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I know it's been said many times before - but South Americans are absolutely mad :lol: There should have been about half an hour stoppage time. That was chaos. Suarez with a massive miss. Two glorious chances missed by Uribe too - the second one off Rochet and onto the bar was the worst. He...

He's a livewire and gets lots of chances with his pace and movement, but he can't finish most of them. Same story as at Liverpool.

@Birdy Kit lunacy in the Copa America now. Uruguay wearing their all white kit when they could easily wear blue shirts and black shorts and socks against Colombia's yellow shirts, blue shorts and red socks.

It's a crude analogy, but it's similar to advantage. With advantage, if you play on and no advantage happens in the first few seconds, another tug of the shirt or something, it is rightly pulled back for the initial foul. But if play on and lose the ball fairly or fuck it up, then rightly the...

Yeah it's not in the law but it probably should be. If the ball is gone the chance is gone. Though you could argue that Dumfries (with that whey believe is a foul) put Kane off for his initial shot. As for bold, it's always an awkward debate that, isn't it? Because of how much greater a penalty...

If England do win this I want them to do it by outplaying Spain in the final. Like I said earlier, it just won't feel right if Spain dominate, miss chances, and England spawn it. Happens a lot in football though so who knows.

2-1 Colombia I am gonna go for. Luis Diaz first goal. It should be a great contest.

Yeah you have a point there. Neville is one of the worst pundits know to man lol. His football takes are awful.

His leg is side on though and the ball is gone. I need to watch it again but I am sure he wasn't pushing through Kane with his studs, which if the rules were how I would like them, would make a difference. I wouldn't want that given for a team I was supporting (I know you won't believe me, but...

Anyway, England were in the ascendancy even before then, but would they have got the goal if the penalty had not been awarded? It's hypothetical and we will never know. On another night with different officials the penalty isn't awarded, the Dutch remain 1-0 up, and England push all night but...

Exactly. Especially the slow mo point. But it should never have been called to VAR in the first place. If he had given it on pitch, I wouldn't have expected them to overturn the decision. It's not clear and obvious enough for them to send him to the screen (even if I believe it is not a...

I am thinking I reacted a bit too strongly initially (though I still think it wasn't one), but to be fair still images can be deceiving. But the ball is gone and the contact (in real time) doesn't look that bad to me. If the laws say that is a penalty to me the law needs redefined. But i's...

I admit, I have been worried since Bellingham's late goal against Slovakia. Like you say, they have players in the team and on the bench who can pull something out of the hat - the further they go the more likely they will get thieir act together, as they did for the first half. They might even...

I think I'd prefer Colombia as (and it might not work out this way in practice) I think it'd be a better football match. Uruguay are not as good to watch as Colombia and would make it more of a battle. But ARG-URU is a legendary rivalry and would be a great match for the reasons you state.

Maybe Kane is playing 4D chess...

Yeah by penalty decision I really mean VAR with the clear and obvious thing. They should have stuck with his original decision, which as you say was reasonable. Some of his decisions for free-kicks etc were poor though imo, and that's on him. Agree with most of that mate. As for the penalty -...

Hahahah. Good one.

They were definitely better tonight than NED - much more so in the first half. I was impressed by them in the first half I must say. The worry is they approach that level against ESP and make it a tough game for Spain. Hopefully they play more like against Slovakia and Spain rim them a la Italy...

The nightmare scenario is that Spain underperform or England drag them down to their level. Or Spain are brilliant but can't finish and England win with a goal off Stones's bollock.

Fair enough, definitely as you are a good lad. Looking back on it maybe it was my anti-England goggles. I still don't think it was a penalty but I have seen worse so maybe 'shocking' was the wrong word to use to describe it. I still wouldn't have given it though, and maybe you'll agree that it...