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  1. martinji
    does that really matter given England play France and Brazil play Croatia? more concerning if teams playing each other had differing rest periods, which won't happen until the final (well third place match if you want to be picky)
  2. martinji
    I thought it was marginally off tbh but happy to see it allowed. Croatia have been awful and Japan deserve it.
  3. martinji
    Where has this Poland team been hiding in the first 3 games?
  4. martinji
    out of interest I looked at the bookies odds for each of the favourites to go through (from oddschecker) in order of most favoured to most likely to be an upset: Argentina 1/9; Brazil 1/8; France 1/7; England and Spain both 3/11; Portugal 10/21; Netherlands 1/2; Croatia 5/9 if we assumed these odds were broadly accurate, but factor them down a little bit for the bookies over-round (usually c.10%), says we should expect on average about 6 of the favourites to go through.
  5. martinji
    I was just thinking that, best I can remember, but then as the years go by my memory of group stages tends to dwindle to remembering the odd match or odd moment here and there
  6. martinji
    absolute disgrace at the end there with the Uruguay players at the officials. FIFA need better security around the officials at the end I think.
  7. martinji
    ooh. Assuming the next WC does go ahead with 3 team groups, I'm really going to miss double headers ending the group. They add so much drama.
  8. martinji
    Would absolutely love Suarez to get a second yellow for dissent in a minute. The scenes would be epic.
  9. martinji
    ah that would make some sort of sense I guess, maybe some commercial arrangements etc are affected by what's shown on what channel (I know BBC doesnt have ads here but its overseas feeds may) so they can't change them.
  10. martinji
    If FIFA haven't produced the "definitive still" by the next ITV match, if Pougatch is hosting then based on tonight I genuinely wouldn't be that surprised for him to open with "Like you, we were hoping to have images of Japan's winning goal against Germany yesterday by now. Unfortunately the wait continues" or some such nonsense
  11. martinji
    100%. Sounness saying people looking at that still ITV showed that was above and in front of the line, and saying everyone would be saying that looks out not to me, I think it looks in when you factor in the angle and ball curvature. I think what we're really seeing are broadcasters annoyed they haven't got the pictures they want to show, and wrongly thinking everyone at home is waiting on tenterhooks to see them.
  12. martinji
    Banging on about not showing us the controversial goal line question. FGS I think most of us want a bit more focus on the achievement of the Japanese rather than this
  13. martinji
    thank god, I was seriously worried a terrible offside decision was going to rob Costa Rica there
  14. martinji
    A ball that is exactly on the line would look slightly out from the angle we saw it from I think. I assume they have additional angles
  15. martinji
    Surely it's obvious why offsides sometimes get referred to the on-field ref - because there is subjectivity around whether an offside player is interfering with play and that is for the on-field ref to decide on, not VAR. Don't see why Jenas and the commentator are so confused
  16. martinji
    totally agree, was a perfectly good goal for me.
  17. martinji
    yep, every time. He is so smug with it as well, clearly thinks the public need to hear his football opinions rather than the guests.
  18. martinji
    For me it's totally irrelevant whether the arm prevents a good attacking opportunity or not. Handballs should only be given IMO when it's either truly deliberate, or the defender has deliberately made themselves bigger by holding or throwing their arms in a deliberately unnatural position. I don't care if arms stop balls going into goals, no penalty without some kind of intention is my very strong preference. I hate seeing defenders running around in the box with their arms behind their back.
  19. martinji
    I think that's as close as I've heard Walton come to disagreeing with a decision.
  20. martinji
    I was thinking that earlier. Although a lot of them haven't been great, as someone not working at the moment it's been fun to get up at 9.30 and have a game to look forward to
  21. martinji
    Few things in football as pleasing as a soft penalty being missed/saved. Brilliant double save
  22. martinji
    yeah not a pen for me, the contact is nowhere near enough to bring him down, he feels it and decides to go down.
  23. martinji
    it's basically exactly the same interview he gave after the 0-0 v Scotland at the Euros
  24. martinji
    Gareth has basically said in interviews before that in his eyes tournament football is first and foremost about not losing. I don't wholly disagree with his dourly pragmatic approach but he does stick to it *so* rigidly. We were crying out for changes either at half time or at the very least on around 55 minutes when it was evident whatever tweaks and what was said at half time, hadn't changed the game (if anything USA were even more on top).
  25. martinji
    it is rightly offside but goalie is never saving a deflection like that anyway when he's already diving the other way, so unlucky in a way
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