Quarter Finals

[Martin Alvito]

You sound like a kopite to be fair.

American = Kopite. I suppose that makes sense from your perspective. Harsh, but I can see it.

 

[Jamo Martinez]

There was a lot going on in the game. The teams clearly didn't like each other. But sport would be pretty boring if everyone was best mates as well.

I enjoyed the game, it felt pretty authentic to me and a bit of a throwback.

Bit like a Utd v Arse game in the Ferguson/ Wenger era.

 

[Wat Tyler]

Gerrard and Carragher missing their pens in 2006

[Poor language removed] never miss for the RS THO

Burn the club down

 

[Martin Alvito]

Bit like a Utd v Arse game in the Ferguson/ Wenger era.

With a sizable pinch of Mourinho v. Wenger levels of snide thrown in.

 

[PITA]

I'd say the ratio is about 4:1 in my favour.

You're are 'kin kidding.

 

[Wat Tyler]

Would love to see messi lift the World Cup, but I’ve a bad feeling that tw@t ronaldo might just do it with Portugal. I think they’re underrated, have plenty of match winners and are somewhat under the radar. They could even do it with Ronaldo on the bench.

Nailed it.

 

[Wat Tyler]

Come on

Liverpool to start every game with a penalty until March minimum.

 

[Connor]

Argentina are the kopites of international football

Interesting and ultimately incorrect way of spelling England

 

[Wizard]

I'm not agreeing with you. Please understand what I am saying. In the context of this game, that player does not know he is on a card. It's not reckless, and there's no excessive force. It's 100% a foul, sure.

I would card it, but in the context of how this game played out I would have no idea what this ref is doing with that foul.

Context of the game shouldn’t mean anything. He’s thrown in a wild tackle and then booted then ball at the dugout. It’s two yellows, whether the player has their head in the right space or not doesn’t matter.

 

[Martin Alvito]

Would love to see messi lift the World Cup, but I’ve a bad feeling that tw@t ronaldo might just do it with Portugal. I think they’re underrated, have plenty of match winners and are somewhat under the radar. They are more likely to do it with Ronaldo on the bench.

FTFY.

Good attacking, poor defending side that may just be able to bury everyone in an avalanche of goals, now that they have hooked that aging wing liability. Of course, they could just as easily get strangled off the pitch by that Moroccan defense. Weird World Cup is weird.

 

[devogue]

My goat Messi knocking out Osama van Gaal ?

 

[devogue]

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Class picture that

 

[Martin Alvito]

Context of the game shouldn’t mean anything. He’s thrown in a wild tackle and then booted then ball at the dugout. It’s two yellows, whether the player has their head in the right space or not doesn’t matter.

I just don't see refereeing this way. There are the laws of the game, and then there's the way they're being interpreted by today's judge. It would be nice if every referee enforced the laws in exactly the same manner, but in practice they don't. Even the poorest lawyers/barristers will tell you much the same about actual judges.

Referees aren't even internally consistent on the rules from game to game. My money says that Webb handles the 2010 final very differently if it isn't a final. It probably never gets out of hand enough for de Jong to explode Alonso, and if he does then he 100% gets marching papers.

 

[TheBigIguana]

Context of the game shouldn’t mean anything. He’s thrown in a wild tackle and then booted then ball at the dugout. It’s two yellows, whether the player has their head in the right space or not doesn’t matter.

The order has to be misbehavior, warning, misbehavior, ejection excepting that the first instance on its own warrants an ejection. It can't be misbehavior, misbehavior, warning and then ejection with nothing happening in between the warning and ejection.

 

[devogue]

Van Gaal is a football terrorist with a weird hatred of South Americans. Hopefully his career is over soon.