the clear and obvious errors are still not being corrected, I do quite like this "using var to correct clear and obvious errors" stuff rather than relitigating every incident like in the PL (my footballing conspiracy theory is that PGMOL are deliberately running VAR badly so fans turn against it and their incompetence isn't front and centre). 

 

only complaint is the ad breaks because the American mind can't comprehend 45 minutes without being sold something 

[trabuch]

20 hours ago, StanSP said:

Referees in general seem to be letting a lot go. At least it's consistent. 

 

The worst thing is the hydration breaks for ad money. Fvck off.

Saved England tonight

[Stuntman_Mike]

Didn't really need it's own thread and the majority of games have had decent referee performances.

 

Not so much the ref in the England game tonight though.

 

I think holding is part of the game and it's something that I think officials will be more on top of eventually.