Spain is still struggling to find momentum under an inexperienced manager at this level who got the job 2 days before the tournament began. I wouldn't put it so simply.
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Newest I could find, it hasn't changed. http://www.theifab.com/laws/fouls-and-misconduct-2018/chapters/direct-free-kick-2018
Teams like Netherlands, USA, Chile and Italy didn't deserve to go to the world cup. Did you see their qualifiers? They were awful. Just because a big name didn't make it this time means that the world cup needs to be expanded. The expansion makes qualifiers meaningless. Also, let's not pretend that Europe has hard qualifiers when the top teams are seeded in their own groups. If there are two big names in one group that's because one of them hadn't been doing well anyway.
The form of the Netherlands team in the past few years has been heartbreaking; I used to love to watch them play.
Surprisingly enough the thing that I care most about this group is Iceland NOT making it. I guess I'm still bitter about them beating Ukraine :)
tomorrow night
Portugal got fucked hard. Just toss VAR in the garbage bin if it's gonna fail like this, it's less frustrating when a ref makes an honest mistake on live play, and not after a group of people watch a replay over and over and still make ludicrous calls.
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5 appearances in a tournament that only occurs once every four years is pretty regular, especially for teams that aren't European/South American.
It's not 'insulting' at all to want a sport to be entertaining, that's a ridiculous thing to say. Sport is the ultimate meritocracy. You can't justify poorer quality squads appearing purely on an appeal to emotions. Also, I never said Panama shouldn't be at the WC, they qualified under the current system and beat USA on their way.
I can't play at Wimbledon this week because it would be 'nice' for me. You have to have a cut off point for quality somewhere or the overall value of an institution declines.
literally all of it. literally nobody said anything about SA in the page of your post and also in the last page before it. it seems that SA vs Euro really upsetted you huh, you really want to bring the discussion back to it out of nowhere. how about stop for a second and don't?
And that makes me agressive? How come? You only want to fight and startle a Riff Raff. I have no issue in taking the blame tho. If I was aggressive and moaning I'm sorry for my behavior. Yes? Everything is ok now. Let's move on.
What a day indeed. We don't hate the USA as they do to Mexico (no politics, just futbol rivalry ) and damn some us celebrated as fuck xD
Damn, there goes his hopes of winning the Champions League.
i'm hearing the sound of people celebrating by the way (in tehran), people vuvuzelaing it up at 1:15 am. i'm too lazy but if we had won i would have been put until morning.
i was exaggerating a bit, but it's pretty loose, obviously there's a correct way in writing, but in speaking there's a lot of freedom
I expected him to retire. Interested to see how much money it took to change his mind.
Missed the post with the person baiting about "Europeans thinking the CL is the greatest tourney in the world"
Or are you being deliberately obtuse? All we've had this week is this supposed feud between the EU and SA and it's fucking tiring to read.
I don't totally agree with the breakdown of teams and I like the 32 team format just fine. However, I don't think the quality will be way worse than the current world cup.
I had been a fan of Buffon for a long time (always liked goalkeepers) but this move... he should have retired at Juventus a hero.
Case in point - last time England lost a qualifying game for the World Cup or Euros?
October 2009. And that was a dead rubber after we already qualified
Portugal Portugal!
Good job Iran and Morocco! Hope to see you again!
Morocco played great against us and Iran also, but I feel Iran should of pushed more early on. Who knows what the score would of been. I feel like smaller teams lack the confidence and only play great when they really need to.
Good job Iran and Morocco! Hope to see you again!
Morocco played great against us and Iran also, but I feel Iran should of pushed more early on. Who knows what the score would of been. I feel like smaller teams lack the confidence and only play great when they really need to.
Well, Panama deserved to be there, since they qualified, in first place.
WC always will have their underdogs. Seeing so many C L U T C H matches in this WC already is a great sign towards some more balance. Iran had an OK run for the 2nd Cup. Hopefully they can evolve further.
i have no problem with the new format because it allows smaller teams to join the world cup, but i'm afraid it would make qualifying more trivial and less interesting to follow those matches.
Nah, your lot cast the first stone this time.
Same .. I don't understand this move at all. Now he won't even play a farewell game at Juventus. I was expecting a sendoff like Totti got with AS Roma.
I'm honestly baffled.
What about all the correct calls based on VAR? One instance of it being used poorly doesn't mean you scrap it. If anything, it shows there's still a human element to it. Frankly, the only downside is that teams can't request VAR.
lmao, they were obviously arguing of the CL in terms of importance with the World Cup, no one mentioned any South American leagues or the Libertadores, you clearly don't know how to read and only wants to bring back the SA vs Euro narrative back because it's the only thing that matters to you discussing it from what I can see. If it's so tiresome, why are you trying so hard to make every post about it?
yes but we have four extra letters that arabic doesn't have. گ چ پ ژ
hard g, p, ch (as in chair), and the sound at end of words like mirage
Id be alright with same amount of groups but with 5 teams in each so we get a week longer group stage. I've really enjoyed the last week and a half.
He called Europeans deluded. Are you dense on purpose or accident?
Every post? wtf are you going on about you simpleton?
Also:
How does the narrative "matter" to me, if I post about being sick of it?
Stop talking our your arse ffs, it's nauseating.
You guys are something else, anything is a shot from SA to europeans huh?
Very cool. I had a few persian friends in college and I remember they tried to teach me a few words and how to write my name etc... But I forgot everything :(
Also one of them was dreamy so it was hard to focus LOL
He's definitely dense, or deliberately being obtuse.
Just ignore him tbh, I'll be doing the same.
Yeah, it's so strange. I can't solely be about money, can it?
I know I've been guilty of it myself and I've been taunting our SA brothers way too much about their perceived solidarity but could we ALL agree to STOP bringing the SA vs EURO thing? Anyone who does that should be dogpiled on (hopefully banned but the mods are MIA) and called out.
Please guys.
Thank you.
Please guys.
Thank you.
I know, right? If I wasn't a complete ass clown, I'd try to learn at least the basics. But maybe my appreciation is best when I can't actually read it.
holy shit have people not had enough of the SA vs EU discussion yet
i'll post some politics stuff just to change the subject
fuck russia
fuck saudi arabia
i'll post some politics stuff just to change the subject
fuck russia
fuck saudi arabia
One user got banned because he did the same Joke about the Scottish.
Saying "LOL JOKE" is not a justification to be honest.
Gaslighting? Nah mate, I think you lot created your own inferiority complex and can't get over it. It's the reason you still cry yourself to sleep over a 7-1 scoreline that happened four fucking years ago that the rest of the world forgot about ages ago.
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