Football Thread

[Leonormous Boozer]

Prefer our route to Wales' or NI and I still wouldn't bet on it at all. Czech are a bit of a basket case and we owe the Danes but yeah, going to need a third and fourth consecutive upset against regulars in finals tournaments.

 

[Vaquer]

2 Dutch teams (Netherlands and Curaçao) in the same world cup finals sounds like a first https://www.fifa.com/en/tournaments/mens/worldcup/canadamexicousa2026/articles/final-draw-results

 

[Cruz_del_Sur]

2 Dutch teams (Netherlands and Curaçao) in the same world cup finals sounds like a first https://www.fifa.com/en/tournaments/mens/worldcup/canadamexicousa2026/articles/final-draw-results

A bit like having Wales and England in the same group in 2022, innit?

 

[Reiser99]

Football continuing to show how to **** up a video review system and the referees authority.

Key Match Incidents Panel: Everton wrongly denied penalty in Arsenal defeat

Everton should have been awarded a penalty in their 1-0 defeat by Arsenal, the Premier League's Key Match Incidents Panel has said.

www.bbc.com

Honestly, how does releasing this information help in anyway? Even if it was 5-0 in favour, but they voted 3-2, so even that suggests it wasn't certain. Whole system is ridiculous.

Anyone know if it's just the premier league releasing reviews or football as a whole?

 

[Leonormous Boozer]

Football continuing to show how to **** up a video review system and the referees authority.

Key Match Incidents Panel: Everton wrongly denied penalty in Arsenal defeat

Everton should have been awarded a penalty in their 1-0 defeat by Arsenal, the Premier League's Key Match Incidents Panel has said.

www.bbc.com

Honestly, how does releasing this information help in anyway? Even if it was 5-0 in favour, but they voted 3-2, so even that suggests it wasn't certain. Whole system is ridiculous.

Anyone know if it's just the premier league releasing reviews or football as a whole?

I think there's merit to public reviews. Football refereeing at the top level is pretty cut throat from what I understand and mistakes aren't taken lightly at all. And it's reffed to a far higher standard than rugby.

Obviously its an easier sport to officiate and although they've got a lot better, they have taken to video reviews bizarrely slowly, but I reckon rugby has more to learn from soccer than vice versa in terms of refereeing.