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World Cup 2026: Mexico, USA and Canada

Normally I'd cheer for England, but after the lack of class and no admittance of being lucky to be there, that has changed. Wouldn't mind England getting absolutely schooled and battered. Messi 6 England nil.
 
glorygloryeze? said:
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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The ref didn't deem Messi's challenge as reckless which is where the intent side of things comes into it. I wouldn't consider Balogun's challenge reckless either and thus I agreed that it should not have been a sending off although I disagreed with them suspending the suspension once they had already decided not to overturn it on the pitch.
 
glorygloryeze? said:
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?
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My credible reason is because I don't believe that should be a red. It wasn't what I consider reckless and there was no intent to harm or even challenge the player. It's just clumsy, with regards to reckless play the wording is if the player "shows disregard for an opponents safety" I don't think putting your foot down and accidentally catching the opponents level matches that requirement be suss it's not showing a disregard for their safety.
glorygloryeze? said:
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...
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Honestly I think if you look at these things through a particular lens you will find what you want to see. As I said if you look at SM from ab alternative lens you will see alternative videos and takes. I can't remember that incident in the Cape Verde game tbh so I can't comment I just know I've seen another swapped yellow given for a dive in this world cup.
 
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