World Cup

[Show-Me Hog]

Thor just messed up and had a point taken away.

Replays in soccer seem about as suspect as replays in the SEC. Not saying he didn't do anything, but call it or don't call it on the field.

[Son of Spam]

Neither one of those fuckers touched each other and both looked like they broke their legs.

[buff2.0]

Neither one of those fuckers touched each other and both looked like they broke their legs.

And then walked it off like Cam Newton

[buff2.0]

Add leg sweeps to things England gets to do

Edit: The replay booth gets it right this time

[Son of Spam]

2 unbelievable blocks by the Norway goalie.

[TC]

2 unbelievable blocks by the Norway goalie.

That was impressive. Sucks that they lost.

No chance FIFA let's Messi go home tonight.

[DrMongoose]

I don't think I have ever seen a network fawn over an athlete like fox has the last hour over Messi.

As famous as he is, the pitch is probably the only place he actually can enjoy something undisturbed and not get mobbed by thousands, still a shitload of pressure with all that fame and money,

The Swiss coach is the Pat Riley of soccer, one cool mofo

As for Norway, truth here......
https://x.com/futboljan10/status/2076064324502663322?s=61&t=yqgft3mqzhJjVNQN1flX9A

[BleedinRed]

Didn't even touch the guy and gets a yellow card.  

At least they are going to review it. 

Soccer fans are awesome.  Soccer players are huge pussies.  

[HogOfWar]

Didn't even touch the guy and gets a yellow card. 

At least they are going to review it.

Soccer fans are awesome.  Soccer players are huge pussies. 

It like a LeBron special.

[BleedinRed]

And they give the flopper a red card.  lol. 

[BleedinRed]

And the flopper is crying.  Fuck that guy.  Haha. 

[Hogfan58]

That was impressive. Sucks that they lost.

No chance FIFA let's Messi go home tonight.

And the Swiss go down to 10 men...

[TC]

And the Swiss go down to 10 men...

Rigged

[Show-Me Hog]

A lot of the Switzerland side don't look Swiss. Swiss chocolate, maybe.

[BleedinRed]

A lot of the Switzerland side don't look Swiss. Swiss chocolate, maybe.

Haha.  I thought the same when I turned on the game. 

[Show-Me Hog]

I don't remember who was our woopig rules expert on offsides. But how about this modification?

You can't be offsides on a pass that originates inside the box. By the time you're down there, there is no such thing as snowbirding. You're already all down there anyway. This would eliminate goal nullification when somebody was a cunt hair past the defender, when you're already all inside the damn box to begin with and the rationale for offsides (camping past the defense) doesn't apply.

[Show-Me Hog]

That was a great kick for the go ahead goal.

[One Quarter]

I don't remember who was our woopig rules expert on offsides. But how about this modification?

You can't be offsides on a pass that originates inside the box. By the time you're down there, there is no such thing as snowbirding. You're already all down there anyway. This would eliminate goal nullification when somebody was a cunt hair past the defender, when you're already all inside the damn box to begin with and the rationale for offsides (camping past the defense) doesn't apply.

The main problem with this is that the human line judge is already given a difficult task: to physically line himself up with the last defender to judge the position of the attacker at the moment a pass is initiated.  Adding this complication would require the line judge to simultaneously judge the position of the last defender and the attacker, and whether the ball is already in the box, at the time the pass is initiated, within a crowd of players.

It's also a complicated solution in search of a problem.  As it stands, no goals are being nullified: receiving the ball offside is the end of play: dead ball, turnover.  Whatever the offside player does with the ball after receiving it is null from the moment of the offside.

[Show-Me Hog]

The main problem with this is that the human line judge is already given a difficult task: to physically line himself up with the last defender to judge the position of the attacker at the moment a pass is initiated.  Adding this complication would require the line judge to simultaneously judge the position of the last defender and the attacker, and whether the ball is already in the box, at the time the pass is initiated, within a crowd of players.

It's also a complicated solution in search of a problem.  As it stands, no goals are being nullified: receiving the ball offside is the end of play: dead ball, turnover.  Whatever the offside player does with the ball after receiving it is null from the moment of the offside.

The last paragraph is circular reasoning. Of course goals are being nullified. They're being approved on the field, then nullified by offsides on VAR. I guess Alabama didn't win all those forfeited games they won on the field either, right?

[One Quarter]

The last paragraph is circular reasoning. Of course goals are being nullified. They're being approved on the field, then nullified by offsides on VAR. I guess Alabama didn't win all those forfeited games they won on the field either, right?

Which part of the paragraph bases its conclusion on one of its premises?  It's binary: either the pass receiver is offside or he isn't.  If he's offside, the play is dead and it's a turnover.  During an obvious goalscoring opportunity, the field ref often lets play continue after the line judge raises the flag because it's better left to VAR at that point.

Imagine a football team on offense at the opposing one yard line.  They line up and punch it in, and everyone celebrates!  Then we all see a flag was thrown, because the right tackle was offside during the snap.  Is that "touchdown nullification", or just a dead ball penalty?