2018 Football World Cup
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@rocky-rockbottom said in 2018 Football World Cup:
Arg 1
Vikings 1There are 350,000 Icelanders TOTAL.
GTFO.
Incredible. I googled their population after the equaliser, and given their Euro champs ride, I still can't get my head around it!
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For all the angst about annual rule changes and directives to clean up the game World Rugby dishes out, ol' FIFA have done fuck all to deal with diving and ref abuse in about 20 years.
It is what it is and I guess the difference between the world's most profitable game vs rugby trying to attract a larger market.
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For all the angst about annual rule changes and directives to clean up the game World Rugby dishes out, ol' FIFA have done fuck all to deal with diving and ref abuse in about 20 years.
It is what it is and I guess the difference between the world's most profitable game vs rugby trying to attract a larger market.
@siam said in 2018 Football World Cup:
For all the angst about annual rule changes and directives to clean up the game World Rugby dishes out, ol' FIFA have done fuck all to deal with diving and ref abuse in about 20 years.
It is what it is and I guess the difference between the world's most profitable game vs rugby trying to attract a larger market.
I don't think that's the big difference at all.
It's because FIFA is completely bent. Every country gets a vote, so with the right application of money the powers at the top of FIFA can ensure a steady flow into their own pockets. They just have to not do anything that might annoy people.
Fixing problems in the game is hard. Banning top players for simulation will have clubs up in arms. Having a ridiculously large tournament in a semi-dictatorship is easy.
That the international game is falling apart under club pressures is difficult to fix. Having the Champions League is easy.
This is why the IRB have a very different power structure, and why even non-RWC fixtures still have some meaning.
If the IRB ever go to "one nation, one vote", look forward to the death of international rugby, and some very rich Romanian, Tongan and Georgian administrators.
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@siam said in 2018 Football World Cup:
For all the angst about annual rule changes and directives to clean up the game World Rugby dishes out, ol' FIFA have done fuck all to deal with diving and ref abuse in about 20 years.
It is what it is and I guess the difference between the world's most profitable game vs rugby trying to attract a larger market.
I don't think that's the big difference at all.
It's because FIFA is completely bent. Every country gets a vote, so with the right application of money the powers at the top of FIFA can ensure a steady flow into their own pockets. They just have to not do anything that might annoy people.
Fixing problems in the game is hard. Banning top players for simulation will have clubs up in arms. Having a ridiculously large tournament in a semi-dictatorship is easy.
That the international game is falling apart under club pressures is difficult to fix. Having the Champions League is easy.
This is why the IRB have a very different power structure, and why even non-RWC fixtures still have some meaning.
If the IRB ever go to "one nation, one vote", look forward to the death of international rugby, and some very rich Romanian, Tongan and Georgian administrators.
@chester-draws Yeah well put. Money's rolling in, don't rock the gravy boat
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@rocky-rockbottom said in 2018 Football World Cup:
Brazil 1
Swiss 1Brazil got their goal then went into fonzie too-cool-for-skool hey-guyz-let's-just-fuck-around-in-our-own-half mode, yeah, fuck these toblerone-faced fluffybunnies, 1-0 should do it. Oops.
In other news, sounds like the krauts push through to Stalingrad has been momentarily delayed. Again.
Comedy Gold
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Any chance someone could actually show up to the World Cup and put on a display?
What's the coverage like in NZ? Because in Australia, it's fucked. Proper fucked.
Coverage split between SBS (free to air) and fucking Optus. SBS get one game a night, and that's it. To watch the others you need a subscription to Optus Sports, so you can stream it to your phone. Which no one has unless they really fucking love the Premier League.
Of course, as if this wasn't bad enough, the streaming service has shat itself. Every. Single. Night. So basically no one is Australia is watching the World Cup.
And with SBS, you get a replay in the morning at 6.30 of whatever game they had from the night before. Coverage starts at 6.30am. But for the first hour you get to listen to Craig Fucking Foster talk absolute shit. And then the game starts at 7.30, as you are walking out the door to work.
I'm surprised you can't hear the cries of anguish from the Melbourne ethnics from NZ. Imagine if Italy has actually made it? Leichhardt might have burnt down by now.
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So the the master race lost to a bunch of drug mules and illegal gardners and Brazil, for the first time since 1954, lost their opening match.
