World Cup 2014 discussion thread.

Somebody should superimpose Fred's face over Rik Mayall's in this pic, and then put a bunch of diving Freds at the bottom.  I'd do it myself but I got no skillz.

Holy crap, I was trying to forget the incident, so I didn't even realise the wanker appealed for it. Pathetic. I hope he's completely anonymous the rest of the matches like he was in this game.

Don't h8 the playa h8 the game.

Zzonked wrote:Don't h8 the playacheata h8 the game.

Fixed

Good to see Itandje's careers got back on track after Dalglish's vendetta.

Mexico just got fucked.  That was not offside.  They should be pissed.  I'm happy.

Mexico should score soon, this linesman is bloody awful

menalawyerguy wrote:Mexico just got fucked.  That was not offside.  They should be pissed.  I'm happy.

Balls forgot the football was on, was watching a documentary about Nazis instead.

lmao refereeing

Mexico are getting robbed.

RIP in pepperonis... another bad call.

I think he's offside on the second deflection.

Ref's be like 

I sympathise with the ref on that second one, its virtually impossible to tell who got the touch, especially in those conditions from as far away as he was.

Can one be offside if the deflection was off a defending player? I have not watched football in ages.

Are you fucking joking? This referee is from Colombia, do FIFA not remember the war between Mexico and Colombia in 1886? No wonder Mexico are being robbed here.

Surely if you don't really know, you should side with the attacker? Isn't that how it works?

hahaha  Mexico got fucked again on a bad offside call.  They should be livid.  I couldn't be happier.

Roloman4 wrote:Can one be offside if the deflection was off a defending player? I have not watched football in ages.

No, one can't.

Cam wrote:Surely if you don't really know, you should side with the attacker? Isn't that how it works?

No, referees rarely really know about any decision, they have to give whichever one they think is most likely on balance of probabilities.

I did not think so, thank you for confirming.

Cameroon shouldn't even be at these finals.

Keyser Söze wrote:Cameroon shouldn't even be at these finals.

To be fair, neither should Mexico.  The USA pulled them out of the fire at the death of qualifying.  Shouldn't have done that.

Theo Filippo wrote:Are you fucking joking? This referee is from Colombia, do FIFA not remember the war between Mexico and Colombia in 1886? No wonder Mexico are being robbed here.

Not sure if srs.

Who would ref England games if this was the case?

The first disallowed goal for Mexico was probably a correct call. But that second one, was clearly onside.

dena wrote:

Theo Filippo wrote:Are you fucking joking? This referee is from Colombia, do FIFA not remember the war between Mexico and Colombia in 1886? No wonder Mexico are being robbed here.

Not sure if srs.

Who would ref England games if this was the case?

 

FCB wrote:The first disallowed goal for Mexico was probably a correct call. But that second one, was clearly onside.

No, the first one was definitely wrong.  It was a close call, but replays show that he was definitely onside.  

The second call was also very tough because it's hard to tell in realtime who touched it before it gets to the goal-scorer.  But replays show that that call was wrong as well.  Of course, instant replay would fix all these calls but FIFA don't want that.  Thus, we get to laugh as Mexico wallows in anger.  Thank fuck for that.

dena wrote:

Theo Filippo wrote:Are you fucking joking? This referee is from Colombia, do FIFA not remember the war between Mexico and Colombia in 1886? No wonder Mexico are being robbed here.

Not sure if srs.

Who would ref England games if this was the case?

Good point.  

And who would ref USA games?  Everybody hates us, right?

dena wrote:

Theo Filippo wrote:Are you fucking joking? This referee is from Colombia, do FIFA not remember the war between Mexico and Colombia in 1886? No wonder Mexico are being robbed here.

Not sure if srs.

Who would ref England games if this was the case?

Fair point, a lot of refs would clearly favour England cause we saved them from barbarism and gave them tea.

menalawyerguy wrote:

FCB wrote:The first disallowed goal for Mexico was probably a correct call. But that second one, was clearly onside.

No, the first one was definitely wrong.  It was a close call, but replays show that he was definitely onside.  

The second call was also very tough because it's hard to tell in realtime who touched it before it gets to the goal-scorer.  But replays show that that call was wrong as well.  Of course, instant replay would fix all these calls but FIFA don't want that.  Thus, we get to laugh as Mexico wallows in anger.  Thank fuck for that.

I disagree with you on the first one. 



Gio is leaning back with his butt. It's clearly behind the two defenders around him. However, the second to last defender is the one near the edge of the penalty area. It's tough to say if his body is keeping Gio's butt onside or not. I'm not saying it was clearly offside, but I wouldn't say it's clearly onside either.

This link shows the picture at a bigger size: http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2096271-mexicos-giovani-dos-santos-has-goal-wrongly-disallowed-vs-cameroon?

About time.

Take that Colombia! Even with that biased referee Mexico still score.