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MegaBonus wrote:good to see FIFA ensuring Germany & England make it out of the group stages...
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eagleboy wrote:Bomber, That Poland team would struggle at NPL level.
Terrible. At least our young Croydon lads show heart. How Polska are (were) ranked 6th in the world is mind boggling on recent showing.

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MegaBonus wrote:good to see FIFA ensuring Germany & England make it out of the group stages...
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best thing about the England game was Martin Tyler....

seriously.....Kane getting the penalty awarded due to grappling was good for the game....however, only due to Pom whinging...lets see a ref have the balls to award one against a 'big' team and not just make an example of Panama....

you can never begrudge a team winning by that margin but surely England fans would be worried with the way England defended.
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MegaBonus wrote:best thing about the England game was Martin Tyler....

seriously.....Kane getting the penalty awarded due to grappling was good for the game....however, only due to Pom whinging...lets see a ref have the balls to award one against a 'big' team and not just make an example of Panama....

you can never begrudge a team winning by that margin but surely England fans would be worried with the way England defended.
There does seem to be some inconsistency on the grappling issue.

Panama got away with a lot against Belgium.

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MegaBonus wrote:best thing about the England game was Martin Tyler....

seriously.....Kane getting the penalty awarded due to grappling was good for the game....however, only due to Pom whinging...lets see a ref have the balls to award one against a 'big' team and not just make an example of Panama....

you can never begrudge a team winning by that margin but surely England fans would be worried with the way England defended.
So it's whingeing to point out a team cheating like that :lol:
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MegaBonus wrote:best thing about the England game was Martin Tyler....

seriously.....Kane getting the penalty awarded due to grappling was good for the game....however, only due to Pom whinging...lets see a ref have the balls to award one against a 'big' team and not just make an example of Panama....

you can never begrudge a team winning by that margin but surely England fans would be worried with the way England defended.
The only whinging I have seen is by the Aussies. Foster was going on and on about the France penalty 3-4 days after. He suddenly shut his big mouth when they were awarded the softest of penalties against Denmark.

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magnet wrote:
MegaBonus wrote:best thing about the England game was Martin Tyler....

seriously.....Kane getting the penalty awarded due to grappling was good for the game....however, only due to Pom whinging...lets see a ref have the balls to award one against a 'big' team and not just make an example of Panama....

you can never begrudge a team winning by that margin but surely England fans would be worried with the way England defended.
The only whinging I have seen is by the Aussies. Foster was going on and on about the France penalty 3-4 days after. He suddenly shut his big mouth when they were awarded the softest of penalties against Denmark.
Plenty of whingeing by the Egyptian, Tunisian & Serbian commentators apparently, but truth be told, I can't understand them.
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Bomber wrote:
magnet wrote:
MegaBonus wrote:quote]

Plenty of whingeing by the Egyptian, Tunisian & Serbian commentators apparently, but truth be told, I can't understand them.
So I take it you are not bilingual then :?:

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Mr Red wrote: So I take it you are not bilingual then :?:
He probably is, just not including those ones.
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Bomber wrote:
eagleboy wrote:Bomber, That Poland team would struggle at NPL level.
Terrible. At least our young Croydon lads show heart. How Polska are (were) ranked 6th in the world is mind boggling on recent showing.
At least do me the satisfaction of winning your last group match.
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Englishman asked me what needs to be addressed previously-referees refusing to check monitors when VAR recommends a look.

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Another thing that is not on is a German ref for a Swiss game.How would England feel if they played Russia and the ref was Belorussian ,taking the piss out of the English team all game long.

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predrag wrote:Another thing that is not on is a German ref for a Swiss game.How would England feel if they played Russia and the ref was Belorussian ,taking the piss out of the English team all game long.
I don't have a problem with either. You're talking bollocks.
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Sir Alex Ferguson seems to think the same as me,so does Rio Ferdinand:,but what would they know.

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predrag wrote:Englishman asked me what needs to be addressed previously-referees refusing to check monitors when VAR recommends a look.

The referee is in charge of the game, not a tv operator.
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predrag wrote:Sir Alex Ferguson seems to think the same as me,so does Rio Ferdinand:,but what would they know.

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What a joke VAR is. Ronaldo should been off for the 2nd time in this tournament and that was never a penalty to iran.
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God is an Englishman wrote:What a joke VAR is. Ronaldo should been off for the 2nd time in this tournament and that was never a penalty to iran.
What about Piquet in the other game? A two footed lunge and he didn't even give away a foul!

Please, no more VAR, it's ruining the game in its current form.
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Nice One Cyril wrote:
God is an Englishman wrote:What a joke VAR is. Ronaldo should been off for the 2nd time in this tournament and that was never a penalty to iran.
What about Piquet in the other game? A two footed lunge and he didn't even give away a foul!

Please, no more VAR, it's ruining the game in its current form.
FIFA used to boast about how our game was so uniform across the board, regardless of league/status etc. VAR tosses that theory out the window.
Yes, it rights some wrongs, but its use is inconsistent, so why bother, as human element is still at play.
Ditch it.

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The non red card for Ronaldo just shows that with or without VAR it is up to the ref to follow directions as given to him by the higher powers above him.As US president Kennedy said,there are secret societies behind events!

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This years champions league just confirms that refs followed directives from above,Juventus & Roma ended up screwed by the system.

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Referee Felix Brych (German) officiated the semi final between Real vs Roma,the same ref that screwed Serbia in the game against Switzerland.An investigative reporter found out that as of recently his bank account is larger by 2 million euros.

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Mega has got his wish. We've reverted back to the slow predictable passing laden build up. It's just like Ange is coaching again.

Players aren't running with the ball, running at players, attacking aggressively.

Get those pass stats up. Well trained average robots.
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Lacking in creativity and class. Australian players have no football intelligence.

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predrag wrote:This years champions league just confirms that refs followed directives from above,Juventus & Roma ended up screwed by the system.
How?
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Sunny Vanilla

Mega has got his wish. We've reverted back to the slow predictable passing laden build up. It's just like Ange is coaching again.

Players aren't running with the ball, running at players, attacking aggressively.

Get those pass stats up. Well trained average robots.



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They need to reduce the amount of teams qualifying from the Asian region. Only Japan look set to make it into the last 16. The quality of Asian football is garbage.

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