Labadal Posted June 12, 2014 Posted June 12, 2014 First game startingg soon. Prepared drinks and snacks. Go, Croatia, go!
Keyrock Posted June 12, 2014 Posted June 12, 2014 (edited) Absolutely absurd penalty and penalty kick assigned by the referee. Unbelievably bull**** call that will likely win the game for Brazil. Edit: And the referee ****s Croatia over again. I'n not surprised to see crooked refereeing in the World Cup, that's standard practice. I just didn't expect to see it this early in the tourney. Edited June 12, 2014 by Keyrock 1 RFK Jr 2024 "Any organization created out of fear must create fear to survive." - Bill Hicks
HoonDing Posted June 12, 2014 Posted June 12, 2014 This Brazil doesn't amount to much. The ending of the words is ALMSIVI.
Zoraptor Posted June 12, 2014 Posted June 12, 2014 I only skimmed the match but every time I did it seemed some Croat was getting booked for something that looked pretty innocuous. Well, in that case... Ah yes, time for my quadrennial view of perhaps the only tournament x team y song I can actually stomach. 1
HoonDing Posted June 12, 2014 Posted June 12, 2014 Both goalkeepers were hilariously bad. The ending of the words is ALMSIVI.
JadedWolf Posted June 12, 2014 Posted June 12, 2014 Even our national team could have had this Brazil, shockingly bad. The only thing that saved them tonight was the referee's helping hand. Nothing lost for Croatia though, I am sure they can handle Mexico and Cameroon. They showed their quality tonight, but they have to keep going when they are ahead, because as tonight shows one goal difference is never enough to rest on your laurels. Never attribute to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence.
GhostofAnakin Posted June 12, 2014 Posted June 12, 2014 Why do the refs consistently fall for these blatant dives? It reminds me of my days watching WWF (WWE) wrestling, when the referees would miss glaringly obvious dirty tricks by the "heel" wrestlers, while every fan in the audience is yelling "he's cheating!". 1 "Console exclusive is such a harsh word." - Darque"Console exclusive is two words Darque." - Nartwak (in response to Darque's observation)
Volourn Posted June 12, 2014 Posted June 12, 2014 But, at least the WWF refs are acting like dummies not actual dummies. L0L DWARVES IN PROJECT ETERNITY = VOLOURN HAS PLEDGED $250.
Zoraptor Posted June 12, 2014 Posted June 12, 2014 It's more likely it is the sort of 'soft bias' you frequently get in many sports when it looks like a favoured, home team may lose and then every decision seems to go in their favour, that happens a lot and is probably subconscious rather than deliberate. Croatia winning would have been massively deflating (for Brazil that is, I imagine most neutrals were cheering the red and whites) for a tournament that is and has been... not without controversy, domestically. But outright corruption can hardly be ruled out given the state of football and the festering canker at its top. I still remember the horrible clusterasterisk of the 2006 venue award where our delegate ignored instructions and gave Germany rather than RSA the cup that time- and how basically nothing changed except a quickly abandoned host rotation policy- let alone the still unwinding mess of the Qatar bid's success for 2022 and the Blatter patronage system kicking in for yet another term. It's actually kind of ironic that the Russian bid for 2018 has seemingly missed out on the controversy so far given all the Sochi stuff was only a few months ago and it really says something about how crap the rest of the stuff has been. 2
Keyrock Posted June 13, 2014 Posted June 13, 2014 I'd like to give the ref the benefit of the doubt, but the foul call that gave Brazil the penalty kick which resulted in the winning goal was so egregiously bad that it's hard for me to put it off as human error. It wasn't even a case of a guy taking a dive and the ref falling for it, there was literally nothing during that play that even remotely resembled a rough, poorly drawn caricature of a foul. This wasn't a case of the ref giving a 50/50, or even a 70/30 play to Brazil, this was a case of the ref conjuring a foul out of thin air. RFK Jr 2024 "Any organization created out of fear must create fear to survive." - Bill Hicks
Hildegard Posted June 13, 2014 Posted June 13, 2014 As some of you know, I'm Croatian. I wouldn't be pissed as nearly as much if Brazil scored 9 clean goals like I'm at the current moment. The Japanese referee, and FIFA in general, will root for Brasil and I don't doubt we will see more of this in favor of the home team because Brasil must by all means necessary advance further. Frikin disgrace if you ask me. Frikin shame that the turning point of this game was a blunt mistake. Feel so sorry for our players. But with all the Fair Play bull**** from FIFA, big and small actors will never have the same treatment, not in football, not in pretty much anything.
Volourn Posted June 13, 2014 Posted June 13, 2014 Ahh.. Soccer: World Wide Popularity. World Wide Butthurt. 1 DWARVES IN PROJECT ETERNITY = VOLOURN HAS PLEDGED $250.
Malcador Posted June 13, 2014 Posted June 13, 2014 Two bad calls. The run up to the Oscar goal had a Croat player getting upended, thought that was going to be a foul. Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra
IndiraLightfoot Posted June 13, 2014 Posted June 13, 2014 The referees certainly weren't world class. Poor Croatia! After the first 25 minutes, I reckon their cool and fast counter-attacks along the lines would simply pull the pants down the Brasilian foot-on-foot fondling of the ball. My favourite moment was when a pretty tiny Brasilian player saw a Croatian receiving a high ball by his forehead, and realizing he didn't have a chance in that duel, he just tackled the Croatian outright! It was in the 20th minute or something. Amazingly, the Croatian barely winced, and the Brasilian bounced off of him. *** "The words of someone who feels ever more the ent among saplings when playing CRPGs" ***
Malcador Posted June 13, 2014 Posted June 13, 2014 (edited) Definitely should have been a foul. Had to be that Chelsea fool. Edited June 13, 2014 by Malcador Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra
HoonDing Posted June 13, 2014 Posted June 13, 2014 The entire match was a disgrace. The ending of the words is ALMSIVI.
Labadal Posted June 13, 2014 Posted June 13, 2014 Mexico has scored twice. Both goals were called offside. Incorrectly. This WC is off to a great start.
Blarghagh Posted June 13, 2014 Posted June 13, 2014 Sounds like the referees are working hard to lobby for video support. 1
BruceVC Posted June 13, 2014 Posted June 13, 2014 Sounds like the referees are working hard to lobby for video support. Big game tonight for your country against your old enemy of the last world cup final. You must be looking forward to it ? "Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss” John Milton "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” - George Bernard Shaw "What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead" - Nelson Mandela
Blarghagh Posted June 13, 2014 Posted June 13, 2014 Not really. Maybe this years selection is more sportsmanlike than the incarnation of Oranje in the last European Championship, but I'm not holding my breath. Still haven't decided whether or not I'm actually going to watch it.
BruceVC Posted June 13, 2014 Posted June 13, 2014 Not really. Maybe this years selection is more sportsmanlike than the incarnation of Oranje in the last European Championship, but I'm not holding my breath. Still haven't decided whether or not I'm actually going to watch it. I hear you, I'll be watching the game on and off tonight "Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss” John Milton "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” - George Bernard Shaw "What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead" - Nelson Mandela
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