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But... why? If it's "close" and you're letting it go because of VAR potential, then why does he even need to raise the flag at the end? hate var, me

What the fuck is the lino doing!? I don't understand. He only raised his flag once the guy scored, rather than about 10 seconds prior when he received the ball.

Absolutely unacceptable only having 2 games today. I have to make it through the entire morning without football? On a Tuesday! What the shit am I supposed to with my life.

why score a goal when you can pass the ball 40 times instead

Be lucky if it made it to the 18 yard box

heh

Thought we did well for the majority of the game. Going into our shell like that with 10-15 minutes left is going to fuck us though. Needs sorting. Should’ve put a few past them. Either way, game one, played well & good result.

At least it was against Russia

How do they always make shit decisions on this stuff. The guy wouldn’t have shit his pants and scuffed around if lukaku wasn’t offside behind him. Stupid.

Might have a bit throw up after watching that like. Harrowing.

We're 30 minutes into the very first game of the tournament marra.

Shit its worse than I imagined. I just moved from my $30 pm Sling plan to add ESPN, and now if I wanna go back it's $35. I guess I was grandfathered.

fuck. Just paid for ESPN. I just paid $15 to hear Taylor Twellman.

@americans ESPN+ is only "MULTI VIEW" mode!? fuck off you cunts. I don't need a 90 minute stream of Roberto Mancini ffs. Twats.

I swear for my entire existence Italy have had an old as fuck starting XI.

Normal ESPN AND ESPN2 stuff isn’t on ESPN+. Are the euros and exception? Cos that’d save me some dime.

Am tickled

shootouts where you dribble from the centre circle is the answer

yo dawg i heard you liked badges so i put your badge in a badge

I don't really have a strong opinion on this matter personally, I think there are pros and cons, but I've most certainly paid little to no attention in the last 10 years However, i will take your word for it. But if this is only an evolution that has become prominent in the last 5-10 years, then surely it could further evolve/regress? I don't think "it hasn't happened recently" is a great argument for a rule that is somewhat nonsensical in nature. I will say that it seems odd to get rid of it without something else changing to mitigate the original problem. Some way of avoiding endless penalty shootouts. Although if this kills off the idiotic phrase "away goals count double", I'm all for it.

Couldn't the opposite argument be made? Home teams are scared to attack because conceding a goal at home is much more punishing than away. And they don't even have to win when away from home. Just steal a goal and "win" 1-1.

Well my two year old just watched you beat your girlfriend at cricket. Big man, 54, big man.

buttttttttt that isn't the case? Most have changed several times over the existence of a club. Including our own.

Probably gonna pass on throwing that one into my Google permanent record