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World Cup highs and lows
Posted by Ronnies Finger on 6/7/2026, 10:53:11
The highs for me have some of the saves by many countries goalkeepers, epitomised by Pickfords. The Lows of the Penalty decisions and VAR., football is a contact sport, the one against Kane , just ridiculous.
One massive low which I can’t believe hasn’t made it onto this thread and that’s Balogun’s automatic suspension being ‘suspended’ - supposedly after some intervention. Absolutely disgraceful.
Like I say, I can see why it was given under the rules / guidelines as they are - I don't have a problem on that basis.
I don't think that a completely accidental touch on a player like that is worth a penalty though personally. They both went for the same ball in the same way unaware of each other's movement, he just got there first.
The foul and free kick that led to Mexico's 1st goal was a good example, Kane literally didn't touch him. They hand out penalties for anything now. Sending off, no intention, leg landed and rolled on the ball.
The ‘foul’ for the free kick that led to their first goal was the biggest joke of all! I thought the sending off was the right decision under current laws and their interpretation but very unlucky. It was a good sliding tackle, he didn’t go in with excessive force or over the top of the ball. Quansah was really unfortunate that the tackle resulted in his leg sliding over the ball and therefore his foot being raised when it came into contact with the Mexico player. You could argue that he shouldn’t slide in like that in the first place as he couldn’t control the outcome, but still think it was unlucky. Do we want to see tackling or not?
I imagine the Mexican player would have been feeling quite unfortunate if Quansah had broken his leg! No malice in the tackle but it's reckless and dangerous. Grainy 1980s archive footage aside, it's not good to have 15 stone blokes launch themselves like a harpoon at someone's shin bone. Right decision, moment of panic and foolishness from Quansah that could have let his team down badly but for some heroics from others.
Anyway, epic result against a nasty group of players who spent most of the game trying to influence the ref, no home advantage, intimidating crowd or stadium in the clouds against Norway, just got to stop the big man!
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on 6/7/2026, 10:53:11