re: Chile vs Brazil-Round of 16

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The way he calls games results in more flopping.

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What? Players flop to trick the ref. The flopping happens first. Then the ref reacts. He let play continue when he thought a player was flopping. He wasn't letting fouls go uncalled in the first half, he was letting flops get called for the most part. He wasn't perfect by any means but he had a mess to deal with because both teams were diving from beginning to end.

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It hit his bicep.

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It looked to me that it hit close to the shoulder but Hulk collected it with the top of his arm (top of bicep). Handball. I only saw a couple angles though.

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I honestly don't see it being a yellow card worthy handball.

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It's a yellow card because it was done with intent of creating a goal-scoring opportunity.

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This started very early in this game my friend. It's not like they started diving after 30 minutes of play or even 20. Within the first 2 minutes there were flops.

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And the duping of the ref got worse when the contact was absolutely minimal. Both of these teams have the proclivity of going down easy, and if Webb set the precedent early that it would take more than simply going down on your knees to call a foul, the game would have had a better flow, especially in the 2nd half, where the Chileans cleverly used this tactic to relieve pressure and win the ball back. Like I said, this is a trait in all of Webb's games. He called an insane amount of fouls. 51. That's unreal. Like I said, because of the way he called fouls at the first sign of implied contact, he destroyed the flow of the game, and became a bigger part of the game than he should have been. And because it was only the implication of contact, players went down immediately, thereby increasing the flopping.

You said he swallowed his whistle and that was bad. Now you're saying he called too much.

Honestly, I'm not even arguing his game calling as much as I'm arguing diving in general. It's a shitty way to play the game, and it makes it much more difficult to call a fair game.

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You said he swallowed his whistle and that was bad. Now you're saying he called too much.

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I said he swallowed the whistle at the beginning of a game, which is a particular trait of Webb's, and then started calling fouls tightly as the game went on as players tried to get away with more and more. Then in the 2nd half he called fouls at the implication of contact, which disrupted the flow of the game, which made players know that they're simulation would result in a foul being called on the opposite team. Don't you see how calling contact so narrowly increases the flopping? If a player knows he will get the foul if there is even the implication of contact, he has a massive incentive to go down, especially when players feel that the opposite precedent is set at the beginning.

I don't know any soccer fan who likes diving, but the way Webb called the game actually increased it, and also destroyed the flow of the game in the second half. The fact we are even talking about Webb this game means he didn't do a stellar job. The ref should be a non-factor in games, but by initially swallowing the whistle, and then deciding to suddenly start calling fouls after the 15th minute is a horrible way of officiating. And Webb does this pretty often. If he called the game tight from the beginning, let them play through some challenges, the game would have been much better, and players know they would have a hard time duping the ref.

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The diving was consistent throughout. It cannot be blamed on Webb.

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But the way he handled it can definitely be blamed on him. Like I said, the diving increased because players had incentive to go down since they know they would get the foul. That's not a good way of curbing flopping. Players won't be as likely to go down if they know they aren't going to get the foul.

He should've given Hulk a yellow card for all the flopping, which would've gotten him a red for the handball lol. But Hulk was probably the worst today. And it was the entire game.

The diving didn't increase. It was done throughout.

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Players won't be as likely to go down if they know they aren't going to get the foul.

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Obviously not if he swallowed his whistle at first and they KEPT DIVING which put him in a bad situation. He made a few wrong calls sure, but I think he did pretty damn good with good calls and some no calls.

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Obviously not if he swallowed his whistle at first and they KEPT DIVING which put him in a bad situation.

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He put himself in that bad situation by swallowing the whistle in the beginning. He could have set a precedent but he didn't. Again 51 fouls is practically unheard of.

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I thought Webb did a phenomenal job.

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He's been excellent the entire tournament.

Never been a big fan of how he calls games, but I've seen nothing major to complain about in this tournament.