Oh yeah, the ref was a joke last night as was Neymar.

Our ref was a joke too but the other way around Libertad preety much kicked us the entire game and the ref only began showing yellows with 10 mins remaining.

I love this idea, would make some great extra time moments. Plus I hate seeing players careers being tarnished with a really important penalty miss, doesn't seem fair.

Only thing is it might make games after the 70 min mark boring as team will play for penalties rather than go for it, if they lose there still have extra time to get the goal they need while they still got the the 50/50 chance of taking the lead.

Just curious, in what way did you think Neymar was a joke?


Santos x La U would be a very entertaining final.Hoping for this.

Corinthians x Boca would be just a hard fought 180 min of 0x0 and pk to decide

Maybe to make overtime more exciting and allow teams to take more risks, you could have some sort of setup similar to how you can only score while serving in some types of volleyball scoring systems.

Like in the first 15 minute period you would assign one team as attacking, and any goals they score is added to their total. While if the "defending" team scores, it doesn't count but it ends that period and they change roles. And to put the advantage towards the attacking team, maybe defense only has 9 men or something.

Obviously this isn't the sort of thing that would actually happen because its such a departure from normal rules, but kind of interesting to think about.

Assumedly because he is an incredibly annoying diver of Robinho proportions.

Yeah, pretty much. Got 2 players booked last night for absolutely nothing and stayed down for around 2 mins each time getting treatment. Pathetic really. I mean of course he isn't alone in this but when he does come to Europe Im sure people will start getting tired of his act rather quickyl if he continues in that way.

Seems to me he pretty much has the refs in his back pocket. He had a very nasty tackle himself which easily could have been a red, foot straight over the ball and onto the players shin studs first. Got a yellow.

Thats what i figured.After getting so much criticism he has actually improved in that regard if you can believe it.

God no.

And leave pk's alone imo. It's very fun to watch and its only a tie-breaker anyway. That's not what needs fixing in football.
Refereeing is the issue that needs to be addressed nowadays.

This, I almost added this to my "Blatter is a ******" post but couldn't be bothered. How can you be moaning about penalties when games are routinely ruined by bad reffing. I don't even mind a little controversial reffing - variance in the game is OK by me. What I mind is having games turned unwatchable by stuff like bad red cards which would never be given if replays were accessible.

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In touch rugby as you call it in the UK, ties are settled with what's called a "drop-off". Play restarts and at time intervals, each team has to remove a player from the field. The game thus becomes more open and scoring becomes easier. Anyone think this could work with football? Might suffer from the same problem as golden goal, in that teams won't want to be caught on the counter.

Not that I mind PKs. If I was to change anything about how football tournaments work, I've harped on about this before, but I'd make 0-0 draws worth 0 points to both teams in the group stages. This would avoid some of the more excruciatingly awful games we saw in the early stages of e.g. World Cup 2010.

That's assumedly his style since he assumedly likes to go through channels so assumedly think it will take a while before he assumedly shines when he gets to Europe.

Some humor.

omg thats genius.

Great goal from Kurtič in yesterdays game between Slovenia and Greece.It was also his debut for our NT.

Also lol found this old video of probably the best goal that any Slovenian team ever scored. So many passes before the goal makes it even better.

Here is Brian Laudrup with his elder brother:


Here he is with his lovely wife:


This is him equalizing vs Brazil in the 1998 WC 1/4 final (jump to 1:15):




And finally, this is a really funny compilation of him in that celebration photoshopped into different pictures: "Brian is chillin'"

Dutch? check
Played for Rangers? check
Hot wife? check
Michael Mols? ......

WTF???

I destroyed last year qualies but over a small sample size so take this with a grain of salt. I stopped gambling so Im not putting my money where my mouth is.

Odds from bet365.
Uruguay vs Venezuela (1.33/4.75/10.00). Uruguay seems a bit short imo but I wouldnt bet on this.

Bolivia vs Chile (2.37/3.25/3.00). Chile is basically free money. In Chile we dont struggle in the altitude like uruguayans, argentinians , brazilians or paraguayan and this isnt some bull**** stuff like Germany always win on penalties, this is based on Santiago being slightly higher than other capitals and having training facilities at 2000 metres of altitude( La Paz is 3600). Keep in mind that our defence is old, shaky and that Borghi ( our manager) is an idiot that insists on playing with 3 on the back no matter the circustances. 3 Old defenders+ altitude is not a good mix. But I still think we are sick value.

Argentina vs Ecuador (1.20/6.00/15.00) Argentina is really short here, if betfair opens this market lay the **** out of Argentina.

Perú vs Colombia(2.40/3.25/2.90) Pekerman is new with Colombia so I dont have a clue.

Btw almost all of my profit in the Conmebol came from betting against Argentina. By default you should bet Colombia/Venezuela/Chile/Ecuador/Perú against Bolivia in La Paz

this leads me to believe that this;

is a very wise decision

I never said Chile dont struggle in the altitude, of course we do. I said we dont struggle as much as other teams.

Interesting article about match fixing.

Ljajic(he plays for Fiorentina) was thrown out of Serbian NT for not singing the national anthem.Ljajic said that he didn't sing it beacuse of personal reasons. He's a Muslim and Serbian anthem is an ortodox christian song and that's why he didn't sing it. Things will never change here in this parts lol.

Mihajlovic who is a new NT coach of Serbia gave the players of Serbian NT a set of rules which they had to sing if the wanted to play for NT.One of the rules is that they have to sing a national anthem.

i also like this idea. but on a related note we've just released simonsen

Interesting Article by Jonathan Wilson

The Question: Do footballers know what they're doing?

Link to Rooney Article