Coaches are Screwing up and Refs are ruining the World Cup

[Croyles]

Its football. Ball + Foot = Football.
Glad I cleared that up

No, I live in America we call it soccer. You can call it football. I don't care, i'm going to continue calling it soccer since I hav emy entire life and every person I know offline calls it soccer.:mog:

Oh okay, then do you watch A bunch of pricks running around looking like mattresses or bed covers American Football
Okay joking aside, how the hell did America manage to shorten Association Football to Soccer???? 'soc' makes sense, but what about the rest.

The idea that video refereeing is bad because it wont give the unfair advantage for small teams is just stupid imho. There should be NO DIVING, NO BIASE, JUST PLAIN HONEST FOOTBALL
Better team wins. I really dislike it when a win is thought to have come from an unfair advantage. No pride.

[Cz]

Its football. Ball + Foot = Football.
Glad I cleared that up

No, I live in America we call it soccer. You can call it football. I don't care, i'm going to continue calling it soccer since I hav emy entire life and every person I know offline calls it soccer.:mog:

Oh okay, then do you watch A bunch of pricks running around looking like mattresses or bed covers American Football
Okay joking aside, how the hell did America manage to shorten Association Football to Soccer???? 'soc' makes sense, but what about the rest.

Actually, the Americans didn't shorten the word at all. The English did, back in the 1860's when the rules of the game were first officially set down. The games of rugby and soccer were simply variations on the same rule set at this stage, referred to as Rugby Football (nicknamed Rugger) and Association Football (Soccer).

So yeah, there's no point in blaming the Americans for the name-change. Perhaps you could fault their logic in naming their own sport football when it involved very little use of the feet, but the name soccer is nothing to do with them.

On the subject of video replays, I think that while there might be some argument against their use in all aspects of the game, there is no denying that they must be introduced to settle goal-line disputes, and fast. In the vast majority of cases referees and linesman do little more than guess whether or not a ball crossed the line, and that is simply not the right way of doing things in the biggest team sporting competition in the world. Sadly, it will probably take some huge event, like a World Cup Final being decided on such a decision, to convince FIFA that such measures are required.

[Resha]

[q=Psychotic]Interestingly, I think referees are biased in favour of the big teams in club football, or the home team. The Serie A debacle playing itself out as we speak is a perfect example of this.[/q]Unfortunately I don't follow the European leagues (I assume that's what you mean by "club football") - I guess it's difficult to get news of it out here. I also haven't watched Group A except for the first match, but I assume you're talking about Poland dropping out of the tournament?

Noo, he means the Italian league (Serie A) scandal (assuming you're referring to that?). Something about match-fixing, I think. I didn't understand it all too well, but it surrounds Juventus and it's big news and it's nasty. Moggi. Moggi Moggi.

The Brazilian ref. for the Germany - Sweden game is a Sadist. He smiled really strangely as he handed Lucic his red card.

[Croyles]

It looked like a sort of smile of pity or something like that. Its only on slowmo where it looks evil l0l.

[Bart's Friend Milhouse]

i like to think of it as an "we won't be seeing any more of you today" type of look

[Croyles]

i like to think of it as an "we won't be seeing any more of you today" type of look

Your description beats mine. :rolleyes2