World Cup 2014

[Mariner]

of course they were robbed , Suarez should have been red carded and throw out of the game. They would have had a man advantage until/if Marchisio got red carded and then then they wouldn't have been down a man but even.

Marchisio was sent off about 30 minutes before the biting incident and Uruguay's goal so it wouldn't have been too much of an advantage. It would have been 10 vs 10 and probably extra time had Suarez gone off and who knows what might have happened then.

Amazingly, it seems that the Uruguayans are trying to bluff their way out of it, with their media and players claiming an Anglo-Italian conspiracy! It seems their defence is that Suarez may have done something, but if he did, it wasn't bad and doesn't matter anyway!

Let's hope FIFA don't let them get away with this.

 

[eastmen]

they are lucky it wasn't me , I would have turned around and knocked him out cold.

Oh well Qatar will be the end of fifa anyway and thank god for that

 

[Mariner]

Never underestimate the resilience of FIFA! They've been mired in corruption since Joao Havelange became president back in the 1970s and despite endless revelations of corruption, the organisation continues to roll on in the same manner.

They've got the whole game sown up as it would be all but impossible for a competing body to be set up as a mass resignation by the Football Associations of the major countries would be the only way this could occur. This is very unlikely to happen, to say the least!

Unfortunately, the chances that a less corrupt President could be elected when Blatter finally steps down are pretty slim to say the least. When most of the people doing the voting have their snouts in the trough, there is little chance of a change. It would be like Turkeys voting for Christmas.

I know that the IOC managed to clean themselves up, but I think the amount of money available by corruption to the FIFA delegates is much greater so any change seems unlikely.

John Oliver's skit on FIFA the other week was really funny and well worth watching. Can't remember if it was posted earlier in this thread, or not.

 

[Arwin]

I think the FIFA is like the Catholic Church. Miracles can happy in theory, and in a blue moon they do.

By the way, I wonder how many doping is kept under the rug. I don't trust soccer any more than any other high stakes sport in this regard, but you almost never hear anything about it.

 

[Malo]

Here is a great camera angle of it

Previous videos I watched weren't so telling as that angle. Wow, there's really no misinterpreting that at all. They need to make an example of him.

 

[Mariner]

4 month ban:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/28023882

He'll miss the first 9 games of the Premier League season (if he were to stay at Liverpool). If he gets his desired move to Spain, I wonder if he'll be getting paid for those early months of the season!

 

[Kaotik]

4 months ban on anything football related, including practicing with the team or even watching a game at the stadium

 

[eastmen]

wasn't enough. should have been a year and should have been excluded from the next world cup . This was the third friggen time

 

[Mariner]

No table football, no subbuteo and definitely no FIFA 14!

 

[pascal]

Congratulations USA for surviving the group of death.

 

[Kaotik]

No table football, no subbuteo and definitely no FIFA 14!

Fingers crossed for FIFA 15 to have special Biting-move for Suarez. Using it would instantly ban you from Origin and uninstall the game.

 

[Lightman]

Fingers crossed for FIFA 15 to have special Biting-move for Suarez. Using it would instantly ban you from Origin and uninstall the game.

LOL!

But to be honest I do understand Suarez a bit, I too like Italian cuisine

 

[itsmydamnation]

Congratulations USA for surviving the group of death.

if thats the group of death what is group B? the group of intense over the top death?

 

[green.pixel]

Robben flop award of the year.

This is why there needs to be a challenge similar to the NFL. The referee didn't fall for it for the first time though.

The human aspect and the fallibility of referees is just part of the game and, overall, good and bad decisions tend to even themselves out throughout the course of a season and the best team always wins. In Cup competitions, there may be some small injustices here and there, but that is also just part of the game and, invariably, the best team still wins.

Remember Italy in 2002?

 

[BRiT]

Yes and no. Perhaps that last one was a mix of a flop, but there was absolute physical contact on the third time. The same for the first and second times too. How many times does the Mexican defense get lucky with non-calls inside the box? If they were worth their own, they never would have let the other team into the box. This is all of Mexico's own making.

 

[Pixel]

Maybe this last call was fine, but in general they need to have quick videotape reviews when calling potentially monumental penalties inside the penalty box which can easily change the course of the game. There is going to be alot of temptation for many of players to fake a foul.

 

[DuckThor Evil]

The last call was marginal or even easy, but the referee definitely should have given one earlier. Great entrance by Huntelaar, I hope he gets to start the next game. Amazing work rate by Kuyt, the dude was everywhere.

 

[Mariner]

Maybe this last call was fine, but in general they need to have quick videotape reviews when calling potentially monumental penalties inside the penalty box which can easily change the course of the game. There is going to be alot of temptation for many of players to fake a foul.

The game has managed to do quite well for 150-odd years without video replays so I certainly don't think we need them now.

Robben has dived a lot less than usual in this tournament (probably because he's been in such good form), but I don't doubt that his reputation led to the earlier penalty shouts being denied though the one in the first half was very clear.

I agree with BRiT that Mexico's demise earlier was in part down to their own lack of adventure. The Dutch didn't start playing until they fell behind and trying to hold on to a narrow lead as the Mexicans tried will invariably be a risky proposition against talented oppostion.

As regards green.pixel's comments about Italy in 2002, they certainly had some decisions go against them, but I recall that much of the reason they were eliminated was because Vieri and others kept missing open goals!

 

[zed]

The game has managed to do quite well for 150-odd years without video replays so I certainly don't think we need them now.

follows it a list of incorrect referee decisions over the years
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OK that was just the football world cup games

Today we had robben diving 3 times, I wonder what the ref is gonna be blamed for in the costa rica vs greece game

 

[Lightman]

The game has managed to do quite well for 150-odd years without video replays so I certainly don't think we need them now.

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The games were never so commercial for the past 150 years meaning nowadays cheating to win is much more tempting due to financial reasons where in old days it was more about other values ...