** World Cup 2026 - USA, Canada, Mexico Thread **
Saw no thread was active yet while it starts tomorrow so I'd gave it a go
No real time for an extensive write-up but lets
SABR - I've read more extensively on this and two things are for sure :
1) The right outcome is achieved here - so it's not a matter of being unfair
2) The methodology behind giving that 2nd yellow is not foreseen by the rulebook
You keep referring to Almiron which is right if we're going by "let the precedents be the rules" but the actual rulebook does not advocate for this situation to be a situation where a yellow can be given for simulation
I know they did it once before this tournament but did they actually announce something or is it just something they'll decide to do from time to time? Because yeah it's really not how the rules are written
I didn't hear it at the time, but some journo said they did and I just trusted it. If they did it removes most of my reservations about how it was handled since it was a quite apparent dive, if they were just looking for any possibility to justify the VAR coming in it would be a serious scandal.
It would be a good thing to have a mechanism to punish diving, but they should seriously straighten out the protocols going forward. I guess only doing it if the would-be foul produces a yellow is some protection against VAR just coming in at any time. At the same time, this plays into a problem I've had with VAR from the start- people said it would reduce "injustice" by refereeing mistakes, but if reviews don't correct some bias or even create new ones, it doesn't reduce injustice so much as just variance. As it stands this is another fuzzy mechanism where VARs can put their thumb on the scale by deciding which situations they look at and which they don't. So far they've done it in favour of the hosts and the world champs, which is probably coincidence but also a bad start.
Catching some divers is better than catching none of them, but if the pattern holds it's got the same vibe as cops pulling over black and poor looking people at a way higher rate than Mercedes drivers. The flimsy justification of it as "mistaken identity" only adds to that. I don't know if you can study whether big clubs benefit from VAR more than you'd expect, but at the same time I can't bring myself to trust FIFA, UEFA or anyone else on this.
Second yellow is irrelevant.Almiron was given a first yellow for the same situation.If you dive and fool the referee into giving a card, then VAR is able to intervene. Referee is then obligated to book you for simulation. This is how it works now.There has to be a card given on the original play, for it to be overturned. If there is no card, or no penalty, then there's nothing
But that wasn’t how anyone understood those rules a month ago and it’s a very creative interpretation of the written rules.
I didn't hear it at the time, but some journo said they did and I just trusted it. If they did it removes most of my reservations about how it was handled since it was a quite apparent dive, if they were just looking for any possibility to justify the VAR coming in it would be a serious scandal. It would be a good thing to have a mechanism to punish diving, but they should seri
well said and agreed - the outcome that is being achieved is good but you need the rules to be very explicit in its usage otherwise you just give the people behind VAR the power to arbitrarily intervene to correct those calls
Sorloth is so cooked.
This is what his Wikipedia says right now:
Alexander Sørloth (born 5 December 1995) is a Norwegian professional footballer who plays as a striker for La Liga club Atlético Madrid and the Norway national football team. Sørloth faced significant criticism following Norway's 2026 FIFA World Cup quarter-final elimination against England, after choosing not to pass to an unmarked Erling Haaland during a first-half counter-attack, a decision widely discussed across social media and international sports media.
Poor guy, lol.
It would be a good thing to have a mechanism to punish diving, but they should seriously straighten out the protocols going forward. I guess only doing it if the would-be foul produces a yellow is some protection against VAR just coming in at any time. At the same time, this plays into a problem I've had with VAR from the start- people said it would reduce "injustice" by refere
the Balo red card being an example of the opposite
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That was a decision that went against popular demand, but doesn't offer much clue on if a guy like Messi would've been had the same thing happen to him as Embolo did
also VAR didn't follow their defined protocols in the process of evaluating the play on the field
also VAR didn't follow their defined protocols in the process of evaluating the play on the field
wrt Balogun? Please not this again
also VAR didn't follow their defined protocols in the process of evaluating the play on the field
I absolutely love that some bellend said this on social media and it got picked up as fact when it isn't accurate at all. Even some American white house official said it ffs.
(Unless you're joking)
grunching the discussion but ppl are citing the almiron diving incident might be in the wrong. they came out after and admitted they screwed up there:
Mistaken identity can only be used for a specific incident, when the referee "has clearly penalised the wrong player", according to the wording of the International Football Association Board (Ifab). "The offence itself cannot be reviewed." Mistaken identity does not appear to cover an opposing player incorrectly being booked when someone has dived.
Collina introduced the law change around cautions being issued to the wrong player for the same offence because, in the final of Euro 2016, France's Laurent Koscielny was booked for handball, but the handball was by Portugal striker Eder. Same offence.
In the USA game, a foul by Ream was corrected to simulation by Almiron. Different offences.
(and they actually made a 2nd error in reviewing that play at all because the game had already re-started)
the embolo situation seems like the same misapplication of the rules
not sure if the link is geo-fenced
https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/4...
World Cup VAR review: Misapplied protocols leave Balogun wrongly red-carded
The spydercam thing might be the most hilarious thing ever, it is full Trump "just keep saying something then it will become "the truth" no matter what".
not sure if the link is geo-fenced
https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/4...
World Cup VAR review: Misapplied protocols leave Balogun wrongly red-carded
It is only geofenced in the sense that Davies completely tailored his words to the delicate american hearts by implying that VAR is not used exactly like this all the time. He is trying to appease Americans and/or is uninformed as he seems under the impression that VAR only showed the referee the slow version (of the worst angle) in which case it might have not followed the protocol to the letter but was still a red, so whatever.
It is not only normal but perfectly in line with protocol for VAR to show the referee the slow motion (for contact point or whatever you want to call it) and normal speed footage (so as not to exacerbate a ~still at a bad angle), and that is what they did.
I am assuming you are just interested in this matter as is, but I've read so many donkeys using it to defend allowing him to play against Belgium, which was honestly a new level of sad.
The people tweeting, unaware that the song is about the opposite of what they probably think.
It's not about England winning.
the idiotic tweet in broken English from a guy whose country won't sniff the semis in the next 5 World Cups is how I want to start my day
newsflash: no one gaf
I used to not speak English, this is easily fixable for anyone who doesn't have a learning disability
maybe stay in your lane Giovanni and only post in your native language until you're qualified to play with adults
grammar nits, the true kings of the internet beloved by all lol
it's a twitter shitpost, and it's kinda funny. stfu
