Group C: Argentina, Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Poland

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

Show us the replay then you cowards. I just saw it and it was a mile onside.

I wonder if it's dodginess or just incompetence?

 

[Connor]

Oh god, not the armpit

 

[MikeH72]

Hahahah that is ONSIDE! His shoulder is at best level with his toe.

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

So that’s Qatar, Iran and Saudi Arabia benefitting from numerous VAR decisions

Interesting

Well, Argentina are winning thanks to a soft penalty like...

 

[MikeH72]

Well, Argentina are winning thanks to a soft penalty like...

And they’ve had a perfectly good goal disallowed.

 

[Lobster Johnson]

Rules should just be based on vibes am I right

Well, that's what the offside rule seems to be based on currently.

 

[Lobster Johnson]

I wonder if it's dodginess or just incompetence?

A little from column A...

 

[GoldenToffee]

Get onside you carts.

 

[heatmeiser]

So that’s Qatar, Iran and Saudi Arabia benefitting from numerous VAR decisions

Interesting

Yet they've all been absolutely battered

 

[trueblue84]

I wonder if it's dodginess or just incompetence?

It's FIFA, so I think we all know the answer.

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

And they’ve had a perfectly good goal disallowed.

I think it's more down to crap officials rather than some kind of favouritism of the Asian sides to be honest

I'll reserve judgment on that as the tournament goes on

If you're supposedly trying to fix a game and it ends 6-2 against the team you're supposedly favouring then either you're not fixing it or you're astoundingly bad at fixing a football game

 

[MikeH72]

I think it's more down to crap officials rather than some kind of favouritism of the Asian sides to be honest

I'll reserve judgment on that as the tournament goes on

If you're supposedly trying to fix a game and it ends 6-2 against the team you're supposedly favouring then either you're not fixing it or you're astoundingly bad at fixing a football game

There is only so much you can fix when there is such an enormous gap in quality between the teams, short of just giving the opposition 5 red cards as soon as they make their first foul I don’t know what else you can do. But if this is simply incompetence rather than corruption then every single official in the tournament should be sacked on the spot because you could drag anyone off the street to do a better job than them.

 

[Billy Dean]

There was nothing wrong with the Iran penalty decision yesterday. Shirt pulled in the area = penalty. It's when they're not given that's the problem.

 

[Lee Smith]

Rules should just be based on vibes am I right

No, it should be based on how it was before this utter tripe of VAR was introduced. Leave it to the linesman, and tell them to only flag if they are absolutely sure that the player is offside. I would much rather see a goal given even when a player was marginally offside, than see a goal ruled out because the player was literally half an inch offside. It's totally ruining the game and takes away from what football has always been about, spontaneous enjoyment.

 

[MikeH72]

There was nothing wrong with the Iran penalty decision yesterday. Shirt pulled in the area = penalty. It's when they're not given that's the problem.

Maguire’s not being given is probably what people are talking about rather than the pen they got.