[Football] Brazil v Switzerland

portlock seagull · Jun 17, 2018

Saunders said:
If history is to go by we up **** the first game recover get through to the knockout stage and lose on penalties satisfied?

more recently we **** up all 3 and fly home

portlock seagull · Jun 17, 2018

Herr Tubthumper said:
My feeling is that it was a goal. I think pushing is only an issue if it uses excessive force (or whatever the wording is) , and that didn’t look excessive.

This.

LamieRobertson · Jun 17, 2018

Weststander said:
Clattenburg, Wright, Keane and Neville, all said the Swisss goal should not have stood.

Co commentator (Dixon?) thought it should...looked ok to me...defender was caught napping

Saunders · Jun 17, 2018

Harry Wilson's tackle said:
Not satisfied, no. My prejudices reinforced by events? Quite probably. Still, we can but hope.

We can but hope

Stat Brother · Jun 17, 2018

skipper734 said:
Why are both teams fielding female celebs, such as Miranda, Cher, Shakira, Pauline, Rosa. They are missing Renee but do have Renato, there's even Zuba, the Taxi company.

Women and kitchen fitters.

Triggaaar · Jun 17, 2018

Herr Tubthumper said:
I don’t read too much into opening games

Hampster Gull · Jun 17, 2018

Nice. I’m leading the pack of 72 in the work WC competition

perseus · Jun 18, 2018

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Power more than curl

seagulls4ever · Jun 18, 2018

Clattenburg keeps on going on about letting refs have another look. That's not what VAR is there for - it's for clear and obvious errors. Was that a foul? I think probably yes, but I don't think it's clearly and obviously yes. Unless it's a howler of a decision, play on.

sussex_guy2k2 · Jun 18, 2018

portlock seagull said:
Inbetween he might have been, but had a poor tournament 4 years ago and was wasteful tonight for me.

To each his own I guess. I figure I’d prefer to judge someone over four years than four games.

sussex_guy2k2 · Jun 18, 2018

The Rivet said:
No it wasn't. Football is a contact sport.

Going for a header in the six yard box and the attacker was behind the CB. Said attacker pushed the CB in the back to to ensure he got to the ball first. Contact suggests that it’s a fair tussle. If someone comes up and pushes you in the back in the street, do you think that’s fair?

PILTDOWN MAN · Jun 18, 2018

sussex_guy2k2 said:
Going for a header in the six yard box and the attacker was behind the CB. Said attacker pushed the CB in the back to to ensure he got to the ball first. Contact suggests that it’s a fair tussle. If someone comes up and pushes you in the back in the street, do you think that’s fair?

CB in no mans land. If the hand of reassurance hadn’t been placed on his back he still wouldn’t have got near it. All the attacker did was comfort the CB for he was lost.

Herr Tubthumper · Jun 18, 2018

sussex_guy2k2 said:
Going for a header in the six yard box and the attacker was behind the CB. Said attacker pushed the CB in the back to to ensure he got to the ball first. Contact suggests that it’s a fair tussle. If someone comes up and pushes you in the back in the street, do you think that’s fair?

I think the rules say it’s only a foul if it’s excessive. So the question is whether he used excessive or not. It didn’t look excessive to me.

Harry Wilson's tackle · Jun 18, 2018

Did anyone else notice Mel Gibson on the bench?

Icy Gull · Jun 18, 2018

Given the tussles, shirt pulling and wrestling that goes on in the box in the Premier League, without a penalty being given 90% of the time that shove was minimal. I have seen much more obvious contact than the Ronaldo penalty too.

McTavish · Jun 18, 2018

Herr Tubthumper said:
I think the rules say it’s only a foul if it’s excessive. So the question is whether he used excessive or not. It didn’t look excessive to me.

No, the laws say it is a foul if a player pushes an opponent carelessly (just a free kick); recklessly (free kick and yellow card); or with excessive force (free kick and red card). To me that was a careless push and therefore a foul.

Is it PotG? · Jun 18, 2018

The fact that it, and worse, goes on at EVERY corner and goes unpunished means no foul and get on with it.

Herr Tubthumper · Jun 18, 2018

McTavish said:
No, the laws say it is a foul if a player pushes an opponent carelessly (just a free kick); recklessly (free kick and yellow card); or with excessive force (free kick and red card). To me that was a careless push and therefore a foul.

We will have to agree to disagree I think. I’d be pretty miffed if a game was stopped every time there was contact of a similar nature.

Stat Brother · Jun 18, 2018

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Hotchilidog · Jun 18, 2018

Icy Gull said:
Given the tussles, shirt pulling and wrestling that goes on in the box in the Premier League, without a penalty being given 90% of the time that shove was minimal. I have seen much more obvious contact than the Ronaldo penalty too.

Absolutely this, much worse goes unpunished in the penalty box, never a foul in my book.

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