World Cup General Discussion Thread - 2030 The Jokes On You

Promise you I'm not on the take here, but Qatar aren't a bad side, they played very well when they won the Asian Cup, but their strength is their cohesion, their stars are players who have played a handful of games in middling European leagues, they simply don't have the players to match up with some of the superstars in their opponents' teams

 

Southgate never misses a chance to drone on about his woke political 'values' yet he chooses to spend a month enjoying the hospitality of a regime that, among other things, locks up homos! At the very least I'd expect him to get off his soapbox from now on

 

I remember him having one shocker at Gills, but I thought he started off well at Donny, must have gone south quickly for him to be dumped so quickly

 

Good first half Hattrick.

 

Bayet is rather worryingly agent to 3 of the Qatar back 4.

 

No Shoutbox?

 

A few of them have played in Belgium for Eupen...

 

Not for this Armada Amarilla, no

 

Qatar are like a pub team

 

The BBC commentary is inane. Led superbly monotonously by daytime TV host Dion "what's upstairs" Dublin.

They've not mentioned how **** Qatar have been at all.

 

Are those empty seats or just people dressed in white?

 

Not many women in the crowd

 

Theres a few Qatar ultras dressed in purple.

 

It's men's football not women's?

 

This, social media are showing screenshots of the challenge with the keeper, but they should be showing a screenshot of when the free kick took place (where there was no offside)

 

The thought is that it's from the challenge on the keeper where it came off the Ecuador man's head.

Just goes to show VAR will knock us out and/or ruin the world cup

 

You mean they disallowed it for a foul rather than an offside?

 

As is Pervis

 

No, the offside from the initial header to when the 2nd player made the 2nd header. It's nonsense of course.

It went free kick, header, header, overhead kick, header into goal.

 

Early goal against quatar disallowed by absolutely shocking VAR decision……didn’t see that coming did we. The only surprise was they actually gave the clear cut pen and didn’t disallow the second

 

I've got it now, there were 2 Ecuador players there for the initial challenge. The guy going for the challenge isn't offside due to being on when the FK was taken. The 2nd players knee was offside when the ball was won in the initial challenge which then subsequently meant he was offside. So whilst a complicated call, I think now it's ultimately the right one by the letter of the law.

 

When are they ever made public?