2018 FIFA World Cup Thread

Chris_from_Sidcup said:

ForeverAddickted said:

Chris_from_Sidcup said:

ForeverAddickted said:

Be great if England and Belgium are on six points with the winner of our group facing Colombia in second now

Would be a race to see who can score more own goals in 90mins to avoid that happening

We won't know though as their last game will be after our last game.

Nope their last game is before ours

Group H starts @ 3pm next Thursday we start at 7pm

Oh really, didn't know that. Just assumed that as we're G and they're H, that we'd play first.

Yeah its weird but appears to be across the board i.e. B finished before A; D before C

Some more weird refereeing here

Awful decision costing a team again

cafc_harry said:

Karim_myBagheri said:

Leuth said:

Karim_myBagheri said:

not as bad as the Suarez hand ball who somehow got away with just a yellow against Ghana but probably a red.

uhhhh he got sent off

oh yeah. I think I was more pissed off with the fact they didn't score from the resulting penalty and I wanted Suarez banned for life. not just a red.

For what? Doing everything it takes to win. Gyan’s fault for missing the penalty. Suarez done what any sane, passionate player should do.

I get fed up with diving. i am sure i would of been pretty pissed off had i been alive to witness the hand ball by Maradona which is very similar to this in the fact its acceptable to do it to help his team.

if Suarez hand wasn't there Ghana would of gone through. which is what pisses me off about it. yeah he didn't finish the resulting penalty but its a world cup final and we know how pressure can take its toll.

obviously a ban for life is extreme by me as i know it was a instinctive raise of the hand, but its a reaction to the injustice of the final result of that game. unfortunately I doubt there is any more punishment he could receive in the laws of the game.
the red card for me just doesn't seem enough of a punishment is because the sending off ultimately didn't effect the game as it was in the last minute.
the fact it was Suarez means somehow to some I'm being unfair to him because he gets a raw deal and is an easy target. i would of felt the same if another player had done it. all he's done since is proven that he has even more negative sides to his game.

Ref has just watched Japan take a quick free kick with the ball moving and done nothing. Wow

Japan doing well again here... shouldnt have sat back after scoring in the first else they may still be 1-0 up