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Points: 37575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 06 2016 at 04:43
Originally posted by The T The T wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by The T The T wrote:

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It must be great living in a country where you not only invent a sport, your fellow countrymen are actually good at it too.Ouch
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And you have to thank a Soviet referee (of all people) for your only glory... 

Oh Teo, I am disappointed in you... I thought every footie fan knew the ref was Swiss
Wat. 

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Checks wikipedia... 


The lineman (the truly blind one) was Soviet. 

The referee was Swiss. 

You are correct. I was partially correct Approve

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If all three disputed goals were disallowed then the result would stand as an England win, if the controversial 5th goal was disallowed at the time then it would still have been an England win because the England fans wouldn't have invaded the pitch during the 6th goal in the 120th minute so that couldn't now be disputed. If the result had stayed at 2-2 after 120 minutes there would have been a replay so no one can even begin to guess the final result of that (penalty shootouts weren't introduced until 1978, and they don't apply in finals until later).
 
However despite England being nothing like the world-class team it believes itself to be, the German football team hasn't actually been kicking our arses around the football pitch ever since except for the humiliation of the 1-4 defeat in the 2010 world cup (though we still revel in thrashing them 1-5 eight years earlier in Munich ... and I have a pair of commemorative socks to prove it).


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Points: 19557 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 06 2016 at 11:37
Originally posted by Finnforest Finnforest wrote:

I totally agree about the excessive Ads on NFL... I'm curious, doesn't televised Soccer have a lot of Ads too?  

No.

  1. You can't stop a game for propaganda, even if a player is injured, they don't stop for commercials.
  2. The TV stations place commercial ads  in a corner or in the low part of the screen, that's all.
  3. We watch from the second 00.1 to the minute 45 or or 48 of each half time.


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Originally posted by Ivan_Melgar_M Ivan_Melgar_M wrote:

Originally posted by Finnforest Finnforest wrote:

I totally agree about the excessive Ads on NFL... I'm curious, doesn't televised Soccer have a lot of Ads too?  

No.

  1. You can't stop a game for propaganda, even if a player is injured, they don't stop for commercials.
  2. The TV stations place commercial ads  in a corner or in the low part of the screen, that's all.
  3. We watch from the second 00.1 to the minute 45 or or 48 of each half time.
Footie on the BBC has no commercials or ad-breaks - the downside is they fill the halftime interval with Gary Lineker and Alan Shearer prattling on about what you've already watched in the first half while trying to guess what may happen in the second.
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Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by Ivan_Melgar_M Ivan_Melgar_M wrote:

Originally posted by Finnforest Finnforest wrote:

I totally agree about the excessive Ads on NFL... I'm curious, doesn't televised Soccer have a lot of Ads too?  

No.

  1. You can't stop a game for propaganda, even if a player is injured, they don't stop for commercials.
  2. The TV stations place commercial ads  in a corner or in the low part of the screen, that's all.
  3. We watch from the second 00.1 to the minute 45 or or 48 of each half time.
Footie on the BBC has no commercials or ad-breaks - the downside is they fill the halftime interval with Gary Lineker and Alan Shearer prattling on about what you've already watched in the first half while trying to guess what may happen in the second.
Gary Lineker is good on Twitter. Tongue
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Originally posted by The T The T wrote:

Gary Lineker is good on Twitter. Tongue
"@GaryLineaker: Always reluctant to offer a political view, but Farage is a dick!" LOL


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Euro final on Sunday.

Hope France wins it because of Pogba and because Portugal are absolutely dire. It would be a joke that they never won anything with some amazing teams and this mediocre side does. 
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Originally posted by TheLionOfPrague TheLionOfPrague wrote:

Euro final on Sunday.

Hope France wins it because of Pogba and because Portugal are absolutely dire. It would be a joke that they never won anything with some amazing teams and this mediocre side does. 

Don't really want to take the role of Devil's advocate, especially when I can be accused of national bias, but dire is simply too strong of a word. While Portugal certainly hasn't dazzled anyone, the stats show that:

- Portugal has played against the most defensive teams in the tournament;
- Yet they somehow created more attacking chances than any other team;
- They had the most shots on target during the tournament, only behind Germany;
- Won most corners than any team;
- Had the highest completed passes rating just behind Germany;
- Suffered more fouls than any other team, and while it also commited the more fouls, along with Italy, it has one of the best disciplinary score, with only 7 yellow cards, since most of the fouls were honest ball disputes.

The only thing Portugal can be accused of is perhaps lack of efficiency in front of goal (one of France's strenghts) and a creative spark against closed defences. Otherwise, perhaps with the exception of the Croatia game, where both teams were equally matched, Portugal has been the superior team in every match they played so far. So it's not like they don't deserve to be in the final - they've worked for it. 

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Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Footie on the BBC has no commercials or ad-breaks - the downside is they fill the halftime interval with Gary Lineker and Alan Shearer prattling on about what you've already watched in the first half while trying to guess what may happen in the second.

Lucky you.

Here is different

In the halftime this is the structure in Perú

3 minutes ads, just when the referee marks the end (Mostly Cerveza Cristal who has the monopoly of ads)
2 minute commentaries
3 minutes ads (Mostly Cerveza Cristal who has the monopoly of ads)
2 minutes best images of the first half
2 minutes sport news
2 minutes  ads (Mostly Cerveza Cristal who has the monopoly of ads)
1 minute to announce changes and what you can expect of the 2nd half (Always wrong)

Despite the fact that Cable Magico has the monopoly of the national championship and that we pay for the service.

When the National Team plays in official games, one public station has the right to transmit the game along with cable, and almost the 15 minutes are ads.
            
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Nice job, Payet and Clattenburg.
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Points: 21343 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 10 2016 at 13:59
Seriously? It was a clash of knees, happens 20 times a game.
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Points: 21343 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 10 2016 at 15:39
Congrats to Portugal, a smash and grab worthy of Greece or Red Star Belgrade. Negative football wins out. Pretty awful final.
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Points: 12288 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 10 2016 at 15:39
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Points: 2815 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 10 2016 at 16:28
France declared "technical problems" for not having the Eiffel Tower illuminated with the Portuguese colours (though no problem with having the French flag projected on it...). They also had the police blocking the Portuguese community in Paris from gathering to celebrate in the Champs Elises for "security reasons".

This victory is for the hard working Portuguese immigrants in France who have to live daily with those smug b*****ds.
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Points: 21343 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 10 2016 at 16:42
Smug Frenchmen? I find that extremely hard to believe. ;)
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