SubJeff on 28/6/2014 at 08:46
Yeah Cahill's was surprisingly good.
SubJeff on 28/6/2014 at 08:47
I'm in France this weekend and as a Nigeria supporter i'm not sure if I should go into a bar to watch the France game!
N'Al on 30/6/2014 at 22:45
Gah.
Not at all convincing from Germany. Just glad they're through, but France is going to be a tough task next round.
faetal on 30/6/2014 at 22:48
I'll be watching that game somewhere in London, the day after (hopefully) passing my PhD viva.
I'm rooting for France, but it'll be an exciting game no matter who wins.
SD on 1/7/2014 at 12:32
Quote Posted by N'Al
It's not even a case of 'so much time in the day'. Using any one of these incidents in an attempt to negate or diminish another is just idiotic, plain and simple.
Nobody has diminished anything. I am merely pointing out that your priorities are wrong.
Quote Posted by SubJeff
Err, what's all this?
This is a thread about the World Cup competition, no? About the matches.
If you want talk about the ancillary problems such as construction deaths, the injustice of forcing people out their homes, the Qatar nonsense (or Russian for that matter!) there is a thread for that.
You don't want to talk about those things. That's the sodding point.
Quote Posted by Scots Taffer
SD, I cannot honestly believe a man of your age and apparent intellect, at least to be able to string together sentences, can actually believe in such a grossly false equivalency as the one you've drawn between a footballer paid millions to be on the world stage biting a fellow player in a contest at the highest level of the sport held only once every four years to the idolatry of hundreds of millions of people to the near anonymous deaths of nine labourers in uncontrolled conditions in a practically third world nation.
You can't be that fucktarded.
edit: that be a fucked sentence though, ain't no mistake.
There's nothing fucktarded about being angrier about people dying than about people receiving superficial bites.
SD on 1/7/2014 at 12:39
Quote Posted by nickie
In other news, (
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/28023882) Suarez has a 4 month ban for any football-related activity and a 9 match international ban. Plus he'll miss the first 9 games in the Premier League. Wonder whether he still gets his £200,000 a week while banned.
FIFA are corrupt scum. You'd get fairer treatment from the Ayatollahs than that bunch of vermin.
If clubs are going to be punished for things that happen on international duty, then I hope professional teams start refusing to release their players for internationals. See what happens to FIFA's sponsor money if their poxy tournaments have to go ahead with semi-pros and amateurs.
Gryzemuis on 1/7/2014 at 13:30
Liverpool fan maybe ?
FIFA had to give a harsh punishment. They could not just not set an example. In my country, violence in amateur football games has gotten out of hand. An amateur referee got beaten to death recently.
When I watch football now, I am amazed by what the players can get away with. I like Basketball. In Basketball, if there is heavy physical contact, there will be a foul called. 6 Personal fouls, and you are out. It makes the game a lot more civilized than football, imho. Football referees can't use camera-footage to review a critical situation. Etc. Refereeing is a lot harder in football than in basketball. And often you can't really see if a hard foul was intentional, or just dumb play by offender. How are you gonna punish a player that might have ran into another player too fast, or who intentionally tried to hurt his opponent ?
This was different.
Suarez bit another player.
There can be no mistake about that. It's not uncontrolled physical play. It's not a mistake. It's not a defender with little skill. It was an intentional act of violence.
The only response possible was a ban.
I can't see how anyone can be surprised by this. Except Uruguayans and Liverpudlians. As if it's ok to lose any sense of reality when you are a fanboy.
N'Al on 1/7/2014 at 14:12
Quote Posted by SD
Nobody has diminished anything. I am merely pointing out that your priorities are wrong.
Bullshit. The reason - the ONLY reason - you mentioned the deaths of the 9 Brazilians in this particular thread is to draw a
direct parallel to Suarez' biting incident, nothing more. This has nothing to do with priorities. In fact, here's the exact quote from earlier in the thread:
Quote Posted by SD
Anyone else who gets more outraged by a player biting an opponent on the pitch than people actually dying building the stadiums these games are being played in should make themselves known so I can add them to my ignore list too.
NO ONE here has said they're more outraged over Suarez' biting incident than the deaths of 9 Brazilians. No one. Not SubJeff, not I, nor anyone else.
Take your fucking strawmen elsewhere and get out of this thread, you've shat over it enough already.
Briareos H on 1/7/2014 at 14:18
Strontium Dog is back!
