Essential The Official Football (Soccer) Thread - We are SO back, the Premier League returns!

[phillycavsfan]

Sooner or later in a penalty shootout a keeper is gonna get a second yellow for stepping 5 inches in front of the line.

What a galactically stupid rule. BTW there's gonna be VAR in AFCON so the fukkery has only just begun.

 

[blues_funk_reggae]

I can't stand the over reliance on VAR by refs, along with the micro-reffing that is taking place through VAR. That's really my issue with it.

During the Uruguay game (I think) a player was offside by a mile and the ref still had to pause the game momentarily to listen to his headset and confirm the offside. Meanwhile the linesman never bothered to put up his flag, clearly thinking, "oh well if I don't make the call VAR will back me up" ... its the same shyt going on in baseball. Umpires half-ass a call knowing VAR will save them.

And that call against the Nigeria keeper the other day was criminal. I understand the rule of making sure the keeper stays on his line, but lets keep it 100, for decades keepers have always come off the line during penalties, the same way players run into the box before the penalty is taken. This is opening up pandoras box. Wait until it happens in a big match and people start yelling corruption.



Scurry was off the line before the ball was kicked.

That's my humble opinion, don't @ me with nonsense

 

[concise]

VAR gone from good to bad in one summer. I can only imagine the nonsense we would be seeing if this year's Gold Cup had VAR also.

 

[TheFryingDutchman]

They need to figure out what VAR absolutely is needed for. I would use it for dangerous fouls the ref didn't see (elbow to head, cheap shots, etc.) and if a PK is a PK or is it a dive (but not if there was a handball in the area). I don't need a center ref looking at all the ticky tacky things. Also they're wasting too much time and they're definitely not making that time up in extra time.

Hell, watch any bad team beat a good team in a good league, they're so much time wasting and the ref never gives the full amount. The ref will give 5 - 6 minutes max rather than the 8-10 minutes that the bad team has wasted.

I can't wait for a Drogba style outburst at the end of a EPL game because of VAR fukkery:

 

[Fenian]

They need to figure out what VAR absolutely is needed for. I would use it for dangerous fouls the ref didn't see (elbow to head, cheap shots, etc.) and if a PK is a PK or is it a dive (but not if there was a handball in the area). I don't need a center ref looking at all the ticky tacky things. Also they're wasting too much time and they're definitely not making that time up in extra time.

Hell, watch any bad team beat a good team in a good league, they're so much time wasting and the ref never gives the full amount. The ref will give 5 - 6 minutes max rather than the 8-10 minutes that the bad team has wasted.

I can't wait for a Drogba style outburst at the end of a EPL game because of VAR fukkery:

No idea how they can keep their cool as it is. If I was lee Alexander I’d be in the VAR room with a steel chair.

 

[phcitywarrior]

Zapata Ole, you know what to do
James with that outside of the peg cross

 

[TobiOT]

fukk this. Scotland ladies just as useless as the men, I’m done.

3 goals to the good


Edit*
Saw that VAR call

 

[Roberto Firmino]

okay?
it's still been correct 90% of the time

Breh I'm all for it in theory but the implementation is and that penalty bullshyt was fukking criminal if that happens at the men's WC I can only imagine the scenes


And frankly 90% isn't good enough, the whole point of it is to be 100%

They need to figure out what VAR absolutely is needed for. I would use it for dangerous fouls the ref didn't see (elbow to head, cheap shots, etc.) and if a PK is a PK or is it a dive (but not if there was a handball in the area). I don't need a center ref looking at all the ticky tacky things. Also they're wasting too much time and they're definitely not making that time up in extra time.

That sounds like a happy medium to me

 

[Trajan]

Zapata Ole, you know what to do
James with that outside of the peg cross

James for Colombia

 

[The axe murderer]

 

[FakeNews]

Luis Enrique quitting Spain.







There has to be some phuckery going on at the FA, for Lopetegui to did what he did and now Enrique quitting.

I thought he was going through some personal stuff???

This guy wants to from from Man Utd to Juventus, back to United and now back to Juventus

Pogba my boy but aside from money what was the point in moving to Utd? Juve was coming off the UCL finals and United was stuck playing football on Thursday nights.

 

[The axe murderer]

James for Colombia

he puts it on for his country

 

[BlackBall]

I thought he was going through some personal stuff???



Pogba my boy but aside from money what was the point in moving to Utd? Juve was coming off the UCL finals and United was stuck playing football on Thursday nights.

Pirlo retired and he no longer has someone next to him to make him look good

 

[THEREALBRAND]

I’m in Toronto right now. My ESPN+ account isn’t working and I can’t find the channel these Canadian pricks put the Copa America on.

I just wanted to watch the game and crash. Instead I’m sitting here watching some French talk show :thiagofacepalm:

 

[BlackBall]

Comunicado Oficial






I highly doubt they gave him 3 years

Ole at that wheel forever please