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World Cup 2026: Mexico, USA and Canada

There are Argentinian fans everywhere here. I would say outnumbering English fans easily 6 or 7 to 1. There will of course be areas where each team’s fan congregate (we were at one of them briefly earlier) but just wandering around the main centre area it’s quite striking the difference in numbers.

Edit - I’ve come to the conclusion that the disparity is not as I thought. Rather Argentinian fans are out and about looking for places to eat; England fans are just inside in the Irish and other bars.
Great atmosphere all round though. So far.
 
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Chrissivad said:
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This is a joke. Far too many games.
What's the point in qualifying games? Just invite everyone....
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Bishop said:
There is a video on SM that shows all the challenges that Egypt made that didn't result in even a foul let alone a card so it literally does go both ways. You probably haven't seen that video and so your narrative already set, but if had watched that video and nothing else you would think that Argentina got cheated in that match.

Embolo got sent off because it 1. Because it was a clear dive and c'mon you can be the most biased person on the planet but you can see the Argentine player doesn't even touch him and he threw himself to the floor before the supposed touch and rolled over and over. He tried to get the Argentine players a yellow which leads into 2. The new directive whereby if a yellow is rescinded for simulation the simulated player will receive the punishment (a good rule) and before you say it yes this same rule was used in an earlier match for the same situation in this very world cup.

The conspiracies started because there is a concerted anti Messi group, basically CR7 fans who have for years ran a social media campaign attacking Messi and anything games he's involved in, questioning his stats, performances, claims of cheating, drugs, bias etc, etc, etc. it's just grown year after year. This isn't a new thing there's actually a media company being paid to insert stories, that's how crazy the competition between these 2 modern greats has actually become. I'm aware of it because a friend of mine is one of the CR7 crazies and has for years been sending some variation of these conspiracies.
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I think i missed this yesteday; i'm not referring to the Egypt match i'm talking about theior fiorst game vs Algeria: did you see Messi's stomp on the back of the calf of one of their players? If so, can you give any credible reason as to why that wasn't a red card given other red card incidents we've seen?

Regarding Embolo i don't have an issue with what happened to him, just the fact that a similar incident occurred in Argentina's game vs Cape Verde when one of tehir players wasn't touched and like Embolo threw themselves to the floor on his own and got one of their players booked. There was no VAR review of that yellow card and no look at 'article blah blah' used to do so, again unlike in the case of Embolo.

So based on just those two incidents you can see how you don't have to be a "Ronaldo fanboy" (and believe me i'm not, after all he himself has had his own favourable treatment in terms of not serving initial 3 game bans in light of this tournament etc) to start asking questions and wondering if 'conspiracies' are actually taking place.

It's one thing for officials to be incompetent, it's another thing for that 'incompetence' to someone tend to favour certain teams/players...
 
Bishop said:
Putting your foot down and catching someone's ankle and going in on a sliding challenge or different things. One is the attempt to play the ball and getting it wrong, the intent was not to foul but the challenge was intentional, he got it wrong so there is a punishment. Running and putting your foot down is not an intentional challenge, its not even a challenge its just unluckily catching the other player. I said the same when Simmons was sent off against Liverpool for similar, it wasn't even a challenge just a clumsy coming together.
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The rules are the rules. If a challenge is deemed as 'reckless' then 'intent' is irrelevant. Part of the ref's job is to make sure of the safety of the players on the pitch during a game and that means making sure that players are penalised appropriately (whether via a warning of a yellow card or a punishment of a red).
Intent is often irrelevant and a card gives a message about how a player should/should not tackle to make sure their fellow professional's health is not put in danger etc
 
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