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talkpoliticsThe Egregious Flop That Gave Brazil The Lead In Opening World Cup Match
''If that was a penalty, we should be playing basketball,'' said Croatia coach Niko Kovac. ''Those kinds of fouls are penalized there.''
''If that was a penalty, we should be playing basketball,'' said Croatia coach Niko Kovac. ''Those kinds of fouls are penalized there.''
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Date: 13/6/14 06:56 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 13/6/14 07:53 (UTC)A clairvoyant
octopuselephant (http://time.com/2827316/elephant-world-cup/) told me so. :-)(no subject)
Date: 13/6/14 13:25 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 13/6/14 07:56 (UTC)If this is how the World Cup is going to proceed, I may as well revert to watching rugby union tests now.
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Date: 13/6/14 15:56 (UTC)This is why soccer will never catch on with Americans. Basketball flopping draws fines and the ire of everyone. The Heat are notorious for it and they're getting pounded in the finals.
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Date: 13/6/14 11:46 (UTC)Diving Divas 3, Balkan Badasses 1
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Date: 13/6/14 12:08 (UTC)https://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/blogs/desmond-kane/forget-neymar-brazil-national-hero-yuichi-nishimura-225207798.html
'I'll never eat Sushi again': Croatian fury at ref
https://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/news/football-croatia-coach-warns-world-cup-penalty-circus-233800841--sow.html
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Date: 13/6/14 14:34 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 13/6/14 19:04 (UTC)I'm always amused by that habit of UK sports channels inviting a Brit and a Scot to comment. The mixture of accents is killing!
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Date: 13/6/14 12:22 (UTC)If they think the refs are going to push them all the way to the final, they're gravely mistaken. They'll be cruelly landed back down into reality by the first solid team they encounter, be it Spain or Holland.
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Date: 13/6/14 16:59 (UTC)I thought FIFA were a bunch of corrupt dangleberries, as our Aussie chums might put it, but I did think they cared for the game on the pitch.
Bad refereeing and linesman's decisions in the Mexico Cameroon match too.
This is the World Cup, get it right. Or give the administration of the game back to the folk who care about it rather than the fucking bean-counting money men with Napoleonic delusions we have at the moment.
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Date: 13/6/14 18:17 (UTC)This event has become a farce already. At least Olympics officiating is decent, even if the IOC is running neck and neck with FIFA for Bond villain levels of corruption & evil.
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Date: 13/6/14 19:20 (UTC)And a whole bunch of medals are distributed through that system.
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Date: 13/6/14 22:48 (UTC)I've got berries that dingle dangle dingle!
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Date: 13/6/14 21:19 (UTC)The tentacles of SPECTRE, err, I mean FIFA, know no bounds!
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Date: 13/6/14 21:23 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 13/6/14 22:08 (UTC)Someday Earth is gonna get shit for "Miss Universe" contest too, I can only hope.
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