Citica8

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Try again

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Offer me up your solutions oh fair play guru.

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VAR is frequently conveniently compromised.

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Miss me with this bullshite. It needs to be tweaked, but it’s not some big conspiracy. Big players and teams get special treatment and the benefit of the doubt in every major sport of every country in the world.

There is logic behind the way it is being done, but it is flawed, just as it was before VAR. They are letting the play develop and playing advantage a lot (too much if you ask me) for the flow of the game. The VAR crew is not interjecting enough when they should be, and doing too much when they shouldn’t, but it’s more about the type of fouls they’re calling, and the off ball fouls they’re not calling. When offsides went to the armpit over being able to see the jersey color past the last defender it got way too complicated.

Bitching about refs from people who have never played or reffed a competitive game and don’t even know the laws is one of my pet peeves.

Bottom line, the 3 on the field should be doing a better job to maintain control of the match without the GoPro and headset, and with more yellow and reds. Communication from the VAR should come to the 4th Official, when it is clear and obvious, or egregious and he should interrupt play only when that occurs. He shouldn’t have 3 CIA agents speaking into his ear during the game.

I was not pulling for him or Argentina.

At 39, after something like 1200 senior level appearances between club and country he earned the right to pick his spots of maximum effort.

His walking is strategic, like a lot of strikers hanging out offsides and checking back in just before the pass, it’s creates a false sense of security for the defenders, there’s a lot nuance to it people don’t understand.

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hey love to gatekeep the sport and in particular their leagues the most of any other country

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Sounds kind of like this board

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Messi isn’t classy at all

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All of the greats have some shite with them, Jordan, Bird, Brady, Tiger. Gretzky is the exception, which is the most Canadian thing ever

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If all of the European countries felt the way then FIFA would have to listen. Pretty sucky World Cup without the Euros.

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The World Cup is arguable the most sought after achievement in all of sports. Getting an entire confederation to forego the tournament, in an effort to prevent a different confederation from attending is not going to happen, and would make it a much worse tournament.

Different confederations and regions play different styles, that's what makes the World Cup so great is seeing them stack up against each other. Argentina and the rest of the Latin American countries all play a similar style, the refs did a terrible job controlling the game throughout the tournament in those games. Brazil Mexico and Paraguay's games all looked similar to Argentina (Colombia being the exception), but because Messi was on the pitch, it was a conspiracy. The ref yesterday did as good of a job controlling the game in the tournament, as I've seen. Holding the officials to that standard and tweaking VAR is how you fix it, not banning or sanctioning countries or confederations.

You would have to ban all of CONMEBOL and at least 1/3 of CONCACAF to get rid of it

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England couldn’t beat Argentina. So naturally they would have done better

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They played 2 years ago in Euro Finals. It was a “better” match by my standards

Styles do matter, but Southgate probably did a better jobs managing subs that Tuchel did.

I remember why I stopped checking in here. Between the trolls, the dumb fricks that think since they played FIFA on a PlayStation 2 they know the laws and strategies of the game, and the ones just saying what they want for their bets to hit, I don’t know how some of yall do it.

He stopped his run, on a 50/50 ball where Cucarella is looking at the ball. Thats not a foul

Enzo Red is 3 games too late