RugbyRebels

belgarion wrote:

rowan wrote:It is invariably referred to as the Men's World Cup in the American news reports. Fine, but if they want to be so precise, how about calling it the Men's Soccer World Cup - because there happen to be a few other varieties around

Calling it the soccer world cup. It's the Association Football World Cup. Soccer is just an Americanisation cos they
can't tell the difference between a game that is predominantly played by kicking a ball with your foot so is called football&
one which isplayed by either throwing or carrying a ball yet is still called football. At least other variation of football eg rugby football, Gaelic
football, Aussie rules football have the decency to use the qualifier in the description of their sport & not just call it football

& they should call it the Senior Men's Association Football World Cup - because there are actually junior versions too. Ageists!

belgarion wrote:

rowan wrote:It is invariably referred to as the Men's World Cup in the American news reports. Fine, but if they want to be so precise, how about calling it the Men's Soccer World Cup - because there happen to be a few other varieties around

Calling it the soccer world cup. It's the Association Football World Cup. Soccer is just an Americanisation cos they
can't tell the difference between a game that is predominantly played by kicking a ball with your foot so is called football&
one which isplayed by either throwing or carrying a ball yet is still called football. At least other variation of football eg rugby football, Gaelic
football, Aussie rules football have the decency to use the qualifier in the description of their sport & not just call it football

Oxford University, in the US? The term originates in the UK, in 1863, and was in common usage in the United Kingdom around the time football spread around the world, to differentiate it from the may varieties of football that existed. The Americans have just simply continued to use it like that for similar reasons.

By the way, are you going to give out at the Koreans and Japanese for referring it to soccer as well? There aren't any sports with significant followings that they refer to explicitly as "football" there after all.

Keep the bibbed non-participitants off the pitch during goal celebrations...don't want this ugly fad started by Arg and taken on by Fra to become the norm.

Just been down to the rugby club with my boys to chuck a ball about. The eldest missed a place kick he’d normal slot easily. He went down on his knees with head in hands......we had a very serious chat about not copying footballers.

Suarez

Amazing how a guy who runs around biting people and boasting about how he cheated Ghana out of a semi-final in 2010 goes down squealing like a baby any time somebody so much as brushes by him ...

Galfon wrote:Keep the bibbed non-participitants off the pitch during goal celebrations...don't want this ugly fad started by Arg and taken on by Fra to become the norm.

I see what you mean. Uruguay has them too - like freaking male cheerleaders

This is what VAR will do...
Blatant drag-downs by Russia in last minute.
Home team, so play on

That is nonsense. They might have been wearing white shirts and speaking Russian and the pulling down in the last minute was blatant but there’s absolutely no evidence to prove that Russians hauled them Spaniards to the ground in the Russian penalty area with the game tied and only seconds to go.

What could the Russians possibly stand to gain by hauling the Spaniards down in an election year? If you ask me the Spaniards probably hauled themselves down - in fact they got up on their feet so quickly I doubt they were even hauled down at all!

This is all a western conspiracy to discredit Putin.

SerjeantWildgoose wrote:That is nonsense. They might have been wearing white shirts and speaking Russian and the pulling down in the last minute was blatant but there’s absolutely no evidence to prove that Russians hauled them Spaniards to the ground in the Russian penalty area with the game tied and only seconds to go.

What could the Russians possibly stand to gain by hauling the Spaniards down in an election year? If you ask me the Spaniards probably hauled themselves down - in fact they got up on their feet so quickly I doubt they were even hauled down at all!

This is all a western conspiracy to discredit Putin.

It was worth the poor decision to see the look on Ramos's face

Playing the grand finals of a winter sport built on non-stop lung-bursting endeavour and endless flogging of limb and sinew, in sweltering 30 degree heat, tippy- tappying about in slippers, pained anguish on the act of falling over....I suppose it's getting ready for Oman.

Ye wouldn’t want to be them Colombian lads going home after missing a couple of penalties. The English make Pizza Hut adverts with their gonks that miss; the Colombians tend to shoot theirs.

Scuffing up the penalty spot vigorously
before the opponent takes his kick is a new one - I wonder if he thought no-one saw him with attention diverted to the players squabbling with the ref.?
( England's high-pressure air hose with spring mechanism in '96 at Wembley was much more effective at putting McAllister off..)

Bragging Poms. By the comments I'm reading on the internet right now you'd think England had already won the tournament and the other 7 teams were just incidental.

Out for a late night stroll with the missus lst night, 4 fat blokes were stuffing their faces outside a pizza shop...complete strangers.One looked up and declared
'It's coming home guys, football's coming home! '...and he kept muttering this between mouthfulls until we turned the corner.

Jeremy Corbyn says there'll be a national holiday when England wins the World Cup; like this is a foregone conclusion now that England has squeezed by Colombia on penalties in the round of 16. I believe that's called blatant bandwagoning.

If England win the World Cup , Premier League commentary will be like: "World Cup winner Jordan Henderson wins the tackle" "Eric Dier who won the World Cup passes the ball forward" "Young World cup winner Rashford makes a run behind the defense" Ashley Young who helped England win the World Cup falls down under a challenge from Van Dijk, whose country didn't even make it to Russia...

Fortunately that remains an almighty and somewhat unlikely If

Decent chance of making the final tho, because all the good teams are on the other side of the draw . . .

Gary Neville 'I have a problem with the Goalie..' #23..
Don't think he'll be bothered ...
He tried to save it, he failed and will certainly try harder next time.

rowan wrote:If England win the World Cup , Premier League commentary will be like: "World Cup winner Jordan Henderson wins the tackle" "Eric Dier who won the World Cup passes the ball forward" "Young World cup winner Rashford makes a run behind the defense" Ashley Young who helped England win the World Cup falls down under a challenge from Van Dijk, whose country didn't even make it to Russia...

Fortunately that remains an almighty and somewhat unlikely If

Decent chance of making the final tho, because all the good teams are on the other side of the draw . . .

Is the definition of good teams not defined by progression?

Racist.

Galfon wrote:Piers Morgan talking football on prime-time telly. ffs.

The man is a psychopath and he'd be in prison if it wasn't for him and Beccy Brooks knowing where all the bodies are buried.
Him, Jeremy Kyle and Judge Rinder. Watching ITV in the mornings is a procession of corporate psychopaths.

Watching TV in the morning?

What are ye? Unemployed, pregnant or just pulling a Statutory Sick Pay Stresser?

SerjeantWildgoose wrote:Watching TV in the morning?

What are ye? Unemployed, pregnant or just pulling a Statutory Sick Pay Stresser?

I have been taking a hiatus...not that it's yer fecking business.

They're all psychopaths, they're feeding the Wimmin with the psychopathy. They think it's normal.

Galfon wrote:Gary Neville 'I have a problem with the Goalie..' #23..
Don't think he'll be bothered ...
He tried to save it, he failed and will certainly try harder next time.

I like and am always impressed by both Brothers. Comparing them is daft...so we shouldn't.

A somewhat downbeat end to a tremendously staged tournament with some great open games and surprises.
Forget all the crap about 'excitement' and 'most goals scored', the winners cheated themselves into a lead at a key stage in the game when a decent ref. would have carded the miscreant, and VAR brought about a dubious penalty soon after that would never have happened in normal running.Game over.International pen. takers will be licking their lips at the prospect of burgeoning career goal hauls with this innovation.