FIFA Women's WC France 2019

Saw the end of Germany v China and we’re 20 mins in to Spain v South Africa. It’s tough viewing. Slow and low quality. I’ll probably watch the England games and that’s it.
 
Watched a bit of Spain v SA. Quality it was not. That and the accompanied high pitch screaming from the crowd and commentators when anything remotely interesting happened confirmed my suspicions. It's dog shite. Quite why the BBC sport page, 5 live and talksport etc etc are banging on about it all day is beyond me.

Minority sport. Like baseball/ rounders.
 
So this BBC documentary that they are showing right now I take it no city players are in the squad then ?
Edit . Ah there's Steph Houghton finally !!!
 
FogBlueInSanFran said:
Poor South Africa. VAR on a player’s follow through on a clearance that accidentally spikes a Spanish player in the thigh in the box. Deemed a penalty (which is absolutely nuts IMO) and a second yellow. 2-1 Spain.
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This is where VAR translates what was common currency within a game of football - contact, ball hitting hand, and a host of other bits of general play - into penalties. VAR was meant to be the ultimate answer to all the dropped bollocks refs make over the course of a season and now it is now turning out to be the instrument by which competition organizers and governing bodies can manipulate the outcome of a game, and flim-flam the paying public.
 
Dave Ewing's Back 'eader said:
This is where VAR translates what was common currency within a game of football - contact, ball hitting hand, and a host of other bits of general play - into penalties. VAR was meant to be the ultimate answer to all the dropped bollocks refs make over the course of a season and now it is now turning out to be the instrument by which competition organizers and governing bodies can manipulate the outcome of a game, and flim-flam the paying public.
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Could be. Replay works pretty well when you are dealing with a real or imagined line -- i.e., was a foul inside the box? Was a player offside? Was a ball in or out of touch?

Whether it is a device for fixing outcomes, or mere incompetent boobery on the part of officials, VAR doesn't work so well when incidental contact is conflated with deliberate contact that hinders play.

Still don't understand how this sport still has only one official on the pitch. The game is so much faster now than 20 or 30 years ago, yet we expect a human not in peak physical condition to keep up at the same rate. Sports in the US have moved not only to replay for most sports (for those black or white calls, not so much if at all for judgment calls) and basketball, US football and hockey all employ more officials than they used to.
 
lonestay said:
So this BBC documentary that they are showing right now I take it no city players are in the squad then ?
Edit . Ah there's Steph Houghton finally !!!
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A contingent of scum are on show.
But nothing stating 5 city ladies are starting
 
State of tony Duggan. Yes let’s take women’s football seriously, so she turns up plastered in makeup and false eyelashes. I’m surprised she hasn’t got her rollers in. Ridiculous.

Edit. Big mistake, it’s Greenwood whoever she is. Apologies to duggan.
 
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