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khazim
No World Cup thread?
June 25, 2014 at 05:39PM View BBCode
I figured this would have been made long before now.
paulcaraccio
June 25, 2014 at 06:55PM View BBCode
there's one on the Latest News board...it's primarily concerned with a bracket challenge Tyson created, but it's perfectly fine to chime in with thoughts on Suarez's teeth, or how the U.S. is probably getting sent home tomorrow...I don't know much about soccer, but from what I've seen in the first two games, Ghana is gonna smash Portugal, so we have to get a tie against Germany somehow.
dirtdevil
certainly suarez deserves a long suspension, but that's a sideshow.
[Edited on 6-25-2014 by dirtdevil]
June 25, 2014 at 07:25PM View BBCode
here's all you need to know about soccer- people are more upset about a guy biting someone than they are about an stunningly egregious penalty call that sent the wrong team through to the round of 16.certainly suarez deserves a long suspension, but that's a sideshow.
[Edited on 6-25-2014 by dirtdevil]
paulcaraccio
June 25, 2014 at 07:49PM View BBCode
bad calls are a part of sports...biting people isn't.
dirtdevil
June 25, 2014 at 08:47PM View BBCode
sure. but one has a greater effect on the competition and is more easily controllable and correctable. yet the focus is on the other thing, which is neither correctable nor controllable. people are always going to be dumb.
paulcaraccio
I think Suarez is correctable...next guy he bites should knock his damn teeth out.
June 25, 2014 at 11:25PM View BBCode
are you talking about Greece-Ivory Coast? i just watched it and read about it and that can't be it...I think Suarez is correctable...next guy he bites should knock his damn teeth out.
dirtdevil
I am. but if you think that can't be it then you probably haven't seen the right clip.
June 25, 2014 at 11:53PM View BBCode
Originally posted by paulcaraccio
are you talking about Greece-Ivory Coast? i just watched it and read about it and that can't be it...
I am. but if you think that can't be it then you probably haven't seen the right clip.
paulcaraccio
June 26, 2014 at 12:00AM View BBCode
He clips the guy's leg as he's attempting to shoot, causing him to trip and fall, and obviously not get the shot off. none of the written reports I can find say that it was the wrong call. One said it was "soft" and one said it was "weak", but still a foul, and certainly far from stunningly egregious. Most reports didn't judge the call in any way. And all the articles say that Greece was the better team, so it doesn't seem like the wrong team advanced.
tworoosters
It seemed a questionable penalty ? Samaras appeared to kick Giovanni Sio rather than the other way round before going to ground
That is the root of the issue, still it wasn't the worst call of the tourney and Greece were, by my view, the better team on that day. It's just kind of sad to see this generation of Cote D'Ivoire players fail, again, at this stage.
June 26, 2014 at 12:21AM View BBCode
From The Telegraph:It seemed a questionable penalty ? Samaras appeared to kick Giovanni Sio rather than the other way round before going to ground
That is the root of the issue, still it wasn't the worst call of the tourney and Greece were, by my view, the better team on that day. It's just kind of sad to see this generation of Cote D'Ivoire players fail, again, at this stage.
dirtdevil
Every report I've seen (that wasn't Greek) shares my view. I mean the guy tripped over his own feet, hopefully intentionally. The Greeks did carry more of the play but the wrong team went through because had the correct (non)call been made, the Greeks would not have scored and Ivory Coast would have gone through.
June 26, 2014 at 12:30AM View BBCode
Originally posted by paulcaraccio
He clips the guy's leg as he's attempting to shoot, causing him to trip and fall, and obviously not get the shot off. none of the written reports I can find say that it was the wrong call. One said it was "soft" and one said it was "weak", but still a foul, and certainly far from stunningly egregious. Most reports didn't judge the call in any way. And all the articles say that Greece was the better team, so it doesn't seem like the wrong team advanced.
Every report I've seen (that wasn't Greek) shares my view. I mean the guy tripped over his own feet, hopefully intentionally. The Greeks did carry more of the play but the wrong team went through because had the correct (non)call been made, the Greeks would not have scored and Ivory Coast would have gone through.
dirtdevil
It wasn't. But are we talking about the poor quality of the officiating in the greatest tournament in the world? No. We're talking about some yahoo who left a few teeth marks on somebody's shoulder. Sensationalism trumps substance yet again.
June 26, 2014 at 12:35AM View BBCode
Originally posted by tworoosters
still it wasn't the worst call of the tourney
It wasn't. But are we talking about the poor quality of the officiating in the greatest tournament in the world? No. We're talking about some yahoo who left a few teeth marks on somebody's shoulder. Sensationalism trumps substance yet again.
Hamilton2
June 26, 2014 at 01:00AM View BBCode
It IS the THIRD time that the biting thing has happened. Rather than the millionth poor officiating has impacted results.
paulcaraccio
June 26, 2014 at 06:34PM View BBCode
he only trips over his own feet because his leg first catches the defender's on the swing through. is it not a foul to obstruct a shot attempt in such a way, without playing the ball? i really don't know...but in any case, at least here, we're talking about that instead of the bite, ha.
dirtdevil
It IS the THIRD time that the biting thing has happened. Rather than the millionth poor officiating has impacted results. [/quote]
yes. my argument is that the millionth is worse.
June 26, 2014 at 06:37PM View formatted
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[quote][i]Originally posted by Hamilton2[/i]
It IS the THIRD time that the biting thing has happened. Rather than the millionth poor officiating has impacted results. [/quote]
yes. my argument is that the millionth is worse.
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