No Irish, No Yanks, No Clogs - FIFA World Cup 2018

Darraghmac: you are sure that it was a handball and penalty?

The penalty was a penalty

The free kick wasn't a free kick. Croatia should have defended it better though

Nah, it was a free kick, it wasn't a pen.

i know i shouldn't do this but what i don't see mentioned about the handball is that perisic was watching the flight of the ball the entire way. i know there's a lot of maybe it is, maybe it isn't handballs in the box, but they're often deflected off someone's shin/shoulder/elbow straight into an outstretched hand. clearly not penalties. but this took no deflections. perisic had a clear view of it all the way from the touchline. how do you not get your hand out of the way?

There was one camera angle for the free kick where you could see the contact clearly, I know it wasn't as obvious from the other shots.

Yeah given the current interpretation of the rule it's on you to get your hand out of the way

Perisic actually moves his hand (probably instinctively) towards the ball

Dunno what angle you're talking about but Griezmann clearly throws the leg out Pires-style

I did think it was a free kick.

Tracer, I thought a French player deflected the ball on to Perisic's hand?

It also seems to be a consensus that CRO should have defended the free kick a lot higher up the pitch than they did.

it was a very clear free kick. the fouled players movement isnt relevant when the tackling player fouls him regardless.

jesus.

thought the fk for the equaliser was frankly soft alright but any contact or hint of it from behind is enough.

ppl acting like the slight head fra player got on ball makes a marked difference to perisic slapping it out of the air like a fucking seal

jesus

griezmann was hit low and miles from the ball on a leg that hasnt rly moved

definite pen

never a free kick. diving wee fuck

I've got to admit I thought it was a penalty, no-one else I've spoken to agrees though, but it wouldn't have surprised me in the least if it hadn't been given.

if either hadnt been given it would be *shrug* alright but thats pre-VARifocation

and only shrug because the common knowledge is to discriminate against skilled players/for defenders in reffing decisions

good riddance to that

No se merece nada! Griezmann needs some practice in fair play. #cheater #dive #griezmann pic.twitter.com/Rl37TtBhqo

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I mean come on

ref needs spray-on, quickly disintegrating handcuffs to tie up everybody's hands during free kicks

egregious dive

if possible, the ball should also be sprayed out of a can

thats a foul!

jesus!

obv I knew you would say that

it might have ended up being a foul, but Griezemann initiated the contact. He got the dive wrong, but he got away with it

coming around to the fact it may have been a pen but it was a clear dive by griezmann imo

pen, dive

,deflection

talking point: pens should not count towards personal goal counts y/n

if it's Harry Kane, yeah

otherwise not too bothered

^^^^

pen = 0.5 goals

not saying its not a dive

its a clear dive

its also a clear foul

this isnt intricate stuff lads

he's jumped in the air before contact has been made. to quote the rulebook directly "fuck him at that point"

the foul never occurred because the dive occurred first. All I can see in that clip is a legitimate attempt to get the ball, which may or may not have resulted in a foul

we have no way of knowing what happened in this alternate timeline where Griezmann didn't dive

how bout the timeline where you arent allowed clatter Baryshnikov himself if he fuckin glides past you swanlike ie this actual reality

isn't Baryshnikov's main skill staying on his feet

sure but where was the marking

anyway, I've never denied something can be a foul and a dive. Happens all the time

but I think if you execute the dive in too obvious a manner you should be punished for it

i could shake yr hand on that lets draw a line ten yards away from under it

obv best outcome in that scenario is foul against tackle and yellow card for dive but PLANK FIFA will not ACCEDE to my VISION

ok but it's an indirect free

even if it's in the box

Just dropping in from a busy day to say Darragh is wrong about everything.

Also Croatia may not have stretched themselves as much early in the 2nd half were they not chasing the game. VAR wot won it.

you can complain about diving and refuse to dive. you can also complain about rewards credit cards, refuse to get one, and pay a small portion of the worst humans' vacation flights.

the world cup is over

but we have yet to read all the world cup emails on wikileaks

"VAR won it" is nonsense.

I know.

But it did have an effect, it's mostly been used well but it came up short in the biggest match. Humans.

i think the Pen was correct

Cool.

The small nation almost always gets robbed (Uruguay got their wcs in time). I know there are a lot of fascists in Croatia but still..

the world cup is over

And still it's ruined.

Today Pogba led the team in La Marseillaise on the steps of the Élysée. This is one way we beat the fascists.