Fifa World Cup 2026

Sinbad said:
Funny, there's pics out there of various Norway players pointing to the cable.
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The Norwegian coach didn't even see anything. He claims he was just told by someone else. I actually watched the entire game, and at no stage was anything said about it, nor did anyone run to the ref and point to the cable. I have, however, seen a lot of players looking and pointing upwards throughout the tournament - at something they've seen on the screens.

Yet there's no actual footage of the ball hitting anything. Nor any footage from the skycam shaking when the ball is meant to have hit the cable that stabilises it. Even the sensor in the ball - that picked up contact with a player's hair to disallow a goal - apparently wasn't able to detect it hitting a cable under tension?

If anything, this is people being salty because Sorloth didn't square it to the best striker in the world during a 2v1, and instead saw his name in lights and tried to go for the shot on his own.
 
stefan9 said:
Yes watched the game to the end. There was a reason the Norwegian manager went to speak to the ref at ht.
I tend not to take what commentators say as the gospel they tend to have subconscious bias or just not know all facts.
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There's no data from the sensor that indicates it hits anything (yet can detect it hitting human hair?), nor any footage from the skycam after its cable gets hit. The manager has already stated that he didn't see anything - someone just told him about it.

IF it had actually hit the cable, it would've been very obvious: the ball would've drastically altered it's trajectory. It didn't, though. It just followed a natural curve to the ground.
 
Like with all sports, from F1 to rugby or whatever, I will support whoever plays against England. Hell I would probably support Kim Jong Un aka Nuke Skywalker in a war against the English
 
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Adenoid Hynkel said:
FIFA being corrupt is one thing, but people constantly claiming match fixing every time something happens is just stupid.

Argentina scored 3 goals. Were they all “blatant” too?
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Its what happened to around those goals that is the issue... and the disallowed goals is the problem.
 
The Voice said:
The Norwegian coach didn't even see anything. He claims he was just told by someone else. I actually watched the entire game, and at no stage was anything said about it, nor did anyone run to the ref and point to the cable. I have, however, seen a lot of players looking and pointing upwards throughout the tournament - at something they've seen on the screens.

Yet there's no actual footage of the ball hitting anything. Nor any footage from the skycam shaking when the ball is meant to have hit the cable that stabilises it. Even the sensor in the ball - that picked up contact with a player's hair to disallow a goal - apparently wasn't able to detect it hitting a cable under tension?

If anything, this is people being salty because Sorloth didn't square it to the best striker in the world during a 2v1, and instead saw his name in lights and tried to go for the shot on his own.
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The thing that got me was the terrible clearing by Norway...I actually gave up at 1Am because Haaland was just 2 seconds late to everything and Nyland was letting the England forwards get way too close before clearing the ball. They almost lost a goal to that head brace dude... what a joke.
Was a disappointing finish for them.
 
Pegging said:
Second yellow for him got him sent off. First one was for a foul.
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I'm aware of that.

My point is he got a yellow for diving while many many many players do it all the time, and I think they should be censured too
 
stefan9 said:
If you want to be against diving then you also have to be against how Anderson went down. That shove was not hard enough to send him tumbling like he did.
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I mean, my position on this was very clear in my comment.

thestaggy said:
I like that he was carded and it was his second yellow. Stupid decision and he deserved it.

Football needs to start cleaning the game up.

Haaland getting blown up for pushing an English player over was also good to see. Needs to happen more often.
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Sinbad said:
So the diving isn't the problem, it's how obvious it is?
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No, I mean sometimes its hard to tell if its really a dive or not. Like if there is slight contact.

There was no contact and the guy did a somersault. So its not even a argument what happened.
 
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