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Football is one of the most conservative sports when it comes to rule changes. Not sure it will ever happen ( real time stoppage during breaks).
 
AKMVP said:
Football is one of the most conservative sports when it comes to rule changes. Not sure it will ever happen ( real time stoppage during breaks).
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agreed.
american football and basketball seem to make pretty big changes quite often but soccer rarely ever does it seems. (i like what they did with the spraypaint line on free kicks though)

i guess when you are that popular worldwide you feel there is no reason to try to improve things.
imo that is a dumb way to do business (i believe you should make adjustments to the game over time to make it better if you can)
 
Brazil looks week in the mid field... Keep giving the ball up... They will easily win the group but it doesn't bold well for them going forward!!
 
AKMVP said:
That's biggest problem in FIFA when it comes to refs. Every World cup some dude from third world country screws some games ( remember last cup when USA got screwed as well) . They try to be politically correct to get refs from all over the world for world cup and no offense but these dudes from countries where football is at very poor level can't be as good as world class refs from Europe. I say screw political correctness and get all the best refs no matter if 99% of them will be from Europe.
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When did we last Consider Japan a 3rd world country??
 
That dive was atrocious.

I know the traditionalists will hate it, but FIFA really should use instant replay in penalty in the box situations. It may be the most critical call in all of sports. I'm not for replay in a lot of cases due to the interruption of the flow of the game, but for that instance (and you can argue maybe the ball crossing the goal line...maybe offsides but I worry that would be too much in terms of the flow).

That being said the Croatian goaltender was just as atrocious. The first and third goals were terribly soft he let in.
 
Zulu said:
When did we last Consider Japan a 3rd world country??
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I know they were part of the Third Reich. 3rd world surprises me as well ;)

Apart from that I felt even though that was a bad call that this might have been the result anyways as Brazil controlled the game in the 2nd half and were dangerous whenever they saw an opening to shift 3 gears up.
 
AKMVP said:
No more games today. At the end of the day Brazil deserved to win despite bogus penalty. Croatia still has good chances on advancing.
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imo there was more than just the bogus penalty.

croatia scored a goal that was taken away on a questionable call (imo, the wrong call) saying the player interferred with the goalie.

and another time croatia was looking to score and the ball hit a croatia player in the face but the ref called a handball.

so take away the BS penalty kick from brazil..... dont take away the scored goal by croatia and now we have a tie game.

then the hand ball call takes away another scoring opportunity for croatia (though its doubtful they would have scored on that play)

whole new ball game if officiated correctly.
home cookin
 
fishonjazz said:
imo there was more than just the bogus penalty.

croatia scored a goal that was taken away on a questionable call (imo, the wrong call) saying the player interferred with the goalie.

and another time croatia was looking to score and the ball hit a croatia player in the face but the ref called a handball.

so take away the BS penalty kick from brazil..... dont take away the scored goal by croatia and now we have a tie game.

then the hand ball call takes away another scoring opportunity for croatia (though its doubtful they would have scored on that play)

whole new ball game if officiated correctly.
home cookin
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The interference where the attacker made the header pass for the trailer was a correct call. You could see from different angles that he was affecting the goalies possibilities to deflect the ball.

The penalty was flopping obvi but Croatia would have been very lucky to defend the draw. They really had problems keeping the ball and get structured offense going. Always hail mary passes and forced fast breaks.
 
World Cup!!! Keep telling myself I'm going to travel to one of these. As far my team I cheer for
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Also cheer for Ireland when they make it, and all the Africa teams.
 
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