Come to think of it, a draw involving Switzerland makes perfect sense - they've never favoured one outcome over another.
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@mariner4life coverage in NZ is on Sky, and is actually really good. All games live, and each day they have a one hour highlights package of the games played overnight. For once I am actually impressed.
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England opening their world cup against Tunisia at 6AM (NZ time) tomorrow. With the big guns failing to fire any shots so far, surely this is England's time... surely!
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England opening their world cup against Tunisia at 6AM (NZ time) tomorrow. With the big guns failing to fire any shots so far, surely this is England's time... surely!
@no-quarter said in 2018 Football World Cup:
England opening their world cup against Tunisia at 6AM (NZ time) tomorrow. With the big guns failing to fire any shots so far, surely this is England's time... surely!
Come On England!!!
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not sure if already posted, outstanding!!
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@rocky-rockbottom said in 2018 Football World Cup:
cant complain about coverage here in Japen. although vaguely shitting me how Japanese commentators mention the HEIGHT of every single player every time they say their name. Guys. It's not an excuse. Dwarves can be good too. Messi is 4 foot 8". Maradona stopped growing when he was 5 fucken years old.
every game on regular telly in japan. even late 1st round when they'll have 4 matches a day with 2 kicking off simultaneously, presumably to prevent the Germans from trying to kick shit off with the Poles again.
into routine now:
9pm game: Yes
midnight game: like fuck
3 am game: miss first 20 mins but watch the rest. The sun's up at 4 so no real biggie
2 pm conk outlater 1st round when its 11 pm and 3 am are going to be a bastard, watch 11 pm game half nodding off til 1 am then youre in the undead zone, no fucken way i'm staying awake til 3 am and if I nod off now i'll wake up at 7am having dozed thru one game and completely missed the other
jeez, streaming in Aus to your fucking phone? fuck watching soccer on a telephone. I wouldnt even watch RUGBY on a telephone. if WC wasnt on reg telly I wouldnt even bother with any of it. Leap up at 3 am to stare at a fucking telephone hahahhaha
That was my 2007 RWC schedule, except I watched them all
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@no-quarter said in 2018 Football World Cup:
England opening their world cup against Tunisia at 6AM (NZ time) tomorrow. With the big guns failing to fire any shots so far, surely this is England's time... surely!
Come On England!!!
@hooroo said in 2018 Football World Cup:
@no-quarter said in 2018 Football World Cup:
England opening their world cup against Tunisia at 6AM (NZ time) tomorrow. With the big guns failing to fire any shots so far, surely this is England's time... surely!
Come On England!!!
I just want to see them try to play football. Too many times recently they get knocked out with a whimper, barely firing a shot.
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I'm on holiday in Europe at present. Every match in full plus highlights. Of course the commentary is in Serbo-Croat, so if they are giving the players heights I wouldn't know.
But I only watch the games with half an eye to see what the fuss was about.
The simulation drives me crazy -- bumps that wouldn't cause a rugby player to break stride cause football players to go down as if shot. I won't really enjoy the game until they start carding for diving on a regular basis.
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I'm on holiday in Europe at present. Every match in full plus highlights. Of course the commentary is in Serbo-Croat, so if they are giving the players heights I wouldn't know.
But I only watch the games with half an eye to see what the fuss was about.
The simulation drives me crazy -- bumps that wouldn't cause a rugby player to break stride cause football players to go down as if shot. I won't really enjoy the game until they start carding for diving on a regular basis.
@chester-draws the players that get bumped in one place then grab another are the funniest. The refs should book for simulation. It would clean things up really fast
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I'm hoping with the penalty review system there will be less diving in the box anyway. Still bitter about the dive in the box that gave the Italians the equaliser against the All Whites all those years ago. Cheating fucks.
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@mariner4life coverage in NZ is on Sky, and is actually really good. All games live, and each day they have a one hour highlights package of the games played overnight. For once I am actually impressed.
@no-quarter said in 2018 Football World Cup:
@mariner4life coverage in NZ is on Sky, and is actually really good. All games live, and each day they have a one hour highlights package of the games played overnight. For once I am actually impressed.
Really? You’re easy to please. Pretty sure having the actual games live and a daily highlight show has been standard forever.
In other news, a root with your sister is still a root, am I right!?!
