Kaizero

Ref fucked up. VAR doesn’t make decisions. Pogba was offside for the first goal and the VAR people didn't even tell the ref to look at it It was an own goal, there was no offside to look at. Pogba is interfering with play he should have been given offside, or at least VAR should have looked at it No. Except, yes. Pogba's clearly interfering. Not involved with Mandzukic. Apart from jumping with him and leaning into his back: That happens after Mandzukic has hit the ball. Watching the replay, then yes, after the fact he’s «involved». It’s after Mandzukic has done the deed, however.

Ref fucked up. VAR doesn’t make decisions. Pogba was offside for the first goal and the VAR people didn't even tell the ref to look at it It was an own goal, there was no offside to look at. Pogba is interfering with play he should have been given offside, or at least VAR should have looked at it No. Except, yes. Pogba's clearly interfering. Not involved with Mandzukic.

Half of me want Croatia to win because they’re undersogs, but the other half of me want to see the whinging Croatian fucks cry themselves to death.

Ref fucked up. VAR doesn’t make decisions. Pogba was offside for the first goal and the VAR people didn't even tell the ref to look at it It was an own goal, there was no offside to look at. Pogba is interfering with play he should have been given offside, or at least VAR should have looked at it No.

Ref fucked up. VAR doesn’t make decisions. Pogba was offside for the first goal and the VAR people didn't even tell the ref to look at it It was an own goal, there was no offside to look at.

No issue with the call myself. Seen those both given and not given, all up to the individual refs opinion on the matter tbh. Not really how it should be, especially with VAR now introduced, is it? A penalty is such a hard punishment in a game of football; a referee should be damn sure before giving it. They way he came back for another look suggests he was anything but. I’d argue nobody outside of a few Frenchies would have given FIFA or the ref any grief if he said ball to hand. Now though... A world cup win forever tainted. If he gave the pen without consulting VAR it’d still be a weak pen. VAR has nothing to do with this, all ref. If anything, VAR should have made the ref not give it as it was fairly weak.

Hasn’t it already been used for a year in Germany and Italy? I'm ludicrously out of touch with football, so it could well have been, aye. Did a quick google, the Australian league, Bundesliga and Serie A have used it for a season already. MLS to begin next year, La Liga as well.

Hasn’t it already been used for a year in Germany and Italy?

No issue with the call myself. Seen those both given and not given, all up to the individual refs opinion on the matter tbh.

It was an own goal. There’s no offside.

Ref fucked up. VAR doesn’t make decisions.

Currently raping the Norwegian league, and he’s only 17. Hard to say if he’d be able to step up to anywhere near PL level quickly though, but he’s massive and yet has great manouverability. In the press here it’s said he’ll only go to a place he gets to play as he doesn’t want to «do an Ødegaard».

No slaves being killed there though.

Y'all had a song! We've got one for you too. It's called Get on the Viagra Uncle Sam , cos you've never seen a Semi. Saw one in the thirties. If that seems like a while ago, remember it was still more recent than Newcastle winning the league. The previous only fact I knew about the 1930 World Cup is that one of the players in the final only had one arm. It's football, not handball you know

Loved Jotenko. Bit OTT at times, but when he was on point, he was on point

It's up there with "Down with this sort of thing" IMO

Not saying you do tbf, just that's been my experience with a lot of people who get pissed off with the whole thing. Three of my friends were beyond happy because "It's not coming home". Super pissed at the perceived English arrogance. Tried to explain the concept of jokes and banter to them, but deaf ears.

The audacity of someone who supports a team who hasn't made a World Cup semi since all the way back in 2014 to post this

Nah. I've been saying that about Croatia all WC. So this time I'm saying Croatia will be clear favourites. Fuck Croatia.

Eh Did you type this up in anticipation of a loss and just posted it anyway? Feel like literally everyone is being complimentary and humble

Your team is really young. If you can keep these players together and they don't get fucked over by their clubs, I'd think you'd be pre-tournament favourites for the next EC and WC. Not to mention the group of youngsters coming through. Time will tell though, no guarantee this group of lads will remain intact and not have their careers nosedive due to their clubs being shithouses when it comes to caring for players actually getting to play - and these players being paid too much to care if they get benched for some Johnny Foreign. No way. This was the chance. This generation is nowhere near as good as previous ones and had the best possible route to get themselves to a World Cup final. With that said, this World Cup has shown anything can happen in a one-month tournament. I'm not disputing that, but England had the second lowest average age in their squad at this WC. It's natural to assume that in two years, this group will be much better, same goes for in the next four years. They weren't anywhere near favourites this time due to the reason you mentioned, but the same reason is also why they could be for the next few tournaments.

I had no idea what was going on after Trippier went out. I mean, throw Maguire forward and just keep blasting the ball at him and Kane. You're not playing on the ground through 11 Croats defending far, far back with only 9 players.

Your team is really young. If you can keep these players together and they don't get fucked over by their clubs, I'd think you'd be pre-tournament favourites for the next EC and WC. Not to mention the group of youngsters coming through. Time will tell though, no guarantee this group of lads will remain intact and not have their careers nosedive due to their clubs being shithouses when it comes to caring for players actually getting to play - and these players being paid too much to care if they get benched for some Johnny Foreign.