World Cup 2026

[crazy canuck]

English player was just too weak

[Duque de Bragança]

English player was just too weak

Embellishment ?

[HVC]

(Some) internet memes claim that Dan Burn has Haaland figured out and will shut him down easily.

Everyone has a plan until a six and a half foot tall berserker runs you over. Ask Ethelred

See

[HVC]

English player was just too weak

Embellishment ?

Perhaps. But it was a two hand shove. At the least it was an unwise move by haaland.

[Threviel]

This fucking dumb var shit has to go. Every time I watch international games I get happy that we don't have that crap in the Swedish league.

[HVC]

This fucking dumb var shit has to go. Every time I watch international games I get happy that we don't have that crap in the Swedish league.

VAR should be used for offside and in the box only. Using it for all this other shit is stupid. So in this case I reluctantly think VAR was fine.

[Duque de Bragança]

English player was just too weak

Embellishment ?

Perhaps. But it was a two hand shove. At the least it was an unwise move by haaland.

Plus he's not Messi. 

[HVC]

English player was just too weak

Embellishment ?

Perhaps. But it was a two hand shove. At the least it was an unwise move by haaland.

Plus he's not Messi. 

That only counts if you try to cripple someone's ankle. Messi's way to small to push anyone ever... except maybe one of the ball kids 

[Zoupa]

I think getting mad at the ref and blaming every loss on bias was part of the game before VAR and it was glorious. Now every damn decision relies on it. Kane was fouled on the Norway goal. The ball touched a wire on the England goal. Haaland fouled someone on the 2nd Norway goal. It's all VAR VAR VAR and it kills the game. IMO, of course.

[Sheilbh]

Why is everyone always glazing Declan Rice? He's very ordinary.

I think because without him you can just play through the middle of England.

[crazy canuck]

English player was just too weak

Embellishment ?

Perhaps. But it was a two hand shove. At the least it was an unwise move by haaland.

Sure but they were both shoving each other with two hands.  It's just the English player looked like a child pushing against a granite wall.

[Sheilbh]

I think getting mad at the ref and blaming every loss on bias was part of the game before VAR and it was glorious. Now every damn decision relies on it. Kane was fouled on the Norway goal. The ball touched a wire on the England goal. Haaland fouled someone on the 2nd Norway goal. It's all VAR VAR VAR and it kills the game. IMO, of course.

Agree I legit just prefer talking about officials missing something. I think in the World Cup it's at least generall been pretty quick. The 5-10 minute checks in the Premier League just drive me mad.