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The three-man defence has been highly successful so far. A three-man defence has played a four-man defence (at least from the start) on ten occasions. These matches have produced eight victories for the three-man defence, and two draws. A back four is yet to beat a back three. There have been two meetings between three-man defences, Uruguay 1-0 Italy and Netherlands 2-0 Chile.

 

Thought this was interesting. It's definitely back in fashion.

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The three-man defence has been highly successful so far. A three-man defence has played a four-man defence (at least from the start) on ten occasions. These matches have produced eight victories for the three-man defence, and two draws. A back four is yet to beat a back three. There have been two meetings between three-man defences, Uruguay 1-0 Italy and Netherlands 2-0 Chile.

 

Thought this was interesting. It's definitely back in fashion.

certainly seen an increase in usage in last few years I've noticed, I half wonder if its because tbh these days you'd be hard pressed to name many defenders who are of the same level of quality of the past so 3 of them to compensate. Wonder how many sides will adopt it after the world cup.

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Tabarez all but saying that the english media made FIFA ban Suarez for so long the self same english media that FIFA despises for asking awkward questions about how corrupt the organisation is. Didn't seem to admit that Suarez was actually in the wrong either judging by journos on twitter.

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The three-man defence has been highly successful so far. A three-man defence has played a four-man defence (at least from the start) on ten occasions. These matches have produced eight victories for the three-man defence, and two draws. A back four is yet to beat a back three. There have been two meetings between three-man defences, Uruguay 1-0 Italy and Netherlands 2-0 Chile.

 

Thought this was interesting. It's definitely back in fashion.

certainly seen an increase in usage in last few years I've noticed, I half wonder if its because tbh these days you'd be hard pressed to name many defenders who are of the same level of quality of the past so 3 of them to compensate. Wonder how many sides will adopt it after the world cup.

 

I think it makes sense since there are hardly any wingers or traditional centre forwards any more. Fullbacks are kind of weird. Weirder still that we play with 4 or 5, but that's another story.

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3 at the back can be great with certain type of players, but it all needs to fit seamlessly as Juve found out in CL it has some major weaknesses against teams with lots of width.

 

Can't really see it catching on the PL at least unless teams plan to build around a 3 man defense.

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Can't muster any sympathy at all for the "But Miss, other boys..." angle at all. It's exactly the kind of punishment to be expected for biting someone, for the third time, in the middle of FIFA's flagship competition, with aggravating factors like zero remorse and trying to deceive the referee through feigning he was the victim.

 

Not excessive, doesn't demonstrate any outrageous inconsistency, completely deserved, entirely his own fault. Malicious, calculated, devious, cowardly. Just like the person behind it.

 

Increase it for the frivolous appeal, the sport is better off without him.

 

Nail on head!

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I'm starting to think that all of Uruguay may need therapy.

 

How's this all going down in Liverpool? They usually love a good Suarez defence.

 

 

It's hard to tell, they keep locking threads about it on RAWK. The general tactic seems to be to avoid all discussion of the indecent and instead focus on players who stamped or headbutted someone ten years ago. Or quickly skip over 'yes he shouldn't have done it but...' before characterising any criticism or punishment of Suarez as wild eyed witchhunt implying he's worse than paedohilter.

 

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1994 Official Fifa Film was on BBC Two this morning.

 

My first World Cup man.

 

http://i2.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/facebook/000/210/519/tumblr_lvhuuq55N71qhoyau.jpg

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Can't muster any sympathy at all for the "But Miss, other boys..." angle at all. It's exactly the kind of punishment to be expected for biting someone, for the third time, in the middle of FIFA's flagship competition, with aggravating factors like zero remorse and trying to deceive the referee through feigning he was the victim.

 

Not excessive, doesn't demonstrate any outrageous inconsistency, completely deserved, entirely his own fault. Malicious, calculated, devious, cowardly. Just like the person behind it.

 

Increase it for the frivolous appeal, the sport is better off without him.

 

:clap:

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Uruguay boss Oscar Tabarez has accused FIFA of making Luis Suarez a "scapegoat" and resigned from his role within football's governing body in protest over the striker's punishment.

 

Suarez was banned on Thursday for nine international matches and suspended from any involvement in football for four months after biting an opponent in Uruguay's 1-0 World Cup Group D win over Italy.

 

The Liverpool striker flew back home to Montevideo in disgrace after his FIFA accreditation was withdrawn, prohibited from remaining with his team-mates in Brazil.

