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World Cup Final - France v Croatia, Sun 15th July KO 4pm

Discussion in 'World Football' started by Marie, Jul 12, 2018.

Discuss World Cup Final - France v Croatia, Sun 15th July KO 4pm in the World Football area at TalkCeltic.net.

  1. honda Gold Member Gold Member

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    This. Neymar wins a penalty to be shown it's a dive yet wasn't yellowed for being a we cheating diving we scumbag? Makes no sense to me.
     
  2. Callum McGregor The Captain Gold Member

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    I completely disagree.
     
  3. AwesomeCaz

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    Clear penalty for me. Looked like he stopped the ball heading towards goal with his hand. Fair enough was close range but I’m sure he could’ve moved his hand out the way if he wanted.

    France by far the best team and deservedly won it. They smashed Argentina and quite easily beat Belgium and Croatia , two excellent teams with world class midfields, plus scoring four in a final deserves respect. Should have been 5 but somehow Pogba took a fresh air swipe near the end and Lloris, Jesus Christ that was worse than Karius!

    VAR in general could be a success but I don’t know why the * it takes them a minute to tell the ref to look at the screen, then he has to run off the pitch and spend another few mins viewing and deciding. He’s got an earpiece, if he misses something just tell him instantly ‘STOP PLAY - VAR’ and he can sort it. Every game seemed to have 10 minutes injury time or more cos of VAR.

    Best World Cup of my lifetime probably all in all though.
     
  4. Senna s1979

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    The biggest failure of VAR is as has been already said - to cut out diving and play acting.
    Was basically used to award attacking teams penalties.

    If they are going to keep allowing players to dive and roll about we might as well all give up now.
    FIFA have shown in this World Cup they don’t think it’s a problem.
     
  5. McChiellini..

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    Pulling someone back who was breaking away was the most bog standard yellow in Europe for the last couple of year..

    It happened constantly in this tournament without bookings, which strangely must've been called pre tournament..

    Answer's on a postcard what that was all about..
     
  6. Valhalla Thus spoke Batistuta.

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    No bad for a guy who wouldn’t have got a game at Southampton a year ago.
     
  7. Dallas Cowbhoys

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    There's always been nonsense written about Varane on here, if he played for Barca it would have been a different story right enough.
     
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