World Cup 2018

[John Madejski's Wallet]

Hats off to the organisation skillz of the Iceland players

[John Madejski's Wallet]

Soft pen, followed by a naff shot....... Nice

[CountryRoyal]

Messi’s penalty saved by a film director.

[CountryRoyal]

Bod to come on and score the winner.

[John Madejski's Wallet]

Messi doesn't look right with tattoos. Like a weasly bloke tying to look hard

[Sutekh]

Messi doesn't look right with tattoos. Like a weasly bloke tying to look hard

Whereas Ronaldo is a hard bloke trying to look weasly

[John Madejski's Wallet]

Yeah pretty much

[John Madejski's Wallet]

Now that non VAR really was a pen imo

[Sutekh]

Peru or Denmark ?

Leaning towards Peru as I like their kit more and there’s the Paolo Hurtado factor.

[John Madejski's Wallet]

Got to be Peru for the sheer fanaticism of their fans......they reckon 50,000 in Russia

[tulip]

Well done Iceland, can't help but admire them.

[Winston Biscuit]

Messi doesn't look right with tattoos. Like a weasly bloke tying to look hard

But he has such great tattoos!

[Snowflake Royal]

On that France VAR penalty, I rather suspect the scenario is this:

Ref thinks the defender gets a big slice of the ball and attacker dives with no contact.

VAR checks it and discovers the initial touch on the ball is minimal and it's still very much there for the attacker to keep going with, and on top of that there is clear contact on the rear leg of the attacker which brings him down.

Therefore, ref's original decision that it was a good challenge and a dive is wrong, ref see's it (he isn't overruled) and decides that what he thought he saw happened isn't what actually happened and it should be a pen. Fairly quick decision, and a good call.

Iceland v Argentina game is more dodgy for VAR, with the original Argentina pen rather soft, and the one that wasn't given much more convincing.

[Royalwaster]

So OK Ronaldo scored a great free-kick yesterday, a penalty and a goal from a goal keeping howler - other than that I didn't think he played that well. But from the way, the BBC are reporting on it, it's as if he had a 10/10 game ... or is it just me?

[Snowflake Royal]

So OK Ronaldo scored a great free-kick yesterday, a penalty and a goal from a goal keeping howler - other than that I didn't think he played that well. But from the way, the BBC are reporting on it, it's as if he had a 10/10 game ... or is it just me?

I thought he had a much better game than the Champs League final where he strutted around ineffectually. He still wasn't anywhere near the best player on the pitch against Spain (Isco - who was also way better in the Champions League Final), but he got a hat-trick and did play for the team - being let down by their young forward a bit.

[John Madejski's Wallet]

So OK Ronaldo scored a great free-kick yesterday, a penalty and a goal from a goal keeping howler - other than that I didn't think he played that well. But from the way, the BBC are reporting on it, it's as if he had a 10/10 game ... or is it just me?

He wasn't amazing, but he was better thank you make out. It's hard to argue with a WC hattrick

He was certainly better than he was in the Champs Final

[CountryRoyal]

So OK Ronaldo scored a great free-kick yesterday, a penalty and a goal from a goal keeping howler - other than that I didn't think he played that well. But from the way, the BBC are reporting on it, it's as if he had a 10/10 game ... or is it just me?

He single handed handedly dragged Portugal through that match and, taking away the goals, was pretty much the only person on his team producing anything of quality.

[Sutekh]

Is that Cueva actually of English descent, only way I can explain the true awfulness of that penalty.

[tmesis]

Is that Cueva actually of English descent, only way I can explain the true awfulness of that penalty.

Justice was done, as I really can't fathom how that was deemed a penalty.

You had a play already going down, who, half a second before he actually hits the deck, manages to stretch a leg out enough to get a slight contact - and somehow that's deemed a foul.

[John Madejski's Wallet]

But apparently he had 'no need to go down so it must have been a pen'.....LOL