FIFA 2014 World Cup - Official Discussion Thread

[dead0man]

Yeah, that was ugly, but his team picked him up right away.

[dead0man]

Seems to be a lot fewer men on the ground rolling around in false agony in this game (Jpn v Gre) compared to the previous games I've seen this week.

[dead0man]

ahahahahaha

indeed

[dead0man]

uggggg

[dead0man]

Aren't you old enough to leave yet?

[dead0man]

I don't understand when athletes do things like this.  They KNOW there are a dozen TV cameras on them and potentially thousands of cell phones and what have you....do they think they are going to get away with it?  Is it just heat of the moment ignorance and they don't think about the millions of people watching them? 

This guy should never play organized sport again.

[dead0man]

Relax. It's not like he actually injured anyone.

A lot of nasty things can be transferred during a human to human bite.  If he did that on the street he would be arrested for battery.  I'm not suggesting he be arrested, but he clearly should be banned from the sport....especially since this isn't his first bite.  Children learn pretty early that biting is wrong, if this adult can't be as respectful of others as a 3 year old, he doesn't need to be on the field with other adults.

[dead0man]

Yeah, it can, but it shouldn't.  99.9% of soccer players don't bite the other players.

[dead0man]

Yeah, the jokes about "we lost but advanced?" are stupid.

[dead0man]

Yeah, the jokes about "we lost but advanced?" are stupid.

Is that seriously a common statement in the States? What's more amusing is they'd be bitching even more if they had been eliminated on goal difference .

I've yet to hear it in a serious way, only on Letterman and the like.  But the jokes only work as "jokes" on people totally ignorant on how the WC works or didn't watch the game....for example, Conan's joke went something like this....

"So I was watching the US play Germany today and we lost...but we advance because of tie breaking rules (he flowered up the wording on that part, but even making it as complicated sounding as possible only took 8 seconds)......and the rest of the world wonders why we can't get into soccer"

I'm sitting there thinking, it's much less complicated than NFL playoff rules....or college basketball seeding.....or pretty much ANY other team sport playoff seeding process.

[dead0man]

Of course.

...there was another part of it that bothered me too.  He insinuated he watched the match and then was shocked to learn we advanced even with the loss......which would have been impossible since the announcing team mentioned it about a 12,000 times.

[dead0man]

Wouldn't your god WANT you to be at your best for such an occasion?  For PR if nothing else?

[dead0man]

Googling tells me it's not that big of a deal (for the most part) for most of them.  It came up at the London Olympics.....Huffington post link

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