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| 12/09/2022 07:09 PM |
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Wild and wildly entertaining day of soccer.
I feel bad for the fans of the losing teams - what an emotional roller coaster. |
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Orange Crush
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| 12/10/2022 10:58 AM |
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The Atlas Lions live on.
Ronaldo misplaced his Superman cape. Done. |
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Orange Crush
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| 12/10/2022 06:00 PM |
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| France-England may have been worst game of quarterfinals. The French two brilliant moments but otherwise weak or lazy. The English get an A++ for effort but quality wise it’s so average. Hard on the eyes. |
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longslowdistance
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| 12/10/2022 07:46 PM |
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More grist for the mill: Messi correctly said refs in his game stunk (like most of the games, really, FIFA is clueless on this). Messi dodged at least one yellow card because he is Messi., but that was not his gist, and he pressed on to the point if irking the FIFA brass. Yo Messi, FIFA has very thin skin and are loading up a ton of bricks to drop on you. Time to eat some sh*t because history is watching.
This is another example of why the biggest sport on the planet is third tier in the US. Americans have an overdeveloped sense of fair play (varies depending on which American you ask). Not a good fit with international soccer.
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Orange Crush
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| 12/10/2022 08:31 PM |
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Yeah it’s something I don’t understand about Americans that feeling that sports should be fair play. Sports is a mirror of the real world. Fair play has nothing to do with it (as Americans very well know).
Messi didn’t say half what he wanted to say about ref. The ref was actually a perfect parallel forour separate political thread. He failed to lay an early marker, which was the blatant Messi handball. Then the game ran away from him.
Messi was less quiet about the orange. Funny enough in the top 5 of dirtiest games ever (going by number of cards issued which is a debatable metric) the Dutch feature three times and are clear champs. Or maybe we just play a lot of high stakes games. |
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Orange Crush
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| 12/10/2022 08:42 PM |
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| Btw in context of situation in Qatar there was a retrospective in a Dutch paper on 1978 world cup. The game against Argentina was played within shouting distance of their main political torture prison, from which prisoners would be taken by helicopters, stomachs cut open and unceremoniously dumped in the ocean. A truly crazy worlds. |
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Orange Crush
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| 12/13/2022 02:31 PM |
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| Whatever else happened, Messi masterclass on the 3-0. |
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longslowdistance
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| 12/13/2022 02:54 PM |
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Wow, yes!
Nice to see a well refereed game, too. |
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Orange Crush
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| 12/13/2022 03:02 PM |
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| Except that penalty call, which was weak. Not much goalie could do. But overall Croatia was never able to trouble Argentina. Netherlands gave them a much better run for their money. |
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longslowdistance
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| 12/13/2022 08:54 PM |
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Hey OC, you might enjoy this, no tin hat required: https://www.sportbible.com/football/world-cup-argentina-croatia-lionel-messi-rigged-633627-20221213?fbclid=IwAR2aT3GTqj2fqocx95H_681b_QTgBiZCczU3PfqzFalxXGiMpzfZaYkv76o
Germany haters have said the same thing for years (about Germany, before they became mediocre) |
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longslowdistance
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| 12/13/2022 08:57 PM |
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PS FIFA is certifiably brain dead when it comes to WC officials.
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Orange Crush
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| 12/13/2022 09:09 PM |
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Haha those are just the Ronaldo fans that are still chapped their hero misplaced his Superman cape and showed himself to be the GEOAT* that he is.
(greatest ego of all time) |
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longslowdistance
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| 12/13/2022 09:19 PM |
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Hah that's funny! Ronaldo and Trump could have an ego faceoff, money infused by the uberrich Arabs. JMO, Trump would win hands down.
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longslowdistance
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| 12/13/2022 09:22 PM |
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PPS FIFA still has a ref problem, unrelated to that rant.
PPPS agree with your summary of England France. Here's a different angle on the outcome: who matches up better against Morroco? |
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Orange Crush
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| 12/13/2022 09:50 PM |
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France is the better match up. Colony versus colonial master. French police will be out in full force.
Morocco has strong defence that I doubt Englands mundane forwards would be able to penetrate. It’ll come down to Mbappe brilliance to find that hole I think. The Brits had Mbappe tied down pretty good but they lost sight of old man Giroud in the process. |
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