World Cup 2022 thread (football only)

[redsquirrel]

japan deserved an extra goal for the volume of their crowd.amazing throughout

[Northern Red]

 

[David Brent]

Thanks very much Sepp Blatter 

[BobbyC]

D'ont mention the VAR

[CliftonCliff]

7 minutes ago, BobbyC said:

D'ont mention the VAR

I can’t like this enough.

[Curr Avon]

'Allo 'allo, I shall say this only once. Herr Flick is out of the World Cup!

Gid roddance.

 

 

[2015]

1 hour ago, Sleepy1968 said:

Nauseating isn't it. All I can think of when Souness opens his mouth is 'I saw your last game in charge of Liverpool, so shut it'

I wonder if he was that angry about Lampard's disallowed goal in 2010 against Germany? Because I really doubt it.

[REDOXO]

2 hours ago, Sleepy1968 said:

Any technology that puts the Germans out is the right and necessary technology.

Quote of the week!

[RedLionLad]

[REDOXO]

Don’t mention Ze VAR. ^^^^^

Edited December 1, 2022 by REDOXO

[ExiledAjax]

Good lord Germany. xG of 6.42 is ludicrous. 32 shots, 11 on target.

Oh well.

[Major Isewater]

8 hours ago, BobbyC said:

D'ont mention the VAR

[ralphindevon]

10 hours ago, ExiledAjax said:

Why are ITV trying to cook up a conspiracy?

Watching that last night made me even more depressed they’re showing the England game.

[ExiledAjax]

28 minutes ago, ralphindevon said:

Watching that last night made me even more depressed they’re showing the England game.

Weirdest bit was bloody Aluko trying to explain how her real time view from the studio should be more definitive than the VAR analysis.

Edited December 2, 2022 by ExiledAjax

[Open End Numb Legs]

Watched the Germany - Costa Rica game last night, thought the female officials had a good game, well, I didn't notice them which is a good sign.

There seems to be those teams that always create trouble for officials with diving and faking injury, the screaming, the rolling around and those that don't.

[Kid in the Riot]

Japan's new flag 

[1960maaan]

10 hours ago, RedLionLad said:

Conclusive proof not all the ball was over the line ...... possibly .... probably .... 

[maxjak]

in analytical geometry if "r" is radiuus (x y z) is the locus of all points. So the equation of a sphere is (x-x)  (y-y) + (z+z) - r2.     Or to quote John Mcinroe   " The ball was out!!"

Edited December 2, 2022 by maxjak

[exAtyeoMax]

14 minutes ago, maxjak said:

in analytical geometry if "r" is radiuus (x y z) is the locus of all points. So the equation of a sphere is (x-x)  (y-y) + (z+z) - r2.     Or to quote John Mcinroe   " The ball was out!!"

Chalk dust! Everyone could see there was chalk dust!

[Davefevs]

4 minutes ago, exAtyeoMax said:

Chalk dust! Everyone could see there was chalk dust!

I bought that “single”!

[maxjak]

59 minutes ago, Davefevs said:

I bought that “single”!

I always wondered who  .....    that person was   ?

Edited December 2, 2022 by maxjak

[exAtyeoMax]

1 hour ago, maxjak said:

in analytical geometry if "r" is radiuus (x y z) is the locus of all points. So the equation of a sphere is (x-x)  (y-y) + (z+z) - r2.     Or to quote John Mcinroe   " The ball was out!!"

surprised they didn't get him on This Morning…"it was on the line!!!"

[downendcity]

12 hours ago, RedLionLad said:

 

This is not a truly overhead photograph, as if it were then the  crossbar would be directly over the goal line, rather sitting a little to the right. 

For it to be properly overhead, then the viewpoint would need to shift slightly to the right . The resulting change of perspective would make the ball look much more in than do any of the pictures that have been shown - all of which appear to have been taken from the left ( as we see in this picture), so all of them suffer the same perspective issue, and explains why the immediate response of pundits was disbelief.

 

[downendcity]

1 hour ago, maxjak said:

in analytical geometry if "r" is radiuus (x y z) is the locus of all points. So the equation of a sphere is (x-x)  (y-y) + (z+z) - r2.     Or to quote John Mcinroe   " The ball was out!!"

 

1 hour ago, Davefevs said:

I bought that “single”!

Id have thought you'd have produced graph to demonstrate this this by now Dave! 

[Major Isewater]

 World Cup Hokey Cokey. 

[And Its Smith]

The ball was in. Amazed that twitter is still banging on about it!  

[2015]

Have a feeling there might be more upsets in RO16. I can see USA being tough for Netherlands who haven't particularly impressed and in the last Euros they lost to Czech Republic in RO16 when they were the favourites. Japan vs Croatia will be a very evenly matched game and I can see Morocco giving Spain serious issues. Spain's issue is they have one way of playing and cannot adjust as the players suit a fluid passing system, this makes it easier for opponents to counteract the way they play. They should have won their Group.

[petehinton]

Iconic 

[Mr Popodopolous]

6 hours ago, ExiledAjax said:

Good lord Germany. xG of 6.42 is ludicrous. 32 shots, 11 on target.

Oh well.

Sort of proves my point that Germany statistically really were not so bad. Tournament wise too.

Edited December 2, 2022 by Mr Popodopolous

[Open End Numb Legs]

So, does VAR assume that all the lines are perfectly straight and uniform? I've see a few wobbly lines in the old days so are they painted by machine with laser guidance or something?

If done by hand and the groundsman had sneezed at the wrong moment it could make all the difference.

I think I saw a program during Wimbledon one year where they showed them testing the Hawkeye system but that is on a much smaller scale than a football pitch. These are very precise margins looking at the photos from last night.