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NinpoEspiritoSanto posted:Apparently all the malls are only selling Adidas merch, Nike shops are boarded up you can only buy team shirts that Adidas make in Qatar Russian mafia strikes again
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Narcissus1916 posted:So turns out a coworker decided to travel out to Qatar to cheer on the US. Him and his Dad have gone to every World Cup as a tradition. not the only thing flaccid when you're at an age where you've been to every world cup
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Nov 30, 2022 13:46
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Weekend at Bernies: World Cup Edition
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maybe that guy's dad sports majestic and powerful erections to this day, you don't know
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Sudden Javelin posted:maybe that guy's dad sports majestic and powerful erections to this day, you don't know I’m that guy’s dad and this is correct
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Note that he mentioned cheering on the USA. I think they believe the world cup started in '94?
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Masonity posted:Note that he mentioned cheering on the USA. I think they believe the world cup started in '94? Sick US burns aside, if the guy is a similar age to most of us '94 would be the first World Cup he really remembers
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Shrapnig posted:Sick US burns aside, if the guy is a similar age to most of us '94 would be the first World Cup he really remembers That's part of what makes it such a sick burn. Although as an Englishman football temporarily ceased to exist in 94. 1996 was my real introduction to football, both the Euros then watching Arsene Who? arrive. My first at the stadium memory was the not-foul on Robbie Fowler at Highbury where even he told the ref it wasn't a penalty, but the idiot ref disagreed. In 97.
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Masonity posted:Note that he mentioned cheering on the USA. I think they believe the world cup started in '94? Football started in 1992. It only makes sense it would take them a couple years to get the major tournament up and running.
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https://twitter.com/TheAthleticFC/status/1597940005464408065 What the loving gently caress is this? Can't we just glass the US and get it over worth?
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lol FIFA just really dedicated to making sure that every new World Cup is the worst World Cup ever
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TheRat posted:https://twitter.com/TheAthleticFC/status/1597940005464408065 Consequences of a 48 team World Cup and doing group of 3. It does also mention that they will look again about whether it should be a group of 4.
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TheRat posted:https://twitter.com/TheAthleticFC/status/1597940005464408065 United States based organization FIFA.
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Shrapnig posted:United States based organization FIFA. You'll know when the US is in control when it's FISA 
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they should lean into the madness and do the mls penalties from the halfway line
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ozmunkeh posted:they should lean into the madness and do the mls penalties from the halfway line MLS hasn't done that since '99...which means I fully expect FIFA to actually do it.
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Probably should have figured out the details before you made the commitment boys
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ozmunkeh posted:they should lean into the madness and do the mls penalties from the halfway line *NASL
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Forrest on Fire posted:You'll know when the US is in control when it's FISA Fédération Internationale de Soccer Association?
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Al-Saqr posted:What’s so bad about penalties aren’t those popular? Everybody hates penalties and there's nothing wrong with a draw
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I love penalty shootouts but I hate the Americanization of the sport which demands that we somehow do away with draws.
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Every goal is worth 10 points, game split into 4 x 22.5 min quarters to allow for a Bud break
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This article covers a bunch of the wacky stuff they used to do when it was only 24 teams https://www.football365.com/news/qatar-world-cup-group-stage-annoyingly-great-enjoy-it-will-never-happen-again
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The simplest way I can put it to new people who don't understand draws is that a draw where your team outplayed the opposition for 90 minutes is perhaps even worse than if you had lost, but getting a point when you had no right to do so is the greatest feeling in the world. Draws own and are bullshit at the same time
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the sex ghost posted:The simplest way I can put it to new people who don't understand draws is that a draw where your team outplayed the opposition for 90 minutes is perhaps even worse than if you had lost, but getting a point when you had no right to do so is the greatest feeling in the world. Draws own and are bullshit at the same time It all evens out in the end in a game of two halves
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the sex ghost posted:The simplest way I can put it to new people who don't understand draws is that a draw where your team outplayed the opposition for 90 minutes is perhaps even worse than if you had lost, but getting a point when you had no right to do so is the greatest feeling in the world. Draws own and are bullshit at the same time Ding ding They add so much to the tactical and mind games going on, especially at a tournament with such gulfs in skill, and eliminating them via PKs is insanely bad Now going the NHL route and playing 3v3 sudden death extra time, maybe on a small mini pitch next to the main one, that’s absolutely insane and I’m listening
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I wouldn't mind a shootout instead of, say, fair play record in the event of equal points at the end of the group stage.
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A Buffer Gay Dude posted:Ding ding I'd totally be down for 7-a-side extra time. Also go full hockey with it, if they do this and a group stage game goes to penalties the losing side still gets a point for the draw.
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Do this but for real https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY8GSe96UEA
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the sex ghost posted:The simplest way I can put it to new people who don't understand draws is that a draw where your team outplayed the opposition for 90 minutes is perhaps even worse than if you had lost, but getting a point when you had no right to do so is the greatest feeling in the world. Draws own and are bullshit at the same time ive always enjoyed these paragraph from juan villoro quote:In his staggering report on hooliganism, Among the Thugs, Bill Buford commits a decisive error of judgment. He attributes a legendary brawl between two sets of fans to the preceding match ending 0–0. In Buford’s view, the tribe always needs a victor: the held tension had to come out in another way, and so unleashed this violence. But there is no such thing as a pure witness, and Buford’s judgment reveals where he’s from: the US, a place where sports never end 0–0. In an environment utterly conditioned by competitiveness (the fans there raise their index fingers to signal the thing they want to be: number one), having a certified winner (even if it happens to be the other side) is always preferable to coming out even. Uncertainty and triumphalism don’t mix. And yet all football fans have memories of great matches that have ended in draws. In his Italia ’90 book All Played Out, Pete Davies dedicates a chapter to the 1–1 between England and Germany, which had to be decided on penalties. The chapter is entitled “The Beautiful Game,” in reference to what went on before the shootout (Germany went through). For a football fan, there’s absolutely zero dishonor in sharing the spoils.
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That's a great paragraph. I always describe draws as that sometimes neither team deserves to win (often for different reasons)
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TheRat posted:https://twitter.com/TheAthleticFC/status/1597940005464408065 Last I checked it was Arsene Wenger working at FIFA giving them ideas on how to change the game, but go off.
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Lamanda posted:I wouldn't mind a shootout instead of, say, fair play record in the event of equal points at the end of the group stage. Have jets waiting outside both the final group games to fly the teams tied for second to a neutral site penalty shootout.
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Al-Saqr posted:What’s so bad about penalties aren’t those popular? In addition to what everyone else has said, adding penalties in the group stage will give bad teams more incentive to defend, waste time, and generally not play the foot for 90 minutes in hopes they can win on penalties.
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njsykora posted:I'd totally be down for 7-a-side extra time. Also go full hockey with it, if they do this and a group stage game goes to penalties the losing side still gets a point for the draw. take a player away every 5 minutes as the field slowly shrinks around them
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Backdoor Delivery posted:Last I checked it was Arsene Wenger working at FIFA giving them ideas on how to change the game, but go off. Arsene Wenger is possibly the only person with worse ideas about how to fix football than Americans
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