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@Ghost-of-a-Duke saidI find weed to be calming and relaxing and it kills hotflashes.
Better to play on it sir than smoke it.
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@shavixmir saidIt was stupid and wrong for Trump to get involved.
Seemingly, trump phoned the FIFA top guy to get the automatic ban you receive with a red card over-turned for a US player.
If the US now wins, it’s going to go down as cheating and corrupt. How does that serve the US?
There have been 11 red cards this world cup and this is the only one that the automatic ban is not going to count.
I don’t know who sickens me more: trump or FIFA.
Damn, they belong together on Epstein’s island.
But...
My GOD these FIFA rules are stupid. Suspended for a World Cup knockout game for accidently landing on a guy's foot? Can you imagine if that happened in the NBA? Yeah, let's play game 7 of a playoff series without Wemby or SGA or Brunson because they accidentally swept someone's leg.
And with all the damn flopping that goes on in that sport? Every time a guy goes down, he cries for like 30 seconds and then, when everyone stops paying attention to him, he gets back up and starts running again as if nothing happened. And this happens like 20 times a game. And so if you flop convincingly enough, you get the other guy's star player suspended?
FIFA rules are so stupid that I can't get worked up over inconsistent application of one of the stupidest ones.
And for Pete's sake, deciding knockout games on penalty kicks? What's wrong with you people? Play until someone puts the ball in the goal, for crying out loud.
@Suzianne saidEven if there's poor officiating in an NFL or NBA game, you can appeal suspensions, and suspensions very often do get appealed successfully (that's why you have appeals). And neither league has automatic suspensions, except in exceedingly rare cases.
As an American, even I am against this.
There should be fair play in sports. Equal treatment. Otherwise it just becomes a popularity contest, or a fawning attempt to get favor.
Trump needs to stop sticking his tiny fat fingers in everyone's pie, and mind his own damned business.
That said, the officials in professional sports have always been horrible in America, ...[text shortened]... nly don't know enough about it to offer my opinion on it. And neither should our asshole president.
Which group of buffoons made up the FIFA rules anyway?
@sh76 saidthis poster doesn't care anything about fifa or its rules...simply a hate Trump post
Even if there's poor officiating in an NFL or NBA game, you can appeal suspensions, and suspensions very often do get appealed successfully (that's why you have appeals). And neither league has automatic suspensions, except in exceedingly rare cases.
Which group of buffoons made up the FIFA rules anyway?
@sh76 said"It was stupid and wrong for Trump to get involved.'
It was stupid and wrong for Trump to get involved.
But...
My GOD these FIFA rules are stupid. Suspended for a World Cup knockout game for accidently landing on a guy's foot? Can you imagine if that happened in the NBA? Yeah, let's play game 7 of a playoff series without Wemby or SGA or Brunson because they accidentally swept someone's leg.
And with all the damn flopping ...[text shortened]... ks? What's wrong with you people? Play until someone puts the ball in the goal, for crying out loud.
how does being president of the US prevent Trump from standing up for a US team, (as you stated) over a bogus call?
@Mott-The-Hoople saidThere is no appeal process. FIFA's own rulebook says so.
you do know there is an appeal process?
you do know the official violated the rules when making the decision to suspend? and that is why the penalty was reduced?
are you for not following the rules, or, is tds kicking your ass?
Article 9.6 of the FIFA World Cup 2026 Competition Regulations: "No protests may be made about the referee's decisions regarding facts connected with play. Such decisions are final and not subject to appeal, unless otherwise stipulated in the FIFA Disciplinary Code."
Article 10.5 backs it up: a player sent off with a red card is automatically suspended from the team's next match.
@Mott-The-Hoople saidIt's not the head of state's job to use state power to interfere with a sporting event. A sporting event is, by definition, non-productive activity with arbitrary rules and results. The President shouldn't try to influence the outcome, no matter how stupid the rules are.
"It was stupid and wrong for Trump to get involved.'
how does being president of the US prevent Trump from standing up for a US team, (as you stated) over a bogus call?
I remember a few decades ago when some big lumbering white German guy beat the crap out of George Foreman for 12 rounds and the idiot judges gave the fight to Foreman anyway.
Mike Francesa, the sportscaster, commented "If our fighter went over there and got robbed like that, we'd declare WAR."
It was an amusing commentary, but it illustrated indirectly why national politics can't decide sporting events. Otherwise, you have crap like the US basketball team getting robbed in the 1972 Olympics by refs who were going to let the Russians have as many chances as it took to score the winning basket.
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@Mott-The-Hoople saidYep, that's all they do 😔
this poster doesn't care anything about fifa or its rules...simply a hate Trump post
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@sh76
If two teams can't score, you think giving them more time is the solution?
Good lord no! That sport is boring enough as it is.
Enough of the extra time too.
When the whistle blows, time should stop.
When play starts again, start the clock, it's not that hard, although euro trash are kinda Appalachian like 🤭
After 90 mins, if it's a tie, go to a shootout.
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@PuzZuLz saidIf they really can't put the ball in the goal as is (and I'm sorry, but that does seem to be the point of the game), then have each side take off a player every 10 or 15 minutes, like they do in hockey overtime. Eventually someone will score. Deciding a knockout game on penalty kicks is one baby step up from flipping a coin.
@sh76
If two teams can't score, you think giving them more time is the solution?
Good lord no! That sport is boring enough as it is.
Enough of the extra time too.
When the whistle blows, time should stop.
When play starts again, start the clock, it's not that hard, although euro trash are kinda Appalachian like 🤭
After 90 mins, if it's a tie, go to a shootout.
And another thing: Why do you need a full 30 minutes of overtime? If the game is tied after regulation, you go to OT, and the next goal wins.
@PuzZuLz saidAnd can lead to drug induced psychosis...
I find weed to be calming and relaxing and it kills hotflashes.
