@NotoriousBAG_ As a Tottenham fan I can't wait until we all go back to laughing at how shit Tottenham are with no American input.
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Reynard The Fox
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Very much enjoying these idiots yanks telling us that football rules should be changed every 5 minutes. Football is not Hockey, deal with it.
Jason@jjcous
FIFA World Cup offsides rules are ridiculous. A literal toe cost Columbia a goal. Hockey offsides rules should be the standard.
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@punk9059 Yes because you demonstrate repeatedly that you don't understand lmfao
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You know that feeling when your husband/wife/girlfriend/boyfriend gets mad at what you’re saying, simply because it’s coming from you? And what you say is actually irrelevant? They’re already angry.
That’s what happens to the entire continent of Europe everytime an American says anything about soccer.
Instant rage. Zero listening to the point. Instant “you wouldn’t understand.”
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@bradjchester The German national team is considered a continuation of the West German national team.
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You cannot ascribe geopolitical significance to the World Cup you will go even more insane. Four of the 22 were won by countries that don’t exist now. The game is bigger.
The Gripper@tom_on_here
Can’t say I’m comfortable seeing all the people up north cheer so hard for the defeat of an African nation :/
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@starsnstripesfc Bosnia knocked out Italy in the qualifiers.
Sit down
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When the hell did a little harmless trash talk become a problem? You should expect your team to win especially against a smaller nation.
Bojana 🇵🇸@burekprincess
comments like this are just reminders at how bad americans are at unity, this is not what the world cup is about nor has it been the spirit of different fans coming together for games, shit like this shouldn't fly
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@goblin_formula As if Manchester United have working class fans lmfao
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you'll see someone on here say "americans have no culture" and it'll turn out to be some 42 year-old british guy who has only ever engaged with his country's culture through calling people slurs at manchester united games and beating his wife whenever they lose
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@OregonHomer It's more like:
Americans who've watched the sport for two weeks: "Change all the rules because I don't understand them!!"
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@TheIDSmiths Eurocucks be like "our 1st draft GK is 4 and 0 on PKs this postseason" and it's like we could of had 4 more field goals is what your saying dawg! Come on!
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As an American I’ll probably get roasted for saying this, but why don’t y’all just get rid of goalkeepers? Soccer would be way less boring if the score was like 48 to 72
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I mean what is so difficult to understand about stoppage time? Feels incredibly self-explanatory
Chris Arnade 🐢🐱🚌@Chris_arnade
Soccer refs: We 3D-scanned all 1,248 players before the tournament, track every limb 50 times a second, and can confirm you are offside by a toenail. No goal. Soccer refs: Added time? I'm thinking... seven minutes. Actually, ten. Could be twelve. Hard to say really.
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@BethFisherSport They should've changed it to 8 groups of 6, top two go through.
Then all the shit teams still get to play 5 games, and it goes straight to a round of 16
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Anyone else found the group stages of this World Cup utterly boring? Whilst having 48 teams has produced super cute stories like Cape Verde, it’s not been enough to fill the void of big group games with knockout qualification jeopardy.
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@mdixonair Yes that's what we did before VAR
VAR is brand new. It hasn't been well implemented yet.
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My take on offside reviews: if there’s a question, look at all the angles in real time. If you can’t judge it from that, then it’s not clear and obvious and therefore the goal should stand!
Taylor Twellman@TaylorTwellman
What. Are. We. Doing
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@Gee__Gazza There's only one football that matters and it's not the one where little phaggots flop on the floor. American football is the best even if the world is too retarded to figure it out.
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I’m looking forward to the Americans not giving a shit about football again after the World Cup.
Their opinions on rules about a sport they’ve just discovered and arrogance to think the rest of the world cares what they think is giving me a migraine.
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@Jason___YYC I can't wait until this is over and we can just go back to laughing at how shit Tottenham are.
And I'm a Tottenham fan.
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Why did we ever let Americans watch sports outside America
Justin Penik@JustinPenik
Offsides in soccer blows my mind. It would be like penalizing a wide receiver for running past a corner on a blown coverage
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@blankslate2017 @wilkesneil And nobody else in the world cares about baseball.
Funny that.
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@wilkesneil @ReynardRoux There's much more scoring in baseball than soccer. It's not a close call. And, yes, Americans have clamored for MLB to make improvements to the game and the league has done so.
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A lot of Europeans attempting to defend the offsides rule in soccer make analogies to US sports that make no sense b/c they don't understand US sports. They also don't get how the offsides rules, as rigidly applied as we've seen, adds no value to the sport.
Jon Benne@LordBenne
It's so funny how American fans respond to the soccer offside rule, as if our biggest sport doesn't have an entire army of 8K cameras to determine by how many half-inches the ball is a first down or not.
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@LukeAmos__ Which is 163 years ago. It has been refined several times, but it is a fundamental aspect of the sport.
You've been watching it for 2 weeks.
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@LukeAmos__ You would end up with every attacker positioned on the goal line. So every defender would also position themselves on the goal line.
Turning it into a 110-yard long-kicking game.
Which is exactly what happened before the rule was introduced in 1863.
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I actually would love to trial a competitive game without the offside rule…
What would happen?
Everyone just thinks theyre going to hang a defender on the edge of the box, but the keeper would surely just end up covering them…?
Brady@Bradyatki
Offsides in soccer is just the dumbest rule ever. Makes it completely unwatchable.
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Soccer sucks and is boring. I just don’t get why people are so worked up over it.
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If some "Dude watching every 4 years" is smart enough to know the rule needs addressing (either the rule itself or how addressed with VAR), I say "Bully for them" because they would be correct.
Joe Schad@schadjoe
FIFA’s Chief of global football development, Arsene Wenger, not just some dude on X who watches the sport every four years, wants a change to offside rules which would state a player is offside ONLY when there is “clear daylight” between the attacker and defender.
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Of course the offside rule is necessary in soccer. Without it people might actually score some goals
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@schadjoe The difference is: he isn't an American who's watched football for 2 weeks and thinks the rule shouldn't exist at all.
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FIFA’s Chief of global football development, Arsene Wenger, not just some dude on X who watches the sport every four years, wants a change to offside rules which would state a player is offside ONLY when there is “clear daylight” between the attacker and defender.
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@The_8thWonder_ It'll be great when this is over and we can just go back to laughing at how shit Spurs are.
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Oh god, please give me strength #FIFAWorldCup
USMNT_STAN@StanUsmnt
My hottest American soccer bro take it this. Why is there only one ref to cover the entire field? I get linesmen can assist but they rarely do. There is just no possible way this person can see everything+be a time keeper expected to accurately track injury time through a half
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