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PlainmoorRoar wrote:Well the England game was terrible

Well the. Italy game had more BITE to it that's for sure.

Neither Costa Rica or Uruguay have a hope of getting past the next round. Italy as I stated had the worst national side they have ever had.
Far from being such a hard group it was in fact rank average. To finish tailed off was pathetic.

Dave_Pougher wrote: Well the. Italy game had more BITE to it that's for sure.

Suarez needs help, you don't bite 3 people in 3 different moments after being reprimanded after each previous incidents

Time for a HUGE ban, the bloke needs to be made an example of how not to react to things

I have absolutely no doubt that, despite the incident being caught on 300 cameras, all in glorious high definition, being witnessed not only by 80,000 people in the stadium, but a global TV audience of 500,000,000, there being absolute evidence of a bite mark on the victim and Suarez having more form than the Post Office, FIFA will squirm out of actually punishing him for the offence. After all, can''t have a £70m striker missing from the game for too long, think of how much money that would cost Blatter and his mates. No, what you really need to secure a draconian conviction is a grainy video which looks to have been shot on an early 2000s Nokia from two towns over of two blokes coming together in the penalty area and absolutely no evidence at all that a bite actually occurred in front of the 17 people who could be arsed to turn up.

Makes you wonder though, regards the Labadie incident. The Italian went down like he'd been shot and "all" Suarez had done was left teeth marks. If Labadie had really bitten a chunk out of the Chesterfield bloke, he sure as hell wouldn't have just got up and carried on with the game. Guilty plea be damned, there's no way that the Ladderz incident went down in the way that the official record shows.

Matt.

Paging Jonny Five, that's Jonny Five to the stage please. Customer waiting.

ferrarilover wrote:I have absolutely no doubt that, despite the incident being caught on 300 cameras, all in glorious high definition, being witnessed not only by 80,000 people in the stadium, but a global TV audience of 500,000,000, there being absolute evidence of a bite mark on the victim and Suarez having more form than the Post Office, FIFA will squirm out of actually punishing him for the offence. After all, can''t have a £70m striker missing from the game for too long, think of how much money that would cost Blatter and his mates. No, what you really need to secure a draconian conviction is a grainy video which looks to have been shot on an early 2000s Nokia from two towns over of two blokes coming together in the penalty area and absolutely no evidence at all that a bite actually occurred in front of the 17 people who could be arsed to turn up.

Makes you wonder though, regards the Labadie incident. The Italian went down like he'd been shot and "all" Suarez had done was left teeth marks. If Labadie had really bitten a chunk out of the Chesterfield bloke, he sure as hell wouldn't have just got up and carried on with the game. Guilty plea be damned, there's no way that the Ladderz incident went down in the way that the official record shows.

Matt.

Paging Jonny Five, that's Jonny Five to the stage please. Customer waiting.

Don't criticise FIFA and point out the glaringly obvious corruption, that's racist!!!

Mr Blatter, Sir, welcome to our humble board. I reckon 'madgull' would be about right, the unutterable Gibbon fister.

Matt.

Had England somehow manage to win the most crap group in living memory instead of finishing bottom they would have played Greece in the last sixteen who somehow have managed to qualify despite being appalling.
Really there doesn't appear to be any stand out team at the competition at all. Brazil - home advantage and Neymar is class but not one of the great Brazil teams at all.
Germany - steady as ever but look slow at the back to me.
Belgium - good players - rank average as a unit though.
Argentina - looked unimpressive thus far.
Holland look good but will be found out when they come up against a good team - reckon Mexico might cause them problems.
Looks wide open to me.

Teams like Costa Rica qualifying with their squad is a great achievement, how true is saying 'the whole is greater than the sum of its parts'

Must be down to their fantastic youth system. Maybe Greg Dyke wasn't talking complete bollocks after all