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FIFA World Cup 2014

#1,744
Revolver said:
Wow!!! It's official!!! Uruguay is in total denial!! Now their football association is claiming that the bite was photoshopped!!! I guess the recent legalization of pot down there is showing its effects!! :woot:
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I was wondering how long it would be before someone claimed that. I guess the bite marks were photoshopped on to the live video of the match as it was broadcast so they could be clearly visible immediately after they were inflicted.

Uruguay's FA, manager and fans have reacted in a pathetically stupid manner here. I can't believe they depend on Suarez's hero status so badly that they deny the evidence of their own eyes. But apparently that's the case. We seem to have an entire country (albeit a small one) in complete denial of what is totally obvious to the rest of the world. It's an incredible concept when you think about it a bit. 3 million "victims" refusing to believe what is totally obvious, simply because that's what they'd wish to be true and in complete conflict with everything they can see as clearly as the rest of us. An entire country wilfully deluding themselves. Crazy psychology.
 
#1,748
Apparently I'm the only person in the world who was shocked at the way Ecuador finished the match against France. They needed to win and were playing for a draw. They were time-wasting, faking injuries, etc. The goalkeeper made a late save then took 30 seconds to kick the ball up field. They were attacking with one or two guys. When they won a corner, they only sent up two guys to try and win it. When they won that corner at the end the player took his sweet time walking to the corner, placing the ball, like he had all the time in the world. No one else noticed this?
 
#1,751
This made me chuckle:

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Basic Spanish and internet translation tools came to the rescue, though. "Diego, que piensas sobre el incidente Suarez," I asked. Had he seen the Suarez incident?

"What incident?" was his response. This was a camp, a country, united in denial, united by a desire to protect a friend, a team-mate, a player key to their ambitions, united by a clear belief that this was an unfair campaign driven by foreign media.

"I don't know what you're talking about," Lugano continued. "Are you talking about the Premier League or the national team? Have you got something against Luis?"

Less than 24 hours earlier I, along with thousands of others, had been at Estadio das Dunas in Natal when Suarez had fallen to the floor clutching his teeth while defender Chiellini complained to the referee that he had been bitten on the shoulder by the striker.

"He must sell newspapers. Otherwise you wouldn't be here," Lugano added.

I continued in Spanish. "Are you saying nothing happened with Chiellini?"

"No," he said. "The TV pictures don't show anything. Nothing important."

So why is Fifa investigating Suarez then?
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#1,752
jrthebassguy said:
So there's no way around it: I have work during the US match tomorrow. Seems like everybody at the office but the manager (of course) wants to watch it. The 2nd half will start roughly around my normal lunch time, but I gotta find a way to watch the whole match. Blah.
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Ring them up and say you had a massive accident and your leg fell off, so you need the day off, but it'll be fine, and reattached by tomorrow.
 
#1,754
matante said:
Apparently I'm the only person in the world who was shocked at the way Ecuador finished the match against France. They needed to win and were playing for a draw. They were time-wasting, faking injuries, etc. The goalkeeper made a late save then took 30 seconds to kick the ball up field. They were attacking with one or two guys. When they won a corner, they only sent up two guys to try and win it. When they won that corner at the end the player took his sweet time walking to the corner, placing the ball, like he had all the time in the world. No one else noticed this?
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I noticed it too. I briefly thought maybe they're going for the tie thinking that's enough to qualify.

1st. This day in age everyone is up to date instantly on phones, tablets, there's scoreboards in the f***** stadiums!

2nd. For whatever reason let's say all social media/instant form of communication is gone, you had to have assume Switzerland was gonna beat Honduras!

I'd stop thinking about what they were thinking at that point.
 
#1,758
Syxz_ML said:
Easily attainable? Yeah won't go that far but they do have a chance to get a draw. This world cup's been full of surprises. But it'll be a hard earn draw if they get it. I still think Germany gets the win though.
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My thoughts as well. I'd prefer the US earn their way through with a draw but more likely is something like yesterday's matches where we stay within a goal like Nigeria did with Argentina and Portugal-Ghana ends in a draw.
 

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