Turkey vs Croatia 2008. Dreadful game, Croatia win it late on...but wait, no they don't! Just loved the sheer drama, and of course Turkey win on penalties after their last gasp equaliser.
Does anybody anywhere genuinely want any goal to be disallowed for that? The rule makes sense as you don't want subs running around on the pitch and what have you, but seriously it's a couple of subs one or two steps on the pitch about a million miles away from any action. It should definitely be a rule where discretion is applied as it was here.
L'Equipe have been utterly embarrassing in the aftermath of this game.
Thanks for reminding me I said this @aggressive minor, as if he scored a hat trick and still everyone quite happily agrees Messi was player of the tournament think it goes some way to showing just how good Messi was overall and in the final
Tbh, given his world cup, I'm amazed and impressed he had the balls to take the pen vs Netherlands and to score it. A bad world cup, but if he misses that who knows what happens so he deserves at least a little smidge of credit for that.
The amount of crying comments on reddit about every decision this tournament has been remarkable. There were people crying conspiracy about Croatia not getting a penalty in the third place play off, which they won anyway fgs
They weren't exactly good until the penalty though. They were better following the change but this feels like an Argentina collapse rather than anything else