**** 2018 WORLD CUP THREAD ***

Disgust wrote:

quehoares wrote:

Pretty much all the French starters were born in France. What’s the problem?

The problem is that they're not French. Youre not going to magically change your dna by being born in a different country. It doesnt matter if a Ivory Coastian has been there 10 generations. When Im watching the Russians im watching Russians, when im watching the Japanese, im watching the Japanese, when im watching the French im watching the Ivory Coastians, Senegalese, and Ghanians.

When you're watching the French you're seeing French. Sorry that they are black but you don't get more French than being born in France.

And north america was created by native americans and other aborigines, that's the damn american! So what in the hell is your point? Take you prejudice crap somewhere else, and go get informed.

I think senagal was robbed by the referees. Now I was pulling for Columbia and have too. I feel that they called more against Senegal for being black. I know Columbia has a few black players but Columbia was fouling the whole game. Sometimes Senegal got yellow cards for what should have been a non call. Just saying without being a homer.

2:18 wrote:

I think senagal was robbed by the referees. Now I was pulling for Columbia and have too. I feel that they called more against Senegal for being black. I know Columbia has a few black players but Columbia was fouling the whole game. Sometimes Senegal got yellow cards for what should have been a non call. Just saying without being a homer.

For the last time, it's Colombia not Columbia!!

El Keniano wrote:

Not a single African team made it out of the group stages for the first time since 1986. Tragic, but not unexpected.

No EPO in football?

Or maybe they should stop colonizing European countries.

dfdf wrote:

El Keniano wrote:

Not a single African team made it out of the group stages for the first time since 1986. Tragic, but not unexpected.

No EPO in football?

Or maybe they should stop colonizing European countries.

Immigration is not colonization. In other news, those black Colombians and Brazilians are not a conquering army either.

FWIW - I think Brazil will win this year. They haven't looked as bad as people are trying to claim.

Great article on the tiebreaker. I happen to really like it. Beats the hell out of a coin flip.

Guess I need to put a spellcheck on my spellcheck

2:18 wrote:

I think senagal was robbed by the referees. Now I was pulling for Columbia and have too. I feel that they called more against Senegal for being black. I know Columbia has a few black players but Columbia was fouling the whole game. Sometimes Senegal got yellow cards for what should have been a non call. Just saying without being a homer.

"Senegal was robbed by the referees" Uh.....did you watch their first game?

theJeff wrote:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.yahoo.com/amphtml/sports/group-h-drama-sees-colombia-senegal-eliminated-obscure-tiebreaker-155503731.html

Great article on the tiebreaker. I happen to really like it. Beats the hell out of a coin flip.

Obscure tiebreaker??? Whoever titled that article clearly does not watch much soccer. Sure, its the first time being used in the world cup, but Fair Play is heavily used in club competition, most notably by UEFA in the Champions League.

LOL ! No !

Nope wrote:

2:18 wrote:

I think senagal was robbed by the referees. Now I was pulling for Columbia and have too. I feel that they called more against Senegal for being black. I know Columbia has a few black players but Columbia was fouling the whole game. Sometimes Senegal got yellow cards for what should have been a non call. Just saying without being a homer.

"Senegal was robbed by the referees" Uh.....did you watch their first game?

I did, if your alluding about their second goal about Poland, it was perfectly available, as the ref waved the player on while the ball was in their own half.

Yahoo Sports? wrote:

Obscure tiebreaker??? Whoever titled that article clearly does not watch much soccer. Sure, its the first time being used in the world cup, but Fair Play is heavily used in club competition, most notably by UEFA in the Champions League.

Not in that way, when was the last time a team was eliminated on fair play tiebreaker in the UCL ??

dfdf wrote:

No EPO in football?

Or maybe they should stop colonizing European countries.

Football is rife with EPO use, from the systemic use of the Juventus of 1990s (ask D Deschamps, the french coach, about his bizarre hematocrit reading back in the day) to the Barça team of recent memory.

Nowadays they are using it through TUE :

When Neymar Jr arrived in Barcelona, the team doctor found that he was "anemic", which caused the ire of the Brazilian medical staff . Of course, anemia, in Spain, can be legally treated with rEPO.

Yes I did. I didn't think that was fair either. I guess karma put the right teams in the next round.

Disgust wrote:

quehoares wrote:

Pretty much all the French starters were born in France. What’s the problem?

The problem is that they're not French. Youre not going to magically change your dna by being born in a different country. It doesnt matter if a Ivory Coastian has been there 10 generations. When Im watching the Russians im watching Russians, when im watching the Japanese, im watching the Japanese, when im watching the French im watching the Ivory Coastians, Senegalese, and Ghanians.

'Ivoriens' en français. 'Ivorians' in English.

dfdf wrote:

El Keniano wrote:

Not a single African team made it out of the group stages for the first time since 1986. Tragic, but not unexpected.

No EPO in football?

Or maybe they should stop colonizing European countries.

LOL. All, yes, ALL, footballers in the top leagues are on something, usually a cocktail of enhancers administered by their teams, or with the team's knowledge. Messi, for example, started his HGH regimen, under Barcelona when he was 13. The physical specimen that is Ronaldo is anything but natural. But carry on embarrassing yourself.

Ben L Wrong wrote:

NativeSon wrote:

To be honest, I have no idea.

I am an avid Argentina fan but the team has a crazy coach.

How you bench Dybala in every match beggars belief. I thought Argentina would somehow squeak through but not with this fellow.

This world cup is crazy.

Jorge Sampaoli is not making the decisions. Messi and Mascherano are the real coaches. And Im not joking. Read the news.

I wasn't aware that Messi and Mascherano make the decisions (or are currently making them).

What beats me is why thi sguy calls up Dybala and Giovanni Lo Celso and then, almost never plays them. Even Pavon is usually an afterthought. No wonder this team struggles too much.

The fact also that he never called up Inter Milan's Mauro Icardi is stunning.

I think they will go past France but with this guy, nothing much will happen. I hope I am wrong.