 

But on the eve of Uruguay's last-16 clash with Colombia, Tabarez insisted Suarez was the victim of a witch-hunt and said his position on FIFA's Technical Study Group - an expert panel which analyses international matches - was now untenable.

 

"It is not wise or prudent to be in an organisation with people, those who exerted pressure to promote this decision and those who rendered the punishment, who managed procedures and values very different to those I have," Tabarez told reporters at his pre-match press conference.

 

"Therefore, in the coming days, I will file my resignation to that position formally."

 

Tabarez refused to take questions on Suarez, instead reading a lengthy statement in which he blasted the forward's ban as "excessively severe," accused FIFA of pandering to English-speaking media and pledged unwavering support to the 27-year-old.

 

"We saw the (images of the bite) afterwards and saw that there was a certain possibility of punishing the participants in that action: both (Giorgio) Chiellini and Suarez," Tabarez said. "I don't deny that we were waiting a punishment. But we never imagined the severity of the punishment meted out.

 

"Before and after the Suarez-Chiellini episode, we have seen things measured with a completely different meter.

 

"(This decision) is much more focused on the opinions of the media - the media that attacked immediately after the conclusion of the match. At the press conference, the only topic journalists spoke about was that one. I don't know what their nationality was but they all spoke English.

 

"As a coach and as a professor - I have also been a teacher in my life - I am presented with the theory of the scapegoat. We agree with the basis of (the punishment), obviously, but there is a danger in proceeding this way. Many times, you tend to forget the scapegoat is a person that has rights.

 

"With this decision, who wins or who won? Who loses? Who was benefited? Who is harmed? Who ended up getting things their way?"

 

Tabarez ended his monologue with a message for Suarez, before departing the Maracana auditorium to a standing ovation from several Uruguayan journalists.

 

He added: "To conclude, to Luis Suarez, to Luis Suarez the person, who has lived with us and worked with us, someone we know better than anyone else, he will never be alone."

 

Suarez returned to a hero's welcome from hundreds of fans at Montevideo airport, from where he was whisked to his mother's home in the southern province of Canelones.

 

The Uruguayan FA has confirmed its intention to appeal sanctions against Suarez but the striker stands to be suspended until the end of October.

Stay classy Uruguay :clap:

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Uruguay boss Oscar Tabarez has accused FIFA of making Luis Suarez a "scapegoat" and resigned from his role within football's governing body in protest over the striker's punishment.

 

Suarez was banned on Thursday for nine international matches and suspended from any involvement in football for four months after biting an opponent in Uruguay's 1-0 World Cup Group D win over Italy.

 

The Liverpool striker flew back home to Montevideo in disgrace after his FIFA accreditation was withdrawn, prohibited from remaining with his team-mates in Brazil.

 

But on the eve of Uruguay's last-16 clash with Colombia, Tabarez insisted Suarez was the victim of a witch-hunt and said his position on FIFA's Technical Study Group - an expert panel which analyses international matches - was now untenable.

 

"It is not wise or prudent to be in an organisation with people, those who exerted pressure to promote this decision and those who rendered the punishment, who managed procedures and values very different to those I have," Tabarez told reporters at his pre-match press conference.

 

"Therefore, in the coming days, I will file my resignation to that position formally."

 

Tabarez refused to take questions on Suarez, instead reading a lengthy statement in which he blasted the forward's ban as "excessively severe," accused FIFA of pandering to English-speaking media and pledged unwavering support to the 27-year-old.

 

"We saw the (images of the bite) afterwards and saw that there was a certain possibility of punishing the participants in that action: both (Giorgio) Chiellini and Suarez," Tabarez said. I don't deny that we were waiting a punishment. But we never imagined the severity of the punishment meted out.

 

Stay classy Uruguay :clap:

 

Which is exactly why, of course, the whole squad were proclaiming his innocence, saying the pictures were misleading etc in the build-up to the hearing... More faces than a pack of dice these fuckers!!

 

Between this and the Dummett death threats thing, and the way all the media, public in the country seems to blindly swallow everything their paranoid FA says as gospel, I do wonder what sort of country Uruguay must be to live in.

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Absolutely buzzing for the upcoming games. 2am and 6am though. :anguish:

 

Enjoy. It's what we in this part of the world had to put up with for every WC (or miss games in 2002).

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1994 Official Fifa Film was on BBC Two this morning.

 

My first World Cup man.

 

http://i2.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/facebook/000/210/519/tumblr_lvhuuq55N71qhoyau.jpg

 

Just watching this now, class.

 

LETCHKOV!!!!!

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